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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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