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Washington, D.C. - Thanks him for his copy of 'Totemism'. In his linguistic investigations he encounters tribes christianized long ago and who have lost remembrance of totems, but refers to customs of the Tonkawe [Tonkawa], whom he met in 1884 at Fort Griffin, Texas; gives information on tribes eating totemic animals, specifically the Iowa, Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Creek, and Shoshonians; says the statement of [Francisco] Pareja about the Timucua is probably about the people from the West India Islands. A printed slip about 'Simplified Spelling' from the Spelling Reform Association is tipped in to the letter.

Bureau of Ethnology, Washington D.C. - Lists pamphlets sent, and another that should be available at a Cambridge library; has obtained two new phratries of the Creeks; James Mooney is among the Cherokees in Tennessee and North Carolina and found seven new gentes; California and Oregon seem never to have any gentes or phratries.

Washington, D.C. - Forwards Benjamin Hawkins's work, which has errors he attributes to proofreaders; discusses the availability of other books Frazer wants; does not agree with [Karl] von [den] Steinen's linguistic conclusions on the Xingú tribes and asks Frazer's opinion; quotes G. W. Stidham's remark about a Creek gens that cannot intermarry with certain clans.

Brooklyn, N.Y. - Is on a trip to Massachusetts to see a person who is one of the last people who knows anything about the language of the Carankawa Indians of Texas, considered extinct; suggests he purchase the work ['Histoire de la Louisiane'] of Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz from a French dealer; gives his recollections of what is in [George M.] Wheeler vol. VII ['Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian'] that may interest Frazer; is impressed with the archaeological museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts [the Peabody Museum]; thinks he quoted G. W. Stidham incorrectly about Creek clans intermarrying, will question him when he next comes east.

Washington, D.C. Dated December 16, 1887 - Thanks him for his copy of 'Totemism'. In his linguistic investigations he encounters tribes christianized long ago and who have lost remembrance of totems, but refers to customs of the Tonkawe [Tonkawa], whom he met in 1884 at Fort Griffin, Texas; gives information on tribes eating totemic animals, specifically the Iowa, Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Creek, and Shoshonians; says the statement of [Francisco] Pareja about the Timucua is probably about the people from the West India Islands.

Washington, D.C. Dated October 12, 1888 - Will send him a copy of his review of 'Totemism' if he doesn't have it; Volumes V and VI of the Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology are delayed by the binding; the second vol. of his 'A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians' is printed, and he encloses the circular [transcribed]; asks if he has the maps for vol. I, 'of which Dr. Brinton has shirked the publication, because they cost too much?'.

Bureau of Ethnology, Washington D.C. Dated November 5, 1888 - Lists pamphlets sent, and another that should be available at a Cambridge library; has obtained two new phratries of the Creeks; James Moroney [recte Mooney] is among the Cherokees in Tennessee and North Carolina and found seven new gentes; California and Oregon seem never to have any gentes or phratries.

Washington D.C. Dated November 12, 1888 - Forwards Bey [recte Benjamin] Hawkins's work, which has errors he attributes to proofreaders; discusses the availability of other books Frazer wants; does not agree with [Karl] von [den] Steinen's linguistic conclusions on the Xingú tribes and asks Frazer's opinion; quotes G. W. Stroham's [recte Stidham's] remark about a Creek gens that cannot intermarry with certain clans.

Brooklyn, N.Y. Dated December 6, 1888 - Is on a trip to Massachusetts to see a person who is one of the last people who knows anything about the language of the Carankawa Indians of Texas, considered extinct; suggests he purchase the work ['Histoire de la Louisiane'] of Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz from a French dealer; gives his recollections of what is in [George M.] Wheeler vol. VII ['Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian'] that may interest Frazer; is impressed with the archaeological museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts [the Peabody Museum]; thinks he quoted G. W. Stroham [recte Stidham] incorrectly about Creek clans intermarrying, will question him when he next comes east.