Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated July 21, 1874.
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Dear Baird
I am here on my way to Bonn, where I am told there is a leach that will heal me of mine infirmities including La nojosa insanabile vecchiezza. I shall return early in September--hope by that time to have a box of documents ready for Washington, when Lucy's periodicals shall go.
A thousand thanks for the package of books, which I found here. They will gladden the hearts of many.
Mrs Marsh continues to use her eyes freely, as do I. Truly a miracle. I hear you are
a-fishing off New London.
Wulfberg argues that the Cod
fishery on the Norwegian Coast is practically inexhaustible, & maintains
that the 20,000,000 cod caught annually at the Lofoden islands are but an
infinitesimal number as compared with what other fish & fowl consume, so
that man's depredations are insignificant
I send several papers with articles which may interest Lucy. Mary E. is with us, & well. I think Carrie Crane will pass the winter in Washington.
All join in love
Yours trulyGeo P Marsh
Prof Baird
References in this letter:
Italian: the uncurable or irremedial annoyance of old age.
Christian August Wulfsberg, Norges naturlige Velstandskilder. Christiania, 1872.
Carrie Marsh Crane, Caroline Marsh's niece, daughter of her brother Thomas, accompanied the Marshs for a number of years during his tenure as minister to Italy. She died in a shipwreck in 1874.