416 West 118th St. July 4, 1916. 
Dear Collins 
I am reight sorry to learn thatyou all have heen having 
so much of a hospital on your own account this spring, and can readily 
appreciate that there has been no time to write letters. I find that 
the same applies to school duties. I'm glad enough that your father 
and mother and Edie have all started ?on the mending hand" and can 
readily understand your father in his learning to walk again. Mother 
had the same trouble, and never did learn to make dead sure of reaching 
for anything. The absence of the focussing lens seems to spoil a per¬ 
sona sense of distance frofc the eye. I'm right sorry that the other 
trouble has developed. Give all of 'em my regards and best wishes. 
Under the circumstances you are not likly to be in the region 
at all, at least for the present. . Having my plans all upset two or 
three u times, I hardly dare make any now, but, unless something comes 
up again, l shall leave here the 9th, go t Albany, thence to Burlington 
via the Day line and Sake steamers, then go to Wallinford and attend fche 
meeting of the Vt. Bot. Soc, and then--- probably come back here. 
I may have to issue the Sept number of the "ryolqgist, and if so 
will need to be in town for a week the last of sugust July. After the 
Vt. meeting, I can again pan-out something. I have a sneaking idea 
that I would like making a walking trip across V£ to the White Mts., 
if reads and possible accomodation for the night is a definite thing, 
taking it easy and not trying to make the miles run like water. I shnuld 
not feel at 411 averse to employing trolleys or steam roads when the 
country was tinimpreseive. 
Whatever I do. I'll drop you a card now andt 
then. Just at present I feel foot free. 
Sincerely yours, 
EBC, 
