19Marshall, The
Western
Boundary
of
the
Louisiana
Purchase,
106 ff.
Jackson wrote his adopted son on December 19, 1832, that he has nomi-
nated John Donelson as a commissioner, but that "from the convulsed
state of Mexico, it may be a long time before he is called upon to perform
this duty." Jackson MSS. J. Gutierrez wrote Van Buren, May 29, 1834
(in Van Buren MSS., in Library of Congress), that the Mexican charge
at Washington "complained to his government ... of the difficulties
or delays opposed by the cabinet of Washington to bringing the negotia-
tion to a conclusion." The writer is indebted to Professor E. C. Barker
for a copy of Gutierrez's letter.
