| Description | Mary thinks she should have some service stamps for forwarding documents to John. She could copy Alick's manuscript [Alexander Stewart Herschel], with John interpolating a sheet of errata for her guidance. She gives her opinion of it and almost sent him a fair copy. She thanks him for his 'queer specimen', and asks if it is asbestos. She discusses the weather and describes some eighteen feet high tree ferns, below the Reading Room, which she mounted an expedition to find. She thinks their location is a 'lovely place', but had difficulty returning, and was covered in sticky seeds. Esther has found a road to a more beautiful group lower down, which Mary has determined to drive to. She is plagued with headache and shortness of breath, and her injector is giving trouble; she used it that morning after a twenty-one hour gap. She notes the books she has on ferns and is 'on the scent of a live naturalist' who may help her. She sends Bob's [her brother's] letter and wishes that her family of the 'empty pursed class' did not trouble him so much. |