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treat you to a jug of [Iowa?] spring
water this month but the jug
the water and the [?] are so
[?] separated that you must
[?] wait. I am sorry that
you did not get to Buffalo.
May [?] has found me
with daily program[?] and I see
[?] botany [is?/in?] [section?] [?] not
"numerous." I hope [?] Bot[?]
[?] f[?]d.

It is awful [?] [here?]
and only 1/4 [?] [if?/of?] [?] for
over two month. What a [?]
Mrs. Halsted joins me
in kind regards to you all.
Shink thinks you think well
of Lincoln by your graphic
content of it with CALIFORNIA.
Many thanks for the kind
expression of the glittering [?]
[?] [water?] in Lincoln. We could
go further and [far?] worse.

Yours sincerely
B. D. Halsted

The Pkg of Col Fungi goes onto Farlow
today.
B D H