
          Monday morning [upper right: 1849 Feb. 26]

My Dear Doctor

I got your last favor on Saturday_
the mails back and forth have been somewhat
irregular of late.

The day after I wrote you before, I got
a letter from Maj. Emory (in reply to the one
Wright & I wrote to Washington: he offering
to go without wages, at all.) from New York.
_ a very polite and proper letter, but directly
declining our overtures. It would not do, 
therefore, for you (in case Dr Parry does not
appear) to send on Wright. Besides, you
can send [crossed out: him] [added: Parry] later, without much difficulty.
He can undertake the boundary survey. Let him go with California
emigrants from [?] [?] & from the party in California.

Having determined on an expedition for
Wright, you may be sure I was not going
to be althogether disappointed. Accordingly I
have got one all arranged, (Lowell & Greene
subscribing handsomely) which is as much
better than Emory's as possible, & thus far
every thing has wonderfully conspired to favor
it. W. has left me this morning to go
to his mother's in Connecticut (Weathersfield), there
        