Will you please send me, if you can lay hands on them among the pamphlets at my house, 2 copies of Dr Curry's report of the Virginia mines [i.e., Richard O. Curry, A Geological Visit to the Virginia Copper Region, 1859], & one copy of the proceedings of the University Convention held at Look out Mountain

containing Bp Otey's address -- There are in my room I believe also from the bookshelf in the chamber passage a copy of an "Essay on the fevers of South Ala" You will no doubt be pleased to hear that the Allegheny mines I was concerned in have

turned out very profitable. One of the parties I sold out to ran the blockade to Mobile to pay up, & reports that there are accumulated dividends to my credit in N.O. from the stock I reserved. There is a still better mine in Virginia, that I am

interested in, which I will try & introduce to the N.O. Capitalists if health & opportunity permit, after the war, out of which more is to be made than by the Tennessee mine. I am hoping every day to hear from you via Montgomery. The copy of the receipt you sent, made every thing straight in Montgomery & saved me $500. --