
          Recd. March 17th
And March 23.

Presidio de San Elizario Jany [January] 24th 1852

Yours of Sept 15th came to hand a few days
ago. You had done better to send it by Maj. Emory who
tells me that he left there since it was written and he
has been here some weeks. But n'importe. I received
no letter from Dr Gray. Tuckermann write me in great
glee over the Lichens sent him a year & a half ago.
Two long letters came also from Dr Engelmann.

You need not trouble yourself about "Nuttalls
Plants of Grembell" but any report you can get 
unencumbered with other matter I will be happy &
thankful to receive.

"The plants lately dispatched from Frontera" were
directed "Col. J.D. Graham care of Dr Asa Gray Cambridge
Mass" and you will probably have the opportunity
of examining them. I doubt however whether
you will find many things of itnerest among them.
My last collection however taken home by Col. G. himself
will be I doubt not of great inerest to you.
He intends I believe to send them also to Dr Gray.

I hope you will use your interest to have a reservation
of a part of them made for me. I used every
argument to induce the Col. to promise me two sets
if not more, one for myself the other for Dr Short. I plead
that my entire outfit was my own. I rode my own horse
and worked with untiring zeal while others of the Commission
        