684 TRA VEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1879, 



TO G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. 



April 1, 1878. 



... I like an article to begin or end with an apho- 

 rism, 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. 



. . . Yes, I read with interest and approval your 

 article on Hypothesis. 



I am pressed with work now all this week. I 

 would send you the proofs of Newcomb's article, 1 but 

 you will get it in the " Independent ' almost as soon. 



Read, mark, and tell me what I should say. I 

 must now lay myself out on this matter. If you will 

 allow, I want to drop, throw out, praying for the 

 weather quoad weather. 



I shall take my time, but shall be turning the 

 matter in my mind, at the end of this week and begin- 

 ning of the next. 



Perhaps I may see you on Monday here, unless I 

 am called away. 



TO A. DE CAKDOLLE. 



CAMBRIDGE, January 24, 1879. 



MY DEAR DE CANDOLLE, I have just returned 

 from Washington, where I had to read a memorial of 

 our late secretary* of the Smithsonian Institution, 



t/ 



Professor Henry, 2 and I have returned somewhat crip- 



1 Articles in the New York Independent, signed " Country Reader," 

 by Dr. Gray. 



2 At a memorial meeting- held in honor of Professor Henry by the 

 Board of Regents and both Houses of Congress, in the Hall of the 



