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Franklin's
Expedition.
148 W. F. WENTZEL'S
(Private.)
Dear Sir,
LETTER No. 14.
MacKenzie's River, March 1st, 1824.
I have the honor to acknowledge with respectful thanks the
receipt of your friendly favor dated in April 1823 and beg YOll
will have the goodness to accept my grateful acknowledgementsfor
Mrs. MacKenzie's remembrance and the humble sense I feel.
for the favor bestowed on me by the family in general.
Last year I did myself the pleasure of writing to you on the
subject of the expedition and I do not remember of writing to-any
but Mr. James McKenzie so much respecting that expedition
as I took the liberty of stating to yourself, therefore was greatly
surprised to understand from your kind epistle, that extracts
from some of my letters had found their way in the public
prints of Montreal. I aJl.l sure never to have authorized any
thing of the kind; so far from it that it had been my particular
wish to have preserved silence on that head until I could have
obtained an opportnnity of laying before you my journal and of
craving your opinion and advice thereon. I have not seen any
of the Canada public papers; few, I believe, find their way now
in the North-West, otherwise should have had occasion to
examine the paragraphs touching that subject and have known
if they had formed part of my correspondence to Canada.
This much however may be safely said of the officers, that
they acted on some occasions imprudently, injudiciously and