Private Notes. 27 



times and closely sedentary and severely thoughtful habits at other times, are the 

 forces by which men accomplish notable enterprises. They mature i)laiis, after 

 which, ^vith energies braced to their work, they move to the easy conquest of 

 difficulties accounted formidable. 



Some of these apothegms copied from a rare volume loaned to 

 him by his friend Mr. J. D. Caldwell, of Cincinnati, are found em- 

 phasized for his own impress by being underscored almost word by 

 word ; nor did he fail to note at length in his diary the sentiments of 

 Professor Henry expressed in his communication to the Board of Re- 

 gents of the Smithsonian Institution in 1857 in regard to his di.scoveries 

 in electro-magnetism, that "he had freely given the results of his 

 labors to the world, expecting only in retitrn to enjoy the conscious- 

 ness of having added to the sum of human happiness." He noted 

 down also the sentiment expressed by Smithson himself, that every 

 man is a valuable member of society, who by his obsei*\^ations, re- 

 searches, and experiments procures knowledge for men. 



To the encouragements offered by more able and influential friends 



were added those from Captain Budington and his wife, whose kindly 



messages from their humble home in Groton, Conn., were frequent, 



and were plainly effective on his spirits and on his labors. These at 



this time were very arduous. On the 27tli January, 1863, he wrote 



to Budington from his quarters on Fourth street, New York, where he 



was "near the libraries and Mr. Grinnell : " 



There is such a vast amount of work on my hands that it becomes my duty 

 to ask if it is possible for me to make arrangements by which you can again take 

 the Eskimos into your family. Were it not that I Iiave a book on hand, and also 

 preparation for another voyage in four mouths from now, I would not ask this. 



At Elmira they had taken severe colds, and Hall found he could 

 do notliing but nurse the sick, while in addition to his cares was the 



