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Fort Gibson C.((unclear)) May 13th 1872 My Dear Alice - Your letters of the 6th and 8th inst. enclosing various communications received this morning - Also letter from Woodward dated the 6th. I did my dear possess enough housekeeping wits to cover my ugly rough table a clean sheet on the occasion when Gen. ((Hardin?)) took dinner with me. the dinner was nothing to boast of - but as we had plenty of prairie chickens, tolerably well cooked a dish Gen. Harden professed himself very fond of - and of which he was helped and rehelped abundantly - the dinner