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like so much. Many of them are choice pieces, way above average. He has three or four sandal-shaped stones and a piece of baked clay with the imprint of a moccasin it it. He has a representative collection of small objects from the caves but his pottery is the part that gladdens the eye. His large corrugated jars are wonders both for size and also for color and incised decorations.

Long has worked on this outfit for nearly twenty years and has never considered the matter of selling it. I asked him to put a price on it so that we could figure in futures. I assured him that we did not need it at the museum but that I knew of a young Museum in another part of the East that might consider a proposition if it was not too heavy. I think that i have him going for he has written me since i reached the West askign me to set a price. I answered and told him to classify the collect-ion and then let me know the lowest figure that he could afford to take for it. I want to have as many irons in the fire as possible so that we may have some left even should many of them cool off.

I have not had a reply to the letter I sent to Salt Lake City. In that collection there are several objects that are not represented in the Long Collection but Longs is so far ahead on pottery that is is a good second.

Since Starting this letter I was Called away to pack up the pottery that I received as a reward for expatiating on the absurdity of having old airt-begrimed pottery in a store where beautiful [[?]] vessel