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3 letterhead I said Why Yes, I promised to come back visit you in about 25 years, though a little late Ive come. I stopped
to dinner? we talked over old times in grand style you may be sure. It is now bed time I must stay in this dreary hotel. until
noon tomorrow for the New Orleans train. I mean to stop over a day at New Orleans with Mr Mellichamp another botanist. Then
I hope to get straight home though Sargent advises other stops in Texas Arizona. He is to send my letters from Jacksonville
to Mobile so 02507 4 letterhead I'll hope to hear from you about noon the day after tomorrow. Mercy how lonely I
feel yet how glad I am to be at last facing westward It seems years years since I left home. Im quite well but my eyes are
a little sore with gazing out of the car windows with eager botantical discrimination, especially at the forests of the Long
leafed pine of when I can never see enough big, little babies. A single tassel contains nearly 2000 needles a foot long,
I am very anxious to hear that you are well Goodnight Heaven keep you, Mamma Wanda Helen darlings Maggie Goodnight Goodnight
Goodnight 02507