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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
WASHINGTON,
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October 11, 1901
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"G"
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My dear Miss Fletcher:

It is a pleasure to know of your prospective return and resumption of work on that most interesting memoir of yours. You are authorized to arrange for prolonging so long as may be needful your stay in the Territory, and also to negotiate with your aged interpreter for another visit to Washington in case you find this requisite; the attendant costs to be borne through purchase of manuscripts, in accordance with the plans already arranged.

Believe me to remain

Yours cordially,

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W J McGee
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Ethnologist in Charge.

Miss Alice C. Fletcher,
c/o Mr James Murie
First National Bank
Pawnee, Oklahoma