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Dear Baird

I'm going to do a mean action, sell some of my Congressional books. I would not do it, only Morrison agrees to replace them, & it will oblige him if I let him have them now. So I enclose
an order from my son, to whom, when I supposed I was dying in the parts of Syria nigh unto Genesareth, I assigned my books for moneys I owed him in respect of his mother's estate.
An order for certain books for Morrison.
An order on the clk House Rep. for volumes of the archives, in , which you will enclose & give Morrison
Well, I go to New York & elsewhere to night, & hope to return after certain days. My

spouse abideth continually with Mrs Da Hall, & when it serveth Mary & you to visit her you shall be welcome, & so fare you well.

Yours trulyG. P. Marsh

Prof S. F. Baird

PS I do style you professor, because other men do the like, yea, and some do clepe you doctor. They be vain gauds both, and I would have you write yourself, & be called of others, plain mister.

Be about the books.

References in this letter:

The Lake of Genesareth, more commonly called the Sea of Galilea (Johni, 44)

In an attempt to obtain compensation from the Senate for diplomatic expenses, Marsh stayed for some time at the Washington home of David A. Hall, a Vermont lawyer and agent for the American Board of Foreign Missions.