5403 Reno Road, Washington, D. C. 



October 9, 1921 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Cambridge , Mass . 

 Dear Mr. Deane, 



I am glad you like the companion piece 

 to your humming-bird picture. The print does 

 not do justice to the original — but then cop- 

 ies never do. 



Winter seems almost to be upon us to- 

 day. It was so cold when I got home last 

 night that I made on the furnace fire, and we 

 have needed it today. I'he cardinals have bes n 

 in the back yard all day. I grew two pl;. : nts 

 of sunflower this year in the vegetable gsx~ 

 den for the birds. i'he cardinals feed on the 

 heads every day. lext year I shall. plant 

 more of them. The LI. chbirds have boen hold- 

 ing conventions for two weeks or more. They 

 seem to he gone now. ,7hen the juncoes come I 

 shall know it is winter for sure. . 



I have just bought a typewriter (second- 



