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! 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. 
. . Lam 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 heaps 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. 
