Letter from A. D. Barker(?) to Increase Lapham

Autograph B. F.'s grandson

Washington. Nov 22, 1852

Dear Sir.
I have received the [card?] & [illegible] [illegible], & have sent
the former to be [illegible] in ours. It may be some [illegible] [illegible]
I [illegible] [illegible] to take up the subject as I am going to-morrow
to the [south?] to arrange some current [illegible] matter & [illegible].
[illegible] duty. You [illegible] hear from me as [illegible] as [illegible].

I send you a check in New York,
Corcoran & Ripp No 7142, for fifty dollars, payable
to your [illegible] the [illegible] which I promised.

Instruments cannot give to [illegible] of interest
[illegible] or [illegible]. I [illegible] what you say
to Prof. Henry, the have any of the Smithsonian [illegible] takes
part of the income tho' in the [illegible] on [illegible] gain in
permanent capital it [illegible] operations [illegible] just
[here?].

Yours respectfully & [truly?]
A. D. Bache

I. A. Lapham Esq.