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Peaches don't need any more spray unless the brown rot should attack the fruit when it gets near ripe (supposed to be sprayed with lime sulphurs a month before ripening) 

Arlington, Va.
21 July 1944.

Dear Sid:

  Yesterday afternoon Doris and I were at Ilga's for an hour.  Her father is very feeble and I felt that we perhaps tired him.  But Ilga said he had improved in a week's time remarkably and that morning for the first time had taken a little walk in front of his home.  When we left him we walked down to the main St and bought a broom, a dry mop and the mop part of a wet mop, and Doris got herself 2 pairs of socks.

  Today I have spent mostly at Cambridge. Mr. Banks was there and seemed glad to see me and chatted a long while.  Prof. Bradley of Cornell was there too..  He has been working there for a number of summers.  Miss Bryant didn't happen to be in, so I ate my sandwich alone.  I was going over a lot of West Indian beetles that I may not have seen or noticed other years, and I found a lot of new things that I can tell at a glance are new.  I got out enough this morning to make a respectable paper when I go back next winter.  He said Werner, who is a young chap up there, has been working on West Indian chlamp a bit. I had brought up a half dozen species that Brunn had sent me, intending to go over material there.  Banks urged me to go ahead on them, even tho he had started, and as I demurred he said that he would write to Werner and say I had a number of species that I brought up.  I told him to say though that I didn't care if he wanted to work on them, I had