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^[[May 22.91]]

[[preprinted]]
PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

F.W. PUTNAM,
Peabody Professor of Amer. Arch. and Ethn.
Harv. Univ., Curator of the Museum.

LUCIEN CARR,
Assistant Curator.
[[/preprinted]]

May 13, 1891.

Miss Alice C. Fletcher,

Lewiston, Idaho.

Dear Miss Fletcher:-

Yours of the 29th (on which date I was in Chicago) is at hand with Prof. Fillmore's paper.  I send the manuscript to Mr. Gilder by this mail, with a note telling him that I think it should be printed to follow your third paper.  I think Prof. Fillmore has treated the subject in an interesting and popular way, and he seems to take great interest in the work, so that I trust we shall have a good treatise from him to go in your Omaha Monograph.

Now, my dear friend, do not work yourself to death over these papers, you must not do too much or you will break down and there will be an end to all your good work.  Save yourself more than you are doing.  I had a talk with Francis while in Washington, going to your old room where it did not seem right not to find you.  As to the village-site at the Sioux Falls, I have read Mr. Pettigrew's paper.  He evidently knows nothing of the subject, and the ^[[account of]] skeletons of giants, etc., that he found, is indicative of the novice.  I should judge that the village-site he mentions is very similar to other groups of mounds and burial-places in that region, and

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Original includes caret in the fourth line from bottom in re the inclusion of "account of". I do not know if or how this is to be treated.