Just as I finished, the other side of the sheet the 
postman came in with your letter of Oet.l, - which 
I am glad to.have 
I shall call your Mother tomorrow and read parts of it 
to her if she has not gotten a similar one from you. 
Don’t worry more about your junk. Louis did do a 
lot of the owrk in getting th®m off, most of it. 
I am surprised that things are so high in Colombia, 
Is this due to the difficulties of importing or is it just 
normal? 
The wing of the gray herbarium is out to the north 
of the Kidder wing and I suspect that it will attach right 
onto that. I have not been there since they were digging 
the cellar but I think that it is pretty well along by 
this time. 
Don’t bother with Colombian stamps other than those 
that might come your way. 
YesjS 1 did get the bulbs that you collected in 
Mexico and "they carae through alright. There were two 
shipments of them arid altogether some 20 plants. The 
Treasury Dept, soated me 15 o/o of the value that they 
presumed that they had as import duty, that is the first 
lot that they had stopped on me. 
Vestals address o/o Clarence Roscoe, Centerville, 
Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, 
I hope that young Smigh got through alright. 
