COLLEGE APPOINTMENT. 1G3 



To N. B. Ward, Esq. 



Trinity College, June 30, 1849. 



My fingers have latterly been very busy, now with ink and 

 now with colours, and they will have no rest till I get among 

 the green leaves of the Western world. Even the days at sea 

 have their allotted work in preparing stuff (an excellent word) 

 for the printers. The greater part of the new edition of the 

 " Manual " is in type, and I expect to prepare, index, &c, on 

 the voyage, and to finish off the letterpress of " Phycologia " for 

 the time that I shall be absent. 



At present I do not contemplate bringing any additional 

 guest to meet your party on July the 11th, unless I can per- 

 suade my friend F. W. Burton (the painter) to accompany 

 me. I hope we shall travel to London together, and I am sure 

 you will like him if he can come. 



You will be glad to hear that Mackay has been made an 

 LL.D. by our university. 



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