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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

No. 895 Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C. July 31, 18 (illegible)
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 (illegible) a good
many (illegible) to (illegible).
You would hardly
come under hand if (illegible)
to whom algae can (begin?))
and therefore had better
bring back the (body?).
You say nothing of
the disfaction I am to
make of your 50.25. I asked
you for a memorandum of
what you owed for or I have
no record of it at hand.
Mrs. Bairds health
is quite variable; sometimes
up and sometimes down