684 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. (1879, 
TO G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. 
April 1, 1878. 
. I like an article to begin or end with an apho- 
rism, or some sort of snapper. I think you may end 
your next article with a condensed expression like 
this: Not vitality but personality is the witness for 
immortality ! 
October 24, 1878. 
. .. Yes, I read with interest and approval your 
article on Hypothesis. 
I am pressed with work now all this week. I 
would send you the proofs of Newcomb’s article,! but 
you will get it in the “ Independent ” almost as soon. 
Read, mark, and tell me what I should say. I 
must now lay myself out on this matter. If you will 
allow, I want to drop, throw out, praying for the 
weather quoad weather 
I shall take my fae, but shall be turning the 
matter in my mind, at the end of this week and begin- 
ning of the next. 
Perhaps I may see you on Monday here, unless I 
am called away. 
TO A. DE CANDOLLE. 
CAMBRIDGE, January 24, 1879. 
My pear De Canpouie, —I have just returned 
from Washington, where I had to read a memorial of 
our late secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 
Professor Henry,? and I have returned somewhat ecrip- 
1 Articles in the New York Independent, signed “Country Reader,” 
by. Dr. Gra = 
? At amemorial meeting held in honor of Professor Henry by the 
Board of Tagen and both Houses of Congress, in the Hall of the 
