APPENDIX



Ohio. they will be valuable morsels of History, and
will Justify to the world those who have told him how
great he was." I
  Judge Innes replied on May 30, 1791, as follows:
"Since the reception of your letter I have seen Genl
Clark and find he is writing the History of his Expedi-
tions and will complete the work in the course of this
summer."
  The period between 1786 and 1789 was, for Clark, one
of disappointment and bitterness. He had failed in
his expedition against the Indians on the Wabash.
The confiscation of the property of some Spanish
traders at Vincennes during the same year 17 86 sub-
jected him to open criticism by the governor and
council of Virginia. His accounts against the state
had not been settled and creditors were striving to
collect claims for which he had become personally
responsible during the course of the Revolution.
  That Clark, during these years, at times, drank to
excess cannot be doubted, but there is ample evidence
to show that he was still in possession of his former
physical and mental strength. He gives a glimpse of
his own life in a letter to his brother, September 2, 1791,
in which he says: "for several years I have lived quite
retired reading hunting fishing and fowling hath been
my genl amusement and corresponding with a few
close friends in different parts of the continent and
attention to my private business without concerning
myself with that of the Publick, in any point of View."2
  At that time, he was greatly interested, as he said,

  'Jefferson, WTrilings (Ford ed.), v., 295; Va. Mag. of Hist. and Biog., xv.,
205 ea seq.
2 Draper MSS., 2L29.



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