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36 Cabot Hall, Radcliffe
Cambridge, Mass.
April 29, 1947

Dear folks,

For some reason I am feeling stronger & less tired now than ever before. I just finished my history paper this morning, for the fourth time, to my satisfaction (amazing!) & have rattled off a nine-hundred word English paper this evening in leisure with lots of fun--tho' it may not be so good...The Patter and the Wheel as used in Carlyle, Browning, and Fitzgerald. (Kulrayt) Browning's stanza no. 30 got me; can you explain it? I tried anyway, if unsuccessfully.  A novel to read & Bio quiz & history test--I don't see how I can possibly get out to Staughton unless I stay up all nights, but I'll work at it. Haven't done last week's bio or this week's or this week's history or music.But it doesn't pay to worry or force a rushed paper. Will write more in the morning.

Today is a Plummer's island day: sunny & warm with green plant smells and wind(s?) that blow my hair into my nose no matter which way I face. This is just a snatch before Bio. Today we have a quiz on terms, and work on Gymnosperms. There is a confusion of classification systems, and our legitimate one is different, I think, from yours, Dad. Cell vascular plants are put into Trochiaphyto; sub-phyla are: Psilopsida, Lycapaida, Spenopsida, and Pterdpsida (Lilinineae & Spermophyta).

We had movies on Carbaniferoous plants; but the biggest surprise to me was to see a Psilotum nudum in a pot! Tell me, is this part of a frond call a pinna? [[image]] I'm not always sure when this the stem is horizontal underground or vertical by looking at a fern. Could you tell me another thing? Shen (homosporous) spores are formed which develop into prothalli who produce both archegonia and antheridia,