Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated March 20, 1874.
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Dear Baird
The Archeological Bulletin of the Municipality of Rome thus far, extends to but five vols, but it is time to expect another.
As books with engravings are liable to go astray, if sent by post, I do not care to trust them to that conveyance, but I shall dispatch a box to Washington before long, & if no better opportunity occurs in the mean time, they shall go in it.
I have laid aside the Nos issued, & will add the others as they come out. Don't talk of compensation, but send me your Fish Reports or anything which you think would interest me.
I now get nothing from
the government, of the least interest, & I find
it wholly impossible to procure other documents. Edmund got me the III vol. of the
Geol. Survey, & Sherman a vol. of the census. Otherwise, I have seen not a
document of any value for two years.
I have received one copy of my paper on Irrigation. It is most incorrectly printed, & sometimes absurdly so, but I hope it may show some hasty people that is good counsel in this case.
So, Lucy goes a gathering of potsherds. Pity she did not begin five years ago, when
they did not cost a quarter as much as now. I saw a plate at Castellani yesterday, a
dinner plate size, which is valued at £1000,
that is, not lire Italian, but
one thousand pound sterling. He has lately formed a magnificent collection. There
are several establishments in Italy--a new one at Faenza--where ware of
extraordinary beauty is made, but the metallic luster of the old Gubbio ware is not now found [...].
I will send Lucy all the newspaper notices I see of discoveries. Love to Mary & Lucy
Yours trulyG P Marsh
Prof Baird
References in this letter:
Archaeological Bulletin of the Muncipality of Rome Rome. Commissione Archeologica. Bulletino: 1872-1920.
United States. Bureau of Fisheries.United States Commission of fish and fisheries. Part I. Report on the condition of the sea fisheries of the south coast of New England in 1871 and 1872.. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1873.
German proverb: "Slow and steady wins the race."
A ruby lustre pottery produced in Gubbio, Umbria, after 1500.