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New Orleans [Sept?] 20, [1858?]

My dear Elliott,

I am to day in receipt of the
accompanying letter & maps-proof -- from Col [Burney?]
& transmit them to you for your perusal & information.

After you have had the letter I should like to have
it returned to be placed on file..

I have written you on the subject of the map
since my return to [?] [?], & then I heard from
Burney you had directed the Engraver to suspend
operations on it. As yet I have received no reply.

I supposed you may have had some plan for
getting the work done cheaper. Not knowing your
views I have done nothing. But my opnion is
decidedly, that the maps both should accompany
the address. They will arrest attention & give
to the movement a character for thoroughness, as
well as scope, which must tell in impressing itself
in the public mind. It will be seen, that the
men who have charge of this matter are not
dealing with it, as with a petty affair in which
they have no confidence & to which they have
given little thought or [?]. But that they
have much considered their ground, have taken