
          satisfactory testimonials, meanwhile 
I enclose to you a letter which was 
sent me by Prof. Bailey when I was
about leaving in the Boundary Com. [Commission]. 
I value it especially as it came
unlooked for and unsolicited.
I hope you will not consider that 
I am pushing this matter beyond
propriety. I should have waited
patiently until I heard from you
had I not been requested to make
an engagement which would occupy
me a week, beginning the 20th. 
Of course I do not wish to promise
my services without first ascertaining
if there is any probability of my 
being called off before or about 
that time.

Mr. Olney has recently returned from
the South & is at present presiding
over the Glue Pot. For the sad
        