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I have requested the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to converse freely with you, and make himself acquainted with all the details of the business on which you have been engaged. Very respectfully Your obed: servt: John Howard Payne Esq. J. C. Spencer Hon: J. C. Spencer Secretary of War War Department, April 12. 1842 Sir, Herewith I have the honor to transmit the remainder of the papers prepared by me in relation to the business] upon which I have been employed in the War Department. Had I been supplied with adequate materials for the investigation I was desired to undertake, the results would have been more complete. As it is, if I have not done the best that could be done under all circumstances, it must be ascribed not to want of zeal, but of ability. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has not called upon me for any communication. Had he done so, it would have gratified me to have complied with the request in your note of the 5th. I