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Your Mss papers 4 & 5 & all the photos &c came safe to hand and I read the papers carefully & sent them to Mr. Gilder.  Who will write me about them in time. He has been sick] & is at [[Marian?]] now. All your other papers are under way. & the artists are working on the engravings &c. [[Feltmans?]] paper will be printed as you wish & also the music &c &c. All is well in that direction & your article begin in the Nov. number of the Century. I wrote Mr. Gilder in detail about the [[?]] figures & told him to keep them secret until they were published as I would not have you lose that discovery for anything. That will be all right. On reading over your letter of Jun 7 I am sorry to see that you felt [[?]] about not being able to come to Cambridge before you left for the west, but you should not. I fully understand your position & [[underlined]] all that you do is right. [[/underlined]] Of course I should have been delighted to have seen you but that is only postponed till Oct. Then you must be here for a while. I have much to talk over with you & your advice is needed in my Indian matters for the Fair. I sent your letter to Dr [[Fewkes?]] & am glad you write him as you did. He has carried out Mrs. [[Hemenways?]] ambition. I got out a special journal, well printed & generally interesting but[[? ? ?]] he will not be in quite such a hurry to print.

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Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

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

LUCIEN CARR,
Assistant Curator.

Cambridge, Mass. ^[[July 25]], 189^[[1]].
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Aug 6 Sent Mr. Gilder [[ the Mss. ?]] [[page torn]]

My Dear Friend

To think that I have five letters from you unanswered among about 500 on my desk in the same condition. Well I am simply overworked & [[?driven]] to death. This Worlds' Fair business has become a perfect mountain. I am directing parties all over North, South, & Central America & as I have to keep all in [[focus?]] & report to Chicago monthly & ask for money all the time that dont come as fast as it ought to it is no small job, and of late I have had the [[?Assoc.]] meeting to arrange for & my [[?]] vol. to get out (it is just now in binders hands) you will see [[?]] copies sent to you that I have also [[?]] my 23d & 24th reports & two special museum papers this summer. I am 

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R. W. Gilder is editor of the Century, printed on letterhead on another page.