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Norway House, 6th,, Septr,, 1862
Robert Kennicott Esquire
The Grove, Cook County, Illinois
Dear Sir,
Your favor of 27th,, Ulto,,, announcing the safe arrival of your party at Red River came duly to hand, and upon receipt of the Kreosote I shall medicate the Alcohol as you direct.
The Can of Alcohol you left here to be applied to the preservation of Fish at this place I will not forget. & if I can get Morrison to take time enough to skin a few specimens I will see to their being put in better spirits than they at present dream of, and the necessary quantity of their native element will be mixed with the alcohol.
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I hope yourself and fellow travellers may have a pleasant time of it towards your several destinations & that your reunion with your respective families may prove all you can desire
I shall look forward with pleasure to the prospect of hearing from you during the winter and make bold to suggest that any chance paper you may come across with any thing extra in the way of news would be a welcome visiter if you would pop it into the Post Office to my address.
After you left here I found two small packages had been put aside in the Office here by Mr Smelari[?] in charge of Mr Ross for you and of the evidence of which I was ignorant at the time of your departure. One contan[?] a few shirts and Handkerchiefs and
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the other some Virginia Pipes and Murical[?] Shells. As it would be like sending coals to Newcastle to send them back after you, I shall keep them here until I hear from you anint[?] them.
Both Mrs Grakeune[?] and myself, as you may suppose, find it very dull here and as we have serious intentions of returning to the Pacific coast at no distant period I wish, now that you have got back to the land of the star spangled banner, you would use your influence with your freinds Lincoln & Seward to bring their turbulent children to heoms[?] for me would find it a nuisance to be travelling through a country in a shakesfinar[?], and there are several
