360 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. [1848, 



27th Nov., 1848. 



Wright is up from Texas (with his mother at 

 Wethersfield, Connecticut) ; he will soon be here as 

 curator to me, taking Lesquereux's l place, who has 

 been with me a little, but now, as a consequence of 

 his visit to Columbus, goes to aid Sullivant, with a 

 provision that makes the truly worthy fellow perfectly 

 happy. They will do up bryology at a great rate. 

 Lesquereux says that the collection and library of Sul- 

 livant in muscology are " magnifique, superbe, the best 

 he ever saw." 



TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 



January 24, 1849. 



Halstead, I believe, has nearly decided to go on the 

 Panama Railroad Survey ; I trust to get Wright at- 

 tached to the boundary survey. I have a letter from 

 Fendler, in which he expressed his willingness to go to 

 the Great Salt Lake country, if he can get government 

 protection and food, etc. In a few days I shall write to 

 Marcy ; send him the sheets of " Plantae Fendlerianse," 

 and make a vigorous application for this aid. No 

 doubt I shall get it, I think. But perhaps it might 

 be almost as well for Fendler to go over with a party 

 of emigrants directly to Mormon City. But probably 

 there will be emigrants bound for the same place, 

 accompanying the regiment, as near as they go. 

 Fendler can do admirably well in that region, if he 

 perseveres. But will he not take the gold-fever and 

 leave us in the lurch ? Will not living, etc., be very 

 dear in Mormon City also ? I fear it. I must leave 

 much to your discretion. Only if you think Fendler 



1 Leo Lesquereux, 1806-1889 ; the leading fossil botanist of Amer- 

 ica, and a distinguished bryologist. 



