
          seems to prevail. I hope to be independent of them
all.

I have lived on hoping that the various
acts os injustice practised towards [added: me] (even to
the witholding my botanical bundles and
sending them by hidden ways i.e. from
the Smithsonian through the curator of
Michigan University) would come to an end
during my life. I begin to despair
however, and even you may find that
the rascals and [?] are found
in some high places and that one who deserved better has had his
very life worried out of him.

There is one thing certain I am
not to be driven out of Rhode Island
in any pretext whatever, to enable
[crossed out: to enable] designing knows to trifle
with my interest.

Yours very sincerely
Stephen T. Olney

To Prof. John Torrey

[left margin]
I have spoken to Senator Anthony in regard to the [Same?] Cases, and at his august
shall furnish himwith a written statementof the affair,before he
leaves for Washington.

        