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[[preprinted]] ST. MARKS IN-THE-BOUWERIE
234 EAST ELEVENTH STREE
NEW YORK CITY

WILLIAM NORMAN GUTHERIE RECTOR
ERIC WILDER LAY ASSOCIATE [[/preprinted]]

September 19, 1919.

My dear Miss Fletcher,

My friend Mrs. J. N. Allison, 202 West [[erasure]] II) [[/erasure]] I03 rd, is a lover of all things Indian. Her husband was an Indian fighter and General Allison was a great champion of the Indians. She tells me a very wonderful little myth which [[^ she]] took long ago from the public[[^tio]]ns of the bureau of the Ethnology. The Navajos were up against a great rocky wall, praying for escape from a pursuing enemy. God sent his rainbow as a bridge from the plain to the top of the rock. But the shining white bridge gave them no foothold. They prayed and it became red and blue and green. The Navajos then passed up, some up the blue, some up the green, and some up the red, and met on the top. This is certainly a good deal better than Moses taking the Israelites thru the Red Sea. Have you any idea what volume this charming thing was published in?

Will Mr. LaFlache see that I obtain his public[[^tio]]ns as soon as it may be had? Do not please forget my standing question as to an epic hero. I think you are right that we should have to combine various myths, but it seems to me that our epic hero should give us opportunity for bringing forth all the mystical treasures so familiar to you. Once we have made a choice of a hero the rest will follow naturally.

You didn't answer me specifically, My dear Miss Fletcher, about your phrasing of the Hako ceremony, whether my method of handling your precious material would seem to you disrespectful. the re-rinting in the "Path of the Rainbow" of the change of name ritual, word for word, seed to indicate that perhaps you didn't care for the emendations I made in the "Leaves of the Greater Bible" which as you know were made wholly for religious style.

We are back in New York and my mind will often turn to your work and trust that you will have occasion to be our guest at the Rectory soon.

[[signature]] [[underline]] W.H. Gutherie [[underline]] [[/signature]]