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2 of anything I have written though I plan so careful a naturalist as you may find fault with the botany. My father, for
many years a resident of Kansas, has the flora of that region at his finger's ends as it were, but my botany is of a very
general character. Your kind invitation to come up and see you I shall be all too pleased to accept. Is the holiday season
suitable for you to do penance in such a way will you be at home on Wednesday of next week with no engagements to conflict
with your wasting your time upon me? If so, I would suggest that day. If you have anything at all which would conflict with
this, drop me a line and we will fix upon some other date. 01750 2? 3 letterhead You no doubt had a very pleasant
summering? . But as you say, it must have been a very decided? contrast to your quarter century of work in the wilds. By the
way, I notice by Mr. S illegible 's sketch in the May Century that your out date? me some nineteen years. You see I have the
advantage of you in that I know quite a little about you, while I am a terra incognita to you, and I am afraid that upon exploration
you will find it but a barren place, not worth your study. I think, speaking of age, that you will be young at one hundred
if you do not become