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Dr. Le Merle also sent a letter – or rather a bill for $24 for twelve visits. I think that is not bad at all, do you? I am going to wait till you come before paying, or until I get work if I do get work, so that I won’t come short handed.

I hope you have had good fare and that native cooking won’t go against you. Perhaps being outdoors so much anything will taste good. But be careful not to eat the growing things that can’t be thoroughly cleansed, and swear off on onions.

I hope too you will have a chance to collect and not have to be all the time on the jump to keep up with the party. And please don’t try to make the acquaintance of any little coral snakes or yellow fever mosquitoes.

Doris

P.S. Chan Capen is going to be married soon, - I imagine it’s the same one he had last fall. 


I am inclosing a clipping about the Academy. It seems odd that your old teachers shouldn’t be elected till after you are.

Here is a pressed specimen of the leaf that mutensia thing we have growing in our garden. I’ll send you a bit of the blossom when it appears. I maintain it is somehow related to the Boraginacae, however they are spelt. 

Oh, I had a letter from Chippie. He said you had promised to write to him, and I think is looking forward to those stamps. He wants me to come back a week earlier I “had anticipated.” Poor Chippie doesn’t dream our anticipations, though. He said that the others around the Bureau were saying he had lost a good assistant, and he couldn’t convince them I was just off on a furlough and was coming back.