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Polk Letters: September 20, 1858
1858, Sept. 20
Bishop Polk, New Orleans, La., to Bishop Elliott, re: sending him the letter and map-proof for his inspection; inquiries about is directions to the engraver to suspend operations concerning the map, his opinion that the map should accompany the Address to arrest attention and to give the movement character of thoroughness and scope; setting forth the expenditures - advising him to order 5000 copies of both maps at once and let them be out with the address as soon as possible; mentioning the turnpike; commenting on an epidemic of fever in New Orleans. 4 pp, ( 1 mss. original, 1 typed copy, 1 Photostat copy).
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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
