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Rua Backer 42, Sao Paolo
Jan 31, 1930

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A.S.H.
Feb 20 1930
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HITCHCOCK AND CHASE LIBRARY
Smithsonian Institution
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Off for Tres Lagoas 5:30 - Feb 2

Dear Prof Hitchcock,

   Miss Niles wrote the joyful news that you are back at the herbarium. I hope you will soon be good as ever and better than for the last year or so. You probably will not be playing tennis this spring, though, but I hope you can by fall.

   I wrote Miss Niles that I was sending pkgs 15, 16, 17. Yesterday I took 18 to the Consulate here. He had held the other 3, so I took down the

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