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without my help, and correction, and now he is perfectly docile and is behaving himself like a rational white man. I am afraid he is a little bit spoiled by the "Four Indian Songs." I have been pretty patient with him although he behaved badly. But I showed him in the quietest manner that his work was no good without my approval. He then saw who was responsible. You do the things quicker than he does, very much quicker, and the work is more accurate. The trouble with him is he wants to write every little quaver of the voice that is not a note and was never meant to be as a note, and consequently he got more notes than words. 

We are getting along all right now and much faster. At the first, I think another person would have dismissed him. There are two songs that he could not make out so I laid them aside to be taken up last. Some of the songs are [[?]] — played on the piano.

Now he has come and now I must go with him & [[?]]. I got my suit yesterday and I am much obliged to you.

Affly, [[signature]] F [[/signature]]

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[[underlined]] Mun [[/underlined]]

Pawhuska, Okla.
April 15, 19ll.

My dear M,
It is a beautiful morning. Cadman is not up yet and while I am waiting for him I am writing this letter to you. Last Wednesday evening as we were sitting on the porch a rainstorm drove up. The rain and wind east of us was pretty hard but we did not know that it was the outskirts of a cyclone. Next day news came that a town of 1000 inhabitants (Bigheart) was struck by the cyclone. Extraordinary stories are told of the antics of the storm. One house was torn into splinters while the one standing next to it had only one of the posts on the porch torn off. In one house a big writing desk was blown out with the rest of the furniture. It was blown something like a block away and a little chicken, just hatched, was found in one of the drawers. It was perfectly unharmed and it was peep-peep-peeping away for dear life. A [[?]] of [[?]] was

Transcription Notes:
Bigheart (now Barnsdall) OK is 17 miles southeast of Pawhuska