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20 Au Retiro. 



26 S **At a sawmill the last two weeks at Palacios " [near Pinar del Rio?]. 

 10 O La Machina (this is the sawmill above mentioned). 

 28 O Habana. 



6 N Retiro. ** Spent some days in Concordia." 

 2D «* 



4 D Retiro. "Yesterday went into the mountains" (La Palma Vega). 



12 D La Machina. (Various additions to this letter were made from same 



place at various dates up to 20 D.) 

 26 D Arroyo Hondo. *' To-morrow I go to Luis Lazo." 

 1S67, I Ja Guane, **From Arroyo Honda I went to Luis Lazo and staid a few 



days." 

 6 Ja La Grifa. 



lo Ja Los Portales de Guane. "Yesterday I left La Grifa." 

 21 Ja Retiro. 



8 F Habana. 

 10 F Habana. "Went to Matanzas yesterday for money." 



18 F Habana, In this letter Wright recounts troubles he had to get a passport 



and other papers necessary lo embark for Trinidad. 



19 F Habana. " Everything arranged for my voyage *' [to Trinidad]. 



[Apparently there is a hiatus in the correspondence here]. 



20 Ap Trinidad. " Since I last wrote you I went in the mountains to an old 



cafetal now a potrero or pasture. • ■ • "I came here about a week 



ago." 

 24 Ap Cuba (= Santiago de Cuba). 

 26 Ap Sta. Catalina de Guantanamo. " Arrived this morning." In this letter 



Wright mentions "letter of 8th " telling of loss of "great collections 



of the Vueltabago." * 



5 My Monte Verde. "Back again." 

 12 My " I 



The next letter is dated Cambridge, Mass., 23 Nov, 186S, in which Wright says 



"Done distributing." The sets of Cuban plants run thus: 2250, 2200, 2075, 1715, 



1550, 1460, 1330, 1275, 1 165, 960, 780, 750, 660, 620, 560. 



The only breaks in the continuity of the above correspondence 

 are as follows : 



I. That from 8 May 1857 at Saltadero to 9 September 1S57 

 written on the steamer approaching New York. This is the long- 

 est hiatus, and what may have been Wright's journeys during this 

 period is largely a matter of conjecture. It seems probable that 

 this time, like the rest of his first expedition, was spent on two 

 or three of the plantations that formed the basis of his principal 

 explorations in the province of Santiago. | 



Cf. foot-note p. 292, 



t Dr. Gray {/oc. cit. ) says that Wright returned from his third visit in July 1867. 



X Wright's single letter to Dr. Torrey during this period, preserved in the Torrey 

 correspondence at the New York Botanical Garden, is dated 20 June 1857 from Monte 

 Verde and bears out the above supposition. 



