Grass Herbarium, Washington, D. C, 

 Sept. 29, 1921 



Dear Mr, Deane, 



Your letter oame a few days ago and the package this 

 morning. Wo. 1 is Panicum huachucae silvicola, no. 2 is P. subvil- 

 losum Ashe. Thank you for the specimens. 



The Hawaiian proofs are off at last--I v/onder what 

 dreadful thing I let go through. 



The Song of the Lark is one of Jules Breton's pictures. 

 It is the flat landscape we see in Millais's pictures, with the 

 morning sun just showing at the horizon. The one figure in the 

 picture is a girl about fifteen, the usual strongly built peasant 

 type we see in French pictures, bare-footed, bare-armed, on her 

 way to work in the field. It is simplicity itself, and has always 

 seemed to me to meet the requirements of a perfect picture, sim- 

 plicity, utter sincerity and beauty shown in a love of beauty, 

 rather in what is conventional beauty in woman. Romney's pretty 

 ladies and the Gainesborough grand dames seem trifling in com- 

 parison. My idea was that the pictures, your enjoymwnt of the 

 humming bird and the girlie of the bird song, were companion 

 pieces. The first verse like the second I did by main strength. 

 Imean the expression of it, the idea struck me of itself. Miss 

 Brown must be a genius with the camera to make such a picture. 

 Everybody admires it, especially those who have had the pleasure 

 of meeting you. 



It has turned very warm after a long cold spell. Rain 

 finally came, and I see the clover seed I planted several we els 

 ago in the vegetable patch for fertilizer, is germinating. It has 



