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[[Letterhead: "New York Commissioners of Fisheries, Horatio Seymour, Utica, George G. Cooper, Rochester, Robert B. Roosevelt, New York, 32 Beckman Street,"]]

Aug 22 1871 My Dear Augur When I want to comply with an invitation & do not see how I can I keep deferring the answer hoping that something may turn up to enable me to come to a more satisfactory conclusion.

 Thus is it with your kind invitation to a