416 CORRESPONDENCE. [1855, 
also to send you live seedlings of a palm from Sonora, 
Mexico, raised from seeds gathered by Thurber, and 
one or two other things. 
I do not forget the large “cypress knees” I prom- 
ised, which will be rather striking in your famous 
museum, and I look out for an opportunity to send 
by sailing vessel direct to London. 
Remember me affectionately to Lady Hooker (for 
whom Mrs. Gray incloses a few lines) and most cor- 
dially to Mr. Bentham, who so kindly came down 
from the country to give me the opportunity of seeing 
him, for which I am greatly obliged. 
P. S.—I forgot to tell you that, by the hands of 
Hon. Miss Murray (who returns to England by this 
week’s steamer), I send you the September number 
of “Silliman’s Journal.” Should she forget to send 
it to you, please remind her when she comes to Kew, 
as assuredly she will, to talk about her Florida new 
fern. I have filled up the Ward case which she 
brought over, also a box of American plants which 
she takes, I suppose, for Mr. Fox Strangways. Her 
various boxes and packages will nearly fill the ship, 
I should think. 
Miss Murray is a most lively, most active person, 
has traveled widely through the country, and trav- 
ersed rough places, such as no other woman past 
sixty ever did. She has seen a great deal, but heard 
very little, I should think, as she talks incessantly, 
and in a lively, interesting way, too. 
You will not be disappointed by the suppression of 
her manuscript by her English friends, I suppose, for 
she is fully determined to rush into print, to print 
her journal just as it was written from day to day; for 
she now feels she has a mission to rescue the South 
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