![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
7 ^[[6/6222]] [[circular stamp]] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. JUN 25 1865 [[/circular stamp]] what was wrong in my style of operations, nor have I yet learned what was the true cause of our misunderstanding.- I only know that our work was stopped - and that from that time till a week or ten days ago Col B. was less open and free with me.- When the Frazer River party started it was with difficulty I could persuade them to take some simple assistance and advice from me as to the Upper Youkon and Dease Rivers - I was informed that I [[strikethrough]] wasnt [[/strikethrough]] was not expected to give them any information etc- I finally gave Rothrock private letters to Tolmie Brass Hardisty and others.- If it had not been for him I should have felt very like letting them "go it blind."- Whether I owe this absurd refusal to allow me to [[strikethrough]] offer [[/strikethrough]] ^[[give]] them assistance ^[[and information]] to some jealousy on Popes part I cannot say.- I certainly have had some enemies in the camp here who probably disliked me because I undertook to do more work than they [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] could!- I [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] have now gotten back to my old footing with Bulkley and that without yielding an inch of my personal dignity etc - to him or any one else - He likes me the better for my
Transcription Notes:
reviewed 29 Sept 2017- jeni92127