^T. 71.] TO SIR EDWARD FRY. 729 



the Christmas of last year, which we passed with you, 

 and which comes up fresh to our memories. . . . 



I have just cleared off the portion of accessions to 

 herbarium which had accumulated here and which I 

 had myself to see to, and am settling down to my 

 Compositous work. And now I am taking an oath 

 that when I do get about them I will hold on to the 

 bitter end, that is, I suppose till I reach the Worm- 

 woods. And now I must go to Washington on the 

 18th prox. for meeting of Smithsonian regents. . . . 



Sargent has got his arboretum at length on to the 

 hands of the city of Boston to make the roads for, 

 to repair and to light and police. He seems to have 

 made a mark in his Census forestry work. He has 

 developed not only a power of doing work, but of get- 

 ting work done for him by other people, and so can 

 accomplish something. 



January 27, 1882. 



. . . My whole soul is in the " Flora of North Amer- 

 ica," but the new things that come in, owing to open- 

 ing of Arizona and other railways, and which have to 

 be seen to, keep Watson and myself so busy. So our 

 movement is like marking time four days to going 

 ahead one. . . . 



Engelmann promises to make us a visit in the 

 spring. How I shall make him work! No other 

 news just now. 



TO SIB EDWARD FRY. 



CAMBRIDGE, February 26, 1882. 



MY DEAR SIR EDWARD,- -It is high time that 

 I thanked you for a very pleasant letter which at 

 the beginning of the year you kindly wrote me from 



