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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