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C.J. SHAPARD, President.
G.M. BERRY, Vice-President.
S.B. BERRY, Cashier.
5224.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
CAPITAL $50,000.
Pawnee, Okla., [[/preprinted]]
July 20th 1900,

Miss Alice C. Fletcher:

My Friend, I have not heard from you nor Mr. La Flesche. I hope you folks are not sick. I am getting along fine again. For a while everything seems to be going against me. Indians had all sorts of stories to tell but when they understood they came and made friends with me. Any how the Skee dees did not understand why I took you to the other bands when I should have brought you to their camp. Frank Leader, the doctor who gave the dance, was sorry you did not come to his dance.

Poor old man asks about you all the time, and wants to see you once more as he wants to tell you something in regard to the Skull. I was down there and the old lodge was fallen but he has a place fixed where he keeps it. He was telling me the other day that he sees that the boys who