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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
AUG 10 1865
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something [[underlined]] big [[/underlined]] and the harder it seems the more I wont give up. 

If I have hard work this winter I console myself with the thot of the good time coming for Natural History next summer.

I dont know but after all the situation is as good now as it was before I left the Atlantic States.

I'll write more before reaching Victoria

This is the first time [[strikethrough]] if [[/strikethrough]] Ive written to anyone since I wrote you last. - 
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Oh I'd almost forgotten. - what do you think of a Russian Alliance? For particulars ask my sister Alice - I may add myself that the Russian consul here - Capt Klinkofström has a charming daughter - ycleped Olga.

I think but for Miss Olga I would be

Transcription Notes:
- ycleped is alt spelling of yclept = called