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#T. 43.] TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 405 
English characters into Latin, is a tedious job ; then 
to read his proofs is another. But if I did not do all 
this, very bad work indeed would be made of it. Late 
in October Mrs. Gray and I went to New York for a 
week, to visit Torrey and to see the New York Exhi- 
bition. Returning, I had to bear my part ina course 
of lectures, which the American Academy gave to the 
public (to replenish our publication funds) ; and to 
prepare and deliver my two lectures, on the relations 
of plants to the sun, cost me almost the whole of 
November. 
Sprague is too slow, and too feeble in health, to 
do half what I want done, let alone others. I must 
import an additional draughtsman. If you know any 
in Germany good enough, who would come out, let me 
know at once. If not, I must try at Paris. 
TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 
May 21, 1853. 
The Kurile Islands will be a fine field; and I hope 
you can do much among them. Collect some speci- 
mens of everything you see there. .. . 
CamBrRIDGE, February 19, 1854. 
Sinner that I am, I have four letters of yours un- 
answered ; the last from Simon’s Bay, November 4th. 
The fact is I do not find time to write half the letters 
I ought, and those, like yours, which are not to be 
dispatched on some particular day, I am sure to post- 
pone and neglect interminably. It seems so vague, 
too, to be writing to a man, you know not where, 
somewhere on the other side of the world, and you 
know not when the epistle may reach him, say six 
months hence. 
