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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 24, 1897.
Prof. W. H. Holmes,
5726 Washington Avenue,
Chicago, Ill.
My dear Holmes:-
I think you are way off on your surmises in relation to the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. There are quite a number of men who feel very sore, and little articles of that kind have appeared from time to time during the past three years.

As the Museum will be very much torn up during the summer in connection with the construction of the galleries in the courts and halls, I have arranged for a temporary office for you in the Smithsonian building.

Everything is going along very quietly here. Your appointment was approved by the Secretary, and I presume ere this you have received official notice from him. Will you not let me know when we can expect you here? If you choose to [[underline]] give notice June 30th [[/underline]] so as to [[underline]] report here October 1st, [[/underline]] [[1897]] it will answer all purposes.

I shall probably leave here about the first of August, and return in October.
Truly yours,
[[written signature]] Charles Walcott

Transcription Notes:
"report here October 1st" is underlined in red and "1897" is written beneath.