xT. 44.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 417 
from the obloquy and wroug heaped upon it by us of 
the North, and by England. Save the mark! 
At any rate, her journal will be piquant. 
T am anxious to know how far we can economically 
use the post for the transmission of printed matter. 
Perhaps I could safely send you “ Silliman’s Journal ” 
in this way. As an experiment I now send you our 
University catalogue. No, it will not do, I see, for 
anything weighing over two ounces or three. Beyond 
this the rates increase woefully. . . . 
TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 
18th October, 1855. 
Yours of August 30th (answered by my wife) was 
written when I was one day at sea. Yours of Octo- 
ber 13, which arrived to-day, was written two days 
after I reached home again. I had two very pleasant 
voyages, on the whole, and not long, ten and a half and 
eleven and a half days; eleven days in Paris (where 
I was detained a little by a severe cold on my lungs) 
and a week in England, mostly at London and Kew. 
I found my brother-in-law so convalescent that I 
might have stayed at home, and I brought him home 
with me in good condition. We had hoped, till the 
last moment, to get places in the steamer of the 13th 
October, and to have had a fortnight more in Eng- 
land. But all the places had been engaged for months, 
and nobody was giving up berths up to the time we 
sailed ; so we had to come in steamer of the 29th ult., 
where we got a good stateroom by great luck, though 
the vessel was greatly crowded. Dr. Joseph D. Hooker 
(whom I had wanted to see for some time) being 
away in Germany, and time being extremely valuable 
to me here, I was on the whole very glad to get home. 
