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I am going to send this to the BPI at Brown, with a please forward, in 
case, as 1 expect, you at not in that place. b There is no esnecial 
news going on. The Bryologist is late again, this time due to the loss 
of a lot of proof, and the consequent vexatious delays. I have heard 
only scraps of things from Jennings, who is going to be in the West 
this summer, Puget Sound,Spokane, Seattle, Pullman, &c. He starts is 
about two weeks. 
Polks at Round Pond at present accounts all well, but 
reporting a very cold, backward season with all the fixings hanging 
fire. They stayed until the last gun was fired at Southern ^ines, 
les,ving the last day of all, when the hotel closed for the season, and 
travelling with the help, owners, &c in a private car to fforfolk. thence 
steamer to Providence, and so home. 
Well, I have a lot to do in the wa,y of the school work - , and some 
of the other varied things that come up to bother a person from day to 
day. So this will be about all for now. 
Sincerely, 
