
          Recd. [Received] March [crossed out: 18th] 17th
And. [Answered] March 20

Frontera near El Paso

Jany [January] 15th 1852.

My Dear Sir:-

I just now received your welcome letters
of Septr [September] 4th and 15th 1851. In one of them you allude 
to a letter having been written in August and expressed
the hope that I had received it before you wrote. I am
sorry to say that it has not yet come to hand. The ones
now acknowledged and one of 16th Decr [December] 1850 are all 
that I have had the pleasure of receiving from you.
Dr. Parry arrived with Maj [Major] Emory early in December and
brought up with him many new things all of which I
believe he has sent [crossed out: to] you. At the same time (20th Decr [December]/51)
I sent [crossed out: to] you quite a large collection, all in fact that I
have made in this region. Among them you will find the
Cosmidium spoken of which I think is not true to your
description in the Flora and should belong to another genus.
You however must know best. You can easily decide the
matter when you get good specimens. Mr. Wright tells
me he has never before seen the Liatroid Composite I
sent you so that I suppose it will be something novel.

Mr. Wright has in all likelihood collected and saved
what of the Eriogoneae I have missed. There are 8 or 10
well marked species of them here and I am pretty certain
I have missed some of them. I had some very pleasant
though toilsome rambles with him about the Cobre and 
Mimbres. A day or two before we left there we
        