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others have less interest. I try to incorporate as 

 much as I can of your own, but, in most cases, your 

 notes have come too late. 



You see how plain Haskell writes : I should think 

 that by this time, he has copied three hundred 

 pages as correctly as the inclosed. I should have 

 sent an article from those I prefer, but they contain 

 blanks to be filled up when I get the desired infor- 

 mation. 



March 6th, 1846. 



For the last four nights, I have been reading your 

 journal. I am much interested, though I find less 

 about the quadrupeds than I expected. The narra- 

 tions are particularly spirited, and often instructive, 

 as well as amusing. All that you write on the spot, 

 I can depend on, but I never trust to the memory 

 of others, any more than to my own. I admire a 

 remark of Dr. Wright's on this head. I wished him 

 to give me an account of the glands of the Skunk. 

 He answered, " I must write for my notes, I cannot 

 depend for these particulars on a fading memory" 



Poor Dr. Wright, he spent two weeks at my 

 house; then, at his request, I took him to Aiken. I 

 have now just returned from a visit to him ; he is 

 able to drive out, but his cough has increased, and 

 I fear that we shall have to abandon all hope of his 

 recovery. 



To return to your Journal. I am afraid that the 

 shadows of the Elk, Buffalo, and Bighorn hid the 

 little Marmots, Squirrels and Jumping Mice. I wish 

 that you had engaged some of the hunters to set 

 traps. I should like to get the Rabbit that led you 

 so weary a chase. Write to S., and find out some 

 way of getting not his princess brain-eating, 

 horse-straddling squaw, but what is better than 

 such a specimen from the Black-foot country 1st, 

 The Skunk ; 2nd, Hares, in Winter colors ; and 3rd, 



