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Percival Lowell

This follows fast after you though it will not overtake you for many days to wish you a successful journey and to say how happy and comfortable you made everything here, the good you did living after you in the guise of that superb drawing-room, so called also because it draws everyone thither—and in the relict, Sheckels, who so far runs on well.

By comparing the oak-tree in front of the B. M. with its presentments in the photographic album you so thoughtfully made, Mr. Lampland and I this morning proved that it had very surprisingly grown and we are going to re-photograph it from the same points as years ago. 124