Letter from SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated November 2, 1874.
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My Dear Mr. Marsh.
Your letter of the second of October came in due time, & I have endeavored, so far in vain, to get you a copy of the report on forestry. If I mistake not it was my own notice that you saw in the Nation. I had the pamphlet, but have mislaid it. I have given your memorandum to Mr Edmunds who belongs to the ring in such matters, & he promises to get it & send to you.
Lucy thanks you very much for your kind attention in sending the Archaeological Bulletin for her perusal, & hopes to see it before a great while, although parcels by way of the State Department are sometimes as slow as those through the Smithsonian.
I do not think you have acknowledged the receipt of my big Report on
the fisheries for 1871-72. Did it ever come into your hands? My second
Report as Fish Commissioner will be ready to issue in a month, which will be in some
re[spects]
more important than the first, as it contains more of original & practical
valuable information in regard to fish culture, fishways, etc.
All are well & send love.
Your very truly,Spencer F. Baird
Hon. Geo. P. Marsh.
U.S.
Minister,
Rome,
Italy.
References in this letter:
The Nation was founded in 1865 by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831-1902), a native of Ireland who emigrated to the United States in 1856.
George Franklin Edmunds (1828-1919) began his career practicing law in Burlington. He served in the Vermont State House of Representatives and in the State Senate. In 1866 he was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by Solomon Foot's death and served for four terms. He resigned in 1891. Edmunds was married to Susan Edmunds, the daughter of Marsh's sister and Wyllys Lyman, his Burlington friend.
Lucy Hunter Baird, 1848-1913, the only child of Spencer Fullerton and Mary Helen Churchill Baird. She shared her father's interests in the natural world. As a child, Lucy had, as a pet, a large black snake, whose tail touched the ground when held by Lucy, sitting on her father's shoulders. It was her memoirs and reminisces which formed the majority of the William H. Dall biography of her father.
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.