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He never gave me any explanation of his objections to my course or plan and indeed he has not yet told me why he did not finally leave the matter of the Youkon Exploration in my hands - His only expressed objection to myself that I can learn of his having made was that I was a "qreer fellow who talked very fast" and he once said he feared I had no great executive capacity. -
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Now as I had been showing him my work several times a day, explaining it to him and asking his advice - and as he had not objected to my form of words in the telegrams prepared I was considerably bothered and puzzled -

Transcription Notes:
resolved ?s - nwmath jeni92127: typo- qreer is queer in the original