Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1958 Aug. 20.

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Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1958 Aug. 20.

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Discussing his own confusion and mentioning that Marion once took him to see "The Thin Man." Referencing the Indian Pipe plant, noting that it sometimes fastens its suckers on its own roots, and wondering whether "this explain[s] why scientists call man sapiens." Sending, with Marion, congratulations on the "picking-hulling-shelling-pitting-bagging- & -freezing activities."

1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm. + envelope.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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