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An Afterglow

I am glad your Florida trip was so enjoyable, and I thank you for the elephant in the shape of a live cocoanut that arrived here safe and sound—a truly marvellous beast to come by mail.

Will you see that there await me at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, where I expect to arrive April 24 lantern slides of the memoir drawing of Saturn, the table there and the rings asteroid plate? Also any other Saturn or Mars slides suitable for my lecture in Chicago, and another in Toronto.

After warm balmy weather we are now today plunged into another snow-storm.

For your delectation and that of all Martians of the staff, I enclose a print of a recent photograph of the planet.

The first horned toad made his appearance near the pumpkin patch on the 28th and the first hyacinth flower on the 29th. Now we are enjoying (?) a northeast blizzard, great wind and with snow.

After the lecture in Chicago, on to Toronto to lecture there on April 27. On the 28th to New York for a couple of days and so to Boston. 147