
          I have to-day (Oct. 17) a 
 letter from Wright, from Japan.


 Hooker has neither Marcy's,
 nor any of the Reports later 
 than Stansbury's Salt Lake 
 Exped [Expedition]. I thought you 
 had probably send him those,
 as you have some Botany 
 in most of them. Can you 
 yet send any?


 I have from Hooker for
 you a copy of H. & Arn. Brit. [Hooker & Arnott's British]
 Flora, 7th Ed. [Edition] & 2 pamphlets
 about Kew Gardens.
 Also a photograph of
 Hooker, for you, not a flattering 
 one at all, making him look 
 so old as it does. He is as 
 straight & as active as ever.
 A portrait of him at the
        