It is all-important
the bedding, stationery, and textbooks, [and] your library books should all be
on hand November 1. If Red River be at all navigable I will stick to it, but
otherwise I must depend on wagons, and it is unsafe to judge of this
beforehand. I will be much influenced by what I hear from you on arrival at New
Orleans. I have knowledge that everything will be there in readiness by the end
of next week. I will surely reach New Orleans by Saturday, 13th instant, and
hope to be en route hence by October 15 or 16. If Red River be navigable I can
come right along, otherwise I must wait at mouth of Red River till wagons come
down.
I send you a copy of
the printed regulations. I have twenty-five with me and one thousand are now
enroute for New Orleans, where I will take them up – it was impossible to have
them done before. I did not have them bound, as these one thousand copies will
last us three years, by which time a new edition will be certain.
The weather here is
cold and raw, and it is time for southern birds to take flight. Nothing new in
politics, but the election of Lincoln is still regarded as quite certain here.
The truth is New York and Pennsylvania control this result, and they are always
uncertain.
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