468 Hope Street, 
Providence, R.I. 
4 Feb, 1912 
Editor, Providence, Sunday Journal, 
Providence, R.I, 
Dear Sir:- 
In today's Sundry Journal (Sect. 5, pare 10) yon 
publish an article taken from the Atlanta Constitution about 
the "largest Sassafras Tree". You rill be Interested to learn, 
I fe&l sure, that we have in Rhode Island (unless they have 
been destroyed within a year) at least three Sassafras trees 
that are larger than the dimentions given for the Georgia tree. 
There are reliable records of a large Sassafras tree 
that formerly stfcod in the town of Cranston which was more than 
II feet in girth. 
If the above information is considered of sufficient 
interest to warrant writing up I shall be pleased to supply 
such data as I have to any of your office force that may be 
directed to attend to the matter. I should also be glad to 
take one of your photographers down to Crescent "’ark, where 
a view of all three trees mentioned (and as many others slightly 
smaller) can be photographed in one view. 
You will find a little about these trees in the Arbor 
Day program for 1910 (page 16), and a small cut in the Arbor 
x 
Da;/ program for 1911 (page 25). 
Very truly yours, 
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The above letter is not intended for publication. 
