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2 darling whom I have studied a little myself - in Colorado as the most delightful account of a bird in our language. I
have long wanted to tell you so, for sincere appreciation of one's work is welcome to all workers I am sure. And now I have
another motive in writing you. I hope to go to California next spring to stay two months, just to see a little of the bird
life, and I should like very much to meet you, if it can be accomplished without trouble to you, and if it would be agreeable
to you. My plan is, to spend February in Arizona, near Phoenix and illegible in Calif. near San Diego. About the last of
March or first of April to go up to San Francisco, and thence home. (This plan is not iron-clad. I may change