Springfield, Mass., 
December 21st, 1900. 
Dear Mr. Brewsteri= 
In regard to the matter contained in your letter 
of recent date. I have no evidence, but only a suspicion that every- 
thing is not all right, and I hesitate to say what I do, fearing that 
I might injure an innocent person, and one who in some ways is so 
promising. In writing to Mr. Deane, I spoke of the accessibility 
of the lower Connecticut Valley to Springfield, where it had occurred 
to me your warbler might have been collected. I would be more ex~- 
plicit, but I have no facts to communicate. My want of confidence 
has grown up during the last two or three years, from a few things 
that I have noted, » ~ no one of them alone worth considering, 
but sufficient, perhaps, together, to at least arouse distrust; 
still I am troubled to think that my doubts may be ungrounded. I 
have been interested in ornithology long enough to see the importance 
of publishing records, the accurracy of which there is no question 
about, and for this reason I have refrained from reporting any of 
his work of late years. 
I have prepared a list of birds of this vid nity that I mean 
to publish as soon as I findtime to make an index, and would like to 
have you look it over before I send it to the printer,and make any 
suggestion. 
Your fish crow was taken here, of that there is no possilbe 
vourseraars APL 0) lone 
doubt. 
Mr. William Brewster. 

