Letter from Elias Higbee, 24 March 1840

Dear Brother

Our business is at last ended here. Yesterday, a resolution passed the Senate, that the Committee should be discharged; and that we might withdraw the accompanying papers, which I have done: I have also taken a copy of the memorial, and want to be off for the west immediately— I have not gotten a letter from , although I have frequently written to him— I have recd. a letter from , stating that he was in the Jerseys— and that he was calculating to have me come that way and go home with him, and also that he had business which he wanted me to attend to at the office here—

When he last wrote, he stated that as yet, he had [p. 105]