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the other by railroad freight. All 6 first boxes were addressed to 
Mr. Ross, but No. 1, containing your Indian goods, is endorsed 
R. Kennicott. No. 2 contains books for Mr. Ross, your new gun etc.; 
all your things being in boxes bearing your address. The other 4 
boxes are all for Mr. Ross and gentlemen of the Company. No. 6 
is exclusively for gentleman on Slave Lake and MacKenzie, Clarke 
and Reede. Nos. 7 and 8 are books for Norway house and R. Camp- 
bell. No. 10 for Governor MacTavish and Donald Gunn. I think 
Norway house will open its eyes at its books. We filled up that red 
cassette sent down last year, and another box; novels, Smithsonian 
publications, Pacific R. R. volumes to XII, etc. 
I don’t suppose there will be any difficulty about your staying 
North as long as you please, as far as the Company is concerned. 
Sir George S., before his death, gave two more years anyhow. 
We can’t afford to pay $30 for a silver fox, so if you can’t trap 
one yourself, and keep it, we must go without. we have a tolerable 
Oregon specimen which answers to show the style. 
I am glad to know that you are so well provided under the Cir- 
cumstances for the Yukon trade. I wish you had this year’s outfit. 
As to your application to Gov. McTavish to change the arrangement 
of last year’s boxes, I fear he won’t have the opportunity, as he wrote 
me that every thing went forward to Norway House last summer. I 
begged him to see that Nos. 1 and 2 of 1861 go forward at any hazard. 
We received a lot of Agassizian cans from Cambridge, and will send 
off in a few days to be filled with alcohol in Chicago, and forwarded. 
Each can will have a couple of pounds of arsenic in tin boxes also. 
We will have sent two bags of No. Io shot, and other supplies to Ft. 
Chipewayan as desired. By the way, the alum and saltpetre will 
probably preserve birds as well as arsenic. 
I have long since acknowledged the arrival (after a month delay) 
of your letters of November 1859, with all their enclosures, registers, 
etc., the series of the latter being complete. I hope you will not 
have taken any extra trouble in re-copying them. 
» 1 <I have sent Donald Gunn $50.00 received from Doctor Bryant 
for the purpose to enable him to go egging round Winnipeg. I tell 
him to turn it over to Gov. McTavish for you, if he don’t go. 
Goodbye for the present and Hurrah for the Yukon. 
