
          Alexandria D.C. November 14, 1842


 My dear Sir,


 Lieutenant Fremont of the topographical 
 Ingenieurs [french for engineer?] spent the last summer in the
 [crossout: vicitn] vicinity of the Rocky Mountains,
 and collected there in his leisure hours
 several hundred species of plants, many
 of them may be or new species or interesting
 to you as he wishes, to have them named,
 in order to mention the catalogue of them
 in his report to congress, [insert: at the next month] I advised him
 to sent the whole parcel to you, Sir, as
 the proper gentleman, who will make a good
 use of them in the publication of [crossout: the your][insert: his]
 continued botanical work. I looked at
 a few specimens last Saturday, and I
 think them worth of being looked at
 by you and Doctor Gray. Presuming
        