July 3,1300. 
Dear Fornald; 
Your telegram Fas just brc- telephoned uy fro.. the 
Western Uni on office. Am sorry that jou cannot come do wn as you 
planned. Am glad, however, that yom wait for the Loma Do one is 
over. inch waits are the most trying of all. I suppose that 
yor will now he off at the ea?-liest _ jocrlblc .moment. I shall envy 
your opportunities for work in the Fort Maud. As you know I have 
looked with longing eyes at Labrador for many years. I wish that I 
vac to be a member of the : arty, out many things would prevent my going 
ever, if I Lad been invited to Yir the expedition. 
I dread the hot weather that 7 r sure to encounter durinw my 
own trip, which rwy ta 7 :e a- fur or: Virginia . Iknow I shall often 
long for some of the cold weather that you will he experiencing„ and 
do: otiose- you i 11 ,o only too glacl to spare a good portion of it 
si times if, in return for it. you could ret some oj the hot weather 
sham u mmes the cold. lot wiov detail-". of w.y ov.s t.i iu yet, 
but expect instructions within a clay oi two. 
sell, here’s to the Xorna Doonc! * lay who live low, awl pros or , 
and return laden with 1 manures of t 7 o hunt fen in ey.ee s: of ymr 
an .>c ip c s n m j „ .. o n t v/i. e s, .w-, n ,m J ~ wu . on •.•iof . m ■ ■■ : 1 o 1 cl!. 1 
you to expect u; to see per off. nor am: I gol'-y to ask you to collect 
Willows fo- me, fortuo-o.tr Ip to;, ; >r pr-in 
Cordia11y, as cvor, 
