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Rio de Janeiro April 24 1930

Dear Prof Hitchcock,

I was glad to get your letters of March 7 and 29, but I am very sorry you had an attack of grip.  I am glad you recovered so quickly.  I enjoyed your account of the Bot. Soc. dinner.  Wish I could have been there -- that is without being away from Brasil just then.  How that beard, with the ends thrown over the shoulders, has diminished! -- almost as much as Waite's curly locks.

U.S Grass herbarium has certainly come to be the grass center of the world-that has so long been my dream.  What a wide training Mr.