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Home  May 3, 1911

My dear Francis,
In copying I note that you say you could use eagle feathers to advantage. Could an eagle be got for you here? I wonder if the Bureau could get one  Shall I ask Mr. Hodge?. It might help you.

I note that you say the ceremony of the Sacred Pack is to be perform this summer, & that you want to have photographs taken of it. This is not the ceremony which you wanted to see before your vacation. The latter you speak of as a [[strikethrough]] Sacr [[/strikethrough]] Funeral War Dance. Then there are two ceremonies you want to see & photograph is that not so?. I so judge from your last letter. If you see the sacred pack rite it will help you in getting the full order of the ceremony will it not?

Now a word about our own matters. I very much fear I cant get out to Lapwai in June, on acct. of Mr Gurley & the book and also about the money matter I wrote you concerning. Mr. Heald is in Italy & he will not get the mortgage before 10 or 12 days, & it will be as long time before he returns it. I wanted to put the bulk of the money in Steel Common, but I must do that before June 1, if I would save the div due in June. Still it is possible I can get out in