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Dear Baird

I have your letter of

I thank you heartily for saving me from being cast into outer darkness by the Nat. Assoc. of Science. I knew not that I was in danger of any such evil, and will look more heedfully to my ways hereafter.

I send stamps, & will save them more carefully hereafter. What on airth do you want 'em for? I suppose English, perhaps French, must be too common, but I will save them if you wish.

I agree that the Baltimore people ought to have a younger man than I am, but he should be a man ready made, not one who hasn't got his growth. The notion of a superintendent is too ridiculous. I have known several cases where old chaps have sent young girls to school to be educated as their future wives, but I never knew much good to come of such an arrangement and I

do not think this place is much better. A young man may live on $3000 while he is fitting himself for a better place, but if he isn't a fool he will either leave it, or compel the institution to pay him a decent salary as soon as he feels that he can earn it. The chances are, however, that he won't at all, and the whole concern will remain a baby-jumper affair till wiser heads are employed in the direction of it.

Kindest regard to Mary & LucyYours trulyG. P Marsh