390 CORRESPONDENCE. [1852, 



take 225 pages or more, with ten plates, — the most 

 important memoir I ever wrote, and will indelibly fix 

 our name on the Texan-New-Mexican Flora. . . . 



I have just found a letter of Sullivant's, dated May 

 27, 1850, in which he says, " Send me by all means 

 Wright's Texan Mosses and Hepaticse." . . . 



Poor fellow ! as I wrote you before, he lost his wife 

 while I was away, and was overwhelmed, as she was 

 everything to him, and as good a muscologist almost 

 as he. . . . 



You are in a fine field. Hold on and keep a good 

 heart. I long to see what Colonel Graham is now 

 bringing on to me. . . . 



June 5. 



There, my dear Wright, I consider myself very 

 much of a gentleman ! For your favor of the 12th 

 April reached me only this afternoon, and now before 

 the sun has gone down I am answering it ! Your let- 

 ter came very opportunely too. For, though Colonel 

 Graham has been back so long, it was only yesterday 

 that I got the collection he brought home with him to 

 Indianola (and the seeds) ; and to-day I opened it 

 and had looked over only two bundles. And I was say- 

 ing to myself. Now if I only had Mr, Wright's list 

 with localities, I should do very well. And when my 

 letters came from the office, yours, with said list in- 

 closed, was among them. The plants look well, but I 

 have only peeped into them yet. I am glad if you 

 have found Amoreuxia malvaf olia, but I have not yet 

 hit upon it. . . . 



I am still very busy with college work, for a month 

 longer, and with the Garden ; and the Exploring Ex- 

 pedition work has been pressing me, and still wiU. 



