468 Hope Street, 
Providence, R.I. 
II ov. 13, 1911. 
Hear Dr. Robinson 
Several years ago I was forced from lack of 
space to take from my private herbarium all specimens collected 
outside of lie?/ England, and pack them away in bundles. They 
were all mounted on sheets 10 1/2 x 16, a trifle smaller than 
standard size , almost invariably with a fastening of a few 
paper or cloth gummed strips. I do not know how many there were 
of them, but they make a stack about two feet tall (one stack). 
They were collected in Colorado, California, some in Europe, and 
a few in other places. So far as I know they are in good condition 
at the present time. 
I believe I can use the space that they occupy to good 
advantage and would like to inquire if they would be acceptable 
as a gift to the Gray Herbarium. If so I would like to impose 
two slight conditions in connection with the transfer; (1) 
that each sheet that is not at present marked so as to show 
that it came from me (i.e.where my own label is not now on the 
shedt) will be so marked at an early opportunity, (2) that 
no public announcement of the gift will be made in a way that 
will be likely to inform people here in Providence that in 
their disposition I preferred the Gray to the Brown. 
Very truly yours. 
If you care for the specimens I will take them up to Cambridge 
sometime when I am going up, perhaps half at a time. 
