| Description | Arrived last night. Reports condition of botanical specimens: some lost through rain during the journey. Remarks on some particular finds including plant, beetle and shell specimens. Will try to visit high ground visible from this location: tired of swamps ad mosquitoes. Names some specimens yet to be obtained. Lists particular items, plants and birds, for future attention. Asks Richardson to convey to Franklin his appreciation of the trouble taken by Franklin to make Drummond comfortable.
Note: the address page contains, in a different hand, a list of 9 surnames and numbered categories: marines, Canadians, esquimaux, seamen and carpenters.
Letter previously stuck in book of letters from John Franklin to John Richardson (previously numbered D3311/53). |
| Sender Location | Cumberland House, [Saskatchewan, Canada] |