
          Recd Apr. 24th
Ansd May 16

Camp Sabine Louisiana March 27th 1837

Dear Sir

Your letter of the 22 last month came to hand
by the last mail & has afforded me much pleasure
in perusal. Near the close of the last month
I wrote to you from Natchitoches informing you
that I had prepared a collection of specimens to be
forwarded as far as New Orleans for Lt. Henry.
I presume that the box contraining the collection
is by this time in New York. At least I hope so
but I have not yet yeard any thing concerning it.
I was very particular in urging upon Mr. Henry the
necessity of being very particular in notifying you 
in relation to the vessel upon which he might ship it.
I am afraid I have not been so particular in my
remarks as you may think desirable. I have however
endeavored to make such remarks by way of
illustration as I deemed important. At the time I was
at Natchitiches I was a good deal afflicted with
an old enemy of the dyspepsia; indeed my leave of absence
was not of such length as to enable me to do all
that I desired to do. I did not forward my Louisiana
plants for the want of time; but I the less request
this as in the course of the season I shall augment
the collection.

Mr. [Thomas] Drummond visited Texas the same season that I was
engaged in traveling through the Prairie Region of Arkansas
I mean that portion of it from its commencement [crossed out:sixty] 100
miles this side Fort Towson to the Cross Timbers 130 miles
west of that post
        