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in your collecting, but hope they have been doing better recently. 
I do hope everything has been going all right with you, and that you are taking good care of yourself. We were quite worried about you for a while as there was such a long interval without any news. In the last batch of mail from you Washington was the only one in the office honored, but we all read his postal dated Feb. 12 and knew you were ok up to that time, which was our main concern. 
Mrs. Schmitt drops in on us occasionally when she has any news or a [[strikethrough]]bath[[/strikethrough]]batch of manuscript, and I will just say (on the QT) that we have fixed it up so that you will not get away from us again in a hurry, so you had better stay as long as you can this time and clean up South America once and