
          Rec'd Dec. 12th

New Braunfels Novr 9th 1838

My Dear Dr

I am sorry to inform you that all the arrangements
made for my expedition to El Paso and onward have entirely
failed I thought the business was so definitively setteled that I coud hardly
fail of getting a situation of some sort in the party of the Boundary
Commission. But the Commissioner after furnishing his own friends
at the North with lucrative situation, on his arrival in Texas
was afflicted with a "masterly forgetfulness" of me. As soon as I
heard of his arrival in our state I wrote to him asking to be 
informed when I should join him but received no answer After a
while becoming impatient at his silence I went to San Antonio to see
him but he had not arrived there. I made arrangements to be
informed when he should arrive. I returned early last month I was
notified that the party would start on a certain day I arrived
there two or three days before the time designated but the Commissioner
had been gone two days on a forced march leaving the Party to follow
when they could I saw his brother from whom however I could procure
no assistance I had no alternative but to abandon the undertaking
for the present
Dr [Asa] Gray had written to me that he had sent  between three &
four hundred dollars to Washington to be brought to me by Mr Bartlett
this sum as the funds on which depended for defraying my expenses
I could not ascertain whether it was in his possession or not I have written
to Prof. [Joseph] Henry for information
I shall reside in this place the coming winter & I wish to be 
informed whether the cryptogamie plants collected last winter are new
or in any manner interesting If not I do not whish to spend
        