George H. Benedict & Co., Map, Wood and Photo-Engravers, Chicago:_

"LAKE GLAZIER is now acknowledged to be the True Source of the
Mississippi, and in the course of time will appear as such on all
maps."

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_From John S. Kendall, President of the National School
Furnishing Company of Chicago:_

"_Chicago_, October 6, 1887.

"Captain Willard Glazier:

"_Dear Sir:_--Your book 'Down the Great River' has been received
and read with interest. I am glad to see the entire narrative in
book form. There is no doubt about your expedition having added
largely to our rather limited stock of information regarding the
country around the headwaters of the Great River. I deem it a
graceful and fitting compliment to give your name to the lake south
of Itasca.

"Thanking you for the book, which I have placed in my library.

"Yours very respectfully,

"John S. Kendall."

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_From Frederick Warne & Company, Publishers, London:_

"Pray accept our very cordial thanks. The alteration in the source
of your great river has been noted, and we shall gladly avail
ourselves of the information to make the correction in our
atlases."

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_From Thos. Nelson & Sons, Edinburgh and New York:_

"The correction as to the True Source of the Mississippi will be
made as opportunity occurs, when issuing new editions of our
publications."

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_From Herr A. Hartleben, one of the leading Publishers of Germany:_

"I congratulate Captain Glazier on his important discovery of the
source of the Mississippi River, and shall have great pleasure in
bringing the subject to the notice of our Geographical Society."

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_From Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia--1885:_

"Lake Itasca, which has been distinguished as the head of the
Mississippi for fifty years, must, it seems, yield that distinction
to a smaller lake about a mile and a half in length by a mile in
width, lying further south, discovered by Captain Willard Glazier
in, 1881, and na