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Circa Date
1901
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(3)
My dear Dr Mellichamp
Many thanks for the fine sps [specimens] of P Cubensis. nicely & carefully prepared & packed. They arrive in fine condition & brought vividly to mind an amusing [picture] at a railroad station in Florida.
While waiting for a train one Sunday morning I offered a bare legged negro boy a dime to climb a tall [stormed] cubensis for a flowering branchlet. Instantly fifteen or 20 of them splashed [across] into the wet hollow where the tree grew & began to climb [ boosting] each other or pulling each other down greatly to the wonderment of the well-dressed [mammies] who declared dem boys done goin’ crazy or had de debble in ‘em. How happy you must be in your old haunts with thronging memories of the times before da war.
With kindest regards [ever] [yours] JM
(79)
Mr W B Parker
I thank you for your kind letter concerning Autobiography
What autobiographical [material] J Burroughs referred to I don’t know. I hope to get some more important matter off my hands before trying the story of my life which contains but little of gen [general] interest. I was a skillful mtneer [mountaineer] & therefore had few adventures & my wildest climbs & scrambles were uneventful as
[Mr J] of the Century Co has been at me for a long time
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