THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 
STATE MUSEUM 
HOMER D. HOUSE, STATE BOTANIST 
Office of State Botanist 
State Museum, Albany, N. Y. 
August 31, 1923 
Sr. B. L. Hobinson, 
Gray Herbarium, Harvard Univ. , 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Sear Sector Robinson; 
It is a mystery to me how the 
enclosed letter from Asa Gray to Sargent, Jime 14, 1881, 
came to be in our files. It is possible Sargent 
left it among some specimens sent to Peek. To me it 
would be interesting to keep for the autographiji but 
when I was in Cambridge some years ago you showed me 
bound copies of the correspondence of Gray and others, 
and I think that is where the letter belongs. It is also 
of some importance in connection with the species 
mentioned in the letter. 
It it is valuable to include in your vols. of 
correspondence, I am glad to send it on. If it has no 
such value dispose of it as you see fit. 
Sincerely yours. 
V 
