RK-970

Robert Kennicott Esq.

Sir.

Pardon the liberty I, a stranger, take in addressing you. and lay the blame upon our mutual friend Dr. Kirtland. I wish to procure a copy of "Melskeimers Catalogue of Coleopterous Insects of the United States" and he tells me through you I can do so. Will you thus aid one whom the Doctor honors with the name of friend and who, though ignorant and unskilled, loves the pursuits to which he has devoted a life time?

If you have leisure and inclination my friends as well as myself would like to see you at the Corner of Pine and Huron Streets, the residence of J. B. Doggett. Yours. with apologies

Kate E. Newell.