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Dear Doris:

March is here, but it doesn't seem to make any difference in the weather. A couple of inches of snow fell while I was working at L.C. yesterday afternoon, and it was somewhat slippery getting home. Fortunately practically all the snow of the fall of a week ago Thursday had gone from the streets, although all the lawns & fields were still white. This morning it rained & snowed somewhat, and it now getting darker & colder. The grackles are already 8 days overdue - their average is 22 Feb.

I planned to do my income tax today and may still be able to, but so far I haven't done much more then clear off my two tables. A botanist in Belgium to whom I wrote last Oct. for help with some books I hadn't been able to find here surprised me by sending last week a complete list of floras of Belgium, with annotations. Of course the total number is comparatively small, but his list amounts to 14 pages.

We hope you can come down for Easter vacation, so that we can all go down for a few days in S.C. It will be necessary to have the cot which we left upstairs at grandma's. We should like to have you hunt it out & send it down by RR. express next time you are out. Be sure you get the good cot - there is also a broken down one we don't want. And be sure the 2 end pieces are with it. It should be folded together carefully, with the end pieces tied lengthwise to the body so they won't get loose & break, and the whole put in a burlap bag, tied up at the end, and labeled with a good label (I enclose one). Then telephone the express co. about it. Do this without fail the next time you are out. 
Love, SFB

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