Publication InformationInternational Exhibition, 1876Board on Behalf of U.S. Executive Department,National Museum: Smithsonian Institution,Washington, March 20, 1876

Dear Mr Marsh.

Yours of February 26, is to hand. I will do what I can to secure a satisfactory notice of the Professor's works in Mineralogy.

The pamphlet mentioned in your letter has also been received & turned over to Lucy as an exercise in Italian. She has been studying that language quite diligently for a year or two past.

I send you a series of the Circulars relating to the Smithsonian display at the Centennial.

Sincerely Yours,S F BairdHon. George P. Marsh.U.S. Minister.Rome,Italy.

The Am. consul at Venice has sent me some Venetia beads--not yet here
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Full set circular by pamphlet [mail?] A-D.

References in this letter:

The international exhibition to celebrate the centennial of American independence was held in Philadelphia. Many items displayed in the exhibits were brought back to Washington, significantly increasing Smithsonian holdings.

Luigi Bombicci, Corso di mineralogia, 1862. Marsh owned the second edition, Bologna, 1873.