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9216
Dall
Fort St. Michaels Sept. 26 1866
Dear Prof. Baird,
It is with a heavy heart that I write to you. Yesterday, while burning with impatience to see my friend; I rec'd the dreadful news of his death. You have heard of it and of the sad particulars I presume 'ere this can reach you. I have only time to write business. Charley Pease will accompany the remains to their resting place in Illinois. There is no doubt he was badgered to death by Bulkley in the first instance and W.H. Ennis in the second and more unpardonable one.
  Charley Pease takes charge of his effects and I have not failed to impress upon his mind the positive necessity of seeing you in person. A box of papers which in the event of a memorial being published would be of the greatest value. (I hope some day if no worthier hand takes it up, to write one) no one but ^me^ knows the fiery furnace in which he worked through in 65 in San Francisco). A legion of helldevils baiting him all the time. I have just looked these papers over, many of them relate
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