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Cardon thanks Prain for his kind letter of 4 June and the cheque for his dispensary. This has been a year of [monetary] scarcity for the whole of Chota Nagpur. Only last month he spent over 9000 Rs in seed loans to the needy. He thinks there is no doubt that Verdonck is an honest man, but slow in the business line. Verdonck did not want Cardon to send him any plants this year, or only about a hundred, in the meantime Sander, with his collectors, was on the war path and had actually spotted Jashpur as the habitat of Dendrobium regium, so Cardon had no choice but to come to terms with him. They have had an extraordinarily long and severe hot season this year but, happily, the rains came on 15 June. Captain Gage is very kind to him, far kinder indeed than he deserves and he hopes Gage has a nice time in England. Cardon hopes Prain is keeping well in the middle of the botanical glories of the Kew gardens. Page 1 of 2.