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the family to live in them - from May to Oct 1893.  We shall take [[underlined]] models [[/underlined]], when we can't get full size, but full size when we can by all means.-  What [[B??]] writes about the hand book of Mythology is all right but no particular hurry.  When you are back & can quietly do it all right, but don't bother about now.  You will have time also to finish your Century articles when you get east, so do not work on them now, but finish up your work so as to come home as soon as you can.  As to your not doing as well as Mrs Nuttall, for shame.  Your work is A1 and so is hers but on entirely different lines, & as Miss Gay says you are working for the good of a people as well as for science & you are bringing out new things every day.  She is making known to us things forgotten & is working well in her direction.  She is now getting up sketches for one of all the forms of Mexican habitations at the time of the conquest & you are getting the same in reality from the tribes you know.  You two make a whole in the work and you must never feel that you are not at the head of your department for everyone  acknowledges that you are.  The idea of sending [[??]] to the Omahas was a good

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[[preprinted] 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 ........ 189....
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he was forced to do something in order to do what Mrs. H. wishes.  He writes me from Moki where he has been since April that he his finding out very much about the ceremonies & finds that he has much to learn yet.  He is much interested in this Museum & is on the visiting committee.  I have hopes that through him we shall get the [[Hemenn?]] collection work by Cushing, but can't tell.  Mrs H. has [[f?]] over the $10,000 for a fellowship in the Museum.  That is [[?]] poor Mr. Winthrop is very feeble & I doubt if he ever comes to Cambridge again. Dr. [[Wheather?]] is also paralyzed on his right side, but his mind is clear & all right.-  I have resigned my presidency in the B.S., [[not?]] Hist. & Prof. Goodale was elected so his is now a trustee of the Museum in my place.  The copy of Fewkes' book you got is my copy that I sent to you but I have written to him to send me another copy when he comes back. - I am interested in your statement about Gilman's interpretation of the music & am glad he is on a different line from you.  I feared he might