I take the opportunity of writing these few lines as an accompaniment to a copy of the President’s message in a documentary shape, which I beg you to accept as a token of the sense in which I held your kind civility during the short time we were together in the journey to New York, last summer.

Should you require any information which it is in my power to give, I shall be very happy to afford it, particularly as I am aware of the many misrepresentations which are circulating thro’ the Western States.

I am with sentiments of great respect / Your’s truly