How actual knowledge and experience broadens our minds! Your appreciation of, and charity for, the weaknesses of those living a lonely life of deprivation on the frontier, impressed me very much. I wish too, that what you say about the canteen could be published in every newspaper in America. Very sincerely yours, M. F. WESTOVER, Secretary Gen'l Electric Co. THE MILITARY SERVICE INSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Governor's Island, N. Y. June 25, 1908. Dear Mrs. Summerhayes: I offer my personal congratulations upon your success in producing a work of such absorbing interest to all friends of the Army, and so instructive to the public at large. I have just finished reading the book, from cover to cover, to my wife and we have enjoyed it thoroughly. Will you please advise me where the book can be purchased in New York, or otherwise mail two copies to me at 203 W. 54th Street, New York City, with memo of price per copy, that I may remit the amount. Very truly yours, T. F. RODENBOUGH, Secretary and Editor (Brig. Gen'l. U. S. A.) YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONN. May 15, 1910. Dear Mrs. Summerhayes: I have read every word of your book "Vanished Arizona" with intense interest. You have given a vivid account of what you actually saw and lived through, and nobody can resist the truthfulness and reality of your narrative. The book is a real contribution to American history, and to the chronicles of army life. Faithfully yours, WM. LYON PHELPS, [Professor of English literature at Yale University.] LONACONING, MD., Jan. 2, 1909. Col. J. W. Summerhays, New Rochelle, N. Y. Dear Sir: Captain William Baird, 6th Cavalry, retired, now at Annapolis, sent me Mrs. Summerhay's book to read, and I have read it with delight, for I was in "K" when Mrs. Summerhays "took on" in the 8th. Myself and my brother, Michael, served in "K" Company from David's Island to Camp Apache. Doubtless you have forgotten me, but I am sure that you remember the tall fifer of "K", Michael Gurnett. He was killed at Camp Mohave in Sept. 1885, while in Company "G" of the 1st Infantry. I was five years in "K", but my brother re-enlisted in "K", and afterward joined the First. He served in the 31st, 22nd, 8th and 1st.