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see to write. I send you a draft for the following sums of money $22.50 you advanced on the coffin for father, $10.00 from John Webster on his old account I think of $50.00 for breaking and $12.00 from Wajapa on his account of $50.00 for breaking, making in all $44.50 You will please send me a receipt for the $22.50 and send receipts to John Webster + Wajapa so as to keep it straight. I would like to give the receipts to the two men, they trusted me with it and I want to show them you received it. Now about the $25.00 sent Mrs Kinney from Wajapa. Don't you remember the summer you stopped here on your way to Alaska Wajapa was given a loan of $25.00 to help buy a horse? This money I understood was to go to Mrs Kinney. I think it was a 

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year ago last spring Wajapa gave me $12.00 to send her on this debt of $25.00. When he brought me $25.00 to send you on his old account of $50.00 for breaking. I told him he was owing $13.00 on the $25.00 loaned to help buy a horse. He told me to pay off the debt of $25.00 and send you the balance. If I have made a mistake in sending the $25.00 to Mrs Kinney instead of you why you can write her but I will not say anything about it to her until I hear from you for some way or other I don't think I have made a mistake. I have always been careful of all these little things so hope I have not made a mistake. When Wajapa was given this loan of $25.00 Mawadane, Two Crow and Sindahaha were