UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



WASHINGTON. D. C. 



April 18, 1924. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



29 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Massaol'usetts . 



My dear Mr .Deane : 



Your very kind letter of April 13th oarae duly to hand. 

 Ab I told you on my postal oard, I had just been writing about 

 you, although I did not tell for vihat purpose. Tlie enclosed 

 correspondenoe will explain itself. 



It is a great pleasure for me to send you a complete set 

 of the four cactus volumes. I have long wanted to do it, but 

 was not quite certain how the matter could be handled, as the 

 number of personal copies ich came to rae at first were only 

 a very few, and these I was obliged to dispose of in a defi- 

 nite way. I am especially glad that these volumes will reach 

 you on the 23d of this month. I hope the day will be a very 

 enjoyable one for you. Mrs. Rose and I have had t?r>e date in 

 mind for some time, but we were some\*at surprised ViS^en you 

 wrote us just how old you would be on that day. 



\Vhat you tell rae about Ivan Johnston is very interesting. 

 Ke is a very fine young man and vsre all think a great deal of 

 him. I wish he were to remain permanently at the Gray Her- 

 barium. Next to having him here in V/ashington, I would rather 

 see him there than a3-i\n(*iere else. I did not know until your 

 letter came that Miss Vincent had left the Gray Herbarium. I 

 was so sorry to hear of Miss Day's death. She certainly was a 

 very fine person to have charge of the Library. She was always 

 so aooomrao dating and so very helpful. I had a long and inter- 

 esting correspondence with her. 



You will be interested to know that George came home yester- 

 day for a week's stay with us. He is getting along fine in h is 

 work. He is looking forward to going back to Harvard next year, 

 and in case he does I have no doubt that you will see a great 

 deal of h ira. 



Yours very truly, 



; Wse 



Assooi'^te Curator, 



Division of Plants. 



(Knc loi=iure) 



