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COPY 
NATIONAL CAPITA!, PARK COMMISSI OH 
NAYY BUILDING 
Washington 
May 1 # 1925. 
Dr. W. H. Holmes, 
National Gallery of Art, 
Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, D. C. 
My dear Dr. Holmes: 
Receipt is acknowledged of your interest 
ing letter of April 29th, for which I am duly appreciative. 
It will he of great value to our purpose to have your strong 
hacking for the procurement of these Indian Quarries and I 
am sending a copy of your letter to each member of the 
Commission for their information. 
I am in entire sympathy with your proposi¬ 
tion to install a hronze monument of an Indian on the site 
of these mounds as a permanent record of the early occupa¬ 
tion of. this land and if it should he acquired I will pre¬ 
sent this matter to Congress immediately for its considera¬ 
tion. 
Yours very cordially. 
(Signed) C. 0. SHERRILL 
Member and Executive Secretary 
