. 51.] TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 495 



November 14. 



Here I was this afternoon, moiling over your plants, 

 copying out Grisebach's manuscripts for the printer 

 (for the printer won't touch the Dutchy-looking thing ; 

 and besides, I have additions to make, etc.), when I 

 just happened to remember that to-morrow is Havana 

 mail, and that I was by all means to write to you to- 

 day. There is still time, so here goes. 



First, can't you make some arrangement, while you 

 are at this end of Cuba, to receive a Yankee news- 

 paper by mail ; say to the address of Don Jose Blain, 

 or some Havana address. If you can arrange it that 

 it is not stopped, I will send you papers regularly ; say 

 the little " Boston Herald," small, soon read, demo- 

 cratic, patriotic, or others, from time to time. . . . 



As to collecting still, I should say, Yes, go on, in a 

 gradual and cheap way, i. e., do not make very heavy 

 outlays, as long as you are in the country ; at least till 

 next summer. For we cannot get the war done until 

 late next spring (except in Texas). 



If you can do as much for western as for eastern 

 Cuba, it will be a good thing. . . . 



Meanwhile I have money enough for you, if you can 

 only get it. ... 



But how can you get it at present rates ? Or how 

 can I get it to you ? If greenbacks would pass there 

 as here, it would be easy enough. 



Is there not some Yankee product that I could ship 

 to you that Blain or Lescaille wants, sewing-machines, 

 agricultural implements, chairs ? So we might save 

 the loss on exchange. I will send you anything, from 

 a mouse-trap to a wheelbarrow ! 



You have a letter from me which must have reached 

 you soon after yours of October 25, saying that my 



