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Dear Baird

I am ashamed to have given you the trouble of writing, but I wist not what to say. I finish here tomorrow, & what I shall do next I know as little as you. I must therefore beg you to keep the boxes till I can find a place for them elsewhere. I do not suppose I shall renew my lecture engagement. The course does not , & what proposition is clearer than that a business which yields no profit, ought to be given up?

I shall remain here through three weeks, but not much longer. Love to Mary.

Yours trulyG P Marsh

Prof. Baird

P.S. Don't write me '', I have no connection with Col. Coll. Except that I give a course of lectures at its expense.

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In 1859 Marsh accepted a short-term appointment to teach at Columbia University on the English language and literature which he then published as Lectures on the English Language in 1860.