CORRESPONDENCE 203 



MiLLTOWN, 24 June, 1869. 

 My Dear Professor: 



1 received your letter of the 20th to-day, glad to hear you are 

 all well. Mrs. Boardman is some better part of the time. Most of 

 the trouble is with her head. I keep her out riding all I can. 

 Have just been out to the cemetery ; shot a new kind of Pewee. I 

 will let you tell rae the name when you get here. If the short 

 legged Pewee ever came here should call it that bird, as it is not 

 large enough for Olive Sided. There were two but I could not 

 find the nest and had to be contented with the bird. 



Your friend, Senator Edmunds from Vermont, has been down 

 on his salmon fishing cruise, went home this morniug perfectly 

 happy. I could not leave and Fred went up to the lakes with 

 him. They were gone one week ; had a very nice time ; caught 

 more of those little salmon than was necessary for sport. Caught 

 two hundred ; some weighed four pounds, averaged two pounds. 

 Fred told the Senator about the Indian things in the banks and he 

 dug out a nice arrow head and part of a spear. I think the latter, 

 i. e., Indian things, were on your permit, and the Senator had no 

 right to anything but the fish. I believe I told you I got one of 

 the lake salmon last fall tliat weighed over ten pounds. I have it 

 nicely mounted. 



I am glad you are getting so many nice things from the other 

 side; they are verj^ good to compare, and I am of the opiuion that 

 many of the European birds that we have given a different name 

 are not much diflerent from American. 



I notice what you say about making Eastport your head- 

 quarters. The new hotel is not yet opened, don't know when 

 it will be, but probably pretty soon. Tliey have been so tardy, 

 not knowing who will keep the house, they have no boarders 

 engaged. The air is very fine in summer at Eastport, but the 

 company is ten times better at Milltown, and much better dig- 

 gings of Indian remains. I have been looking for a good boarding 

 place here, but cannot find anything that will do. It is almost 

 impossible to get good lielp, but tliought we could take good care 

 of you, and had Mrs. Boardman been as well as usual would not let 

 you have gone to any other place, and at any rate, must be with 

 VIS part of the time, and will have plenty of chance to look uj) a 



