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[printed letterhead] No. [written] 895 [printed] Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. [written] July 31 [printed] 18 [written] 58

Dear Robert

Tell Miss Cora that Mrs. Baird uses rouge for cleaning silver; not the stuff ladies put on their cheeks, but a preparation of oxide of iron, known to the jewellers, and used by them

I have credited a good many birds to N. W. Univ.

You would hardly come under head of those to whom algae can be given, and therefore had better bring back the [illegible]

You say nothing of the disposition I am to make of your 50.25. I asked you for a memorandum of what you owed for as I have no record of it at hand

Mrs. Bairds health is quite variable; sometimes up, and sometimes down

Just now she is tolerably well.

My previous letters will ere this have give all my views respecting the Lake Superior operations.

Nothing from Mr. Brown about your article. I dont believe they will pay till it is printed

I did not mean to administer a rebuke to you in reference of the independence of action of S. I. in regard to individuals You had yourself requested that your relations to University might not affect those of S. I. I merely commended[?] with this, and mentioned a general principle. Still it would make a great difference to them, whether they had so pertinacious an aplicant dinging[?] all the time in their behalf. You were certainly right as to the fact that your personal solicitation got them much they would not have otherwise received

Truly yours, S F Baird

R. Kennicott