596 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1869, 
with him and his agreeable wife next morning early 
his windows command a lovely view), set about 
seeing all the structures, etc., that have sprung u 
since the almost twenty years that have passed: the 
Museum and its workings, the Ratcliffe turned into 
an admirable reading-room, chapel of Exeter, also 
Balliol, new buildings of Christ Church, ete. I did 
not fail to look in upon the quadrangle of Oriel, also, 
to ask for Mr. Burgon, but he was in France. After 
lunch I took train, and was in Kew soon after sunset. 
Since then I have been away one day and one night, 
with Mr. Rivers of Orchard-house fame, at Sawbridge- 
worth, Herts. . . . 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
Kew, October 11, 1869. 
I am now almost through with my examination of 
the Polemoniacez, for which I brought over all mine 
here. I have got them into good shape, settled many 
things only to be determined here, and have a clear 
and definite idea as to what I would do with the gen- 
era, and have straightened out the species. 
October 31. 
After so long a drought — as happens in some eli- 
mates — when the change comes, you pour refresh- 
ingly. But with all your three rapidly following let- 
ters not one of them makes the least reference to my 
letter, written for one special purpose. 
Bennett is as pleasant as ever. When I go up next 
to British Museum I will give your regards. 
Old Gray (J. E.), who has ever been particularly 
kind to us, has had a paralytic stroke, which, with 
