
          Ansd [Answered]
Feby [February] 2nd 1857

Lancaster O. [Ohio] Decr. [December] 11th 1856

My Dear Doctor--

Your kind and welcome
letter of the 6th is at hand and I hasten
to answer immediately. I am making
my bread & butter by hard work in my
profession. I received a letter from
Dr. Engelmann on the eve of his departure
for Europe on the subject of the manuscript
Cactaceae P.R.R. [Pacific Rail Road]. With it and also with
my general Report he found a good deal 
of fault. He ordered the proofs to be
sent to Dr. Gray for correction and I
understood they were going on with the
printing of the MS. [manuscript?] immediately.
I have heard nothing since from them.
The Synopsis of Am. [American] Cact. [Cactaceae] [probably refers to Synopsis of the Cactaceae of the Territory of the United States and Adjacent Regions] I had received
some time ago. The illustrations of
Pines &c. [etc.] were made for the P.R. [Pacific Rail Road] Rep. [Report]
of Capt [Captain] Whipple. They were with
Mollhausens drawings of Cactaceae
        