T52 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1884, 
to have letters from me, or from Mrs. Gray, to whom 
he wrote a treasure of a note on the New Year. We 
had an idea it might only worry him... . 
I wish we could see you at the Camp and among 
the heather, and I wish I could form a clear concep- 
tion of just how you are placed, taking the Rotherys’ 
house as a point of departure. 
We give you up as to America this year. I would 
not have you and Lady Hooker just run over here for 
a call; it would be too provoking. Well, let us 
plan for January or February next, and Mexico, Ari- 
zona, and southern California. 
** Man never is, but always to be blest.” 
The Joad herbarium was a real bonanza. . . 
I must tell of our two weeks’ run, Mrs. Gray and I. 
We left the too tardy spring here, one evening; were 
the next noon in Washington, where the spring was 
in full force and beauty. After two days, left 
Washington one morning, followed up the Potomac 
River to its very rise in the Alleghanies, and down on 
to Mississippi waters before dark; woke near Cincin- 
nati, had a pleasant day’s journey to St. Louis, which 
we reached before sunset. There had five days, 
rather busy ones ; thence a journey of thirty-six hours, 
over prairies of Illinois and Indiana to Buffalo, and 
to New York city; there two days, and then home. ! 
Mrs. Gray, thus away from household cares and a 
rough air, dropped her cough altogether ; and what 
you would think a tiresome piece of journeying brought 
us both home much refreshed. . 
You remember Henry Shaw, hia park and Mis- 
souri botanie garden. The old fellow is now eighty- 
' Dr. Gray went to New York to finish his sittings to St. Gaudens 
for the bronze bas-relief now in the herbarium at Cambridge 
