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May 12, 1910, 
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Miss Bertha B. Smith, 
Hampden Meadows School, 
Barrington, R. 1. 
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My dear Miss Smith:- 
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Your letter of the 10th has just reached me. 
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I am very much interested in the information it conveys,and 
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particularly pleased that you did not consider the matter too 
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"trivial" to mention. 
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There are two reasons for the omission of all mention of the 
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large trees of Bristol C&. from the Arbor Day program. First, 
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although I knew there were some large trees in the county I 
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had no definite available personal fecords of them. Second, 
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after I ijas asked to contribute to the program I did not have 
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time, much to ray regret, to look up any of these trees and meas- 
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ure them before the article had to go to press. Consequently 
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I was obliged to use ohly such records as I had in hand.—mainly 
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from Providence Col 
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The nrime object of the article on the large trees was to 
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see if other large trees (especially larger ones than those 
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mentioned) could be located, for I recognized that my knowledge 
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of the large trees of the state must be very incomplete . 
I have recently measured two -itch Pines in fast Providence 
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which are larger than the one mentioned by Mr. Howry on page 
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17 of the program, and two days ago I got word from Stillwater 
of alarger oak in Smithfield than any mentioned in the program. 
I shall make an effort to see this tree soon. 
I am greatly interested in what you say about the pupils in 
