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will display structure finely, but he must not under- 

 take them under six dollars apiece, since they will 

 cost him as much time as do my octavo " Genera " 

 drawings. He might make what you want along this 

 summer and autumn ; I am not crowding him. 



September 28, 1847. 



I had a pleasant visit to Litchfield of three days, in- 

 cluding the Sabbath. On the banks of a lake in the 

 neighborhood I stumbled on a species of Cyperus 

 dentatus, which in the " Flora of the Northern States " 

 you credit to Litchfield, Brace. 1 This Mr. Brace, who 

 is an uncle of J.'s, I met for a moment at New Mil- 

 ford, where he now lives. There are three great aunts, 

 most excellent old ladies, who live in a simple and 

 most delightful manner at Litchfield. The youngest, 

 who has been J.'s guardian almost from infancy, re- 

 turned with us to Boston for a week or two. Their 

 brother, Mr. Pierce, who died only last year, was, it 

 seems, an old friend of yours, through whom they feel 

 almost acquainted with you. He passed a part of his 

 life in New York, was a mineralogist, and I think I 

 have seen his name as a member of the Lyceum. Pray 

 tell me about him. 



I found it not easy to make an arrangement in 

 New York for the publication of the " Illustrated Gen- 

 era," by which I could get back directly the money 

 I have expended in it. I think, therefore, I shall go 

 on to defray the expenses of the first volume myself, 

 which I think I shall be able to do, and thus manage 

 to get the immediate proceeds myself. As to the 

 "Manual," I have unwittingly made it so large, in 



1 John P. Brace, Litchfield, Conn. ; an early botanist and miner- 

 alogist. His herbarium went to Williams College. 



