Transcribe Maynard, C. J. (Charles Johnson). Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-02-21)

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[Chuster wills middan & Barrows] Golden Eye. Have you still thesethem in stock? Are they good skins for cabinet specimen?

    I have just received from

my collector in Florida among other skins 3 White Pelicans quite fresh but not made up into good skins yet just the thing for mounting I showed them to Knowltons French taxidermist yesterday & he said they would make fine specimens. Now it occurred to me that you could use them to mount as these large unwieldy birds are more in your kind than in mine. If they had been made up with first class skins I should have asked $15.00 for each but as it is I will take $18.00 for the three skins or $6.00 each cash.

    Among this lot of skins are four