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is offered in case you care to secure votes. I've long been disheartened over the whole business.

I have my steamer ticket. I sail May 8 and arrive [[insertion]] ^ New York [[underline]] Southern Cross [[/underline]] [[/insertion]] [[underline]] May 21. [[/underline]] Will you please ask for the free entry letter offered when I left? I haven't counted up but I shall have something like 13 trunks. I am not sending any more through Consulate as I have these trunks to get back anyway. I [[strikethrough]] checked [[/strikethrough]] ran over list of Brasilian grasses (one of my waiting spells) and find there are 15 genera I have not collected.

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Some are Amazonian, Pariana, Spheneria, etc, some extreme southern, Oryzopsis, Nassella, but I [[underline]] saw [[/underline]] Tripsacum from the train and some of the others I had hoped to find. However, I shall have made, in these 2 trips, by far the largest collection of grasses brought out of Brasil.

I got my money, the last on letter of credit. Flag was at half mast but bank open. I went to Jardim Botanico but Dona Maria wasn't there. I left a note. I want to make the trip to Crete de Marin Monday and Tuesday and hope she can go with me. Then I hope the Itatiaia trip materializes. I am going up

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