292 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. [ 1842, 
any Western plants, especially the rarer, and those 
not yet figured or cultivated abroad. But nothing 
peculiar to the West and South will come amiss. I 
am calling on all my correspondents to assist me in 
this matter; which, by giving me the opportunity of 
examining so many living plants, will vastly increase 
the correctness of our “ Flora.” I shall not be idle 
myself. I will defray all expenses of collection and 
transportation (boxes may be sent via New Orleans, 
directly to me at Boston). If you wish to cultivate 
anything that I have or can procure, it shall be forth- 
coming. Pray let me hear from you on this subject. 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
CAMBRIDGE, 15th September, 1842. 
My pear Frienp, — Your letter of the 6th inst. 
awaited my return from the White Mountains last 
evening, and I must drop you a hasty reply by this 
day’s mail. I started for the mountains almost at a 
moment’s warning. Emerson, who was to accompany 
me, being called down to Maine, wrote me unexpect- 
edly to meet him on Monday or Tuesday of last week 
at the Notch. I had just time to look up Tucker- 
man,! the very morning of his arrival! and to get 
his consent to meet me on Monday morning at the 
ears for Dover. Monday evening we reached Con- 
way, New Hampshire, thirty miles from the White 
Mountains (full in sight); and Tuesday, in a one- 
horse wagon, we reached and botanized up the Notch 
to Crawford’s at its head. Emerson had been there, 
and returned to his father’s in Maine, having learned 
his brother’s arrival from France in the ship that 
1 Edward Tuckerman, 1817-1886; professor at Amherst. “The 
most profound and trustworthy American lichenologist of the day ”’ 
[A. G.]. , 
