Transcribe Ward, Henry A. Letter to Orton, James (1855-07-25)

find among them yours of Feb. 14th. You ask me to tell you </u all about > my trip. When I tell you Orton that I have the same request from </u 20 > others you will ^ I am sure^ conclude to let me off with the little which I have said. Your own letter was full of interest, I am glad that the college & the Nat. Hist. Soc. are flourishing & love all that you have been enjoying a revival of religion. Please tell me Orton if you </s no > know whether my old room mate </s at Geneseo >) Hill has been active for the welfare of his classmates. He was quite so at Geneseo Please give him my best respects, ^I received a letter from him at Jerusalem.^ as also a kind remembrance to all my old friends. Why do not Forbes & Washburn write me? Please tell them that I have not heard a word from them since leaving America, although I have written each of them once. What a nice time you must have had at N. Foundland! You don't know how I envy you the trip! I shall be most happy o see any article you have written upon it & your book when it appears. Excuse me Orton, </s but > in a little good natured impudence, but your limiting the character of the book to (merely) "the plan of Agassiz" Lake Superior" was a thing very well done. You doubtless remember Infinites, "Cui nemo secudud erat." I so wish that you had been with me in the "East". There are so many things there which are interesting. If there be one thing however which above all others force itself upon ones thoughts & feelings it is that it is a country </u resting under the curse of God. > and this is so constantly before one that it becomes at times absolutely painful, & that doubly so if the person, like myself, has no one to whom they can </s speak > talk about it. I think that your health would permit you to take a tour (in the winter) through Egypt & Syria. But I am sorry to