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happiness of our friends at home! (62
our own success in getting out this year,
The success of leaders and staff of the C.R.S.
the prosperity and honor of our country
and for an enduring peace in the world
all in the last drops of the whiskey
That I brought away from Sydney.
This evening I string the Museum
Pelage series into five bunches of
ten skins each and labeled each
"Pelage Series - A.M.N.H."
complete record of foxskin boxes:
1- 19 blues + 2 whites = 21
2- 16 " 1 " 17
3- 19 " 2 " 21
4- 14 " 0 " 14
5- 26 " (little ones) 3 " 29
6 - 6 " 4 " 17
The blues include 19 grays, 4 of wh were later transferred to the whites, making the numbers 96 + 23 respectively. 3 Blues lack the tail. 6 blues are cub skins. 1 white lacks the tail.
7- 24 blues 31.XII
8 - 24 blues (1 without tail x 1 little one)
Added the four white skin rejected by Peter last May + whole collection comprises - blues 129 (4 w. no tail) (6 little ones)
grays 15
whites 2 (very poor)
168
Pelage series 50
Kahpetah " 74
Residue 44 sent to Rasmussen
to be