CHAPTER XIX. 

 LITERARY WORK. 



OPBN-AIR PREPARATION FOR LITERARY WORK DICTATION TO* 

 AMANUENSIS PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF DR. SUMMERS, 

 AND OF DR. JOHN <i. MORRIS LITERARY CLUB ADVEN- 

 TURES OF A CLUB-NIGHT UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



WHEN Dr. Bachman arrived in Charleston, in 

 1815, in very delicate health, by the direction 

 of his physician, he spent much of his time on the 

 United States Revenue Cutters then stationed off 

 Charleston harbor. The invigorating salt air benefited 

 him greatly ; but unwilling to give up so much time 

 to what seemed to him merely recreation, he formed 

 the habit of taking with him his little blank book 

 and noting down analogies, etc., suggested, often, by 

 the natural objects that presented themselves. Thus 

 he accomplished, in the open air, much of the pre- 

 paratory work for his sermons and scientific publi- 

 cations. His hand was so steady that he could use his 

 razor in shaving, or write on ship-board with almost 

 as much comfort as when on land. 



Rev. Dr. Summers, in his Personal Recollections 

 of Dr. Bachman, writes : 



" In preparing for the pulpit, the Doctor told me 

 that he usually paced the floor for about two hours 



