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I have been so far disappointed in getting no Gym- 

 nadenia tridentata. But I still hope for it. I must 

 have it, indeed. 



Boott's address is good, chiefly very good. But he 

 speaks of Wyman's paper without having duly con- 

 sidered it. Wyman's experiments are better than 

 Pasteur's, and the results opposite ! 



P. S. — Papers just in, or rather telegrams, that you 

 in London were daily awaiting and expecting the 

 capture of Washington, etc., and speculating as to 

 whether Jeff Davis's envoys from Washington might 

 not be received at London as a fait accompli. A good 

 deal of little-concealed joy, etc. 



Oh, foolish people ! When will you see that there 

 is only one end to all this, and that the North never 

 dreams of any other, — the complete putting down of 

 the rebellion. And since 1863 began, it was clear that 

 it would be attended with the annihilation of slavery. 



Time was when we should have highly valued Eng- 

 lish appreciation of the right cause. We have long 

 ceased to care or think about it. 



We only wish you had the city of New York. But 

 the sympathizers with secession and riot there have 

 done their worst, and lost their game. The city of 

 New York is the only part of our country which I am 

 ashamed of; and the trouble there is that it is not 

 American. Enough ; good-bye. A. G. 



September 1. 



Your fine, long letter of August 4th reached me 

 up in the country, in my native region, in the centre 

 of the State of New York, rusticating and enjoying 

 ourselves mightily. We were among the people of a 

 thriving region ; a well-to-do set ; no poverty near us 



