% dear ^r.Deane=— 
Your letter was of much interest,as usual.I am sorry,however,to learn from 
it that you have been laid up and I hope that by this you are all well again and 
will keep so.There has been a great deal of siokaess about us here but so far we 
have kept well,and we hope that spring will soon decrees#! the contagions in the 
air.It has seemed like spring lately,for while you have been having blizzards in 
the east we have had very mild weather.One day,when it was the very coldest in B©s 
ton,I had a walk here and had to remove my light overcoat on account of the heat. 
Philological work has been very pressing lately as I have been writing and 
revising a rather difficult piece of work—the introduction for my Cicero—and I 
expect this week to be inundated with more galley proofs of the later parts of 
the book. I have already read (and reread) over 75 galleys 
and I have about 120 or so still to be read.It is very minute and exacting work. 
Pernald wrote me the other lay about his plans for a summer campaign in Nfd. 
and asked me to go.I have written him that I should greatly enjoy doing so;that I 
could not go for the whole summer out could perhaps go for a month,if things here 
and in Randolph work out well.I am looking forward with much interest to one of 
the old-fashioned(or,since methods are so changed since I went to Cusps,perhaps 
I should say new-fashioned )collecting campaigns.On second thought it occurs to me 
that perhaps you had better not mention this trip yet.9e didn't say that there 
was anything secret about it,but it might be as well to let the announcement come 
from him. 
The last Club meeting, with M.L. 3*»g, account of the Cape Cod flora must have 
been entertaining.I should also like to be able to cooperate an the evenings in 
the Club herbarium.I much miss things of that sort there. 
By the way,Mr.Treieaae ran in the other day to ask my advice about the mean¬ 
ing of a Latin description in one of Pries's works,and he inquired for you and 
wished me to remember him when I should be writing. 
If I go to Nfd.I shall probably have to defer putting the Plora of Coos C 0 , 
into shape for publication for another year,but,in some ways,that will os as well, 
for I shall hardly get this Cicero off my hands oefore the beginning of summer, 
and some proof-reading upon it may reach into the early summer,so that I should 
be glad of a little respite before too much additional minute work.Another season 
will also giv i y =-. - ■> time for reaching some of the more neglected corners of 
the county. 
Please give our regards to Miss Brown,W® all send all best wishes to yo and 
repeated hopes that you are recovering apace. 
Sincerely, 
.MS (*■ 
