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65_19 To my boyhood chum, Ralph Platt urging him to cultivate his artistic talent for the pleasure of it. In part: "As you appreciate it is the finest thing on earth to do what you love best. My reputation as an authority on Californian botany is international. Every once in a while I learn from a letter or otherwise of my books in some far-off corner of the Southern Hemisphere. But that isn't what I care for. I don't give a rap for it. Miss Waterman said this in fun one day: "I am jealous of you because you are in "Who's Who" and I am not." But such things are nothing to me. If I cared for such things I would put on my frock coat and silk hat, stick out my chest and travel on it. That isn't the thing. The real thing is to be able to hike out over the dobie [adobie] plains beyond Perdue's |
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