
          however by next spring. I have had the offer of a horse
 & my expenses borne in a trip over the Rocky Mountains
 next year but felt obliged to decline on account of
 my ignorance of plants this side. I have the same offer
 for two years hence but think it too far ahead. Think
 I shall have an opportunity of visiting the sources of
 the Missouri a year from next summer. The summer
 past I have had poor opportunities for study. I have not
 touched the grasses & scarcely the composita.


 My health is not so much improved as I had
 hoped. I have gone to teaching again because I began to
 fear I never should accomplish any thing for the
 Savior if I did not. I had rather teach here one year
 and die than to live to the age of Methusaleh such a
 life as I have been leading. I do not mean to throw
 myself away however though in the present emergency
 I work rather hard. I hear 5 recitations daily of 1 hour
 riding 8 & 12 miles each day Saturday excepted.


 The same necessity which makes me work so hard
 makes me work for nothing; i.e. in addition to my
 board & some clothing some $20 or 25 for 6 months.
 This was all I asked _ They promised more if in
 their power but it is doubtful whether I get even
 this. This arises from the poverty of the Institute. If Christians
 at the East understood the nature of operations
 here they would not let be so a month.
 There is not a teacher here so radical as the average

        