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also had the satisfaction of seeing Mr. Malan, who, 
when he called here the other day, was so good as to 
hold a long and edifying religious conversation with 
me. He is a very apostle in appearance, and in con- 
versation. Indeed, I have been thrown here into the 
midst of religious society of a high tone and of great 
sweetness and simplicity. I hope I have received 
some benefit from it. As I leave here I shall lose all 
this and shall see nothing more like it until I get home 
again. . . . 
TO GEORGE P. PUTNAM. 
Bate, July 23d. 
. . . I left on Saturday morning for Lausanne and 
Freiburg, where I heard the big organ on Sunday ; 
came on in the night to Berne, and yesterday to this 
place over the Jura. I wished here to see Professor 
Meisner, but found out this morning, some hours after 
the steamboat had left, that he was absent on a 
journey. I was a great fool for not finding that out 
last night, in which case I should now have been 
below Strasburg,—and this evening at Mannheim. 
As it is, I can’t wait here till Thusday morning for 
the next boat, and shall leave this evening for Schaff- 
hausen and Tiibingen, and thence push on, the best 
way I can, for Dresden and Leipsic. I do not lose a 
moment of time. Do not be surprised if I drop in 
upon you about the 4th or 5th of September. I would 
like to sail for home the latter part of that month. In 
early winter we will hope to give you an entire volume 
of “Flora,” and see what you can do with it. I have 
blocked out, in my mind, scientific labor enough for 
several years to come, and several works some of 
which will be good in a publisher’s acceptance of the 
