I have just about finished the enumeration of Philippine 
orchids for Merrill* This will be a valuable contribution if 
the manuscript as I have prepared fat is published without alter¬ 
ation* The bibliographical studies necessitated many hours of 
patient labor, but I think the results obtained paid amply for the 
work involved. 
Please send me your recent reprints. Mow about the orchids 
of Cuba. I have not received a .copy of your paper and I mow it 
has appeared. 1 believe you have everything: of nine up to date. 
lira, linen joins me in good wish ©3 to you, Mrs. Sohleohter 
and the children. We must meet again some day soon. It will seem 
so different to meet again, because now we wont need to wear 
3hvdiouea flowers to. make recognition sure. How many times ay 
thoughts have turned to that eventful night when Mrs. Ames and 
1 came to Berlin from Austria. The station platform is so clear 
in my mind’s eye. I can see you siting for us. And then I re¬ 
member how prosperous Berlin seemed after Vienna. It will be 
mans’- a day before the memory of the pleasant meetings in your 
rooms pusses from ray recollection. She good tea, Mrs. Sehlochter* 
hospitality, and the feast of orchids on the table. And then 
the talisman. 'That little gentleman is surely responsible for 
the er.ee with which lire. Ames and I passed the frontier. 
This is a 1tog letter. And I fear it has little worth your 
attention concealed within its rambling lines. But it goeajlto 
you with the best of thoughts and with wishes for your happi¬ 
ness in the midst of your national trials. Surely all will 
come right again and the present struggles will be only as a 
bad dream# 
lA 
Fithfully yours 
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