*rr.64.] TO W. M. CANBY. 651 



TO WILLIAM M. CANBY. 



BOTANIC GARDEN, March 13, 1875. 



MY DEAR CANBY, I do not get on, and shall not 

 in this melting snow and bad season. 



I yield to advice, and Mrs. Gray and I are going 

 South, I do not know where, but somewhere, taking 

 my vacation now instead of in summer. I want to 

 find now and reach comfortably what we have 

 here at the first of June. 



You know somewhat of the South ; I think I should 

 like best to get to Apalachicola and St. John's River 

 and see Torreya. But it seems far off. 



I want to recruit, and to be good for something, 

 which at present I am not ! 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 

 WASHINGTON, April 25, 1875. 



MY DEAR CANBY, Well, we have got back 

 again, so far ; and here, I think, we shall stick for a 

 few days. Had we anticipated so much cold and 

 backwardness, we should have stayed south longer. 



Apalachicola was heavenly. But at Macon, coming 

 north, we struck the cold wave ; came on by Atlanta 

 (Stone Mountain), Chattanooga (roots of Silene 

 rotundifolia), and thence via Lynchburg straight here. 

 I found Torreya, and had a good time with it. Lots 

 of detail to tell you. . . . 



I am lazy in traveling, or I would have written you. 

 Then I have been pretty busy, too, and have done 

 several hard days' work, causing much but healthy 

 fatigue. 



CAMBRIDGE, May 8. 



We are at home, with delightful memories of you 

 and yours. 



