P.L-S. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



DIVISION OF BOTANY, 



WASHINGTON, D. O. 



May 7, 1895. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



9 Brewster Street, 



Cambridge, Mass. 



Dear Mr. Deane: 



Your very kind letter of May 1st was duly received, as also 

 the package of grasses which you were so good as to send ma for my 

 private herbarium. I thank you very much, and fully appreciate 

 the gift. — It gives me a little courage, thinking that possibly 

 I may yet be able to restore my lost collections. 



I am glad that you enjoyed your visit to Washington so much, 

 and I am very sorry indeed that I could do so little, practically 

 nothing,-to make your visit more pleasant. It would have been a 

 great pleasure to us to have had you and Mrs. Deane at our house, 

 and we hope that the opportunity for doing so may not be long de- 

 layed — that you may come to Washington soon again, when it will 

 be in our power to extend to you the hospitalities which we would 

 wish to. 



Kindly remember me to Mrs. Deane. 



Yours sincerely, 



