Ivj ladle bury, vt.., Get. 17, 1?19. 



My dear Mr.Deane:- 



I return by parcels post your package of violets Gent 

 0ct.7i having spent much time in their study with considerable pleas- 

 ure. I enclose your list of the "contents of package", but my deter- 

 minations and comments will be found chiefly on slips attached to the 

 specimens. The 26 sheets collected bv judge Churchill were surely not 

 named by an expert. I hope my report will be intelligible and of inter- 

 est to you, and that you ;an(if you care to) readily look up ir; the 

 Gray Hb.the many references that I have given. 



Sometime I would like to write up an account of Prof. E.L.Greene's 

 work on the violets. I knew him very intimately during his stay in 

 Washington, atid I think I understand the reason for his intense admi- 

 ration Tor Major John Leconte. My eldest daughter, who married Prof. 

 Carl C.Plehn of the university of Calif, in May 189H-, was well acquain- 

 ted with Greene in Berkeley before he went to Washington in 1«96. And 

 oy the way, I learned only recently that Dr.Plehn,my son-in-law, is to 

 be "exchange Professor" at Columbia fniv. the second semester of the 

 present College year. 



I trust that you are quite recovered from your Illness and are not 

 seriously troubled by the untoward social conditions in "greater Boston 

 With kind regards for Miss Brown, 



As ever yours faithfully, 



