752 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1884, 



to have letters from me, or from Mrs. Gray, to whom 

 he wrote a treasure of a note on the New Year. We 

 had an idea it might only worry him. . . . 



I wish we could see you at the Camp and among 

 the heather, and I wish I could form a clear concep- 

 tion of just how you are placed, taking the Rotherys' 

 house as a point of departure. 



We give you up as to America this year. I would 

 not have you and Lady Hooker just run over here for 

 a call; it would be too provoking. Well, let us 

 plan for January or February next, and Mexico, Ari- 

 zona, and southern California. 



" Man never is, but always to be blest." 



The Joad herbarium was a real bonanza. . . . 



I must tell of our two weeks' run, Mrs. Gray and I. 

 We left the too tardy spring here, one evening ; were 

 the next noon in Washington, where the spring was 

 in full force and beauty. After two days, left 

 Washington one morning, followed up the Potomac 

 River to its very rise in the AUeghanies, and down on 

 to Mississippi waters before dark ; woke near Cincin- 

 nati, had a pleasant day's journey to St. Louis, which 

 we reached before sunset. There had five days, 

 rather busy ones ; thence a journey of thirty-six hours, 

 over prairies of Illinois and Indiana to Buffalo, and 

 to New York city ; there two days, and then home. 1 

 Mrs. Gray, thus away from household cares and a 

 rough air, dropped her cough altogether ; and what 

 you would think a tiresome piece of journeying brought 

 us both home much refreshed. . . . 



You remember Henry Shaw, his park and Mis- 

 souri botanic garden. The old fellow is now eighty- 



1 Dr. Gray went to New York to finish his sittings to St. Gaudens 

 for the bronze bas-relief now in the herbarium at Cambridge. 



