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the wish that by word of mouth, you could add to the information which it contained.

    We had noticed with pleasure the discontinuance of the Dist. of the Lower Ark. and had heard something more about it from very good authority.     The day your letter was written Mr. Vincent Colyer spent with us.  He came from N. Y. upon Martha's invitation and delivered here a lecture of much interest upon "Life among the Indians", from the Witchita Mountains to Alaska.   You know he is no longer of the Peter Cooper private association but a member and Secretary of the official Board of Indian Commissioners, Hd. Qrs. at The Dept. of the Interior, Washington.   Mr. Colyer has been in Washington a good part of the winter preparing the Report of his Commission.