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While the trip to the
great Exposition enabled
us to see much of the
South and afterward of
the East, with [sic.] [their?] interesting
peoples and
[?] yet it was
disastrous to our [home?]
matters.

Others have supplied
plants to our usual customers,
&c, but worse than
all the times are so bad
that [sic.] but few persons buy
plants now-a-days.

I shall have to take
up something else with
this botany for a living,
tho' my poor health almost
forbids that idea.

The enthusiasm of ex[?]
has restored me from a
poor starved Andersonville
prisoner to what little
strength and [?]
you have observed, but
there is little [money?] in
it at the best.

Aided by the R. R. Co. we
have explored much and have
been enabled to extend the
boundaries of knowledge considerably
as you know,
and we still continue in
the work, tho' it is a
losing occupation.

This season we go
into Central Arizona *
explore the Apache infested
[?] of [?] [?].