
          However all vegetation was very young and what had not been
killed was much injured.

I do not yet know exactly what disposition will be made
of my plants. I am not yet formally attached to Col. [J.D. Graham's
party though I am ostensibly in a conversation with him
relative to the disposal of the collection. I wish to make a
special reservation of a set for Dr. [Charles Wilkins] Short. This he refused on the
ground that he (Dr. S.) might proceed to describe & name such
as one not known. I could not persuade him that this would
not be done by an honorable man as I take Dr. S to be. He
finally came to the conclusion that he would entrust the collection
to Dr. [Asa] Gray for description but held firmly to the idea that
the plants, descriptions and all, must be considered the property
of the Boundary Commission till after publication - then
all, but one or two sets, - one for teh Smith. Inst. [Smithsonian Institution] & another
for (perhaps) the Jardin de Plantes of Paris will revert to me.
Besides this I will receive but a small ($300-500) salary. This
is a mere verbal agreement but I intend to have is reduced to
writing before leaving this place.

I fear that the specimens lthere for collection will offer but
few novelties though the flora of the Pecos which I lost before in
consequence of the sickness will reveal some.

I now want to beg some books which I hope you will use
some exertions to furnish. I naturally need such works as 
[Ferdinand] Lendheimer [August] Fedler erc. which I [carat: already] have as also your own two papers
on Emory's plants. Executive Drc. No. 7 App No. 2 & on Fremonts
Doc No. 166. C. Beginning with Cleomella & ending with Pinus monophylla
- also [George] Engelmann's account of [?] plants Under [Composition?]
you mention Nicolletia as an additional new genus to some which
Dr. Gray described in the "Boston Journal of Nat. Hist." for Jan 1845. I want 
that paper. Under Eriogonum [ardatum?] you say "many other 
species will be described in the next report." I want this same next
        