All this time you have had anxious events to occupy your minds, and these are not yet over. But at home you are happy in the recovering health of your daughter after so long suffering.
We had our usual Christmas gathering last evening, and the house is only now set to rights again. Your old friends Miss P. and K. L. were with us, and we spoke of you. The latter told us that Miss S. proposes to come to us from the West Indies, I suppose in early summer, and glad we shall be to see her.
You never sent me your Middle Ages book; the publishers’ fault, no doubt, which I beg you will urge them to make up for....
TO GEORGE ENGELMANN.
May 20, 1878.
... That enlarged photograph[105] is for you, to be left for your St. Louis Academy of Sciences, if it ever gets a home, or for the Hortus Botanicus Missouriensis, as you elect. Glad you value it.
I am at new edition of the “Structural Botany,” as a bit of ad interim work.
TO A. DE CANDOLLE.
Cambridge, June 9, 1878.
My dear Colleague: ... A copy of the second part of the “Synoptical Flora of North America” should soon reach you, for I was assured at Washington that they were sent at once, and would go to you without delay.