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ing. By this I mean that I would like to get another lady clerk for a few months to help Miss Latham to organize a thorough system of [[strikethrough]] labels [[/strikethrough]] cards for a catalogue and get a correct history of the objects. We are now getting ready in earnest for New Orleans. I shall spend a day or two with my father and after that ask for all the force I can muster to mount my specimens for the Cotton show. I thought until today that Prof. Goode had gone on a sea voyage. Please give my love to him and beg him to think now and then of his sympathizing friend. I am very truly yours OTMason [[Curator?]] To. Prof. S.F. Baird Director Nat. Museum &c. Woods Holl. Mass.
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Prof. Goode, OT Mason and S. F. Baird are correct