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Correspondence of Asa Gray and G. W. Clinton |
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The
Correspondence of Asa
Gray (1810-1888) and George
William Clinton (1807‑1885) 1872 Vol. 8 (133) [H 85] [Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass., embossed] 22 April [1872] Dear Clinton So you did not come ‑ sorry are we. I am whelmed with work. Oregon list most printed. 665 nos at 8.
= $53.20. If you will notify me that you have sent a check payable to order of
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hall, Athens, Illinois, I will
square the account. Or, if you prefer, send check to me. Ever, A. Gray Recd April 23 & inclded check on Bank of Attica to A. Gray ‑
payable to his order Vol. 8 (138) [H 80] April 27, 1872 Dear C. Your check on Buffalo will rather bother me or Mrs. Hall to collect.
So send me its check on N.Y. My wife scolds at your 1 ‑
failure to come here as promised 2. Omitting all reference to it in your letter now, as it you never
thought of such a thing. Dr. Farlow has
his hands full till end of June ‑ then goes to [to] [put]
up in Algae [...] Fungi, etc., etc. When he comes home, 2 or 3 years
hence, he will name all cryptogams like a book. May you & I, old fellows,
be here to see! Ever A. Gray Recd April 28, 29th sent him bank draft for $53.20 Vol. 8 (143) [H 75] [Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass. embossed] April 30th [1872] Dear Clinton Your draft is safely in my pocket, and the amount credited to [it
...]. My wife has been only complimented in my best language. And now I will
tell you ‑ what I must have overlooked before ‑ I know not why ‑
that Libonia floribunda is correctly named. It is a new genus
(Trop. Amer.) of Acanthaceae, not yet in most books ‑ and it was
named for the poor devil of a collector ‑ Libon, now no more. Ever Your A. G. Recd. May 2 Vol. 10 (189) [A
93] Cambridge, July
27th 1872 Judge Clinton, Dear Sir, Yesterday I
mailed to you a copy of the "Enumeration". I have been quite disappointed
not to be able to send you the Hawaian mosses and algae, which are all named,
but I wait for the Hepaticae which Mr. Sullivant put into the hands of Mr.
Austin of N. Jersey. Will you have the
goodness to send me a Buffalo newspaper that contains the advertisement of
steamers that go up to Lake Superior? You will confer quite a favor by so
doing. With much
respect, Mary Mann [Recd July 27] Vol. 8 (199) [H
16] Botanic Garden Cambridge, Sept.
3d, 1872 G. W. Clinton,
Esq. Buffalo Dear Sir, Dr. Gray is not
yet returned form Du[buque?] & California, but is expected home in a few
days. Your plant is
identical with herbarium specimens of Torilis Anthriscus (or Caucalis Anthriscus
according to Bentham & Hooker.) I find no note of its having been before
collected in this country. T. nodosa is naturalized in California. Very Respectfully Sereno Watson Recd Sept. 6 Torilis is in the
Umbelliferae. Homer House (1924 New York flora) mentioned (p. 529) Torilis anthriscus
(L.) Gmel. and noted Clinton's Buffalo collection (26th Report N. Y.
State Museum 48. 1874). Vol. 8 (203) [H
11] Cambridge, Sept.
23, 1872 Dear Sir, Dr. Gray intends
ordering a supply of Herbarium paper from the manufacturers. Do you wish to
take advantage of the opportunity and join in the order? Yours very truly Sereno Watson for A. Gray Hon. George W.
Clinton, Buffalo, N.Y. Recd Sept. 28
& ansd ‑ yes, 4 or 5 reams Vol. 8 (205) [H
9] Printed paper
"Botanic Garden, Cambridge Mass.] Sept. 30th, 1872 My Dear Sir, Your favor of
28th is at hand and your request for 5 ‑ 6 reams Herbarium Paper noted. The Torilis is
found all right, has gone into the Herbarium and mentioned in review copy of Manual.
Please accept copy of "Sequoia". Yours very truly A. Gray. pr. S.
Watson P.S. Mr.
is all the title that I claim or [...ain,] and am very indifferent about
that. S. W. Recd Oct. 1 In the sixth
edition of Gray's Manual revised by Watson & Coulter, the specimen is
reported as Caucalis Anthriscus, Hudson from "Ohio, etc." where it
has been "Nat. from Eu." No reference to New York. p. 201.
According to Zander and Pierce (1979) all specimens from the Niagara Frontier
Region of Torilis anthriscus (of authors) are Torilis japonica (Houtt) DC. or
Hedge Parsley. The species is rare in the region. Vol. 9 (2) [C225] [printed
stationary: Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass., same as Gray's letters this
year ‑ 1872] [Top of page written:
10 Reams, @ 4.86 = $48.60] Oct. 16th, 1872 My Dear Sir, I am today
notified that the order for Herbarium paper is filled, and we send the
manufacturer instructions to forward direct to you 10 reams. Should you want
the additional two reams asked for by you, we can probably furnish them. It
costs $4.86 per ream. Addressed to G.
W. Clinton Acad. Natural
Sciences, Buffalo, N.Y. Yours very Truly A. Gray pr. S. Watson Hon. G. W.
Clinton, Buffalo, N.Y. Recd Oct. 18. 23d
mailed Gray a draft for $48.60 Vol. 9 (10) [C 215] [printed stationary: Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass.] Oct. 24, 1872 My Dear Clinton Yours of 17 & 23d & the check for $48.60 are received. I think I remember having a separate lot of Genus‑covers for
you ‑ paper that does not match my present sort. I do not want to spare
any of that: for the state of Herbarium ‑ funds will not allow me to
buy a new lot this year, & I can get on without, if I am stingy. But I
presume I can get ‑ as much or as little as you want to match your own,
if you will send me a sheet as a pattern. Pray do and see what we can do. About 500 men could stand on Gray's Peak and each of them see a
great range of view. If Mrs. G. gets time she will write you all about it. That Eritrichium is as high a flowering plant as any on Gray's Peak.
Ever Your very busy old friend A. Gray Recd Oct. 25, ansd 27th @Eritrichium is a genus in the Boragineae, studied by A. Gray Vol. 9 (13) [C 212] [Botanic Garden, Cambridge,
Mass. printed stationary] Oct. 30th, 1872 My Dear Sir, Dr. Gray has been
in town today and done the best he could for you in the way of Genus paper ‑
not greatly to his satisfaction. That is he sends you two samples of papers,
one costing 12 cents, the other 17 cents per pound, and either can easily be
cut to the size you want. If either will do until such time as he may
be ordering for himself, he will send you whatever quantity you need. The right
sort of paper is found in the workhouses only in rolls. Yours very Truly Sereno Watson for A. Gray Hon. G. W.
Clinton, Buffalo, N.Y. Recd. Nov. 2,
& ansd Nov. Vol. 9 (19) [C 205] [Botanic Garden,
Cambridge, Mass. printed stationary] Nov. 6th 1872 Dear Sir, Dr. Gray will see
to your Genus cover paper today. The specimen
seems to be a Melochia, and it looks a little like M. melio..aefolia,
(which Wright collected in Cuba,) but it is not worth the while to spend time
over such an incomplete fragment. Better material would draw a more
satisfactory answer. Thursday morning.
‑ Dr. Gray was in town yesterday and succeeded in finding for you a
better paper than the sample which was sent you, and which he thinks will
answer your purpose very well. The ream is to be cut up to your size and will
give you 1920 sheets, at 10 cents per lb.
The paper will go
forward directly and Dr. Gray will see to the payment for you. Yours Very Truly Sereno Watson Recd Nov. 9 Melochia is in the Buettneriaceae, or the Chocolate Family. There are about 25 species in tropical and subtropical regions to the genus. Buettneriaceae was treated as a synonym of the Sterculiaceae in Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantarumm vol. 1. Vol. 9 (21) [C 203] [Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass. printed stationary] Nov. 9 1872 Dear Clinton, I want to help you much to your genus covers ‑ have made 3
journies into Boston & to several stores ‑ the last but one I found
what will well suit, had to have a Ream of big paper cut
into 4 for you. But when I went yesterday it was not yet back from the cutter.
I do hope you will get it early next week.
Ever your busy old friend, A. Gray Recd Nov. 11 Vol. 9 (24) [C [on coarse, yellowed paper] Cambridge, Nov. 11 [1872] Dear Clinton. This is 1/2 the sheet sent out to me as specimen of your 4 reams.
But within a few hours of the sending ‑ before I took it from the P.
O., the store, paper, and every other like store was burned. So you
must wait a while. The blow here is heavy in many quarters. Ever Your A. Gray Recd Nov. 14 O'Connor, Thomas
R. 1984. ed. 2. Bibles Brahmins and Bosses, a short history of Boston.
Boston, Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston. There was a
great fire in Boston in 1872 starting in the evening of November 9 and
lasting until morning. In it the city's old commercial and part of its
residential districts were gutted. The availability of water was inadequate
to control the conflagration, due to bad plumbing, hydrants, pipes, etc., and
the horses used to pull the fire apparatus were "considerably hindered
by the effects of an epizootic ailment that had felled most of the
horses" (Adams, Russell B. Jr. 1977. The Boston Money Tree, Thomas Y.
Crowell Company, New York.) The fire destroyed sixty‑five acres
"of Boston's business and commercial district, destroying property
valued at some $75 million." (O'Connor). Vol. 9 (30) [C 194] [Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass. printed stationary] Nov. 22, 1872 My Dear Clinton I looked up our manila‑paper friend & renewed the order ‑
which I hope will now soon be executed. He fills orders at the same price ‑
tho there is a rise. But I pay for the cutting
of the burned lot too. As to losses by fire ‑ which you kindly enquire of, we
lost only about [$1] our insurance stock. Mrs. Gray's brother & brother‑in‑law
lost a good deal, not killing, but rather trying & dear Mrs. Loring, the
most charitable & best woman in the world, the means of doing much good
for a year or so, losing about 2/3 or 1/2 her income (rents). But all will
come right. Ever Your A. Gray Recd Nov. 23 Serious fires in
Chicago in 1871 and Boston 1872 "put a strain on fire insurance
companies" Clough p. 172. Vol. 9 (35) [C
179] Cambridge Dec.
3d, 1872 Hon. G. W.
Clinton: Dear Sir: I am sorry about
the Cuban Fungi. I find remaining five sets of them, 310, 286, 269, 250, 210.
I don't know which of these sets No. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 you are fairly entitled
to to correspond with the set of Phenogams. I doubt if Prof. Gray has any memorandum
of the number of your set and my summer's farming has driven all such matters
out of my head, and I had quite forgotten that I had been so remiss. If you can throw
any light on the matter, please shine ‑ else I suppose I had best guess
at it & send you the biggest set. Yours truly Charles Wright P.S. Shall I make
up the little parcel & send by express or wait for something to come in
and make a larger one? C. W. Recd Dec. 5 &
ansd Vol. 9 (36) [C 178] [Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass. printed stationary] Dec. 5, 1872 Dear Clinton 1000 thanks for the Fungi ‑ most welcome C. Wright, now here,
shall take care of them. Have they been poisoned? Did you pay Wright for a set of Cuban Fungi & he not
send them all this while. He evidently has no recollection thereof. We read your speeches with satisfaction ‑ specially the
Thanksgiving one. Torrey & [Margaret] have been here ‑ pleasant.
Mrs. G. too hard worked ‑ but I heard her say, over & over ‑ I
must write to dear Clinton. Ever Your A. Gray Recd Dec. 6 Vol. 9 (43) [C 170] [on a piece of blue envelope] Your letter came, also Myloca[r]ium [fruits] a great stock, every
one blasted, not a seed inside. Wright's package goes to‑morrow.
Cuban Hepaticae named, also $17.60 They promised to send you the Herb.
paper. A. G. Vol. 9 (44) [C 169] [Botanic Garden,
Cambridge, Mass. printed stationary] Nov. 11, 1872 Hon. G. W.
Clinton Dear Sir |