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country needs you, the Indians need you. You are the only man living who can preach the Pratt ideas effectively, and it should be done, and your first audience should be in the city of Washington under the very noses of the President & Commissioner. The Indian subject is yet to come up here unclear Conference, while I've tried?, & these are such great intellectual lights in our society, & yet feel as tho' I would have the courage to stand by their? guns if a smooth array of facts are brought out compiled? at Washington, with a view of making these people think all is being done that can be done for the Indians, unclear until I see you - Sincerely - M. Burgess