CORRESPONDENCE 185 



On August 30, 1883, lie says : " We are getting our 

 house at Calais in order to go housekeeping again next 

 season if all is well. We shall make our future home 

 here and visit west or go south as we like. Mrs. B. 

 would prefer to live in Minneapolis with the children, 

 but I prefer the east. We hope to go south in the winter 

 if Mrs. Boardman is strong enough for the trip." 



In the winter of 1884 Mr. Boardman was in Florida 

 and wrote from Jacksonville under date of February 16 : 

 " I got a funny looking owl yesterday. The man says 

 it is a Ground Owl ; probably one of the Burrowing Owls, 

 but it does not look the color of those I have seen. 

 Have you the eggs of the Burrowing Owl from Florida ? 

 But there are so many cheats in such things you are 

 never sure of what you have unless you get them your- 

 self. I have seen three Everglade Kites shot near here 

 of late — something new for this neighborhood." Writ- 

 ing from Calais under date of May 2, 1885, he says : 



I started a letter to you when I saw the report in the papers 

 you was to leave Washington but before I sent it I saw the 

 report corrected and I will tell you one of the items in it, was, 

 " You will now have more leisure so you can take Mrs. Baird 

 and Lucy and come down and see us.*" I want you to see our 

 new place in Calais, and the way I have fixed my new museum. 

 I put on another story ; have a gallery around the second story 

 and have all the light from above. It never looked half so well 

 and at Calais I have so many more visitors. The little plaster 

 cast of trout makes quite a show as our people have never seen 

 any such. I wish you could give the museum another, some salt 

 water fish like a mackerel or any that you have duplicates of. I 

 have not much that is fish, and as my museum is all the one 

 down east, want it a good one, and while I am begging, should 

 like one of those little Ross Gull skins. 



