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ET. 27.] TO MRS. TORREY. 81 
This morning I have been botanizing, and have se- 
cured for the doctor some specimens (clusters of 
Esheol) of this goodly land. So be prepared for a 
very favorable report. My pen is abominable, and 
I have not another moment. 
(Derxorr), 8.30, Monday evening, August 20. 
A pleasant afternoon ride brought me back again 
to this place, where my first care was to run to the 
post office, nothing doubting that I should find a let- 
ter; but I was wofully disappointed, and yet it is the 
20th of the month! This is too bad. Do beseech the 
doctor to write ; and especially if I should be detained 
here until the fourth or fifth day of next month, as I 
fear may be necessary, ask him to write every other 
day until you hear from me again. 
Tam glad to get back here again on one account. 
The fare here, which is no great matter, I assure you, 
is excellent compared with the hotel at Ann Arbor. 
Indeed, I have not taken my place at a single dinner- 
table for ten days without being reminded of Charles 
Lamb and his memorable essay on Roast Pig. Here 
he might riot in his favorite dish (which is in my 
opinion wretched stuff), as one of the aforesaid juve- 
nile quadrupeds, with a sprig of parsley in his mouth, 
has been regularly presented to my eyes ever since I 
left the State of New York. I am sadly bothered as 
to the course I should take. I suppose I might be 
able to leave here on Thursday of this week, and, stay- 
ing over Sabbath at Oswego (making no stay at the 
Falls), arrive at my father’s Tuesday evening, and at 
New York on Friday morning. But before I could 
reach New York, Mr. Davis, according to his appoint- 
ment, would be at Detroit, and it is possible that a 
