Received letter of February 27. Discusses vouchers. Cannot raise payment per page, but can pay more for expenses. Notes preferred method of writing some sounds.
Received letter of May 7 and shaman's song. Glad to hear Hunt agreed to review vocabulary material. Will send more information. Briefly discusses payment vouchers from Washington.
Received letter and terms of relationship. Asks if there is a Kwak'wala term "used by the parents of young man when speaking to the parents of the young man's wife" or term for young woman married in another village. Hopes to receive back remaining blueprint maps with names added to them. Discusses payment and vouchers from Washington.
Received pages on pExala with corrections. Purpose of sending the pages was also to ask how much of it can be printed. Asks for clarification on if any information should be omitted. Trying to assess if all materials Hunt has sent have been received. Asks for pages written to be numbered sequentially again. Asks for patience with current money arrangements.
In recently sent maps, notes there are no names written down for southeast part of Quatsino Sound. Sending map back for that information. Notes problems with Knight Inlet and Nimpkish Lake region maps as well. Asks follow-up questions about forbidden and permitted marriages. Notes frequecy of place name "Nomas" on maps.
Received letter of September 28. Has some information already on twitching of the body as sign of crying of the raven from 1900 in Alert Bay. Asks about any other signs. Received maps.
Asks detailed questions about different kinds of marriages. Asks detailed questions regarding family history from wailing of Gwaʼsa̱la woman and childrens' relation to parents' nEmemot. Also asks about Sparrow Society initiation. Asks about nature of names that can be taken by old chief when he gives up his name.
Received letter of September 6. Suggests holding off on working on dictionary for the time being, pending instructions. Gives examples of issues under consideration.
Hopes to receive answers to questions on stars, sun, and moon. Gives instructions on how to note star observations. Asks if Kwakiutl used sweat baths, if hunters or travelers left notices on paths, if dogs were used for carrying loads, if there are certain things thought to be good or bad omens. Also asks about source for meanings given for people's names.
