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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 he 
hands of the city of Boston to make eee 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 SIR EDWARD FRY. 
CAMBRIDGE, February 26, 1882. 
My pear Sir Epwarp,—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 
