LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 



Washington, D. C, July 15, 1909. 

 Sir: I beg to transmit herewith a manuscript prepared by Mr. 

 David I. Bushnell, Jr., on ''The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tam- 

 many parish, Louisiana," with a view to its pubhcation, with your 

 approval, as a Bulletin of this Bureau. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



W. H. Holmes, 



Chief. 

 The Secretary of the Smithsonian institution, 



Washington, D. G. 



