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ET. 52.) TO CHARLES DARWIN. 511 
I have been so far disappointed in getting no Gym- 
nadenia tridentata. But I still hope for it. I must 
have it, indeed. 
Boott’s address is good, chiefly very good. But he 
speaks of Wyman’s paper without having duly con- 
sidered it. Wyman’s experiments are better than 
Pasteur’s, and the results opposite ! 
P.S.— Papers just in, or rather telegrams, that you 
in London were daily awaiting and expecting the 
capture of Washington, ete., and speculating as to 
whether Jeff Davis’s envoys from Washington might 
not be received at London as a fait accompli. A good 
deal of little-concealed joy, ete. 
Oh, foolish people! When will you see that there 
is only one end to all this, and that the North never 
dreams of any other, — the complete putting down of 
the rebellion. And since 1863 began, it was clear that 
it would be attended with the annihilation of slavery. 
Time was when we should have highly valued Eng- 
lish appreciation of the right cause. We have long 
ceased to care or think about it. 
We only wish you had the city of New York. But 
the sympathizers with secession and riot there have 
done their worst, and lost their game. The city of 
New York is the only part of our country which I am 
ashamed of; and the trouble there is that it is not 
American. Enough ; good-bye. A. G. 
September 1. 
Your fine, long letter of August 4th reached me 
up in the country, in my native region, in the centre 
of the State of New York, rusticating and enjoying 
ourselves mightily. We were among the people of a 
thriving region ; a well-to-do set; no poverty near us 
