Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated August 2, 1865.

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Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated August 2, 1865.

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Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated August 2, 1865.

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Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882

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Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887

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Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated August 2, 1865., Original located at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washinton, D.C., RU7002., http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/gpmsfb650802 (accessed June 19, 2013)

Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated August 2, 1865.

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Florence Aug 2 65

Dear Baird

Instead of returning your proof, I send corrections written out. The [...] P.O. made me pay seven dollars on a 12 mo volume because the pre-payment fell short one 3 ct stamp by this (lying?) weight.

We are much grieved at what you say of Mary's health. I wish she could spend a minute at some of the springs on the Italian slopes of the Alps. They cure everything, as the mountain air does.

We pick up autographs now & then, & will remember Lucy, but collectors are so ravenous that we can't keep them long

Florence is a mighty fine museum & a mighty poor residence. Vile climate, detestably corrupt society, infinite frivolity, servant's hall of Tophet. If it were not for a run now & then into the Alps, which are my Paradise, I should die of vexation at the devilries which are going on around me. When I am rich, I will dig me a hole in a glacier and live there, having a good stove and all things comfortable about me.

Love to Mary & Lucy from both of us. I have heard nothing from Mr Bache since January. I suppose he has -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- gone home invalided.

Yours truly

G P Marsh

I send Lucy her Somervilles Photog. & Autog.

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