Transcribe Jackson, P. V. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1879-10-10)

will be a help, which in the meantime you can give, & by the way I wish you

would purchase & mail to me the best

work in Minerology, noting price, which I will credit you with. - & any other one work which you might think, would furnish light, where you know I need it. & together with what ideas your letters will crowd into me. Possibly better service will be rendered you when I go. Of course I might not go at all, but then I would assist someone else to perform the service.

    We have about six inches of snow here now.

& I am waiting for it to melt, when I will spend a few days in exploring the surface of a geological wash, where I planted a crop of Potatoes last spring.

    Wishing you good success with

the Allegany exhibit. as ever Your friend P. V. Jackson </u Jackson > Oct. '79 [ybg]