BROWN UNIVERSITY 
BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT 
PROVIDENCE, R. I., U. S. A. 
J. Franklin Collins, 468 Hope Street 
Dear Fernald: 
July 3,1908. 
Your telegram has just been telephoned up from the 
Western Union office. Am sorry that you cannot come down as you 
planned. Am glad,however, that your wait for the lorna Doone is 
over. Such waits are the most trying of all. I suppose that 
you will now he off at the earliest possible moment. I shall envy 
your opportunities for work in the ITorthland. As you know I have 
looked with longing eyes at Labrador for many years. I wish that I 
was to be a member of the party, but many things would prevent my going 
even if I had been invited to join the expedition. 
I dread the hot weather that I am sure to encounter during my 
own trip, which may take as far as Virginia , Ilmov/ I shall often 
long for some of the cold weather that you will be experiencing, and 
doubtless you will be only too glad to spare a good portion of it 
at times, if, in return for it, you could get some of the hot weather 
shaken up with the cold. I do not know details of my own trip yet, 
but expect instructions within a day or two. 
Well, here’s to the Lorna DooneI "May she live long and prosper", 
and return laden with treasures of the hunt far in excess of your 
anticipationsJ My best wishes go with you. I am not going to tell 
you to expect me to see you off, nor am I going to ask you to collect 
willows for me, fortunately for you perhaps. 
Cordially, as ever, 
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