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527 Plain St.
Stoughton, Mass. 
Jan. 13, 1963

Mrs. Doris Blake Ullman
423 West 120th St.
New York 27, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Ullman:

 On her Christmas card, your Mother added a note by hand giving me your name and address in case there was anything to be done about your Father's herbarium cases.  Altho there is little to report, perhaps you have been expecting to hear from me.

Mrs. Seymour and I sent your Mother our Christmas card, but as she had already left on her exploring expedition, she may not have received it.

The man who is interested in the harbarium [[herbarium]] cases, whose address I had lost is Dr. George L. Kirk, 8 East Washington St.,Rutland, Vt.  As the first letter I wrote him suggesting $25 per cabinet as a modest amount did not have his street in the address, I wrote him again to the same effect when his full address had been recovered.  Neither letter has brought any reply.  The only word since then that has come to me is that they went out west this past summer to attend some conference.  This I learned indirectly.

Your Mother mentioned the keys to the cabinets.  Yes, I have them, but think I ought to put them with the cabinets.

She wrote that she hoped I had my grant by that time from the National Science Foundation.  I regret to have to say that about Thanksgiving time, NSF sent me their reply that they can not make me a grant.  As their letter was a form letter, the reasons are a matter of guess.

Regarding work on the manuscript of your Father's Flora of Stoughton, it was de-