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ET. 42.) TO W. J. HOOKER. 393 
Next Wednesday’s steamer, which takes this letter, 
will also take, for a short European tour, my good 
father-in-law, Mr. Loring, with Mrs. Loring, and Mrs. 
Gray’s brother Charles. A rather sudden determina- 
tion, but we have strongly urged the journey ever 
since the death of their dear little boy, the little Ben- 
jamin, who seemed given to be the comfort and stay of 
their declining years, who was born just before our 
return home, a year ago last summer. The rest and 
change are needful to Mr. Loring, also, from being 
worn down by his long-continued labors at the bar, of 
which he is perhaps the leader in Boston ; I am con- 
fident it will be of great benefit to him; and the 
Old World has much to interest a man of his refined 
taste. . . . And then Kew Garden is to them one of the 
wonders of the world, as well as a place with which 
they have, through us, so many pleasant associations. 
Should you w sales them to enjoy the privilege of seeing 
the Gardens under your own kind auspices, would you 
notify Mr. Loring through Boott (for I do not 
now know what will be their London address), of a 
day that would be agreeable and convenient to your- 
ene 
January 4, 1853. 
Wright will now soon be off in Ringgold’s North 
Pacific Surveying Expedition, to explore Behring 
Straits, Kurile Islands, the coast of Japan, if possible, 
and to winter at the Sandwich Islands. 
So we shall have no more New Mexican plants from 
him. 
My new memoir, “ Plante Wrightianz,” is now al- 
most all printed, and contains many novelties. I 
never had a collection so rich in entirely new things. 
