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[[underlined]] Fort St Michaels Sept. 26. 1866 [[/underlined]]
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[[strikethrough]] Dear Lis [[/strikethrough]]

It is my melancholy duty to inform you of the sudden and untimely death of Major Robert Kennicott [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] Director of the Chicago Academy of Sciences [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] of the Scientific Corps of the W.U. Tel. Exp. and Chief of Explorations in Russian America.
    His death occurred May 31. 1866, at the Russian post of Nulato in Russian America, of heart disease superinduced by excessive anxiety and care, in relation to the success of his party and the explorations of which he had charge.
    A more honest, true and energetic gentleman never lived. Devoted to Natural History he died while seeking to advance it; the annals of American science will bear witness to his success, [[strikethrough]] and the hearts of all who knew him will feel a [[/strikethrough]] No one knew him but to love him and his death leaves to his friends a [[strikethrough]] irrepl [[/strikethrough]] void never to be filled. 
    The work which he contemplated and left unfinished, I have pledged myself to carry out, [[strikethrough]] as [[/strikethrough]] to the utmost extent of possibility. If life and health are spared the Natural History work notwithstanding this heavy loss