
          Recd. & Ansd. [Received & Answered]
Decr. 10th.

Near Louisville, Ky. Dec 6th 1852

My dear Sir,

Your favour of the 30th Novr. is this moment recd. [received] 
and I must beg you to pardon me, if my solicitude on the subject
of poor Lundgren's fate should induce me to trouble you on his
account more frequently than may be convenient or agreeable to
yourself. If I was mainly, perhaps entirely, instrumental in 
his undertaking this unfortunate, if not fatal expedition, I feel, indeed,
exceedingly anxious about him; and cannot excuse myself
if I do not make every reasonable effort to ascertain his fate.
With these feelings I am truly sorry that your last letter throws
no additional light on the subject, but on the contrary seems to
under "confusion worse confounded", in my mind, this may be
owing to the obtuseness of my comprehension on all subjects, but
especially on money matters, and I must therefore, my dear Sir,
beg you to explain, a sentence in your letter which I cannot
comprehend, you say, "His" (Dr. Hardy's) "letter to you (which
I herewith return) was written before mine to him, enclosing
the former check to Lundgren for $100, (returned paid) was 
received." Dr. H.'s letter above refer'd to, was dated Nov. 10th, at which
time you think he had not rec'd yours to him enclosing a 
remittance for Lundgren, and yet in the next sentence 
I find this in your last letter, "I am now inclined to think he
may have had my letter to him placed in his hands, just as he
        