Walter asks McMaster to accept his apology for the letter to Maurice Francis Egan . He is glad he was mistaken. He encloses a copy of the appointment of Father Joseph A. Stephan . Stephan cannot help his connexion with the Catholic Indian Bureau . Walter always thought it batter that some one act as agent of the Bishops and thus do away with any Bureau. He proposed this to Archbishop James R. Bayley before the Bureau was formed. Walter did not approve of the course of Father John B. A. Brouillet . He should have said the money was for the Bureau and not for the Indians. Stephan sent McMaster some time ago a photo of Sitting Bull, also a pair of buffalo horns. A.L.S. Enclosure: