The MidwestRefining Company 
Casper.Wyomikg 
R. S. Ellison , 
Vice President 
August 7, 1928 
Doctor W, H. Ho lines, Director 
National Gallery of Art 
Smithsonian Institution 
Y/ashington, D. C. 
Dear Doctor Holmes: 
I sincerely appreciate your letter of August 1 with the 
valuable and interesting account of your article covering the 
ascent of the mountain of the Holy Cross in 1873. I am sure 
that your reference to Mr. Jackson*s part in such ascent, as 
related in your article, can be used to good advantage in his 
journal. 
I am returning the article for your files, although I 
would have liked very much to have retained it for adding to 
my own collection on the important early history of this 
section. I have had a copy made, which I venture to enclose, 
hoping that you will be kind enough to autograph it with any 
other comment or notations which may be fitting, and return 
i to me at your convenience. 
I am hoping sometime this month to be able to have Mr. 
Jackson with me for a few days, at least, as he wrote me 
last month of his intention to visit in Denver soon after the 
first of the present month. 
I will be glad, indeed, if you find a little later on 
anything else of interest which you feel would fit Into the 
account we are shaping up in connection with the publication 
of Mr. Jackson’s journal. 
Sincerely yours 
RSE :RD 
Enc. 
