386 CORRESPONDENCE OF £1839

Home as Found is published, and will not take, of course,
though no one has yet read it.
Adieu—I must get to work.

Yours tenderly,

J. F. C.
Love to babes.

FROM M. C. PERRY

New York, March 13, 1839
My dear Sir

My friend Captain Stephens has informed me some
time since, that you had approached in the progress of
the work on which you are now engaged, that part of the
Naval History of the U. S. that will embrace an account
of the Battle of Lake Erie, that you were desirous of
obtaining every information in reference to • that memo-
rable event; and suggested the propriety of my writing
to you, and of transmitting such papers as I possess, in
illustration of the circumstances of that battle.

Captain S. was more anxious for this as he was im-
pressed with a belief that you had received false informa-
tion on the subject, and might possibly be influenced by
such representations.

In the latter respect I think differently from my
friend: believing as I do that his warm and kind hearted
zeal for the memory of my brother had led him to sup-
pose that the machinations and falsehoods of others had
diverted your mind from the true merits of the battle.

It appears to me, that I know you well enough to sat-
isfy myself that you never could be influenced by such
reports, that you are too intimately acquainted with naval
matters to be deceived as to the evolutions of vessels,rls. At need all four could come at