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however demands that I inform the Department that I am and have been for six weeks or more camped among the Indians  from [[?15]] to 30 miles from the Winnebago Agency, and the delay in reviewing my letter press which arrived at the Agency only last week, has prevented my having accurate copies of letters sent the Department and caused me considerable trouble.  Your first notification of my error in sending you "Form 27" determined me not to write any more letters until my letterpress arrived and also to make it a [[?rule]] to send all the Indians [[?out]] of my [[?time]] during the preparation of Department letters.  It is needless to say that my mail is much delayed, and both errors to which you called my attention were made before the receipt