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in margin: Please send postal order fro 2. to enclosed address charge to my acct. JM letterhead Nov. 29, 1911 - Darling
Helen, I was so glad to get your cheery newsy letter of the 26th of October on my arrival from Chile after a long hard hard
but most successful hunt for Araucaria imbricata Both Bud the baby will doubtless be somebody some day. As for yourself you
have always been a wonderful shining somebody since your first appearance on this planet. I crossed the Andes from here three
or four weeks ago to Santiago. Thence went south 4 or 5 hundred miles to Victoria, thence up the mountains to the snow found
a glorious wild Araucaria forest feathering the ridges filling the glacier valleys camped among them. Guess how happy I was
how I stared at admired these ancient trees I've so long dreamed of