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#121.

G. H. P.

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letter that the weather has cleared up sufficiently for you to get to work.
Of course we will both be very anxious to know just what you are accomplishing, and await your further advices anxiously.
Saturday I spent the greater part of the day with Mr. Keppler, going over his collection. I suppose you have seen it, so I wont [[won't]] waste time describing it, but I imagine that of the branches he has gone into, that there is no finer collection in existence, certainly not in any museum. It seems rather strange that a man so interested in the subject as he is, does not care for and does not know about any prehistoric material, and neither has he any thing from the west or southwest, outside of some baskets. He has not in his possession several of those well known ceremonial basket bowls that Carl Purdy owned, and that along would make his