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An amount of supplies from
here for you last spring is now
sent I observe from some omission
no brandy was sent you I am
really sorry for it but cannot help
it now I can assure you it was
not intentional - if you remain
it will be sent next spring

I am a constant correspondent
of your fathers & Professor Bairds
but want of line I fear will under
me not a very satisfactory one
I have just received from the Professor
an unless[?] above that the packages[?]
sent out from the McKenzie this
season that reached him and a letter
from your Brother which I send on.

As to myself I am doing very little
in the Natural History line beyond
a little with the microscope. Professor
Baird sent me a number of infusorial[?]