468 Hope Street, 
Providence, B, I. 
January 24, 1919. 
Mrs. Horace G. Dunham, 
206 Windsor Hoad, 
Waban, Haas. 
Dear Mrs. Dunham: ~ 
I presume you have long since given up 
all hopes of ever hearing from those iblytrichums from Ho, 
Greenland that you sent me about two years ago. I must 
apologise for not writing you sooner about them, hut they 
same during my mother’s fatal illness, which eventually 
broke up home routine pretty effectually. Later I had to 
make two long business trips to Florida and another of several 
months to the Pacific Coast. Upon my return I found all my 
men assistants in the Service, which resulted in a great 
stack of delayed work---hut enough, you must know how things 
''pile up” when they once get strrted . 
Suite recently I have had a chance to do a little moss 
work evenings, and among the fir t specimens that were looked 
over were those from Greenland, Two or three may warrant 
further study, hut at present I can make nothing out of any 
of them except P, striotum . Perhaps while waiting to hear 
from m you may have studied them out yourself, or had some 
else do so. If go I would he glee to hear what the result 
has been. 
Hastily, hut very truly, with the Reason’s Greetings, 
