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Letter from Spencer Baird to Winfrid Stearns
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March 6, 1883
Naturalist and Smithsonian administrator Spencer Fullteron Baird writes to his colleague Winfrid A. Stearns regarding a request for a steamer to use in research. Despite Baird's enthusiasm for steamer technology, the Smithsonian cannot offer Stearns the use of one, nor can they afford to rent one for him.
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I-Friends-1989-1
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Gift of Friends of the Library