xv. 51] TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 495 
November 14. 
Here I was this afternoon, moiling over your plants, 
copying out Grisebach’s manuscripts for the printer 
(for the printer won’t touch the Dutchy-looking thing ; 
and besides, I have additions to make, ete.), when I 
just happened to remember that to-morrow is Havana 
mail, and that I was by all means to write to you to- 
day. There is still time, so here goes. 
First, can’t you make some arrangement, while you 
are at this end of Cuba, to receive a Yankee news- 
paper by mail; say to the address of Don José Blain, 
or some Havana address. If you can arrange it that 
it is not stopped, I will send you papers regularly ; say 
the little “ Boston Herald,’ small, soon read, demo- 
cratic, patriotic, or others, from time to time... . 
As to collecting still, I should say, Yes, go on, in a 
gradual and cheap way, i. e., do not make very heavy 
outlays, as long as you are in the country; at least till 
next summer. For we cannot get the war done until 
late next spring (except in Texas). 
If you can do as much for western as for eastern 
Cuba, it will be a good thing. . 
Meanwhile I have money eeongh for you, if you can 
only get it. 
But how « can you get it at present rates? Or how 
can I get it to you? If greenbacks would pass there 
as here, it would be easy enough. 
Is there not some Yankee product that I could ship 
to you that Blain or Lescaille wants, sewing-machines, 
agricultural implements, chairs? So we might save 
the loss on exchange. I will send you daytiiiog, from 
a mouse-trap to a wheelbarrow ! 
You have a letter from me which must have reached 
you soon after yours of October 25, saying that my 
