North Easton, Massachusetts, 
August 18, 1922, 
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My very dear Larikester : 
A letter from you, post-marked 
9,12 §X , Aug, 7, 1922, has just come in and makes me 
hum with eagerness to prepare a reply. Your method of 
representing a "loud howl" of rage, ( }, thus, 
frightens me, hut, in till fairness to an overworked 
duffer, I hasten to inform you that I have no remem¬ 
brance of a large package sent north in 1931, for the 
simple reason, i suppose, that it got side-tracked at 
a time when the laboratory was hastening work on a flora 
of Peru. 1 shall look for this package at once and you 
may look for a Isit of deterrainations before many weeks 
have passed, I should have said ’days’, but my assistants 
are taking vacations and I do not know where to seek to 
find material in the storeroom. I have a faint remem¬ 
brance of something sent to Ctandley. Bid he ever report? 
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l M 
So the male Gorgon of J&rdperia 
•'La Ml Iflor"was right. You are returning to Cartage and 
the nearest thing on this earth to the Garden of Eden. 
Old Clausen, Member of Floral Telegraph Delivery Associ¬ 
ation, assured me on March 18, of this current year, 
that you would be back within the year. He came nearer 
the truth in that prophesy than he did in some of the 
strange things he told us in his mighty peripatetic 
lecture on orchids and bananas, before I leave Clausen, 
