CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 

 DEPARTMENT OF BOTANICAL RESEARCH 



COASTAL LABORATORY, CARMEL, CALIFORNIA DESERT L AB O R ATO RY. T U C S O N , A R IZO N A 



Smithsonian Institution, "Washington, D. C, 



December 1914. 



Mr. Walter Deane , 



29 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 My dear Deane ; 



Please pardon me for not answering your various 

 kind letters and telegram since my return home. I have been 

 dreadfully rushed ever since I landed in America. In fact, Dr. 

 Britton sent me a wireless off Gape Hatteras asking me to stop 

 off to see him on my way home, and I have been on the go ever 

 since. Last week I went out to Liberty to see my mother and 

 start her off for a v/inter in California, and I am just back at 

 my desk again. 



Yes, Joseph was married on Ttianksgiving Day to lUss Dorothy 

 Cray, a very charming young lady. Her father is the District 

 Judge in our part of the State, and an uncle is a Member of 

 Congress. 



Mrs. Rose and I are going up to Philadelphia on the 28th, 

 to attend some of the meetings of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science and of the Botanical Society of 

 America. I wish you and Mrs. Deane ?i?ere to be there. 



we met so many nice people in Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and 

 I only wish I had time to tell you something about my trip. 



I am glad that you enjoyed the Times article. 



