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No.23 Berkeley Street, Cambridge, Mass. December 16 1896 My dear Sir: I inclose cuttings from last evening's paper, which
I am sure you will be interested to have. I was there less than a week ago to see Sargent about some matters connected with
our report. When in New York at the meeting of the National Academy in November he injured his ankle badly by stepping in
a hole in one of the new parks. The bone was not broken, but the tendon was so strained that his leg was put in plaster when
he reached home. This enabled him to go daily to the Arboretum and attend to his work, using crutches, of course. But when
I saw him last week he-was in bed, a change, in the plaster cast for one of glass being in progress. This will explain the
remark in the paper cutting about his lameness. Fortunately the weather was good on the night of the fire, although today
the snow is coming down in a way to do credit to the Sierras and I hope there was no suffering for the family other than the
inconvenience which is of course 02189