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^[[1/6494 Sep 2]]

[[strikethrough]]31770[[/strikethrough]]

[[round, blue ink stamp]]
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
AUG 26 1865
[[/round, blue ink stamp]]

Victoria Vancouvers Isl  July 23rd/65

[[date in right margin]] ^[[Sept. 6.]] [[/date in right margin]]

My Dear Prof Baird

Still wait, wait, wait! - I am sick, disgusted and almost disheartened I have a chronic fit of the blues and am getting so sulky as to be absolutely worthless

- A summer is gone - practically a year for telegraphic & Scientific purposes I fear.

"Somebody has blundered," most fearfully.

I have been driven into the indifference and apathy of despair!

Some of the [[strikethrough]] dit [[/strikethrough]] descendants of the [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] Barnicles or other of the circumlocution office folk must be among our directors

They are showing "how not to do it" with a vengance -

D--n [[Damn]] all corporations!

Bulkley is so infernally reticent that I have no idea of the true cause of this absurd and dangerous delay. - Did I not believe in him - and "go blind on him" I should suspect [[strikethrough]] he were [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] judging alone [[/insertion]] from the [[underlined]] outside [[/underlined]] look of things that he was incompetent - as it is I feel sure the fault must lie behind him. -

I'm a confirmed grumbler now you see.

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