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I leave him to act fully in my place as Scientific head of the general expedition.

The above copy of letter to Geo Walker is all Ive written and now they are [[?nudging]] out the ship to start.

Ive not had a [[underlined]] list even [[/underlined]] of my outfit complete till a few minutes since -

I'm going to [[underlined]] succeed fully by God if it is only to put my self in a position to punish [[/underlined] those who have been the cause of this absurd [[strikethrough]] ly [[/strikethrough]] outfit which is furnished me.  Im not [[underlined]] afraid [[/underlined]] - but I do feel a little serious at starting with an outfit in the choice of which Ive scarce had any voice.
  
Please [[strikethrough]] send this [[/strikethrough]] tell Prof Cutting any of my growling you choose

Yours always
R Kennicott

Transcription Notes:
- After first sentence, all the rest of the text was written later with a different kind of ink. - "Nudging" does not appear to be the word given the characters