Buitenzorg, Nov, 29th, 1955* 
Dear Henderson, 
I am a bit confused about the- last pieces 
of the manuscript on the Malaysian mountain flora I send you 1 
some time ago. I had reckoned that they could be back hhls 
week but the English mail of this evening has brought nothing 
of it. Now I fear that you are either ill or there is some 
trouble ?/ith the despatch of it. The contents were 1 ca 5 
pages of the end of the chapter of variability of mountain 
plants and the chapter on dispersal,nest to Podostemonaceae. 
Unfortunately all other proofs (containing ca pages 
already corrected ) of other papers by Snith,Danser,etc. must 
wait till the mountain flora is at the end and the whole must 
be finished before the end of December, which is a bad month 
■ if 
for printing as the natives drink only their salivation which 
is a bad food as far as I can judge. It would have been a bae 
mistake of mine if in a dissipated moment 1 put a wrong 
address on the parcel and it is sailing now to some one in 
Europe or elsewherel Please if you did not receive the mattf 
telegraph at my exifipnse! I hope by no means that this is 
necessary. 1 hope, indeed, that there was some delay never 
mind which, and that the corrected msc. will arrive here 
Monday evening Dec.2nd. 
(C.van Steenis) 
Sincerely yours 
