
          Dr. W. Anderson
 [Pictori?]


 Lancaster April 19th. 1855


 My Dear Doctor.


 It is but a day or
 two since I arrived from St. Louis.
 Your letter of March 28th was received
 by my wife some week or ten days
 before I came home but expecting me
 soon she did not send it. This evening
 yours of Apl [April] 16th came to hand.
 Thank you my kind friend for revising
 and correcting the manuscipt [manuscript] of my
 report. With regard to the project
 of taking time to finish in a better style
 and printing in a separate volume the
 natural history portions of our survey
 I should be pleased with the proposed
 plan but of course will have to be
 guided by Lieut [Lieutenant] Whipples directions.
 With regard to the plans of printing &.c. [etc.]
 of the Surveys by the authorities I probably
 know less than you. I receed [received] a 
 note from Lieut. [Lieutenant] Whipple dated March 3rd
 in which he says Congress has ordered
 20.000 copies to be printed and that
        