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as to making starts. If it is too indefinite I shall go on as I first planned, but I hope that this trip materializes.
I have 4 bundles of grasses ready but no way to get them to the Consulate. I may send a trunkful to Miss Brandt with key and money to pay a boy to take pkgs to the Consulate.
I have sent 9 - the last taken back by the Rolfs from Bello Horizonte.
I am enjoying it here at the Hunnicutts, good drying weather, (even those big fat Paspalums have to dry in this sun), a bed with springs, mattress and feather

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pillow. Mrs Mexia said these Brazilian pillows must be made of "spun lead." They feel like it. It is amazing how much I can eat of good food after Brazilian diet. I'm hard as nails now, had a very hard climb yesterday ^[[insertion]] [Faria] [[/insertion]] and still harder descent and had to hurry to catch the train, but the fatigue did not hang over to today.
I am so sorry we did not get those shelves up in the room upstairs before you got back. I asked Mr. Maxon several times, until it seemed wiser not to ask him "when" any more. (Mr. Coville isn't the only one who gets balky if urged.)