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year that altho. your transfer was said for a year, it was really an indefinite transfer. It could be made so & yet not interfere with your own interests — he meant your stable place in the Indian Service. So you can go right on. I told him I hoped he would arrange your affairs so that you would be safe and yet keep at your work with the Bureau, for you were happy in this work, & were not in the other. I think dear it will be done, and for your sake I am glad, altho. it is rather hard on me. Still it is far better for you and I shall try and not be selfish, but please remember that I miss you more & more. Every day I miss you, my dear Francis.

I am getting through with the papers of the School. I have got the letters, reports, all the official papers in chronological order, & in topics, during