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-- the surface it has a dead look while [[bayetta?]], a most beautiful sheen. Do you remember the little [[saddle?]] of blue grey and white that "Old [[Spieg?]] showed you? Among his [[?]] things. Well, I couldn't resist the temptation so finally sent on and had him express it to me. Oh! I am the easiest thing that ever rolled down the pike when there is a good blanket around. Sort of fall over my [[?]] in the effort to get rid of it. 

Unit of 121 7x5s that were good enough to make prints of. I saved 60 to put in an album which will be finished in a few days. The dance photos were the poorest of the lot. As a rule I did not work the shutter fast enough though the exposures are --