224 WEST COURT STREET, 

 CINCINNATI, OHIO, U. S. A. 



May .^r^nd, 1905, j 



Mr. T/c.lter Beane, i 

 irf:9 Brewster St, , | 

 Cai;ibridfre, Mas:?e j 



Dear Deane; 



I iiave been horae from Sainoe a coiiple of 

 months and aiu ubjUlnk a start now for a Piamr.er In Sweden. 

 I hope to go in a coiiple of days, '"here I shall £0 from 

 Sweden I do not Know but 1 slia.'ll probably not coiae 

 bad: to Cincinnati before next spring. I ha^e been very 

 busy since I have been at home, trying to publish as 

 hiuch as I could on the pijff balls as on this trip to 

 Europe I shall talce up another line of study. I had 

 hoped to go to "urope by way of Boston or rather go to 

 Boston on iny v/ay to Eu.rope but my time is so limited 

 nov; that I shall Iia-e to go direct. 



I did not Know tliat Prof, llollis ivebster was a 

 ■;;roud papa. Give him lay congratulations on saine, 



Tliat postal card I sent out from Samoa has caused 

 some adversf^ criticism a.!iOng my friends ar^iind here. 

 I hope yo::: tooh a more liberal view of it as you have 

 seen pictures from Samoa and Knov; the customs of the 

 people. It make s me weary to have people whose lives 



