Viewing page 2 of 146

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Corumbá, March 6, 1930
Matto Grosso, Brasil

Dear Prof Hitchcock,

I've been to Bolivia, was there about 2 hours. Did you have Gouinia in Grasses Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia? I got it there, but precious little else except a new crop of the blister-raising chiggers and Lasiacis, 2 Leptochloas and a Panicum that may be P. trichanthum. The mosquitoes were quite as bad as on this side. I didn't have to pay anything for this salvo-conducto. The young Bolivian at the frontier warned me not to go too far into the bosque and get lost, a warning I heeded for it was an awful tangle. When I returned he gave me limeade! (Offered to put some whisky in it!)

Corumbá, like all Matto Grosso, has been disappointing.  I

Transcription Notes:
Added accent over the "a" in second Corumbá - should be good to go - @siobhanleachman