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Now you must know that I am a
very jealous young miss and with
those I do not wish anything to come
and displace me from my seat in
their hearts, much less Snakes and
Lizzards (I am very sure I hav'nt spelled
the name correctly)

Now Robert I am sure you deserve a
good scolding as well as I do, here
you have been traveling all over the
United States or part of them, going
just as far from home as it would
have been had you come here, but
never once turned you face this way.
I think you have treated us right
shabbily in not coming, you could
have done just as well had you come
here; I was looking over the Smith-
sonian Report the other day (which
I recieved a week or two since) and
observed that among all the collections