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Form No. 6 1. 
OFFICE OF THE 
Western Union Telegraph Company, 
Key West, Fla,, Dec 5tn r . 
189 
Pro i* Wi 1 li am Brews ter, 
Asst in Charye Dept of Mammals anu Birds, 
Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Sir : 
X am pleased to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Nov 
30th, and to thank you for the assurance that you will do what you can 
to secure my bird skins.or their equivalent,from Mr Scott. 
I enclose ivir Scott’s letter to me, of date April 24th, ’95, 4BBn 
written on tke Museums letter-head, in which he states quite plainly, 
that he trusts I will afford him opportunity to purchase for that 
Museum any birds, especially rare ones, that I or others,may have to 
scll ; in KeyWest,or elsewhere. 
He had at that time, just purchased four shins of Buteo brachyu- 
rus of me, and had also paid me a debt of long standing for other valu¬ 
able bird skins I had sent him, and the cancellation of his indebted¬ 
ness, together with the, to me, apparent fact that he desired to make 
further purchases on the Museum’s account, reassured me, and led to 
further correspondence, in which the’ birds, named in icy list bo you. 
were selected hy him, and shipped by me in June, as I have already 
stated. 
If not already mounted by him my skins are, no doubt, in the 
room of the Museum assigned to Mr. Scott, and I shall be very grateful 
to you if you will secure them when Mr. Scott returns to the Museum. 
It is quite clear that the Museum, as *il as myself, lias been 
imposed upon, in this matter, and while I can see that the Museum is 
in no way responsible, yet I trust that the circurnstonces under which 
the birds were obtained from me are such as to enlist its efforts to 
set the matter right, This I trust you may be able to do without 
inconvenience. Kindly return Mr. Scott’s letter. 
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Very truly yo 
.M/f (U^, 
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