468 Hope Street, 
Providence, F..I. 
14 II ov. 1 09 
Dear Chamberlain:~ 
1 have 
heen intendbing to write you for some time, 
hut first one thing and then another has interfered. How that I 
have a chance I can seem to think of nothing worth while. Perhaps 
my thoup-hts will clear up as I proceed. 
Am glad to hear that you have obtained Macoun's mosses. I recently 
received a package of 250, and had about 400 prior to that. He writes 
me that the last lot ends the series. I have recently received 2 
more sets from Bauer. Have you got any more of his Eur Exsic.? 
I thin]' you told me that you had some a year or more ago. They are 
#ine things. 
I hear 7.H.B. is writing a book of poems, or rather editing a book 
of his old poems. I understand it is nearly completed. I suppose 
younwill have to invest?? Have you seen the recent book of Dr. 
Grenfell and others on Labrador? If not 
try and get a peep at it and read the footnote on page 392. It 
contains invisible writings between the lines for those who know 
both sides of the affair in regard to the naming of those fagirrgnfrsrr 
plants that Delabarre brought back from Labrador a few years ago. 
Mother 'has been having a bad cold for a few weeks and now I am 
fighting one off, or trying to. 
Are you planning to attend the American Association meeting in 
Boston in December? I am planning to do so. I shouldn't be surprised 
if it would oe better for me, and fully as cheap, to come home nights. 
Fred is at Carry Pond after deer, moose, bear, etc. Hope he does 
not get taken for one, as some people have been lately. 
Cordilly, 
