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also had the satisfaction of seeing Mr. Malan, who, 

 when he called here the other day, was so good as to 

 hold a long and edifying religious conversation with 

 me. He is a very apostle in appearance, and in con- 

 versation. Indeed, I have been thrown here into the 

 midst of religious society of a high tone and of great 

 sweetness and simplicity. I hope I have received 

 some benefit from it. As I leave here I shall lose all 

 this and shall see nothing more like it until I get home 

 again. . . . 



TO GEORGE P. PUTNAM. 



BALE, July 23d. 



... I left on Saturday morning for Lausanne and 

 Freiburg, where I heard the big organ on Sunday ; 

 came on in the night to Berne, and yesterday to this 

 place over the Jura. I wished here to see Professor 

 Meisner, but found out this morning, some hours after 

 the steamboat had left, that he was absent on a 

 journey. I was a great fool for not finding that out 

 last night, in which case I should now have been 

 below Strasburg, and this evening at Mannheim. 

 As it is, I can't wait here till Thusday morning for 

 the next boat, and shall leave this evening for Schaff- 

 hausen and Tubingen, and thence push on, the best 

 way I can, for Dresden and Leipsic. I do not lose a 

 moment of time. Do not be surprised if I drop in 

 upon you about the 4th or 5th of September. I would 

 like to sail for home the latter part of that month. In 

 early winter we will hope to give you an entire volume 

 of " Flora," and see what you can do with it. I have 

 blocked out, in my mind, scientific labor enough for 

 several years to come, and several works some of 

 which will be good in a publisher's acceptance of the 



