
          $2000 a year from the Civilization fund, and the 
 Presbn. Board (for ?) add another $2000 � making
 $10,000 per anim. The Academy is [insert: (I am told)] in a flourshing
 state & regarded with the highest interest [?] favor
 by the tribe, although at its establishment there was
 violent opposition. It's the largest of a group of
 half a dozen similar schools wh. were [?]
 at the same time by act of the Indian Council & the 
 control of them placed in the hands of the different [?]
 Societies � By the way don't you want a botanical 
 correspondent [crossed out: from, insert on] the Prairies of the Red River? And
 pray tell me what Botanical text book I, being
 are of the uninitiated, am to use in ascertaning the

        