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My dear Miss Fletcher,

^[[A. L. Riggs.
May 30, 1882]]

   I have but a moment but want to tell you that the letter which you wrote to the Evangelist concerning our work for the Dakota women has created quite an interest, and Mrs Williamson and I have received several letters expressing sympathy and interest.
   We here in the mission fully appreciate the kind feeling which prompted you to write the article.
  We have not succeeded in getting any dolls made which will likely be what you want, but hope to get them after a while.
   We often think of you, and will always have a nook for you in our home.  The children remember you.

Lovingly - [[signature]] Mary B. Riggs. [[/signature]]

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I hope we shall not have to leave our work, but Mr Riggs is not the one to waste his life doing machine work.  If we have the [[underlined]] mission [[/underlined]] work, I hope that we shall not have the [[underlined]] Indian [[/underlined]] work.  It all should be mission work, but I mean if we withdraw from the A. B. C. F. M.
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