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I had thought he could never make another journey 

 of any importance alone, and especially I had thought 

 we should be likely some day or other to go out to 

 the Far West together, perhaps across the Rocky 

 Mountains to California. Apart from the interest and 

 enjoyment of travelling with him, it makes me so 

 much more efficient in writing out his results when I 

 have been on the ground and watched the course of 

 his work. But in this case it was all settled for me. He 

 was invited to go on this journey where no ladies were 

 admitted and there was no question about the impor- 

 tance of his accepting it. He wanted change desper- 

 ately and perhaps it was better I should not go. I 

 know too much of his anxieties to be the best com- 

 panion for him when he wants to forget them. 



September 11 



You know Agassiz is away since the first of August. 

 This strange summer is drawing to a close, and I 

 meant to move up the week after next. I am chiefly 

 occupied now in making the days pass. Thank Heaven, 

 this absence of Agassiz only makes me the more cer- 

 tain that the romance of life does not diminish with 

 time, and so I find the weeks of waiting rather long. 

 Pauline is coming down tomorrow with the chil- 

 dren, of which fact by the way I ought to be profoundly 

 ignorant, for it's a plan of Louis' to surprise me. He 

 made all his arrangements with Miss Lyman, who was 

 to keep me at home "for sure" but by no means to say 

 why, only if I asked, to answer that she knew a gentle- 

 man and two ladies who were coming to see me. The 



