This edition represents one of the earliest correspondences between Leonard Kephart and his wife Frances during a Department of Agriculture-sponsored trip the former made to Africa. This trip was taken in the interest of discovering and acquiring new species of grass for use as groundcover in the United States. It was unsuccessful; however, Kephart discovered several new species of clover during his travels. This letter is dated October 27, 1927, and is addressed from the American Consular Service in Nairobi, which was British East-African territory at the time.