Hilgard, Eug. W. 

 1867, November 22nd 

 Vicksburg, Miss. 



TRANSLATION 



Vicksburg, November 22nd, 1867. 



Dear Doctor, 



I am waiting here for a boat to take me downriver to the fields of New Iberia 

 in order to study the dendrological structures there. Before leaving Onxford, I 

 sent by express mail the long promised plants which may have arrived at the time 

 this letter does. I intended to look them over again myself and make some remarks 

 but dic?/nave the time— therefore you will find them in a kind of mess. There are 

 not only Vitis species, but also the exploits of my expedition to the coast during 

 April, May and June 1859 — I am sending everything , and you are/lnvited to take 

 duplicates of everything you want just as last time when you and Theodor received 

 a similar package. Many things may not have labels, if so, they are from southwest 

 Mississippi (May and June). The rest is self-explanatory. 



Now to the vines. You will find a large package of dried fruits of Vitis 

 "cordifolma?". I had planned to enclose a similar quantity of V. Aestivalis , but 

 whether there were mice or negroes, they were eaten up for the third time when I was 

 ready to pack them. There is less uncertainty concerning n cordifolia and riparia". 

 Please observe that the branches of the latter are mostly diffuse, but also often, 

 in smaller bushes , juast as tight as is regularly the case in V. aest. Both types 

 are among the fruit specimens, in which connection I wish to remark that certainly, 

 the same individual vine was bearing branches both ramose as well as diffuse. The 

 specimen from Jackson is without fruit— this individual vine is not fertile as I found 

 out later, also I was never able to find a similar specimen in the bottoms — all seemed 

 to be unreproductive^hich had a the felty ribs. Unfortunately, the vicinity of 

 Oxford is rather monotonous and therefore very little 1 varieties of Vitis can be found, 

 whatever I found I enclosed in my package. 



I shall look out for Lemnae; I also shall try to find somebody who can 

 collect flowers of this friaHjfa^ P ±mxs 0 



I have to ^£w-«f> my botanical lectures nolens volens honoris academiae causa. 

 I don't like to teach things which I don't know in depth. 



My wife and baby are well and would send greetings if they were here. I hope to 

 be home by Christmas. Give my greetings to Dora as well as to your son and heir. 

 Tell me in your next letter where your sisters are and what they are doing and give 

 them my greetings. 



Your faithful cousin 

 Eug. W. Hilgard. 



