My dear Bigelow - I'll join the canoe club

[B-9]
March 23. 92
Endion
New Rochelle, N.Y.
My dear Bigelow -
I’ll join the Canoe club. - I sent the informal agreement. - I’ll pay Everson in about a month. -
Yours
Frederic Remington
My dear Remington --there is just one thing your little agreement says nothing about.  I want to be distinctly understood as making a canoe trip from Petersburg to Berlin, with incidental excursions, in search of the picturesque - my object being to write a book.  Your going with me means equally that we are making a friendly partnership and that you mean to work for the same book as artist and not as scribe.  Beyond this I am not particular - all we can make together out of magazines and papers goes to pay expenses and I shall do my best to second you in every way.  This covers the case so far as our talks go.
I never propose to use papers of this kind as legal documents and never propose to treat friendly arrangements as basis for wrangles.  But Millet came to me yesterday and in cold blood informed me that he had no idea that I had any idea of writing a book!! &c &c which simply paralyzed me.  So just O.K.  this letter, or send me something equally clear. 
I have done all I cared about the Canoes - Rushtons fittings and Kirks and Squires are all late and I shall have to be forwarded by express to me.  Goodbye - I hope nothing will interfere with this grandly outlined cruise.  Au revoir on the [Normannia?]--  Faithfully PB -  best regards to Mrs. Remington
O.K. -  
Frederic Remington