292 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. [1842, 



any Western plants, especially the rarer, and those 

 not yet figured or cultivated abroad. But nothing 

 peculiar to the West and South will come amiss. I 

 am calling on all my correspondents to assist me in 

 this matter ; which, by giving me the opportunity of 

 examining so many living plants, will vastly increase 

 the correctness of our " Flora." I shall not be idle 

 myself. I will defray all expenses of collection and 

 transportation (boxes may be sent via New Orleans, 

 directly to me at Boston). If you wish to cultivate 

 anything that I have or can procure, it shall be forth- 

 coming. Pray let me hear from you on this subject. 



TO JOHN TORREY. 



CAMBRIDGE, 15th September, 1842. 



MY DEAR FRIEND, Your letter of the 6th inst. 

 awaited my return from the White Mountains last 

 evening, and I must drop you a hasty reply by this 

 day's mail. I started for the mountains almost at a 

 moment's warning. Emerson, who was to accompany 

 me, being called down to Maine, wrote me unexpect- 

 edly to meet him on Monday or Tuesday of last week 

 at the Notch. I had just time to look up Tucker- 

 man, 1 the very morning of his arrival ! and to get 

 his consent to meet me on Monday morning at the 

 cars for Dover. Monday evening we reached Con- 

 way, New Hampshire, thirty miles from the White 

 Mountains (full in sight) ; and Tuesday, in a one- 

 horse wagon, we reached and botanized up the Notch 

 to Crawford's at its head. Emerson had been there, 

 and returned to his father's in Maine, having learned 

 his brother's arrival from France in the ship that 



1 Edward Tuckerman, 1817-1886 ; professor at Amherst. " The 

 most profound and trustworthy American lichenologist of the day " 

 [A. G.]. 



