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Stoughton, Mass
13 May 1919.

Dear Sid: 

The rains have passed, and this evening while Pa is mowing the lawn, the whole family have come forth.  Bobbie is slinking away in the direction of Elmses, with many a guilty, backwards glance, but impelled by swill-loving habits.  Ma is pulling weeds in the iris bed,— and I am scribbling to you. 

That little Boraginaceous thing is in full flower.  I took it into Hubbard this morning, who not knowing it, referred it to Oak Ames when he appeared, and he didn't know it either - or even the family.  So I grandly said I'd press it for Sid.  That spurned Hubbard — and he at last found a picture in Bartey's, and it is next to the Boraginaceae, —Polemonián [[Polemonium]].

Your paper came to the Bussey today, on Ichthymethia, and Hubbard showed it to Ames, and Ames said "Another weak attempt of those Washingtonians to get new species."

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of any future there, so he had gone into the advertising business! I asked if there was anybody taking his place and he said not.  He said Mr. B was good enough fellow but not much of a man, not worth much. He was a lady's man, only the ladies didn't even like him.

Don't you think that's funny? I do wish I could see you and hear you speak, but I can't help writing it be you. You are not angry at me for sputtering so?  I told H. that I didn't know anything about Botany but that I was going to defend you to the best of my ability. I wanted Hubbard to know that you had to go somewhere and didn't join Washington of your own wishes at first, and that you probably wouldn't stay there forever either, but that now you were going on with your own work in your own way as never before. Wasn't that all right? I was so angry at Oak Ames that I'll never speak to the old long-face again. But I won't meddle with your affairs anymore, either. 

Oh I wish you were here — you won't stay very much longer, will you? 

Doris

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