468 Hope £treat. 
Providence, .I. 
July 16, 1916 
Bear fori:- 
I have your letter of the 14th- After readlag 
it over carefully I got the idea that it would suit you 
just as well, and perhaps a little hotter, if the trip was 
postponed to another season—-insofar as you are not yet 
"up to the scratch” on tramping and that you are to have 
a vacation daring the time that the Hahenaria night he 
ox -ectod to bloom this year. I am going to owr. * 
tha t just at present I feel very much in the •same way 
shout it, although my reasons are somewhat.different, 
neither of us know just where to go to find the plant 
and this fact might lead jo a long tramp, or even "e wild 
trip 7 « it omi - : t b;at 
Should hardly expect the Hahonaria to he in bloom this 
■;or.r jo -■ middle o" ujai.i or rather uro first mii 
of August; 
If you thiah you would like- to try an exploration 
trip in the hope of finding it I shall be glad to join you. 
if regular duties do not interfere Just at present X 
am very busy, and so hr have t.lon very few trips on which 
I could do’any collecting 
Cordially, 
