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2 Except in Botany, perhaps partially in Paleontology. Alaska is yet unknown to scientists, as far as the insects are concerned,
we are as ignorant, generally speaking, as we are of Kerguelen's Land. So, that in fact, every insect collected in any part
of Alaska would carry with it a record of novelty, bear to the entomologists in all parts of the world a message from a mysterious
region. I am afraid I am too late, but if this should come to your hand before you leave the land of perpetual snow, let me
beg of you to remember me as of old collect some Lepidoptera for me. Among these flowers that illegible pink? illegible in
the Alaskian Yosemite you will surely find much that is of great value to me, in fact, you cannot go wrong in the matter.
But it is possible that this may reach you too late for anything this summer. In that case, for I know you are to go to
3 Alaska again, it will help to keep me in remembrance on the occasion of your second visit. We heard, though only by a
sort of side wind, that you were married. I hope with all my heart that it is so, for I know you will be very happy. Your
wife yourself will always have, you may be assured, the most affectionate regard good wishes of me mine. I used to see Mr
Emerson often while in Boston he always inquired most kindly for you. He is breaking fast, his memory is going, but the brightness
of the eye is still there, now then the giant intellect flashes as of old. He told me the last time I met him, viz about 2
months ago, that you were to be sure to visit him at Concord when you came East. I think there is no one whom, in his declining
years, he would be more glad to see. We hoped you would have been on here before this, as