546 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. [1866, 



July 30. 



Back to-day from a coasting voyage of four or five 

 days, I find yours of 25th instant. . . . 



I have promised Clinton l I will go to Buffalo, to 

 the meeting reviving the American Association ; then 

 back home, to work, by 20th August. 



About the Prussian war I think as you do. About 

 domestic matters I have not changed at all my mode 

 of thinking, as I know. But no time for these 

 things. . . . 



TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 



May 19, 1866. 



... I am so driven, so distracted. Bless your stars 

 you are not a professor, and president of Academy, 

 and have a*botanical garden and no gardener well 

 trained, and have students, and everything. My cor- 

 respondence all in arrears, and I am getting hardened 

 and don't care. . . . 



You know I am always hard pressed and hard 

 worked at this season ; and this year it is far worse 

 than ever. Besides the bother of my classes, unusu- 

 ally bothering on the new arrangement, there is a new 

 gardener and a great deficit or rather deficiency of 

 funds to carry on the Garden, so I have to run that 

 concern pretty much myself. And, to crown all, my 

 little new French gardener, in his anxiety over the 

 work, has got into a state of nervous excitement, gets 

 no sleep nights, and if not soon relieved will, I fear, 

 become truly insane. ... If he continues half crazed, 

 you may expect me crazed next. Then there are 

 some special scientific students working up here, to 

 add to my botheration. 



1 George W. Clinton, 1807-1885 ; author of A Catalogue of the 

 Native and Naturalized Plants of the City of Buffalo, and its vicinity. 



