
          I return Wilkes' letter. 
 As I wrote you, he has 
 since written to me on 
 the subject. 


 When he comes to 
 N.Y. [New York] let him have, or 
 see the drawings and 
 give him an approval 
 on the bill, or a new 
 one. I do not think 
 he is so much to blame 
 for not paying the bill 
 before seeing the drawings 
 & having explanations about 
 the price &c. He will have 
 $20 to pay for every folio
 plate Sprague makes hereafter. 
 Hochstein makes very little 
 on them.


 Do nothing with Cuscuta
 till E. [Engelmann] has had his say out. 
 Otherwise confusion will be 
 worse confounded. Then we shall
        