REV. P. B. PEABODY, 
SAINT MARK’S RECTORY, 
William Brewster,Esq. ,Cambridge, 20* ™rrs waneas. 
Jan.22,IT¢I0' 
Dear Mr Brewster ,- 
Mary things nave preveited my writing you,in 
tne matter of the mmoted N/IO,Yellow Rail. 
I still delay;desiring to photograph the eggs before they leave my hands. 
One other eastern colliector,besice yourself,desires the 
Rail Set,on the terms I proposed,-namely,$30. cash and Thirty Doliars Ex+° 
change.But,-to be exceeding frank,-I do not quite like the spirit and the 
method of this collector,-(who,by the by,is neither Mr Thayer,Mr Childs nor 
vr Norris});-.Moreover,!I very greatly desire that William Brewster shoul-d 
have this maximum-size set,this set that covers,within itself,all the es- 

