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1866
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cheaply built. I do not anticipate much trouble if any from the Indians even near [[Rhemny's?]] straits. All the Norton Sound Indians are true Eskimo but not so thievish as those farther eastward.

I shall pile into the telegraph work "All over" till Col Bulkley comes when I hope he will let me resign my present position and work at Natural History. I feel determined to effect something good for Science ere I leave here if it can be done.

I write no letters except this and a line to my mother.

Kind regards to Mrs Baird Lucy and Prof Henry's folk and the Megatheria.

Yours always
R. Kennicott  

[[underline]] I'm in for it [[/underline]], and I'm going to see the thing through this winter. Ive got some good fellows to stand by me and if I don't date my next from Fort Youkon [[appears to be how he spells "Yukon"]] it will not be because I don't [[underline]] try [[/underline]] to get them!

Transcription Notes:
jeni92127 transcription 23 Sept 2017 - Colonel Charles Bulkley is mentioned - FYI: The Megatheria is a reference to the Washington, D.C.-based scientists of the Megatherium club, which was associated with the Smithsonian. The name is from an extinct species of sloth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/03/this-smithsonian-scientists-death-was-a-mystery-150-years-later-his-skeleton-helped-solve-it/?utm_term=.3c2eeeb5a6ba