
          Tuesday Morning 


 My Dear Friend 


 Your kind favor reached 
 me yesterday. I write now 
 hastily as I have lecture 
 to prepare for. 


 First as to Wilkes. 
 I am sorry you declined 
 to take the the Oregon & 
 California Collections in 
 a lump for $1000, if that 
 was Wilkes offer. To be sure 
 the endeavor to tie the hands 
 of his savans was mean
 of Wilkes. But I would 
 look quite above it, and say
 as to that collection, concerning 
 as they do our own country,
 that the pay was no object 
        