arc. 37.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 355 



March 10th. 



Besides all the rest, the Academy's correspondence 

 presses hard on me. I have written twenty-four letters 

 for the steamer to-morrow. Fairly to keep up my 

 correspondence and answer all my letters would take 

 full two hours every day of the week except the Sab- 

 bath. So have mercy, and long patience. . . . 



Meanwhile my " Manual " is out ; but not published 

 till the 10th February. What can you expect from a 

 man who takes up a job in February, 1847, to finish 

 in May or June certain ; but who, though he works 

 like a dog, and throws by everything else, does not 

 get it done till February comes round again. So it is 

 only now that I have anything to send you. I am 

 now printing off my " Genera Illustrata " the text 

 for one hundred plates ; mean to have it out in a 

 month ; but I will not wait any longer. . . . 



TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 



CAMBRIDGE, February 29, 1848. 



. . . Now for Fendler himself. He ought to go 

 back, and without delay. He has gained much expe- 

 rience, and will now work to greater advantage. He 

 makes unrivaled specimens, and with your farther in- 

 structions will collect so as to make more equable sets. 

 If he will stay and bide his time he can get on to the 

 mountains, and must try the higher ones, especially 

 those near Taos. 



Let him stay two years, and if he is energetic he 

 will reap a fine harvest for botany, and accumulate a 

 pretty little sum for himself, and have learned a pi'o- 

 fession, for such that of a collector now is. Drum- 

 mond made money quite largely. 



I had rather Fendler would go north and west 



