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On August 19, 1883 Seton writes to a friend, Jack Willing, in Toronto, whom he addresses as My Dear Jack. A quote tells volumes about Seton's activities at the time, "The usual inquiry, of one student of another is: What are you doing? Well, some farming, a little drawing and a good deal of Nat History.". Further along in the letter Seton explains that part of his objective with the stay in Carberry is to carry out research for a publication he is planning. In his words, "I confess I have never omitted an opportunity of collecting matter sultable for a small popular work in Birds, I for long kept my purpose to mself but found that I was therby losing many helps & therefore I now confess (underlined). I so often find the history of some plant or insect interwoven with that of the land in hand that I make a point of giving some acct. of both. In consquence I have had to sketch many of our wild flower, & will have to get drawings of many Ontarian flowers.