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it's reputed power of [indecipherable] malaria, but in yesterday's Times (of the 5th Feby) mention is made of a paper read before the Pharmacological [?] Scty - in wch it is stated that a plantation of this tree has really [indecipherable] habitat a monastery in the most desolate part of the [indecipherable] about 3 miles from [indecipherable] & which has had for many years totally [indecipherable] its pestilential location!  The lecturer states however that he could not say whether this change was due to the mere presence of the trees, or if the practice of the monks [indecipherable] in their coffee are a factor of the [indecipherable]. Your name is mentioned in [indecipherable] publication as the first discoverer of the valuable properties of the family.
Now dear William I must conclude my letter & with [indecipherable] affectionate remembrance to all around you, taken the as best.   Yr. very affect. Sister E. M. Parker
 

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