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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
WASHINGTON, 
June 9, 1894. 
Professor W. H. Holmes, 
Field Columbian Museum, 
Chi cago , Illinois. 
Dear Professor Holmes: 
Your recent note is at hand. It is a pleasure 
to know that your work is well under way. 1 was sorry not to 
be able to attend your formal opening, which, judging from press 
accounts, gives a good promise for the future. 
The Major has returned and is now domiciled on this side 
of the street and so far recovered as to be at work. I have 
pretty well concluded to publish your pottery paper by itself 
as volume viii of Contributions, putting the trephining paper 
in an annual, which can be done if the photographs are reduced 
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a quarter or a third. 
We all miss you. Your banquet reached the highwater 
mark of good feeling and enthusiasm; a week ago Saturday Riley* s 
friends joined in a farewell dinner in honor of his relief from 
administrative work, but, while the affair was pleasant, the flow 
of soul was much less free than at Willard's when you were the 
lion. 
Yours cordially, 
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