August E6, 19E4. 



Dear Mr. Deane: 



Your good Letter would have laeen suiswered sooner if it had not happen- 

 ed to arrive just as I was starting with some friends to motor dovm to Cambridge 

 for two or three days. 



Indeed, I think you may well "be exceedingly proud of bringing to suoce ssful 

 completion an enterprise of such extent and so full of fussy time-oonsuming de- 

 tail as the ii'lora of the Boston District. You and Knowlton have certainly shown 

 wonderful patience and staying power on that job. Is it not good to have it com- 

 pleted! So few lomg scientific jobs ever get really done! 



How I do hope that somehow or other it may be possible to reprint the Flora, 

 as a separate, checked up and so far as possible corrected to date. 



Inclosed I am sending you a highly characteristic letter from Pernald. I am de- 

 lighted to hear that his expedition has turned out so well and has proved so satis- 

 factory to him. When do you suiipose that Flora of Hev,f oundland will get finished 

 if every year or so he gets two or three hundreds plants not previously toiovm on 

 the island? 



I trust you are having a delightful summer. Though I spent only a few hours in 

 Shelbume more than twenty years ago I can still call up a clear mental image Of 

 Philbrook Farm and of the charming views it commands. 



Thus far we have been having an exceedingly pleasant summer. It has been an un- 

 usually social one so far as we are concerned. From the first of July to the last 

 week in August we had an almost continuous strijig- 6f guests. Our tenants have 

 proved very agreeable and we have seen much of them and taken with them several 

 delightful motor rides of some length. 



I have been playing tennis a great deal and enjoying it more than ever before — 

 two to six sets almost every day, and good lively ones too, with young people 



