
          as you choose to prepare and I will engage a 
friend to attend to it in my absence. I send
you the only copy of Nicollet's report we have
by us, if you mean Espy's report for 1841
I can also send you a copy of that. In reply
to your note of April 11th. I am greatly pleased
with your plan for a popular work & supplement
to Michaux. I am satisfied that there is a 
large and extraordinary variety of trees. The
governments will pay for the plates.

In reply to April 13th, 'ill be glad to get your
discriptions, they will form what we really
want for the present work. A brief notice of
the value of the Botany and a few descriptions
(authorised) of plants that we ought not to lose

I am with great respect
very cordially yours
J.C.Frémont

Please send me any of the plants you mentioned
the express will bring them to me very
carefully. The unnumbered specimens of
tobacco root, or black root (valeriana) were not among
the Kansas plants. They were gathered about the 
26th May 1844, on the Utah lake, west of the Rocky
        