416 CORRESPONDENCE. [1855, 



also to send you live seedlings of a palm from Sonora, 

 Mexico, raised from seeds gathered by Thurber, and 

 one or two other things. 



I do not forget the large " cypress knees ' I prom- 

 ised, which will be rather striking in your famous 

 museum, and I look out for an opportunity to send 

 by sailing vessel direct to London. 



Remember me affectionately to Lady Hooker (for 

 whom Mrs. Gray incloses a few lines) and most cor- 

 dially to Mr. Bentham, who so kindly came down 

 from the country to give me the opportunity of seeing 

 him, for which I am greatly obliged. 



P. S. - - 1 forgot to tell you that, by the hands of 

 Hon. Miss Murray (who returns to England by this 

 week's steamer), I send you the September number 

 of " Silliman's Journal." Should she forget to send 

 it to you, please remind her when she comes to Kew, 

 as assuredly she will, to talk about her Florida new 

 fern. I have filled up the Ward case which she 

 brought over, also a box of American plants which 

 she takes, I suppose, for Mr. Fox Strangways. Her 

 various boxes and packages will nearly fill the ship, 

 I should think. 



Miss Murray is a most lively, most active person, 

 has traveled widely through the country, and trav- 

 ersed rough places, such as no other woman past 

 sixty ever did. She has seen a great deal, but heard 

 very little, I should think, as she talks incessantly, 

 and in a lively, interesting way, too. 



You will not be disappointed by the suppression of 

 her manuscript by her English friends, I suppose, for 

 she is fully determined to rush into print, to print 

 her journal just as it was written from day to day ; for 

 she now feels she has a mission to rescue the South 



