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Pawhuska, Ok.
June 28, 1912

My dear M,
It is queer that you do not get my letters. I have written so many that I am almost ashamed to go to the P.O. because I mail one nearly every time I go there. I expect they will some day come to you in a bunch.

The circular you enclosed in your letter I received yesterday was sent to this agency and all the clerks, knowing the conditions here, take it as a kind of joke. You see from that itself how impractical all the workings of the Indian Office are. The civil service is all wrong in that one particular. It is well enough for a man or woman to know how to spell, parse, and punctuate, but that is not everything. The Indians are suffering from the rule of spellers and grammarians who hardly know how to take care of themselves, let alone