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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 [[end page]] [[start page]] [[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, &