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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.  I hope to get a copy of it soon.   He told us when here that Mr. Bonnot was much pleased with his visit to Still, with you and your work, and that justice would be given in the Report to whom it was due.   Speaking of Gen. Hazen and his District, Mr. Colyer said that in an interview which the Commission had with the President, Mr. Brunot insisted that you and your Reservation must be made independent of Hazen, and that before he left he saw written instructions to that effect sent by Prest. Grant to the War Department.   Have you or not heard something of this before?   I judge from it that Hazen, Munson & Co. have to thank Mr. Brunot for pricking their pretty big bubble.