
          florets abortive. I must do the grasses with
 Marvellous brevity, or my book will over-run 700
 pages! I fear it will be necessary to put this price 
 at $1.75, and it will yield little profit at that.
 The edition is 2000 copies. 


 I saw Bailey, at the meetings only. I asked 
 him to spend a night with me, but, he was staying 
 with Cole at Salem. Let me know how 
 [Charles A.] Spencer's microscope stands trial. If he can equal
 the English (Ross & Powell) his fortune is made.


 We are promised the meeting of the Scientifics (who
 you see have now taken a general title) at Cambridge 
 year after next. I was at the meetings very little. 


 I was glad to find that Henry's thoroughly honest and
 bold course has been thus far to a good degree successful, 
 and I am confident it will continue to be so. I 
 think he has got over the worst of the work. We
 mean to raise a Committee of the Academy here
 next week, to report in commendation of his plans.


 Agassiz is probably in New York by this time. I hope you 
 will furnish him with a fine audience, and prevent him, as far as 
 you can, from overworking himself with other things while his
 lectures are in progress. 


 In my last I wrote of the late Mr. Pierce of Litchfield
 as an old correspondent of yours, and asked you to write him. 
 His sister "Aunt Mary" of whom I spoke is now in 
 Boston. Love to Mrs. Torrey, the girls, and Herby, and 
 the Lady Jane, who is by my side desires to add hers. 
 Let me know when I am to [crossed out: send] send my letters to
 New York. Please take Agassiz to see Carey & his brother. I promised 
 A. [Agassiz] to give him their address but forgot it.


 Yours affectionately
 A. Gray
        