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add to the Ponca book, I will return his scrap-books.  If not I will keep them until he comes to Boston in September.  I should not have said a word about this, so long as I heard only vague reports of what I was to do; but the urgency of Mr. Tibbles leads me to ask you about the book, & if you are going to have a new & enlarged edition.
Sincerely yours
Martha L.B. Goddard
(Ms. D. A. Goddard)

Mr. John S. Lockwood
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[[in blue]] N.B.  Return this to me with the ms.  J84 [[/in blue]]
2 Mt. Vernon Place. Boston
July 26, 1880

Dear Sir:
I called to see you this morning, & as I did not find you, I must try and make a note since for a lack of five minutes.  Mr. Tibbles has written me twice within a few days about a new Edition of the Ponca book, planned by Gen. Armstrong & you, for which [[underlined]] I [[/underlined]] was to write 3 or 4 additional chapters.  He seemed to think the work ought to be done at once.  I know that he is mistaken about the plan, for I never heard of it, &