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horses carried on my property returns, to extend the time of this stay with the farmer, obtain authority for feed, and other minor points; to lay out work for my Surveyor, so that my stopping in Nebraska should not delay the survey in Idaho. I had also to arrange for the services of the interpreter at present engaged in the School, and to attend to many matters of detail, incident to the delay of a fortnight or more in my arrival at the NezPerce. Moreover I was asked to make a further report upon the land covered by the Langford claim, setting forth the improvements covered, and the families whose houses are threatened. All these duties I have been engaged upon, and they will occupy me all this week & possibly Monday, by which time I hope my instructions for my report will be signed, so that I can at once leave Washington D.C.

Respectfully
[[signature]] Alice C. Fletcher [[/signature]]
Spl. Ind. Agt.