Autograph letter signed : Interlaken, to Jane Simon, 1866 June 5.

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Autograph letter signed : Interlaken, to Jane Simon, 1866 June 5.

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Saying he has nothing pleasant to tell her; saying he is working at botany and drawing and "I admire things more than ever but have less delight in admiration;" saying he hopes to do some rowing and climbing; asking in a postscript if she would tell her husband that "as I get a broader view of botany, I have a most uncomfortable sensation of every thing changing into every thing else. I've been studying a lovely thing, Dryas Octopetala, which is a rose taught to live like a saxifrage. (I'm afraid that's only possible in botany, by the way) and getting the curious thick ground leaf of the saxifrage--and a little gleam of anemone-look in its flower."

1 item (3 p.) ; 20.9 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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