Xe DAKOTA-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 
Rey. A. L. Riggs wrote subsequently : 
My father wishes to acknowledge your favor of March 8, just received, and to say 
in answer that any changes he may find absolutely necessary be will make i in the plates. 
Please go on with the work and use your best judgment. 
Since then there has been considerable correspondence with Messrs. 
A. L. Riggs and J. P. Williamson, but no definite reply has been received 
as to the time when the English-Dakota dictionary can be submitted. In 
March of this year, when it was determined to obtain a final answer respect- 
ing this, a letter was sent to the Rev. A. L. Riggs by the Director of the 
Bureau, eliciting the following reply: 
DEAR Sir: Your favor of March 1 in regard to the progress made on the English- 
Dakota part of my father’s dictionary is received. A good deal of work has been done 
on it, but the final revision is yet to be made. I cannot say whether we could furnish 
you the manuscript fast enough to warrant beginning on it until after I have conferred 
with Mr. Williamson. This I will do at once and report to you. 
Nearly eight months have passed since the receipt of that letter, and it 
now seems probable that the revised English-Dakota dictionary will not be 
published in connection with the present work and the “Grammar, Texts, 
and Ethnography of the Dakota.” 
It was the original intention of the Director of the Bureau to publish 
simultaneously all of Mr. Riggs’s works on the Dakota language, the Dakota- 
English dictionary appearing as the first volume, the English-Dakota dic- 
tionary as the second, and the Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography of the 
Dakota as the third; but on account of the delay referred to in this letter it 
has been found impossible to adhere to this plan. 
It was finally decided to publish the Dakota-English dictionary without 
further delay, as the 665 pages of that work could not well be bound in one 
volume with the Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography. It was also decided 
to postpone the publication of the latter work. 
All entries followed by ‘“S. R. R.” were contributed by the author. 
Those furnished by his son, Rev. Alfred L. Riggs, are signed “A. L. R.” 
“Tl. L. R.” stands for Rey. T. L.-Riggs,and “J.P. W2 for Rev. weak: 
Williamson. Rev. W. J. Cleveland’s articles are designated by “W. J. 
C.”, and “J. O. D.” marks those entries for which I am responsible. 
Yours, respectfully, 
J. Owen Dorszy, Lthnologist. 
To J. W. Powe.t, Director. 
