318 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME.  [1844, 
about my occupations, plans, and prospects. Of these 
hereafter, for | hope our correspondence will not end 
here. But I am now exceedingly pressed for time, 
having just commenced my course of public lectures 
in Boston on physiological botany. Indeed I have 
the second lecture to give this evening, and much 
preparation yet to make for it. But I must tell you 
that in August next I am to take possession of the 
house which belongs to our little Botanic Garden, — 
a quiet pleasant place, where I am to set up a bachelor 
establishment, have room enough for my herbarium, 
which I shall arrange 4 la Hooker, and a bed and 
a plate fora friend. So, if you wish to take an au- 
tumnal excursion, step on board the steamer and so 
drop in upon me some morning, where you may de- 
pend upon —in a humble way —as cordial a recep- 
tion as I once received in Scotland. 
Sullivant, who is a good, spirited fellow, is delighted 
at the thought of receiving a set of your cryptogamic 
collections. As to your generous proposal to send 
another to some public collection in this country, we 
will see. I will write something about it in due time. 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
CamBripGEr, 25th March, [1844]. 
I think I should be an unhappy, discontented, un- 
thankful person not to be gratified with the success of 
my lectures. But it is not likely to turn my head. 
Everything proceeds quietly and soberly. I pur- 
posely directed no tickets to be sent to a paper that 
often reports lectures, as I did not wish it done. There 
has not been a line in the papers about the matter, 
except the very considerate notice about the beginning, 
which I sent you. My last week’s lectures are called 
