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[[strikethrough]]Rt. Rev. Robt. H. Clarkson
Bishop of the Diocese of Nebraska
& President to the [[/strikethrough]] Omaha Ponca Indian Committee

Gentlemen [[strikethrough]] Dear Sir [[/strikethrough]].

In obedience to a resolution of your Committee passed July 6th 1880, requesting me to make a report in writing of my recent visit to the Ponca Tribe of Indians, now located in the Indian Territory, which visit was made under the direction of your committee and by the advice of the attorneys in the Ponca cases, Hon. A.J. Poppleton and Hon. J.L. Webster, I have to report that I left Omaha June 14th 1880, and at Kansas City