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Stoughton Mass
21 May 1919.

Dear Sid: 
Though I doubt very much that you will ever receive this letter in Guatemala, still, on the chance -- I am writing. We haven't heard from you for a whole week now, and your mother is getting anxious indeed, but let's think that tomorrow a whole batch of letters may come!

We are having a rainy enough season up here, -- if you aren't down there. I get out very little collecting, but have quite a few bugs. Hubbard indeed has nicknamed me the Bug, and his stenographer is debating on a good monosyllabic front part....
This morning one of the entomological students who is much interested in Teddy Darby is coming up again for another Spanish lesson, -- he tried to come last night but I didn't return till late. I hope I'll get a bit of knowledge out of it too. He wants to go down with Harold Bird who intends to return to Costa Rica soon.

Prof. Brues said that the cultivation of those coffee plantations, etc. in the tropics ruined the collector's chances. He had evidently been to Jamaica for he said that island was so well under cultivation it wasn't interesting. I hope you will have a chance to meet him, -- I rather liked his appearance, and he was very common and un-Harvardlike in meeting. When you return, you will find a very curious bunch of folks there awaiting you. Hubbard and I have bragged so much about you that they are all interested.

How I wish you were here, -- I am counting the days off, -- 21st of May today. In another month you should be here with me. Your mother is looking forward to you, too, but she thinks how soon you will be gone again, and then how she will have nothing to look forward to. We must get a 4th Dimension -- and even that won't satisfy.

Doris.