540 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. (1865, 
So Palmerston is gone. A fine specimen of a John 
Bull he was, a very typical specimen. We Yankees 
can’t help admiring and liking him, though not for 
any good he ever did us. But as for his successor, he 
is a prig, a juiceless stick. 
Don’t you think Adams pays him back nicely for 
proposing that they should sit down and rejoice to- 
gether over the abolition of slavery? Just see how 
the world has moved. , Turn back to Russell’s lecture 
to be read to Mr. Lincoln on occasion of his procla- 
mation of emancipation ! 
Good-by, my dear, good fellow, and recover health 
as fast as ever you can. 
ours affectionately, A. Gray. 
TO CHARLES WRIGHT. 
CAMBRIDGE, June 28, 1865. 
I am not going on so any more. A letter from me 
you shall have. To be sure I have had none from you 
since you sailed, but that is no matter. College and 
garden and herbarium work together are enough to 
drive one mad ; but now the college work begins to 
hold up, and will soon be over. And as to herbarium, 
Fendler has at length promised to come at the end of 
the summer and help me — all winter at least, perhaps 
longer. . . . 
Oh, yes! I have yours of “ Habana,” May 9th, 
with your shipboard studies on the variations of 
Chapman and Grisebach. Well, sometimes one 
wrong, sometimes the other; sometimes a difference 
as to who the author of a book is, — Michaux, whose 
name is on the work, Richard, who wrote it incog. 
T inclose my last from Grisebach. I am hoping to 
arrange to have the catalogue of Cuba plants printed 
