
          Professor John Torrey, corner of Prince & Mc Dougal Sts New York
Washington 18th May 1838

Dear Sir
Permit me to intrude on your kindnedd the last time by requesting that
you will inform me whether you have received my letters of the 16th April & 1oth May
and the Documents to which they refer; and what action you have taken or
intend to take in compliance with the solicitations therein contained that a
request should be made to U.S. Senators to have the Senate Bill No. [241?] called up and
acted on in that chamber as soon as possible. Twenty days delay on the duelling
question, Sveral days more on the reissue of Treasury Notes, and constant protraction
on all partizan [partisan] topics, will prevent the passage of nine tenths of all [?] Bills
which have been before Congress for many years waiting for its tardy justice
untill [until] most of the Claimants have died or have been ruined in the present.
Who can wonder that after many years unavailing sufferings, the poor claimants should
yield up the ghost bequeathing their curses on the Mis-Governmentof their Country.
In reply to me please to enclose the letter in a cover, and on that envelope direct to the
Hon. [Honorable] H. Logan, Hon. [Honorable] A. W Snyder, or Hon. [Honorable] L. F. Linn. The M. C. [Member of Congress] who receives
the envelope unopened finds the letter directd to me, and send it to my lodgings.
Heaven knows that my general expenses are too heavy for mymeans without being
[burthened?] with postage on many letters. An average of 4 to 5 dollars a day is the
least amount one is forced to spend in Washington.

H.P.

        