
          Recd. [Received] Sept. [September] (about the 3rd)


 Ansd. [Answered] Sept. [September] 15th


 Santa Rita Del Cobre, N.M. 


 July 12, 1851


 Dear Sir. Enclosed I send you a little
 [added by another hand: [Fern?]] which is different from any I have heretofore 
 seen and so small & pretty that I cannot
 forego the present opportunity. I Received
 your welcome letter a few days ago by Mr. Sanford
 for which I am thankful. You write to
 me that the little walnut I sent you from Devils
 River is new. The sketch I had made of it 
 there was not finished when the train that took
 them to San Antonio left our camp. Consequently
 I could not send and I have since had few opportunities.
 All the plants I gathered while on 
 the trip from San Antonio to San Elceario near
 El Paso I sent back to Washington by the hands of
 Col. [Colonel] McClellan who returned in Feby. [February] last.
 I sent them to Prof. [Professor] Henry Secy [Secretary] of the Smithsonian 
 Institute with a request that he 
 should [added: send] them immediately either to Prof. [Professor] Gray or to
 yourself for the purpose of publishing a brief
 diagnosis of such as should prove to be new.
 I presume you have long since received
 them. My means of collecting and 
 preserving plants are very scant & limited.
        