318 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. [1844, 



about my occupations, plans, and prospects. Of these 

 hereafter, for I hope our correspondence will not end 

 here. But I am now exceedingly pressed for time, 

 having just commenced my course of public lectures 

 in Boston on physiological botany. Indeed I have 

 the second lecture to give this evening, and much 

 preparation yet to make for it. But I must tell you 

 that in August next I am to take possession of the 

 house which belongs to our little Botanic Garden, 

 a quiet pleasant place, where I am to set up a bachelor 

 establishment, have room enough for my herbarium, 

 wnich I shall arrange a la Hooker, and a bed and 

 a plate for a friend. So, if you wish to take an au- 

 tumnal excursion, step on board the steamer and so 

 drop in upon me some morning, where you may de- 

 pend upon in a humble way as cordial a recep- 

 tion as I once received in Scotland. 



Sullivant, who is a good, spirited fellow, is delighted 

 at the thought of receiving a set of your cryptogamic 

 collections. As to your generous proposal to send 

 another to some public collection in this country, we 

 will see. I will write something about it in due time. 



TO JOHN TORREY. 



CAMBRIDGE, 25th March, [1844]. 



I think I should be an unhappy, discontented, un- 

 thankful person not to be gratified with the success of 

 my lectures. But it is not likely to turn my head. 

 Everything proceeds quietly and soberly. I pur- 

 posely directed no tickets to be sent to a paper that 

 often reports lectures, as I did not wish it done. There 

 has not been a line in the papers about the matter, 

 except the very considerate notice about the beginning, 

 which I sent you. My last week's lectures are called 



