. 69.] TO R. W. CHURCH. 697 



My old friend John Carey has died, in England, at 

 eighty-three. Schimper, they say, is dead. They go 

 one by one ! 



CAMBRIDGE, May 8. 



First, thanks for your very lively letter of May 4, 

 auspicious day, being my wedding - day, thirty- 

 second anniversary. . . . 



Yes, we mean to go abroad right after the meeting 

 of American Association, say September 4, to finish 

 Aster, etc. ; to stay at least a year. 



My wife sends best love to you, your daughter, and 

 son, and I join. 



TO JOHN H. REDFIELD. 



CAMBRIDGE, April 21, 1880. 



DEAR REDFIELD, If you hear of my breaking 

 down utterly, and being sent to an asylum, you may 

 lay it to Aster, which is a slow and fatal poison. 



Apparently it will take a year or more for me to 

 finish it, with the greater chance that it finishes me 

 before that time. . . . 



April 24. 



Thanks for both specimen and sympathy. The 

 former is here safely returned. 



The A. glacialis I must seek in NuttalFs herbarium, 

 now at the British Museum. 



The principal troubles in Aster are packed away, 

 to try on again, in London, Paris, and Berlin. 



TO R. W. CHURCH. 



CAMBRIDGE, May 17, 1880. 

 MY HONORED AND DEAR FRIEND, - - Is it possi- 



ble (I fear it is) that your letter to me at the begin- 

 ning of the winter (telling me who Balfour, M. P., is) 



