Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated January 14, 1868.
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Dear Baird
I have received thy circular & acknowledgements and sent them off in the way they should go. There is now at Washington my friend Cesare Orsini, a young Italian who has gone thither on financial business for this government. He leaves America for Europe in March, and would, I have no doubt, take charge of two or three humming birds for our princess.
I do not know his address, but if you messenger will inquire at the Italian
minister's, he will learn where to deliver the enclosed letter.
We are having the coldest winter remembered for many years. I have indeed not observed the mercury below 27 F., but it has hung between that point and 41 for a long time, which is much for this climate. --
New Year's & Xmas compliments from me & mine to thee and thine ad infinitum, and now, as we Italians say, I will relieve thee of the inconvenience.
Yours trulyG. P. Marsh