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C.A. Mont May 3rd / 86

My dear Rogers

Yours of the 28th just at hand. I do not know whether your Friday mentioned was intended as the 30th Apl or May 7th. I was quite surprised to hear that you contemplated even a brief visit to the west. We are pushed beyond any possibility of performing the work and it will not be possible for me to go as far from home as Ogden. Can and will meet you in Helena if you can spare the time to get that far north. You can telegraph me what day you will be in Helena giving me two days, yes, three days after receipt of telegram to meet you. All our telegrams come from the Fort at night mail arriving at agency at 6 PM from Helena -- if you go east over N. Pacific via St. Paul etc. -- I can ride with you to Junction or unclear Custer Station three hundred odd miles east of H. and if you can spare two days while enroute we'll take in Crow Agency and I'll introduce you to your new sister. Will send you a note similar to this to Ogden thus giving you benefit of two strings?. Wish I could meet you in Ogden but it is out of the question. The agt will probably stare when I start for Helena but I'll start all the same. Let me hear from you.

In great haste affectionately C over