Letter: to Dr. Washington Matthews, July 17, 1890.

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Letter: to Dr. Washington Matthews, July 17, 1890.

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Letter re Matthews' accident, Association funds, length of Indians' fingers, Matthews and Captain Bourke's writings on the gentile theory (see Journal of American Folk Lore 3(9): 89-110).

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