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Sept.9,1925 Mr A.H.Bittner Associate Editor, Frontier Magazine Garden City, N.Y. Dear Mr. Bittner: The outline of the life of Alanson Skinner I sent you the other day was inaccurate in one respect. At the top of Page 3 the portion beginning "In 1910 Skinner returned to Wisconsin...." gives credit to John V. Satterlee for formally adopting him into the Menomini tribe. This I find is an error, for while "Uncle John" informally took Alanson as his nephew and always treated him as such, the real formal adoption was made by a full-blood, Judge Sabatis Perote. This section, down to "other tribes as well" should read as per the inclosed [sic] slip. Under another cover I am sending you a Ms. of my own, entitled "The Geordie Man." This is based on actual happenings of the China co. related to me by a Mr. Olson, the "Charley Nelson" of the story. Hoping that the Ms. will please you, I remain Sincerely yours M.R.Harrington