think some library near yon may AgpuTChsa.ee k copy f w/orthles? tor yon) 
and I will feel glad if yon consider its pages worth yonr trouble to 
look over. 
Look again at yonr copy of the West American Oaks, The last dozen 
of drawings are of mjjl»e pen ( and form the supplement in same cover _) . 
If you have not gotJit, I have thdtdisposal over some copies, and gladly 
write fop onie for yon. If yon do not see my name anywhere ’ s else , do 
not kptrnder. It does not always do to lift the veil from those 4i munifi¬ 
cent patrons”, The delay in my orchid book, the poverty with which my 
wife and self have been striken 1*} against all sane calculation, it was 
born under a cnist which to;lift is disgust. Happy the man who never 
learns that “ ana thereby ha,ngsj a tale ” . —- How ^childlike my concep¬ 
tion must be , to make me as happy a,s I am. 
I enclose the little Dodecatheon which! Prof, dreene is going to 
name after me . j 
Sincerely yours 
