Publication InformationBurlington Mch 13 1860

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Dear Baird

I won't tell you what the book is to be about, because, as I said, you'll call me names, but it isn't zoology, nor astronomy, nor chemistry, nor mathematics, nor the millenium.

I think my damsel knows genera and species, and all that sort of nonsense, but there are some things in those articles on bugology, which will interest her, & moreover the gift of the book will stimulate her, which is the great thing

Our books are praised beyond our opinion of their deserts, and I suppose we shall know at the end of the semester whether they sell or not. True, we are ambitious, and therefore praise is good--but we are mercenary, and therefore coin is better.

I hope we shall see you in the summer, but that depends on whether you come where we are, for with two books to make this summer, I must work, work, work, Needs must whom the Devil drives. Give my love to Mary, & take Mrs Marsh's for yourself.

Yours trulyG. P. Marsh

Prof Baird