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11 about other officers going away & the Troops being withdrawn from Alaska that I can not attempt to decipher them to you -- let us wait & see -- Capt. McIntire writes that he will leave Minn. for Alaska the 20th June; he cannot be far off -- he is not going to bring his wife for the present -- he has sent me a Copy of his lecture on Alaska, it is quite good I will send it to you soon -- The Ladies are all generally well except Mrs Ensign -- She has been quite ill serious in fact but is now better -- Mrs Tidball at Kodiak was very near dying