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[[image: print of botanical illustration in colour of pink/green orchid]] [[caption]] PINK LADY SLIPPER Cypripedium acaule From Series 2 Originated by Betty Carnes Executed in water color by Kathleen Cassel Approved by American Nature Association Published by Barton-Cotton, Inc., Baltimore, Md. [[/caption]] February 6 1960 Dear Mrs. Blake: No news of your loss had reached me until I opened Science yesterday at the [[necrology?]] and there stood Sidney F. Blake at the head of the column. I was shocked and grieved; we had an understanding that he was to scatter my ashes on Plummers Island; and here I am the survivor. What a world it is that the young, the able, must