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Field Columbian Museum Chicago
Altagracia Venezuela Dec 4 1897
Ernst Hartert Tring ENgland
My dear Mr Hartert
I have two boxes bird skins packed and ready to send down the river and we are expecting a boat today. The boxes go to Dalton & Co at Cd. Bolivar who will will forward them immediately to your address. The two boxes contain five hundred and twelve bird skins I believe representing the greater part of our work here for the month of November, and while the collection does not contain many species of humming birds in which I believe you are particularly interested yet I am sure it will prove of
