
          Thank you for the testimonial 
for my son. The matter had been 
settled weeks ago by the Town Council 
preferring Dr. Balfour to my son. 
That however left an opening at 
Glasgow wh. [which] the Crown immediately 
offered to my son, but he declined 
it, & we have now happily got 
Arnott there.

I trust Fremont will be 
more fortunate this time. It is 
curious how unlucky some 
people always are, & others the 
reverse. Geyer's specimens are 
in the most perfect state 
possible, & so are the few I 
have yet recieved [received] from Burke. 
The latter is at Fort Hall in 
the Snake Country, but he 
& Geyer too had many difficulties 
to encounter. I am 
publishing a very interesting account 
of Geyer's journey. He is 
really a remarkable man. 
I gave him a great room 
in the Bot. [Botanic] Garden to arrange his 
collections. The paper you 
allude to of Dr. Gray's in the 
Boston Journal is I suppose 
his account of Lindheimer's Texan
        