
          To Capt. Pope,


 Dear Pope,


 The Committee
 on Engraving has refused to take the
 responsibility of ordering any
 engravings or lithographs
 for these reports. The sanction
 of the Secretary of War was 
 given to the drawings for
 the Natural History collections
 not for engravings or lithographs
 thus he expressly refused to [crossed out: have]
 take the responsibility of ordering.
 In any case, Whipple
 desired me to ask an
 exception in his case
 so far as it applies to 

        