Publication InformationNo. Smithsonian Institution,Washington, D.C., July 3 1859

My Dear Mr. Marsh

I mail a copy of letter on Dromedary which you may not have seen

We hope to leave about the 20' of this month, and to get to Elizabethtown, near the Lake by Aug. 1. Mary will probably go on with Frank Churchill at that time. I diverging to the meeting of Amer. Association, at Springfield, Aug. 3, and joining her in a week or ten days. We shall be thereabout till towards the middle of September, and in the course of the summer hope to see you and Dear Mrs M. at Burlington. Give our love to her and believe me

Ever YoursS F Baird

Hon Geo P Marsh
Burlington.

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Baird's brother-in-law. He handled Baird's financial investments.

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