38 Card Issued. 



had also made an arrangement with Messrs. Harper, the generous pub- 

 hshers of his forthcoming "Researches," by which he had leave to post- 

 pone further work iq)on tlie volume until his return from his proposed 

 vo)-age 



But the local embarrassments and the excitement growing out of 

 the opposition to the enforcement of the Registration act, passed to 

 secure the necessary enlistments of soldiery for the existing war, appear 

 to have entirely withdrawn attention from all subjects of less moment 

 tliau the engrossing war-topics, and to have closed off the increase of 

 private contributions. Hall had met more than one citizen able and 

 willing to put good wishes into the form of that practical aid for which 

 New York is well noted; but they were restrained by such feelings as 

 Horace Greeley expressed in strong terms when he said to him, "No 

 other idea should now be entertained by any man who loves his coun- 

 try except crushing the rebellion; when that is accomplished one might 

 take hold of an Arctic expedition." The New London schooner was, 

 therefore, returned to her owners, and the yacht Victoria, with the 

 lumber contributed by Mr. John Biglow, was sold, that its proceeds 

 might be invested for use during the next available season. The 

 time necessary for preparing an expedition for the year 1863 having 

 iKtw passed away, Hall, thus hopelessly hemmed in by obstacles 

 as iiisui-iii<»uiital)](' as the ice-masses he had left two years before, 

 devoted himself laboriously to the completion of his book, and issued 



tlie following card : 



New York, July 10, 1SC3. 



Til 11)1/ Count rj/inrii : 



W'liilc on my Ar<-lic voynjic. ol" ISOO-'fU-'dL*, I ]tl;iiiiiO(l anotlior expedition for 

 l.S(J.'}. On iclMiiiinii to tin- St;it<'s last S('i)t«'nil)('i- (ISdi!) I stoi)iKMl at St. .lolin's, 

 Newfoundland, and tlicic liisl learned thai my (.'ouiitry was engaged in war. At 



