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ERIE, PA., December 21, 1908 
Prof. J. Franklin Collins, 
Providenoe, R. I. 
Dear Mr. Collins : 
I feel moved to have a word with you, because I chanced to 
find your name in the preface of the new Gray’s Manual, which has just 
come to hand, and the word, to begin with, must be one of congratula¬ 
tion upon the excellence of the work with which your name is associated. 
I have the most lively recollections of the plasant period of my exist¬ 
ence which was covered by my residence in your city. Socially it was 
charming, and botanically it was enjoyable in the highest degree, be¬ 
cause it was to me an entirely new field, where I had the pleasure of 
making hundreds of new plant acquaintances. 
It has always been a source of regret that I did not have an 
opportunity to meet you at the time you were visiting here. I have at 
one time and another experienced the pleasure of guiding men of kindred 
tastes to our most distinctive botanical field, the peninsula, and it 
would have pleased me greatly if I had been privileged to have had your 
good oompany in a tramp over that ground. I trust the joy may yet be 
mine. 
I cannot tell whether our good friend Bennett is still in the 
land of the living. If he is it would please me greatly to be remem¬ 
bered to him. 
This i 3 only a word of greeting and congratulation, and there¬ 
fore I will add only the compliments of the season. 
