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Boston June 21st 1856
My dear Sir
Your favor of the 16th I received yesterday and as I am one of the most forgetful and procrastina ting of mortals, I lost no time in hunt ing up a copy of our constitution and sending it to the address you named. Ere this I hope it has been received. On Wednesday the Council of our Society voted to propose your name as a corresponding member. There is no doubt that at the next meeting the society will ratify its unanimous recommendation
Can you as well as not send me a copy of the proceeding of your agricul tural society or as least of your catalogue of the birds.
In regard to the fish and reptiles our curator will write you after ex amining the catalogue. For the living
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specimens also he will also write you in person, as to his wants.
Our society also voted to instruct our librarian to send you all the num bers of our journal of which we have any duplicate on hand. Unfortunate ly these are only the more recent numbers. The others are exhausted. You will find them addressed to your agricultural newspaper as you suggested. Have you ever pub lished any papers on bird in the Chicago Prairie Farmer? If so can you not send me copies?
I am glad to hear of your success in regard to eggs. It is some comfort, while thus penned up in a hot city, unable to get away more than a day or two at a time, to know that others are more blessed in that respect. Envy is not my weakness. I have too much to be
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thankful for to feel any right to repine, and I live hoping for ever better days and a more unrestricted return to my life in the woods and the fields. In the meanwhile I shall do all I can within the limits of my narrow treadmill, at hours stolen from rest and relaxation.
In haste yours very truly T.M. Brewer.
P. S. I wrote to you a very few days since which I trust that by this time you are alrea dy aware of -
Would your Weekly Prairie Farmer like an exchange with our weekly Atlas? Perhaps however you would not like our politics. If you would please let me know and if you send it direct it to me personally as editor of the Atlas.