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me to visit different states & localities
and to seek for specimens of grasses
and information of all kinds about
them - both the cultivated and the wild
species. - It will be a job requiring
some considerable time.

I spent half a day in Chicago last
week - with my brother=in=law
Col. Samuel Stone - who is much interested
in the newly organised Historical
Society. -

Very truly yours
I A Lapham

Robt Kennicott Esq