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business. I hope also to secure an appropriation for 

 the library, and philosophical and chemical appa- 

 ratus. I feel pretty confident of accomplishing this 

 result by early autumn. 



This is my last entire sheet of large paper, so you 

 may expect no more such tedious letters, unless I find 

 more like it. But if I do not hear from you, and that 

 speedily, I shall be very unhappy. Ask Dr. T. to 

 open any letters that may have come from Norfolk or 

 Washington, and apprise me of the contents, or take 

 any steps that become necessary. Adieu, my dear 

 friend. May our Heavenly Father bless and keep you 

 and yours is the sincere prayer of your attached, 



A. GRAY. 



TO DR. TROWBRIDGE. 



NEW YORK, October 1, 1838. 



DEAR DOCTOR, My arrangements are now so far 

 completed that I may say, with as much confidence as 

 we may speak of any event subject to ordinary con- 

 tingencies, that I hope to sail for London on the first 

 of next month. I am of course hard at work ; there is 

 no need to tell you that. The second part of " Flora " 

 we hope, by hard work, to have published about the 

 20th inst. Yours truly, 



A. GRAY. 



TO HIS FATHER. 



NEW YORK, November 7, 1838. 



I expect to sail to-morrow for Liverpool in the 

 packet-ship Pennsylvania, unless the weather should 

 prove unfavorable, which is not unlikely. The sailing 

 has already been postponed one day, much to my relief, 

 as, although I have not taken off my clothes for two 



