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description answers to that.  Yesterday I climbed Tijuca to summit of Pico.  Cuyler and I went up in Jan. 1925.  I think I got a few things not found then, but I did not find any bamboos in bloom, my chief desire.  I had the whole mountain to myself and a most wonderful view.  It was cloudy when Cuyler and I went up.  Today I got out the duplicates at Jard Bot for which I'd written labels.  Things are in pretty much of a mess there.  
They are building an addition and tearing out walls.  The sickness of Dona Maria's mother kept her away,

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and somebody chucked these grasses away somewhere, but Dona Maria was there today and located them.  I have a large bundle, many or most of them  Amazonian.  I take the 6 o'clock train for Petropolis in the morning to go to Crête de Maria, ^[[returning next day.]]  After that it will be packing, though I hope to get in one more day botanizing.  Mrs. White's friend, an American here to whom she insisted on giving me a letter was here to dinner Saturday.  I hadn't met him.  I mailed the letter

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Just out of curiosity, does the Smithsonian have the labeled duplicates she mentions on the first page? Because it would be really cool to see the letter and the duplicates displayed together.