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An Afterglow I am delighted that you had so good a trip a trip without a trip to Barns table, Provincetown, Newport and New York.

A little one Mr. Lampland and I are contemplating for tomorrow to Sycamore Canon to get the willow which Rehder did not get, and of which Prof. Sargent wanted slips. The Tour of the new North West Passage is, thank heaven, over though it did me no harm and I think otherwise did good. The University of Washington has written most appreciative letters about the new Mars Fellowship. The Berkeley and the Stanford University lectures seemed to go off successfully, as did the ones before them. Yesterday I dispatched you a bunch of clip- pings for the album about them all. That they will eventually prove to have been fruitful drop- pings to wear away the stony-intellected, as much as such a thing is possible, I hope and to have been thus not in vain.

There is still a very little aspen gold low down upon the Peaks and a sprinkling of snow high up. Of the latter there was more, they tell me, a short time ago. The pumpkins lie gathered in heaps. We did this yesterday for there was a sharp frost the night before and they cried out for blankets, against the cold. There look to be enough for humpty-humph cartloads. 157