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Copy of Letter WII 4:2

Arnold Arboretum
Harvard University.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., March 17th 1899

My dear Veitch:

I have this morning received your letter of
March 8th. It is needless for me to say that I
shall be glad to do anything in my power to
help your collector when he appears here. I shall
be in Washington a few days at a meeting of
the National Academy on the 19th of April and I
shall be leaving again probably for the south
about the 1st of May. I hope therefore that he
will come between those two dates, or delay
coming here until about the 15th of May.

Dr. Henry is now in an almost semi-
tropical country where there are no mountain
ranges and it is not probable, although of
course possible, that plants from that part
of China would be hardy in England.

It takes about two months and a half to
get a letter from Dr. Henry's present station to
Boston, so that if your man left here on the
1st of May he would not reach Dr. Henry
before August. Probably with delays at Hong-
Kong, Tonkin and other places en route, it
would be the 1st of September before he found
Dr. Henry. In this case I should think it
would be desirable for him to remain with
Dr. Henry during the autumn and early winter