November 9, 1878.
... He (Hyams) sent me some loose flowers, to help out.
I have sent manuscript to Paris, and shall send back Decaisne’s old drawing, and drawing of flower and details, now making by Sprague to be reproduced in the “Annales des Sciences Naturelles,” since this ought to please the French.
You can go to see and get specimens, even if I do not. Yet I will go if—at the time—I can.
April 5, 1879.
On April 1 (ominous day) began Compositæ....
TO G. FREDERICK WRIGHT.
April 1, 1878.
... I like an article to begin or end with an aphorism, or some sort of snapper. I think you may end your next article with a condensed expression like this: Not vitality but personality is the witness for immortality!
October 24, 1878.