UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 
WASHINGTON 
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FOREIGN SEED AND PLANT INTRODUCTION 
and predicts that it will prove a remarkable publication and 
one which the whole medical profession will want to have# 
He has watched the details of typography like a hawk and I 
shall be surprised if any material errors have crept into 
There was sent here a very remarkable 
looking package sealed and stamped with some Chinese seal and 
addressed to u raham Fairchild# I was crazy to open it and see 
what was inside the package but desisted for I wanted. Graham 
to have all the excitement of opening it. He is really much 
interested in natural histohy and will make a naturalist I 
hope some day. 
Mrs Fairchild,you will be sorry to hear fe 
notx very well having what they call anemia. She is now on 
thei sofa and wants particularly to be most kindly remembered 
to you. Nancy the little mink often talks ofyx you and wond~ 
ers when you are coming back. 
§ must close now for the present ariB 
pack mybags and leave this place to which I am mightily 
attached just as you are to your monastery somewhere to 
Japan* 
With the best of regards as always 
very sincerel y vo ur friend 
Agricultural Explorer in Charge. 
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