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From Spencer F. Baird to L. H. Baird, Carlisle. 
Wasuincron, D. C., May 1, 1861. 
Dear LITTLE DAUGHTER:— 
To-day we got the first New York papers since the 
Saturday before you left. I will send them on before long. I hope 
you get the Star which I send by letter mail every morning. 
Everything is quiet here and although there are so many soldiers 
in town, we hear very little of them in N. Y. Avenue. 
In regard to books, you must get somebody to forage in the 
College Library. Get whatever you want to hire at Mr. Piper’s. 
Your aunt Blaney, too, can help you in this matter. Go and see Mrs. 
Marshall and ask her if Prof. Marshall won’t let you have a volume 
or two at a time from his library. He has plenty of the very kind 
of books you like best. Aunt Lizzy has just moved into her new house. 
Mamma and I have just been to see her. The children left this after- 
noon. J am glad you are so good a girl as Grandmother reports. Give 
my love to her and Grandad, and keep some for yourself, from your 
Wnracks. 
From Spencer F. Baird to Prof. W. L. Boswell, Carlisle, Pa. 
Wasuincton, May 1, 1861. 
My pear Sir:— 
I have this moment received your letter of the 26th ult. and in 
reply hasten to say how much gratified I am by the kind feeling and 
remembrance towards myself on the part of 1848. It would have 
given me the greatest possible pleasure, could I have been in Carlisle 
last summer and renewed the acquaintance of past years with the 
class, and have traced the influences of time, new associations, and 
life’s business upon the characters of those I used to know so well long 
ago. Some might have changed beyond an immediate recognition, but 
a little time would, I am sure, have restored to each his individuality. 
Hoping to see you in Carlisle in the course of the summer, I am, 
Sincerely yours, 
S. F. Barrp. 
