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[[preprinted]]
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.
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MEMORANDUM.
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To Mr Good:

Owing to Mr Sessford's illness [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] and absence (for more then two weeks past), I could not get these reports to you sooner, though they were ready for copying on the 3rd inst.

Respectfully yours
R. Ridgway
Curator, Birds

Jan. 15 1890.