
          to have new accounts made out & I enclose you blanks.
 Capt. Beckwith will pay this acct. [account]. The best
 way to address it will be perhaps to the
 Secretary of War, [crossed out: on the illegible] [added: Official business] and in
 the left hand lower corner write
 Pacific Rail Road Ex. [Expedition] [crossed out: I] It will
 then come free of postage & be sent to me
 [crossed out: and Im] unopened.


 I had concluded that you had left town
 as I have written two or three times about
 the illustrations of bot. [botany] of Pope's Survey
 asking you to send them to me when
 they [crossed out: are] [added: were] finished, but I have not heard
 from you about them. As you do not
 mention them in your note [crossed out: this morning] received
 this morning I apprehend [crossed out: the] [added: my] letters have not
 reached you. My confidence in the mail
 is not altogether implicit.


 Mr. Warren tells me there are from 10 to
 11000 words in Pope's bot. [botany] report which at 
 the usual rate of payment would be
 10 or 11 dolls. [dollars] but in copying a manuscript
 of such a character I should think 15 dolls. [dollars]
 would be a more equitable compensation.

        