
          Recd. [Received] Dec. [December] 1


 Ansd. [Answered] Decr. [December] 20th


 letter directed to San Francisco


 Albuquerque Octo [October] 29. 1853


 My Dear Dr.


 Enclosed is a letter for
 Dr. Parry which I send you by his direction.
 I received a letter by the present mail from
 Prof. [Professor] Baird to whom I had sent two Boxes
 of plants one from Choctaw Agency
 and the other from Beavers [Beaversville] near fort
 Arbuckle some 200 miles in the interior.
 Prof. [Professor] Baird had not yet received the
 plants. He was at Burlington, Vt. [Vermont] and 
 before his return to Washington would see
 you and Dr. Gray and have an understanding
 with you in reference to my 
 plants. I send them to Prof [Professor] Baird by
 the direction of Lieut [Lieutenant] Whipple who had
 left money in the hands of the Prof [Professor] for
 the payment of transportation &.C. [etc.]
 I have received also a letter from Dr. Parry
 in which he informs me he intends
 to spend the coming season in New York
 I suppose principally making out his
 Boundary report after which he intends
 returning to the shades of private life.

        