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be delighted to see you in our new house whenever you do come this 

 way. It was a great disappointment to me not to be able to attend 

 the Boston meetings last month. I had counted on renewing my 

 delightful acquaintance with so many of the Cambridge people and not 

 the least upon again seeing you and Mrs . Dean^buB the meeting came 

 just at a time that it was positively necessary for me to move, and 

 I could spare neither the time nor the money for the eastern trip. I 

 hope you enjoyed the meeting for you must have come in contact with many 

 botanists whom you Knew or had heard oj. ' rs. Barnes keeps in reasonably 

 good health and Lyle is doubtless grown beyond your recognition. 

 Mrs. Barnes* sister, Mrs* Davidson, and her thvee children will make 

 their home with us here. I hope "rs. Dear£is quite well and that 

 her antipathy to Ion; railroad journeys will not keep you from e 

 western trip this winter. With warmest regards to you both, in which 

 , I am sure, Mrs Barnes "would join were she here, believe me,'-' 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Jaffrey, II. H. 



