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medium crop of pears, & apples in abundance -
My ornamental plants & shrubs very little hurt
by the winter - Magnolias have been splendid -
What are you engaged in? - Do not fail to send
Reptiles to Prof Holbrook to discharge the obligations
for his work. -

I hear incidentally that yr Father has been
ill - Is he improving? -

Have you seen D^r LeContes monograph of the
Cicindellii? My best regards to yr Family generally
& [illegible]. -

A curse, on your Illinois Traitor - He has [illegible smeared]
involved the union in Civil war - which will
eventuate in the ruin of our free Institutions.

Very truly Yrs
J. P. Kirtland