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Letterhead of A.D. Worthington & Company Publishers of Subscription Books. Hartford, Conn. March 10th 1884 Col. R.I. Dodge Dear Sir:- Yours of 27th came promptly to hand. Today I received the buffalo robe safely, and I thank you most sincerely for it. In asking you to send me a robe I did not mean to be understood as asking you to give it to me, much less of robbing you of a skin you had procured for your own use, and which I am sure you prized. I was willing and expected to pay for it. I thought that by sending to you I should be sure of getting a real good one; and, of course, like the majority of Eastern people, I supposed choice robes might be very easily obtained almost anywhere among the Indians.

  I have shown the robe to several of my friends, all of whom pronounce it a most excellent one, and they are without exception surprised at the softness of the skin.  I am delighted with it myself, and shall always prize it for its giver and for the pleasant associations it will always recall.
   I will have a copy of the book bound in the best manner I can possibly get it done in at our bindery here.  I wont promise that it will be as finely bound as the copy I sent to you.  I sent the sheets of that copy and of another one for my own library, to one of the