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[[preprinted]] INSTITUTION ETHNOGRAPHIQUE.
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DELEGATION DE PHILADELPIE.
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PHILADELPHIA, 115 SOUTH SEVENTH ST., 
^[[Oct. 22]] 188^[[3]] [[/preprinted]] 

Miss Alice C Fletcher:

I beg to acknowledge with thanks your description of the Sioux Sun Dance which has greatly interested me.

With this I enclose a copy of a Circular Letter which I am sending out to as many as I think will take any interest in the subject. You kindly gave me some material last spring. Can you not obtain the complete ritual of the Sun dance, the songs and chants they sing and of it make a contribution to the proposed "Aboriginal Anthology"? In default of that, could you not in-