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[[preprinted]] REPUBLICA DOS ESTADOS BRIDOS DO BRAZIL [[image - circular star logo with banner Ordem E Progresso]] Directoria do Jardim Botanico [[/preprinted]]

[[preprinted]] MINSTERIO DA AGRICULTURA, INDUSTRIA E COMMERCIO  [[/preprinted]]



At Jardim Botanico, 
[[preprinted]] Rio de Janiero, ^[[14]] de ^[[Nov]] de 192^[[9]] [[/preprinted]]

Dear Prof Hitchcock, (Waiting for Dona Maria)
I've been botanizing in the herb. at Jard. Bot. yesterday and this morning.  Have just finished writing our label for 200 or 300 I think, Amazon and places I shall not visit.  This building is open early (8 am) by cleaner and I have been keeping U.S. hours (8:30 to 5:30) instead of Brasilian.  Mrs. Mexia's boat is to arrive today "not before 1," how much later quem sabe.

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Please tell Mr. Maxon from Miss Bandeira that the Bolivian plants of which he wrote her have not arrived.  She was worried, but she showed me the letter and I saw they are coming through Smithsonian Exchange, so I told her they were safe but usually slow.
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     Dr. Campos-Porto has invited us to go to Itatiaya, time not specified, but after the Pico da Bandeira trip.  I would be glad to go again and spend more time on Alts da Itatiaya while the others crawl up that chimney to the peak - that is just climbing, not collecting, and I had so little time on that wonderful open grassland.

Transcription Notes:
Itatiaya = Itatiaia, a park outside Rio.