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^[[Asd Aug 12.]]

[[Bonny Garth?]]. Paget, Bermuda
July 25 1919.

My dear Miss Fletcher

Your kind good letter - much better indeed than I deserve came to me out here - & was again not answered, & it is [[?]] to remove the mystery about the silence.

I was disappointed that Mr La Flesche and you could not celebrate "Indian Day" - April 1918 - but its only a blessing deferred, I trust. I can fully appreciate that  the chance to get a word from a living Osage is worth infinitely more than a mere bearing of witness to the deaf - the Sodder is custom - or the restless restive exploiters for vanity of what seems a new thing. I myself weary of this purverying of 'pearls.' & though I well know it is as to 'swine' - it seems to me quite hopeless to serve the souls of the sleeping humans who think themselves awake because the jig & jolt, skurry & flurry, & 'do' the metropolis 

"From supagement
To engagement. . .
To the Spirits final cagement
In the lunatic asylum"

Yet, that seems my opportunity & my duty - & I shall at it again next Fall, better I trust [[in? is?]] [[?]] & as successful I do hope & pray. (Ive had an average of 300 people Sunday afternoons!)

My book on the Raj is published. That was my belated contribution to the War need of our country. [[Doran?]] has made it too high priced I fear - even for over 400 pages 2.50 is not alluring.

As for the L. of the G. B. - your appreciation is enough reward. If I needed any. It was a hope & a devout enthusiasm. It's merely a question - can one get 1000 subscribers i the U.S.A. for such an undertaking, or is it right to beg of some rich person the needed subsidy? In war times - I couldn't do the latter - so I just stopped. But there's lots & lots to do - Just think of the inaccessible treasures! And just a wee bit hard