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eau take ever the bargain *f it want a to— do ©en' t have to if 
it doesnft, I suggested to T r. % that we exchange £100 worth of 
Mounting pc t ;or for a set of the naseve publications, the Max.Eeise 
ana Aireideae books I gave you the titles of. He joyfully accepted 
end I shall give him the money in the teeming with a written state- 
cant (copy enclosed}. 3?h© Dept can have the books for the price. 
If the Dept. has then or does not want then I guess I can sell them 
to the Field or to Crerar library or somewhere else. Anyhow what is 
not mentioned in tfce bargain, hut what I had chiefly in mind is 
achieved, aoaetMng for the poor Vienna herbaria® in exchange for the 
collection I a» getting, I shall send the books and grasses by 
Smithsonian exchange to you when I finish hare.-— I have bought 
a piece cf linen (Fran Schneider bought it for meh- Ihey wear linen 
underwear here. It wakes me shiver to think of it this weather, but 
it is so beautiful and must he very comfortable in eammer. Prau 
Schneider and her sister are daman Schneiderinen and I ar. having a 
whits linen dress made and some other things . . .nr . Schneider wrote 
ne after his return to Surope, early in 1919 I think, that they were 
"relatively well off." Maybe so, or uaybe the fall of the German 
mark (it. Q works in Berlin) has reduced their weans, so far as 1 
can see they are getting along on very little. What they ©am in 
Austrian money will buy so little and I guess there are not foreign- 
ers enough to go aro¥.n§, I think my room rent is more than all the 
rest they get — I pay t$ a day for room and board. The day I can© I 
paid in advance {my suggestion, I wasn't asked for it), She next 
day I heard Varna telling someone at the top of her voice that Frau 
Chase had cone and Mother had coal bought. Frau 3 has be«n so good 
to me. The cold I was fighting off developed into pleurisy, she 
went to the doctor with me. fl had surmised I hod pleurisy, but he 
said I had rippenfels and grippe, but tho dictionary confirmed my 
