Unknown to Moopy, April 4, 1862

At the last hour Governor Pesqueira has told me to write you for the purpose of telling you that it would be very convenient not to publish the copies you have. I have promised him that you would send them up to San Franciseo. In this intelligence I beg you not to send them until the next steamer. I am very tight in the moment I write the present.

Yours, very truly, M. ESCALANTE,

GUAYMAS, April 7, 1862. FARRELLY ALDEN, Esq.:

DEAR SIR: While attending to some private business with the Government at Ures some ten days since, I learned that Col. James Reily, of the Army of New Mexico, had been visiting Governor Pesqueira, of this State, to whom he was the bearer of dispatches from Brig. Gen. H. H. Sibley, O. S. Army, commanding Army of New Mexico. An acquaintance, Don Manuel Escalante, having this correspondence in his office, which he was translating for the Governor, I asked him for copies, which he permitted me to take after he had finished his translations, When Senor Escalante left his office to take his Spanish copies to the Governor he put the originals into the hands of a friend and myself to commence copying while he was absent upon his errand. My friend, F. H. Waterman, of San Francisco, and myself immediately set to work, and writing rapidly, finished our work in about half an hour, and Señor Escalante not having returned, we took our copies with us and strolled out for half an hour or so. Upon our return we learned that Señor Escalante had been in for a moment, and had taken away with him the original correspondence. In the evening, when we again called upon Señor Escalante, he told us that the Governor had sent him for the originals, but that he would be sure to get us copies within a few days. We informed him that we would [not] trouble him in that respect, but did press him for Governor Pesqueira’s answers to the notes of General Sibley and Colonel Reily, which we informed him we had taken full copies of during the time he was first absent with the Governor. These Señor Escalante assured us we should have, at the same time informing us that they were quite lengthy. We prolonged our stay in Ures two days beyond our time for the purpose of obtaining those copies, which failing to get, we left under the assurance that they should be forwarded to us. To-day, instead of receiving the wished-for copies, I received Señor Escalante’s note of the 4th instant. Deeming this matter of sufficient importance, I herewith inclose you copies* of what I have, for the use of the State Department at Washington. Senor Escalante was formerly prefect of Hermosillo, now a member of the Sonora Congress. Yours, truly,