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It looks as though I may be able to sell all my landed interests without R's name. Keefe says the law does not require it when the parties are not residents of the state and it is easy to change the residence. I have leased my land, the 80 for five dollars an acre, which is better interest than I could get if I sold it and invested the money, but I am anxious to dispose of what little land interests I have. 

I want to put my work in such shape that I can ask to be ordered to Washington serve up the material I have secured. I am trying to get the seventh degree of the Non-hon-zhin-ga from Wa-xri-zhi but he is hard to get at. He says he will give it to me at the December pageant but if possible I want to get it before that time so that I can transcribe the cylinder before going to Washington. This degree is said to be mostly rituals so it will be comparatively easy work. I already have the very beginning of it. Anyway I shall ask to go to Washington before Christmas and I hope it will be granted. In the mean time I am shaving the cylinders that are done to be in readiness when W. is ready to give me the material.

Cadman is now in the east giving his Indian recitals. He has been to Boston to see Mr. Russell about the