
          Wednesday Morn 21 June '48


 Dear Doctor


 I have been hoping to hear
 from you relating to what I am to
 do for July & August. I seem almost to
 have made up my mind as to July.
 Dr Gray requested me to call on
 Whelpley of the American review.
 I did so. He aceeded at once to the admission
 of my article but insisted
 that it was not his duty to pay for
 it. He easily showed me that he could
 better spend his money on a political
 article & that M & Co could not do better
 than have an article inserted where
 among its readers would be 1500
 planters.


 I wrote to Dr Gray Monday to
 this effect & Yesterday recommended
 my article


 I believe I will send you the
 first of it & in fact I fear I must
 first & last trouble you with the
 whole of it either in mass or detail.
 I hope it will not get mislaid


 As to the Carmine St matter I
 hear nothing as yet so that your
        