468 Hope street. 
Providence, E.I. 
29 Jan. 1911 
My dear Mrs. Dunham 
Thanh you ever so much for specimens 
of your ITol 808. 
I return the postal herewith. I should say that, in, all 
probability , you had done nothing to merit such a communication. 
I purposely say "in all probability" because I know, from personal 
experience, that nothing is necessary to cause one to get such a 
communication as this (gratis) from the source whence came this 
card. You need not flatter yourself, that you are the first and 
only one to be hohored (?) in this way. Others have been specially 
favored as well. I personally had a pretty warn Word encounter 
with the man in the spring of 1904. He sent me a red - hot letter 
claiming that my article on page 32 of the March Bryologist (1904.-) 
was accusing MM him of responsibility for the errers there noted. 
Things were warm for a while, but he finally cooled off and decided 
not to publish a half page in The Bryologist which, in the heat of 
the campaign, he had had reserved for a "reply" to me. I don't 
know how much the fact that I was a subscriber to his exsiccati 
may have had to do with his coolipg off. The rather tame outcome 
of the whole matter, so far as public print was concerned, is on 
page 44 of the same tfolume of The Bryologist. 
I should say it looked, from reading the postal, as if the 
writer was angry because you did not first offer all the specimens 
to him so he could sell them to the subscribers to his exsiccati. 
I should say that Mr. Dunham expresses a pretty correct opinion 
of the mah with great clearness, and even greater brevity. 
