306 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. _ [1843, 
nearly to the time that I hope to leave here again ; 
for I find, from the way the president takes it up, 
that I shall have no difficulty in obtaining the sanc- 
tion of the corporation to my proposed mountain tour. 
But of that I shall know certainly in a day or two. 
In that case I shall hope to see you again in the latter 
part of August, perhaps as soon as the middle. . . 
Dr. came here the day I returned. He still 
garnishes, as ever, his lack of ideas with a deliber- 
ate profundity of words. 
found on my return a letter from my brother, 
announcing the approaching marriage of my youngest 
sister ; which event took place, I suppose, on the 20th 
inst., the day I left New York. Had I received the 
letter in New York, I should have arranged to be 
present on the occasion. I wonder if my turn will 
ever come ! 
TO W. J. HOOKER. 
CAMBRIDGE, 11th August, 1843. 
I leave home this afternoon for New York, on my 
way to the Alleghany Mountains in the north of 
Virginia, where I expect to meet my excellent friend 
Mr. Sullivant, of Ohio. We hope to trace the more 
westerly ranges of the mountains down to h 
Carolina and Tennessee, to revisit my old ground in 
Ashe County, ete., and to continue our journey farther 
south into Georgia, coming out at Augusta on the 
Savannah River; thence I may go to Charleston and 
return by water. But if time allows I shall perhaps 
run through upper Georgia and Alabama, to the 
Tennessee River, down that to the Ohio, and thence 
home. My chief object is to obtain live plants and 
seeds ; we shall be too late in the season for the best 
