T have nine months vacation accumulated and we shall not return until 

 the last of December. I plan/;o be in Washington at the great meeting 

 January first , 1903. DO make your arrangements to come down then. 

 It is going to be the greatest gathering of scientific men of all kinds 

 that the country has ever seen, for all societies both great and small 

 are going to meet there . 



We have all been thoroughly well during the past year, and 

 Mrs. Barnes is actually getting fat. She w^hs more now than she 

 ever has and does a tremendous amount of going about. Sometimes she 

 reaches her limit and has to slow up for a few days, but if she behaves 

 herself reasonably she manages to do about as much as most people. She 

 and. Lyle and her sister and her family spent the summer at our 'Vc'o ttage 

 and I ran up occasionally. I tried to spend September there, but about 

 three days after I landed it began to rain and it rained continuously 

 until the twentieth of September, except for one day, so that I had the 

 pleasure of sitting in the cottage by a wood fire most of the time. 



Except for these occasional breaks aur life goes on in much the 

 same round as usual. I wish I might see you before we go abroad . If 

 you didnt "live so fur off" I might . Ar'n't you going to be in Chicago 

 at all; I think you are very unbrotherly in never coming out to see 



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Rutven . 



With warmest wishes for the new year, both to yourself and Mrs. 

 Dean, in which Mrs. Barnes joins , 



Believe me, ever yours, 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Cambridge, Mass. 



