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business. I hope also to secure an appropriation for 
the library, and philosophical and chemical appa- 
ratus. I feel pretty confident of accomplishing this 
result by early autumn. 
This is my last entire sheet of large paper, so you 
may expect no more such tedious letters, unless I find 
more like it. But if I do not hear from you, and that 
speedily, I shall be very unhappy. Ask Dr. T. to 
open any letters that may have come from Norfolk or 
Washington, and apprise me of the contents, or take 
any steps that become necessary. Adieu, my dear 
friend. May our Heavenly Father bless and keep you 
and yours is the sincere prayer of your attached, 
A. Gray. 
TO DR. TROWBRIDGE. 
New York, October 1, 1838. 
Dear Docror, — My arrangements are now so far 
completed that I may say, with as much confidence as 
we may speak of any event subject to ordinary con- 
tingencies, that I hope to sail for London on the first 
of next month. I am of course hard at work ; there is 
no need to tell you that. The second part of “ Flora” 
we hope, by hard work, to have published about the 
20th inst. Yours truly, 
A. GRay. 
TO HIS FATHER. 
New York, November 7, 1858. 
I expect to sail to-morrow for Liverpool in the 
packet-ship Pennsylvania, unless the weather should 
prove unfavorable, which is not unlikely. The sailing 
has already been postponed one day, much to my relief, 
as, although I have not taken off my clothes for two 
