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[printed] NATIONAL KANSAS COMMITTEE.
| Dr. SAMUEL CABOT, Jr., Boston, Mass. | JOHN W. WRIGHT, Logansport, Ind. | F.A. HUNT, St. Louis, Mo. |
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| W. H. RUSSELL, N Haven, Conn | W. F. M. ARNY, Bloomington, Ill. | A. H REEDER, } Kansas. |
| GOV. W. W. HOPPIN, Providence, R I | S. S. BARNARD, Detroit, Mich. | S. W. ELDRIDGE, } |
| THADDEUS HYATT, New York City | J. H. TWEEDY, Milwaukee, Wis. | J. D. WEBSTER, H. B. HURD, } |
| ALEX. GORDON, Pittsburgh, Pa. | W. H. STANLEY, Cleveland, Ohio. | G. W. DOLE, J. Y. SCAMMON, } |
| W. PENN CLARK, Iowa City, Iowa | Dr. S. G. HOWE, Boston, Mass. |
| THADDEUS HYATT, President, New York City. | G. W. DOLE, Treasurer, Chicago. |
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| J. D. WEBSTER, Vice President, Chicago. | ELI THAYER, Agent for Organization of States, Wor- |
| H B. HURD, Secretary, Chicago. | cester, Mass. |
| HORACE WHITE, Assistant Secretary, Chicago. | W. F. M. ARNY, General Agent, Chicago. |
Office National Kansas Committee, 11 MARINE BANK BUILDING,
Chicago, [handwritten] Jan'y 22nd [printed] 185 [written] 7.
Robt. Kennicott Esq
Dead Sir: I have this day had the pleasure of shipping to your address one box of clothin - pshaw!
Dear Bob. You see how it is - I'm in the committee Rooms again - shrieking for Freedom at and $3.00 per diem, and cough drops thrown in - and as a natural sequence - during business(?) hours, it is excessively difficult(!) for me to speak, write or act in any other than the prescribed orthodox manner.
But - to come to the point
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I have sent by Express to your address at Racine - care Dr Hoy. - a box of mice, and enclosed please find receipt for same. I thought it best to send by Express, in asmuch as - it is fully expeditious, less expensive and a great deal safer, as anyone who had any experience in Post office official's modes of doing business can testify - I am improving in health slowly but surely - have had, as yet, no serious drawback and under the toxic influence of Cinchona, Iron & Strychnine, am rapidly regain ing that Herculean strength for which I wasn't noted before my sickness. To come back to your hobby - and, for a divergence from which, please accept my most humble excuses - no squirrels Lev aniv!
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nor do I know of anything that would particularly interest you in this line.
Except, mayhap, you would like to know that a meeting of the Executive Board of the Academy was held at Dr Andrew's office at 1/2 past seven o'clk in last Tuesday Eve. object - to devise plans and means to raise funds &c. What was done I know not - but will leave this letter open until after din di ner, at which time I will ask the Dr the particulars and duly inform you. Till then O reservoir! -
5 o'c'l'k P.M. Doc says nothing was done of any moment beyond "sending off the act of incorporation" - There was not a quorum present and "Blaney & Swift kept telling long yarns and wouldn't stick to business" - Andrews said he would write you - Nothing of any moment beyond the depressed state
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of the thermometer which [illegible] a recourse to the usual stimulants and restoratives Thomas & Jeremiah and [illegible] coal. continues to sink day by day until its friends are evidently alarmed lest it should not recover.
I send you a scrap from this A.M.'s Dem Press - which may interest you - Present my most dutiful Compliments to Alice, And believe me, Though but the Ruinns Of my former self, and A lamentable vestige of Humanity, Thine Ever, Never Severed, Phrank.
P.S. Charley (no I) has not Kim tew teown, and Charley No. II. ain't going tew leave teown - at least not at present. No news from "home". Rause has got back Spose you know - Improved - externally - Internally - ? ----- F.
[page turned, written diagonally] P.P.S. I have not yet gone back to College, as the weather has been too cold and I have been too weak. I think of waiting until the class in Practical Chemistry is started & then go ahead - I should derive precious little benefit by going back now; besides which in addition to my P.F. & Ch. Adv. duties, I am in the Kansas Com.'s Rooms for two weeks 6 hours per day - $3 per day -
[written on bottom left side margin] If thou hast time, drop me a line and say what thinkest thou?
[stamped on right side margin middle of page] J. Kennicott Brenton Collections
[written in pencil between the lines of the letter, in two columns] [first column] 16.740.12 82.610.89 89.351.01 [second column] 543.75 79.851.79 80.400.74 8.962.24 89.362.98 89.351.01 11.97