#1. 72.) ° TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 745 
so; then the variety or varieties with the special dif- 
foratia: 
From pretty large practice I find this works best, 
and probably your experience will have brought you 
to the same conclusion. . . . 
‘Liberavi animum meum,” and it may go for what 
you find it worth. . . . I did not know that “ Amer- 
icans,” i. e., good Americans, did say, “so and so in- 
termarried with so and so.” I see Ravenel, a Caro- 
linian, says so. 
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TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 
CAMBRIDGE, September 25, 1883. 
My pear Bentuam, — I am s0 glad to receive a let- 
ter giving so comfortable an account of yourself; glad 
also that you would like to hear from me; glad to 
announce that, though there are still some genera to 
revise, I can tell you that I am about to begin the 
printing of the ‘“Synoptical Flora,” containing Capri- 
foliaceze - Composite, — which when done, I shall feel 
something of the relief you must have had when the 
“Genera” was off your hands. That done, I look, 
with only that mitigated confidence that becomes an 
old man, for a bit of holiday, such as is always re- 
invigorating to Mrs. Gray and myself. I am so sorry 
you had to take up with a sick-room instead. But as 
you are now picking up finely, could you not be made 
comfortable and get rid of an English November and 
December by revisiting the scenes of your youth in 
the south of France? . . 
I think I sent you Trambull’s 1 (mostly) and my 
1 J. Hammond Trumbull, of Hartford, Conn.; a great authority 
on Indian languages and customs, and author of many contributions, 
historical and philological. Perhaps the only American scholar able 
to read Eliot’s Bible. 
