Lee Ware of Boston to Professor Oakes Ames, then Di- 
rector of the Museum. This letter not only contains signi- 
ficant remarks about the technique involved in the glass 
work but gives an intimate picture of the artist, Rudolph 
Blaschka, and his wife in their home. It was written on her 
last visit to the Blaschkas in 1928. Miss Ware, and earlier 
her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Ware, financially supported 
the botanical work of Leopold Blaschka from 1877 to 1895 
and subsequently Rudolph until his retirement in 1936. In 
1898, the Wares presented the collection to the President 
and Fellows of Harvard College as a memorial to Charles 
Eliot Ware, M.D., of Boston, a member of the Class of 
1834. 
Miss Ware’s letter is herewith reproduced almost in its 
entirety and with only minor editorial alterations. The 
original is preserved in the Botanical Museum. 
ih.dt.o. 
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