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L. H. BAILEY HORTORIUM
NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
ITHACA, NEW YORK 

5 January 1960

Mrs. Sidney F. Blake
3416 North Glebe Road
Arlington, Virginia

Dear Mrs. Blake: 

It is with deepest sorrow that Bernice Schubert has advised us here at the Bailey Hortorium of the passing of Dr. Blake the afternoon of December 31st. While we had known that he was in poor health, his passing comes as a shock to us. Many of us have known him personally for many years and I have counted him as a warm and considerate friend. My first acquaintanceship with him was in the early 1930's when I consulted him in Washington on the taxonomy of the Sea-lavenders, a group on which he published in detail in Rhodora back in 1916 and 1917.

During the Botanical Congress at Stockholm it was my pleasure to spend some time with him, renewing friendships again when we were both working at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris. My feelings toward him were those bordering affection and while his loss to the botanical fraternity is great and worldwide, his loss to those of us who have known him personally and have worked with him is all the more poignant.

We at the Bailey Hortorium join in sending you at this time our deepest and truly heartfelt sympathies.

Very sincerely,

George Lawrence
George H. M. Lawrence
Director

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