I received by to-day's mail a note from De Witt Clinton, Governor of New York.

America has produced few men who have united civic and literary tastes and talents of a high order more fully than he does.
He early and ably investigated the history and antiquities of Western New York.

He views with a comprehensive judgment the great area of the West, and knows that its fertility and resources must render it, at no distant day, the home of future millions.

He was among the earliest to appreciate the mineralogical and geographical researches which I made in that field.

He renewed the interest, which, as a New Yorker, he felt in my history and fortunes, after my return from the head of the Mississippi in 1820.