Incoming Correspondence received by Robert Ridgway, July 4, 1869

              20254 july 4 1869 my dear robert i have your two letters of the 20 25 and am greatly pleased to hear of your success i had a presentiment that you would find a new field in the wahsatch mts and i trust that you will explore it thoroughly you are evidently going to make a ten strike in the way of nests and eggs and i hope you will get all of these as well as as large a supply of skins as possible you cant have too many of helm virginiae illegible],721 carpodacus cassini et are you sure your tetrao is obscurus has or has it not a gray tip to tail obscurus if it has richardsonii if it has not.). get plenty of good skins of this especially males you should also be in the neighborhood of franklins canada grouse and perhaps of lagopus leucurus. lay in good stock of all these i will try to send you a bag of no 12 shot i wish you had given me your exact address i mail this until i hear to salt lake with love to mr king believe me very truly yours robt ridgway spencer f baird care clarence king n salt lake