SMlfHSG&IAtf- INSTITUTION 
BUREAU OF AMERlpAN ETHNOLOGY 
^ASHt««T 0 N ; January 32, X 8 GS. 
My dear Holmes: 
Your letter of the 3rd instant reached me just before my de- 
parture from the city for several days, 
Your paper on ‘‘Textile fabrics of Eastern United States » will 
appear in the thirteenth annual report, which is almost ready for 
the presses; the printing-office people are now setting type on the 
index to the report, and I have no doubt we will have the volume 
delivered just as soon as they can rush it through. 
The fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth annuals are also in 
the hands of the printer, and I learned a few days ago that the 
first of these would be taken up immediately after the type-set- 
ting on the thirteenth is finished. In the fifteenth your memoir 
on Stone Implements of the Tidewater Count zy occurs; the engrav- 
ings of this volume have all been finished, but the manuscript is 
still in your hands, I believe, undergoing revision* 
Your pottery paper was assigned to volume viii of Contribu- 
tions, but it has become necessary to withdraw this on account of 
recent legislation governing the printing and distribution of pub- 
lie documents. If possible, X shall assign it to volume x of 
Contributions, and if this is not practicable I shall endeavor to 
give it a place in the sixteenth annual, making the latter a two- 
volume report. I have delayed the transmission of the eighth and 
