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Department of Pathology,
College of Physicians and Surgeons - Columbia University,
437 West 59th Street, New York

May 16, 1903.

Mr. George H. Pepper,
American Museum of Natural History.
My dear Mr. Pepper:-
I am in receipt of your note of the fourteenth inst., and while I appreciate your courtesy in writing to me about the Navajo names, I am sure no apology for delay is at all necessary.  I think that your suggestion to have some explanation of the Navajo names was admirable and your offer to secure this if possible was generous.  But i supposed it would come in with you as as incident and would have to take its turn.  I shall still hope that it may be practicable some time to have some such a contribution made, and i should say that you would be the man to make an article on the meaning of the Navajo names found on the maps of the southwest country.  However, as Mr. Hodge was kind enough to push my manuscript along, I through it had better go directly through.
I have got in touch with Clayton and I am about writing to him when and where to meet me. I rather think that we shall go down to Zuni from Gallup and thence drift away southeastward.
I shall be glad to have you drop in and dine with me informally any evening almost, and cast the horoscope for the summer.
Yours sincerely,
T.M. Prudden