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Part of yesterday and last night was down along 

 the Arkansas, the reverse of our journey eight years 

 ago. Country much settled up. 



CAMBRIDGE, August 26, 1885. 



. . . Charles Wright is dead, at seventy-three and 

 a half ; had been suffering of heart-disease, went out 

 to his barn, was missed as the evening drew on, was 

 found dead. So they go, one by one. . . . 



The summer is almost gone, - - one hardly knows 

 how, - - but, then, we have a longer and finer autumn 

 than you have in England. 



The five hundred copies which I printed in 1878 

 are gone. And, as I have to print new copies, I take 

 the opportunity to correct on the stereotype plates 

 when I can, a great lot of wrong references to vol- 

 ume, page, plates, - - that is, such as we have found 

 out. What a bother they are, and how impossible to 

 make correct in the first place, and to keep so through 

 the printer's hands ! Then there are lots of important 

 corrections to make, and new species and genera 

 galore. 



So, in an evil moment, you will say I set about 

 a supplement to this new issue, - - also of the other 

 part. For, as I have now brought out in the two parts 

 all the Gamopetalae, and as I begin to doubt if I shall 

 hold out to accomplish much more, I thought it best 

 to leave behind at least these in good state. But it is 

 no small job. And this, with the great amount of 

 herbarium work that goes along with it, or beside 

 it, just uses up the summer ; for I dare guess it will 

 keep me occupied all September. . . . 



The last news of you is a letter from your dear 

 wife to mine, giving such a pleasant picture of the 



