EZRA BRAINERD 



SPRINGSIDE no 

 M1DDLEBURY. VT. ^Pril «, 1923 



i r. Walter Oeane 

 29 Brewster 8t, 

 Carab ridge, lass. 



JSjji dear Eriend:- 



Your letter of March 29 is at hand. As my "broth- 

 er has told you, I have improved in health even during the severe 

 winter through we have just passed. But I have been kept^very busy. 



Many demands are made on my time in the field of botany; by the 



College v/ith which I have been connected as student, teacher or 

 trustee for 61 years; and by the good people of the town, who even 

 want of me a second volume of the history of hiddlebury, continu- 

 ing the work published by Samuel Swift in 1859.' Of course these de> 

 rnands cannot all be met by a man who was 78 years old last Decem- 

 ber. 



But I surely would not neglect my friend of these many years, 

 whose hospitality I have enjoyed, and whose Shakespearian scholar- 

 ship I have so much appreciated, and v.hose gift of four or more 

 numbers of the Variorum Editions I have found so useful, ijtrust 

 I may be able to see you one of these days. You will soon be go- 

 ing up to your summer home in Hew Hampshire and will still keep 

 an eye on the violets. My pamphlet on the Violets of North Amer- 

 ica j of which I think you received a copy, has been in great de- 

 mand . 



Please give my sincere regards to Miss Brown. *> 'f'i s r \ 



Ever faithfully yours, 



