
          please in regard to this matter. I am
quite willing to trust myuself in
their hands.

Our Colorado Report is finally
out. You will find many misprints
in the Botany which if I
had been in W. I should have
corrected. I was compelled to
leave the city however before it
was done, and I did the only
thing left me, engaged the best
man I could get to look after
it. As no proofs are [crossed out: permitted] [added: I [cut?]]
[crossed out: to leave] [added: [?] of] the office I had a carriage
take [?] [?] every day [up?] then
and he looked over all that I could
not. Baird was sitting at the bedside
of his sick wife. Schaeffer was
busy anyhow as the [?] to
Fourman had [seceeded?]. Rich was dead
There was no botanist in Washington
        