
          field of duty. I cannot be idle
 and I must go to earning something.
 My land needs my supervision: the place
 needs my preaching. And if Providence
 has other work for me He can call me
 thence. If I had had in 1843 the same
 views of life I now have I should have
 married & settled there then.


 It seems a pity to carry my herbarium
 & library out there if my stay
 there were to be short.


 My time has been occupied here
 chiefly in glueing down my Granadan
 setts I am as far along as the Solanaceae
 leaving a few more besides the
 [?] to be glued in Illinois. I
 have done them I think very thoroughly
 & carefully.


 What a wash of human life there
 is in this workd! One man drops out
 of life just after entering a missionary
 pew for which a dozen years of study
        