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that part of Dakota "to rectify the northern boundary of Nebraska." It takes up to near Fort Randall and take not only all the Ponca Reserve, but the best land there is for the settlement - as a farming community of the Indians at Rosebud Agency. And to think that Senator Dawes [[underlined]] endorsed [[/underlined]] it as "protecting" all the rights of the Indians!!

Hoping to hear further of your welfare.

I remain
Yours respectfully
A. L. Riggs

P.S. All well regulated letter must have a postscript.- You spoke of our furnishing of a student for the Medical department of Harvard University. We have one of our students now at Meriden N.H. who will enter Dartmouth next fall. He is thinking of studying medicine.