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"I remember* the day and the hour".I do ot hesitate to oall it one of the gems 
of English literature.Professor Linton was at food's Hole this last summer,and 
was there during the many years of Baird’s activity as Fish Commissioner.^ found 
him very nice and companionable,and he gave me one of his reprints from Soienoe 
to read which is how I oame across it.I would give something to have written 
that paragraph myself. 
I was looking over your H irds of Cambridge and took much pleasure in reread^ 
many of the passages.Bully writing that Will.You can never beat it and the thing 
should have wider currency.I suppose that it is too local to excite very wide 
interest,but I do not see ha® it can fail to appeal to every Cambridge man wbetbei 
or not he is interested in it from its more strictly scientific side.It is beauti^ 
fully composed and worded, and is g cod literature throughout. 
As you will see from the enclosed card Mrs F.is to have her trip to Cali¬ 
fornia and is indeed well on the way thither.I hope she will be able to return 
by this way,as it is likely she will.The moment there is any sickness in the fam-| 
ily she is on hand, and if she is rated at her true value by her sons in law, as 
I do not doubt she is,the rating is high.She never shirks her duty when she sees 
itjand to think of a man throwing away such a woman! 
Sincerely YOurs / 
