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Pawhuska, Ok.
April 12, 1919

My dear M,

Last evening your letter was handed to me together with the ms I wanted. I thank you for the ms.  It is the right one.  The Times came also but for the last two days my eyes have been troubling me so that I have had to give up reading so I shall have to wait till my eyes are stronger to read the paper and the clipping of Miss Densmore's  article. I think I have read it before.  It is not the number of songs collected that is interesting but it is what is represented by them.  

Yesterday afternoon Bacon Rind was here and spent several hours with me. He went over the wi-gi-e he is to give me and it is very good, quite different from the one given me by Wa-xthi-ghi. I asked him about the Burden Strap ritual but he said that I already had it in the last half of the Wi-gi-e Ton-ga given me by Xu-tha-wa-ton-in.  It is all there excepting the ceremonial forms of cutting he said and it is true. I am to go to town this morning to see if the dictaphone has come and if it has send a car for Bacon Rind. So it will be a busy day for me.

My eyes feel much better altho the weak