JOSEPH R. CHURCHILL 



ATTORNEY AT LAW 

 18 TBKMONT STBBET 



Boston, Mass., Sept. 11, 192 4. 



Dear Walter :- 



I am (as you know) back again at home and at work, after a long 

 and very pleasant vacation of four weeks in Virginia, which was very 

 successful botanically. I hope to show you (as I have said) later on, 

 and perhaps from time to time, some or all the plants which I brought 

 home. 



I have your letter of September 8th from Shelburne, and as usual 

 was glad to hear from you. I also received both letters of August 10th 

 and 17th at Lexington, but as I did not start home until September 5th, 

 and had sent an answer to the August 17th letter, I perhaps unreasonably 

 expected an answer; hence my postal card of September 5th. There ha3 

 not been retu rned to mje^the letter which you mention as sent to Lexington 

 September 7th. However, it is all right- I shall get it shortly. 



How let me tell you how pleased I ma to find^when I got home ^ 

 a copy of Dr. Peases' Coos County Flora, and I have written him at Ran- 

 dolph an acknowledgement, mailed today, which I think he is likely to get^rora 

 what they tell me at the Gray Herbarium). Of course I have only had time 

 for a brief examination, but it justifies all the credit and compliment 

 which you have bestowed upon it, and with me it will take the place of 

 Supplement to our Manual. I am much pleased. (t 



I do not see how you can tell how many species your 240 sheets 



of Rubus include-they look so much alike and being all (I assume) from a 



limited district. Still it has been a pleasant task for you. 



I am sorry to hear of your illness and hope it will not last long 



