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I should like to have you express confidence in me to Captain Seammon if he should come to Washington, and I should like to have you write a short note to Col. Buckley, expressing gratification with the seasons work, and me, and the grabber. I know he thinks a great deal of you personally + it wouldn't hurt the scientific interest  next season; if it isn't any thing very robustious this year. You understand why I say plainly what I want and that it isn't any particular anxiety as to my self, but only as another strand in the byssusby which the telegraph + Natural History are connected the more confidence the leaders have in me the more I can do, and I think they judge me favorably already I want to get a good outfit next year and spread myself on alcohol[[/underline]].
You may be sure that any thing done for Capt. Seammon will help us just so much more.
But I think I have said all that I can, however elumsily, to explain the reasons performances: and the plans for next season ans  the present situation. If not please let me know what you wish to know, and I will endeavor to post you up in it. I do not know whether it is quite in my line to