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[[underline]] Confidential [[/underline]]

In camp N Fork Clearwater.  Nez Perce  [[Idaho?]]

My dear Mr Morgan

Your letter of Sept. 28 has just reached me, and fully appreciating as I do your great difficulties and your sincere desire to do the best thing for the Indians and the service, I hasten to reply hoping I may be able to render you a little help. The affairs at this Agency are indeed perplexing, and some of the trouble have their roots in the past [[??]] for all matters are in fact, the case is not hopeless if managed firmly.

I hardly feel competent to speak very fully about Mr and Mrs Eaves as I saw but little of them during my stay at the Agency last June. They [[then?]] impressed me and have time, as above the average Indian employer, Mrs Eaves and her daughter are stronger I think, than Mr Eaves. They certainly conducted themselves well under great provocations and difficulty, they were largely the victim of a persecution instituted by persons of a much lower grade, and who adopted means of warfare that placed persons of a better class at great disadvantage.  The Agency was a nest of