&T. 69.] TO R. W. CHURCH. 697 
My old friend John Carey has died, in England, at 
eighty-three. Schimper, they say, is dead. They go 
one by one 
CAMBRIDGE, May 8. 
First, thanks for your very lively letter of May 4, 
— auspicious day, sis my wedding - day, thirty- 
second. anniversary. 
Yes, we mean to oi ahaa right after the meeting 
of American Association, say September 4, to finish 
Aster, ete.; to stay at least a year. 
My wife sends best love to you, your daughter, and 
son, and I join. 
TO JOHN H. REDFIELD. 
Campriper, April 21, 1880. 
Dear Reprietp,—If you hear of my breaking 
down utterly, and being sent to an asylum, you may 
lay it to Aster, which is a slow and fatal poison. | 
Apparently it will take a year or more for me to 
finish it, with the greater chance that it finishes me 
before that time. 
April 24. 
Thanks for both specimen and sympathy. The 
former is here safely returned. 
The A. glacialis I must seek in Nuttall’s herbarium, 
now at the British Museum. 
The principal troubles in Aster are packed away, 
to try on again, in London, Paris, and Berlin. 
TO R. W. CHURCH. 
CAMBRIDGE, May 17, 1880. 
My HONORED AND DEAR FRIEND, — Is it possi- 
ble (I fear it is) that your letter to me at the begin- 
ning of the winter (telling me who Balfour, M. P., is) 
