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Incoming correspondence received by Robert Ridgway, October 26, 1866

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Title	Incoming correspondence received by Robert Ridgway, October 26, 1866
Description	Handwritten incoming correspondence to Robert Ridgway from Spencer Baird, October 26, 1866. This letter discussed bird specimens that Ridgway had sent to Baird.
Subject	Teenagers -- Correspondence Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence Ornithologists -- Correspondence West (U.S.) -- Description and travel Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 -- Correspondence
Genre	Correspondence
Creator	Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Date	October 26, 1866
Search Date	1865-10-26
Geographic Location	West (U.S.) United States
Time Period	1860-1869 19th century
Language	eng;
Contributing Institution	Utah State University
Physical Collection	Ridgway family papers, 1864-1950 (CAINE COLL MSS 8)
USU Call Number	MSS 8 Box 1 Folder 12
Collection Inventory	http://uda-db.orbiscascade.org/findaid/ark:/80444/xv13992
Rights	Public domain
Digital Collection	Ridgway Brothers - Explorers, Scientists, and Illustrators
Digital Publisher	Digitized by: Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library
Date Digital	2006-07
Type	Text
Format	image/jpeg
Conversion Specifications	Scanned by Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library using EverSmart Jazz+ CreoScitex scanner, 8-bit RGB, at 400 dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIFF; display file is JPEG2000.
Transcript	No. 6251 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 1866 Dear Sir, Yours of Oct. 09 came yesterday and by this time you have … my answer to yours of Sept. 3 so that I need not duplicate the purport of the letter. I am sorry you did not get the … of … … Nothing will replace it as a means of … the … you are likely to meet with. The … are not at all necessary. Now to your descriptions of … I refer to them by number frequency that you keep a emorandum of … you write about. No.1. This seems (more?) like a (Cermirout?) than a … Can you send a …of … (or?) head? 2. Probably (Bonapaites? gull?) 3. Is the Black … - (Hydroeluliden? … It varies in color from black to white. 4. Probably young Bald Eagle. 5. (Buteo? levealey?) Red beaked or … hawk 6. Probably a variety of (Bruteo? forealy?)

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Description	Incoming correspondence received by Robert Ridgway, October 26, 1866
Search Date	1865-10-26
Digital Collection	Ridgway Brothers - Explorers, Scientists, and Illustrators
Date Digital	2006-07
Transcript	No. 6251 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 1866 Dear Sir, Yours of Oct. 09 came yesterday and by this time you have … my answer to yours of Sept. 3 so that I need not duplicate the purport of the letter. I am sorry you did not get the … of … … Nothing will replace it as a means of … the … you are likely to meet with. The … are not at all necessary. Now to your descriptions of … I refer to them by number frequency that you keep a emorandum of … you write about. No.1. This seems (more?) like a (Cermirout?) than a … Can you send a …of … (or?) head? 2. Probably (Bonapaites? gull?) 3. Is the Black … - (Hydroeluliden? … It varies in color from black to white. 4. Probably young Bald Eagle. 5. (Buteo? levealey?) Red beaked or … hawk 6. Probably a variety of (Bruteo? forealy?)

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