. 44.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 417 



from the obloquy and wrong heaped upon it by us of 

 the North, and by England. Save the mark ! 



At any rate, her journal will be piquant. 



I am anxious to know how far we can economically 

 use the post for the transmission of printed matter. 

 Perhaps I could safely send you " Silliman's Journal v 

 in this way. As an experiment I now send you our 

 University catalogue. No, it will not do, I see, for 

 anything weighing over two ounces or three. Beyond 

 this the rates increase woefully. . . . 



TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 



18th October, 1855. 



Yours of August 30th (answered by my wife) was 

 written when I was one day at sea. Yours of Octo- 

 ber 13, which arrived to-day, was written two days 

 after I reached home again. I had two very pleasant 

 voyages, on the whole, and not long, ten and a half and 

 eleven and a half days ; eleven days in Paris (where 

 I was detained a little by a severe cold on my lungs) 

 and a week in England, mostly at London and Kew. 

 I found my brother-in-law so convalescent that I 

 might have stayed at home, and I brought him home 

 with me in good condition. We had hoped, till the 

 last moment, to get places in the steamer of the 13th 

 October, and to have had a fortnight more in Eng- 

 land. But all the places had been engaged for months, 

 and nobody was giving up berths up to the time we 

 sailed ; so we had to come in steamer of the 29th ult., 

 where we got a good stateroom by great luck, though 

 the vessel was greatly crowded. Dr. Joseph D. Hooker 

 (whom I had wanted to see for some time) being 

 away in Germany, and time being extremely valuable 

 to me here, I was on the whole very glad to get home. 



