January 17th 1893.

Dr. Franz Boas,

Department of Ethnology,

World's Columbian Exposition,

Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

We have been in the habit of weighing and measuring our
students for entrance to the school with their clothes and shoes
on and these were the records I had copied for you. I supposed the
measurements you desired were a repetition of the many minute
measurements made by yourself last year. If it is only the height
of the pupils now at the school you wish I could of course have
that taken for you without much trouble.

Supe.

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January 17th 1893.

Below Cozard,

Anandarka, I.T.

My dear Below;

I am always glad to hear good news, the good news of success in any direction, from our old students and especially am I glad to hear it from those who go back to such conditions and home surroundings as you went back to. I congratulate you most heartily for your ability to stand up and be a man and I trust you may not only continue but grow, and grow to be a strong tower for good down there on that dark Indian reservation.

I congratulate you also on your marriage and sincerely wish for you all the happiness that earth is able to bring in your present estate. Continue to do as you report you have been doing and all will go well with you.

I send you my own photograph and several photographs of the school as you wish and make them my Christmas present to you.

Please tell Ned Brade's mother that it is quite impossible for me to comply with her wishes to have her son go home. He came here to remain five years unless he graduated sooner and he seems inclined to take things in his own hands and do what he thinks best and as he is quite a man now I think I shall have let him do this.

Your friend,

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January 17th 1893

Raymond Smith,

Pine Ridge Agency,
South Dakota.

Dear Sir:

I have yours of the 10th in relation to your sister Josephine. Josephine has been under my special observation and I have had in mind the pushing of her forward when she shows that she has the patience and ability and industry. These things come from experience. She is establishing herself with us and I think we may with propriety push her forward into our normal instructing what you say department before long. I have in mind, and can assure you of my personal, special interest in Josephine. I have found from quite a long experience that certain lines are best to develope character. It is best for us to know people well before we push them into higher places. Josephine so far stands the test exceptionally well.

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January 18th 1893.

J.E.Ditson & Co.,
1225 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia.

Gentlemen:

Your bill received. I find that one of the items, that of Nov. 1st, is a personal account with Mrs. Campbell. In regard to the other items I will ask you to please send me an itemized bill covering the school account and telling me by whom each order was made.
Also please send separate bill for Mrs. Campbell.

Capt.

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January 19th 1893.

My dear friend:

I am very sorry to have to write you of Sophia's death, which occurred this morning at five o'clock. She suffered none at all the end as passed away while sleeping. I enclose you the report of my school physician which will tell you of the progress of the disease. When I telegraphed you on Saturday we still had hope of Sophia's recovery although she was then very sick. We gave Sophia every care and attention, and as we have a physician and trained nurse here at the school she was well cared for.

Sophia was a good girl and I grieve with you at her death.

Your friend,

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January 28th 1893.

Mr. Henry Penfield,

5757 Madison Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Henry:

The World's Fair Managers through their representative
of The Liberal Arts Building, Mr. Selem H. Peabody, have notified
me of an allowance of 150 sq. ft. net of space for our exhibit and
in order that we may use it to the best advantage I am exceedingly
anxious to know more particularly about it, just where it is locat-
ed, if against the wall or out in the open, etc., etc. You are so
near and may possibly find out so easily and give me a better descrip-
tion than they can in their multitude of communication that I will
be greatly obliged to you if you will undertake this little errand
for me. The size and shape of our show cases and all that we do
depends upon our allotted space. I am sorry that we did not have
the 190 sq. ft. of floor space and the 80 sq. ft. of wall space which
we asked for. You can readily understand how important it is now
that we have to concentrate that we know just the shape, etc.

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January 28th 1893.

Agnew & Co.,

General Contractors,

100 Washington St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Gentlemen:

I have your letter of the 24th instant and I have notice
of the allotment from the World's Fair people of 150 sq.ft. of space
I am entirely unable to determine what I may want in the way of
equipment until I know just the shape and something of the locality
of our space. We asked for 190 sq.ft. of floor space and 80 sq.ft.
of wall space. Our allotment will require us to greatly concentrate

If you have any information on this subject that you can give
me I will then perhaps be able to correspond with you with some
intelligence and expectation of using your services.

Yours truly,

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January 30th 1893.

Miss E. E. Ewing,

Colora,

Cecil Co., Md.

Dear Madam:

Your letter to Miss Burgess asking information as to what the Government is doing for the Indians is referred to me. It covers such a large field that it is impossible for me to meet it. I send you a quantity of our school literature including some utterances of mine at different times, and suggest that in addition you write to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C., and ask for a copy of his last annual report.

Sept.

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January 30th 1893.

Mrs. A. J. Pocock.
528 May Street,
Dayton, Ohio.

Dear Madam:

I send you a quantity of our school literature from which
you can get as much as I can well give you of our Carlisle work.

There is no complete account of all the schools, only a
statistical account and it is in the report of the
Commissioner of
Indian Affairs.
There are 230 Indian schools of various kinds and grades, the one
here being the largest with 751 pupils. The school next in size
is at Lawrence, Kansas and numbers 530, then they drop down to 300,
250 and 200 and so on to the day schools. In all there are about
15,000 Indian children in school and the schools are located on and
off the reservation throughout the country, the larger ones being
off the reservation.

Subt.

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January 30, 1893.

Mrs. Charles T. Pratt,
Box 42, Clayville, N. Y.

Dear Madam:

I send you copies of my annual report. I of course
do not know what you intend, but our greatest need just now is
money to liquidate our debt, see enclosed papers.

We also intend making an exhibit in Chicago, and as the
Government does not stand by us in it, we must secure the
funds somewhere. This will cost us about six hundred dollars.
I do not think you could give money to help us or the In-
dians in a better way than this. We must convince the public
that the best interests of the Indian demand their education
and that their education is not only possible but easy of ac-
complishment. No better opportunity than the Chicago Exhibi-
tion could be offered for doing this.

3 enclosures.

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January 30, 1898.

Mr. William Paisano,

Laguna, N. M.

Dear William:

Glad to get a letter from you after so long a
silence, and I am also glad to know that you are continued as
the Lieutenant Governor, with the other news.

I am too busy to write you much of a letter, but I am always glad to hear of you, and I know that you get the general news from the Indian Helper.

Your note to Miss Burgess was delivered.

Mrs. Pratt and the girls join me in kindest regards to
both you and Mary.

Cordially your Friend,

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opportunity to be examined with reference to appointment as
teachcr. Of course after getting the Civil Service feature
straight it may not be possible to get the place you want, but
you have done what you could towards it. Let her write a
letter to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission and
tell him just what she wants.

I should be only too glad to help you were it in my power.

With kindst regards to Marie,

Your Friend,

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February 6th 1893.

Eugene Tankahpuer,

Conway, Mass.

My dear Eugene:

On next Sunday afternoon from five to six I talk to the
young ladies of Smith College at Northampton. Mrs. Pratt is going
to be with me and immediately after the meeting I must go over to
Holyoke and talk to the ladies there. I am to talk to the people
of Amherst in one of their churches Saturday evening the 11th and
I shall be very glad indeed if I can see you in one of these places,
probably Northampton is the most convenient. Why can't you run
down to Northampton? We shall drive over from Amherst Sunday morn-
ing and stop with a Mr. Williston. If you could come down in the
afternoon and hunt us up there it would be very pleasant to meet
you. If it were possible for us to go to Conway to see you there
we should be glad but I must move hurriedly to meet all the arrang-
ments.

Sincerely your friend,

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February 6th 1893.

Mrs. Sarah T. Kinney,

1162 Chapel Street,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Mrs. Kinney:

Chester Cornelius' address is Seymour, Wisconsin. My last information is that he is hauling wood. Just what he is making I do not know. He did teach school for the government for a short time but Gen. Morgan is building a boarding school for the Oneidas and that has driven the day schools out and our pupils who were thus employed are without a job. There is a reform that destroys, you know. Chester owes a great deal of money, at least $100.00 to Eastman College and another $100.00 to James B. Given, who was his best friend and associate at College, and he has other debts. I have some faith left in Chester, though not much I must admit. I think in great part he is the victum of too much sympathy, he found he could get money easily and he was extravagant. I believe he intended to be honest and I believe he intends to be honest yet, but it is more difficult to be honest under the circumstances he has placed himself than he had any idea it would be.

Yours sincerely,

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February 6th 1893.

Chas. A. Longstreth,
Queen & Co.,

228 Market Street,
Philadelphia.

My dear Mr. Longstreth:

We are all so sorry to hear of the sad condition of your aunt. Mrs. Pratt and I had thought of making an extra effort to call sometime this week but from what you say of Miss Susan's condition I judge it would not be much comfort to her for us to do that. Her transition from earth to the world beyond will not be a great shock.

With kindest regards,

Yours most sincerely,

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February 7th 1893.

Mr. Mortimer A. Warren,

Hampton Normal & Agriculture Institute,
Hampton, Virginia.

Dear Sir:

I am leaving home to-morrow for a trip to Massachusetts
and expect to be absent nine or ten days. I shall be sorry not to
see you here on your proposed visit but you will be welcomed by my
assistant superintendent, Mr. Standing and given every facility to
inspect our work. Please notify either by mail or telegraph when
you will arrive here and you will be met by a conveyance in Carlisle
The best way to get here from Washington is by way of the Baltimore
Potomac and Northern Central Road to Harrisburg and the Cumberland
Valley from there here. The trains are frequent and good. Should
you leave Washington at 3.15 in the afternoon you would be in Carlisle
at 8.40 that evening. You can leave Washington at 1.10 and arrive
in Carlisle at 6 o'clock, you can also leave Washington at 10.15
in the morning and arrive in Carlisle at 4.30 P.M. All days are
visiting days with us.

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February 7th 1893.

Mrs. E. C. Elliott,

607 Lexington Ave.,

New York City.

Dear Mrs. Elliott:

I am going over to Massachusetts to make speeches at Amherst, Smith College and Holyoke College, Saturday, Sunday and Monday the 11th, 12th and 13th, and then to Boston for the 14th and 15th.

Our expenses to the New York Columbian Parade and the Chicago Columbian Parade were about $4,700.00; I have been able to raise only $1,900.00 so far and wish very much to see if I cannot recover entirely. Would it be practicable to have a meeting in New York or can you suggest any way to help me. I have a number of friends upon whom I shall call individually but I have too much work to give as much time as is necessary to go around and see individuals. Our commencement takes place on the first of March and these are the closing days of the present Congress.

As I leave home tomorrow there will be no time to reply to me here but if you have anything to suggest and would write me care of President Gates, Amherst, Mass., whose guest I shall be, I shall be glad to hear from you.

Mrs. Pratt has never been east of New York and has consented to make the trip with me.

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February 11th 1893.

Mrs. Mary H. Whelan,
Ponca, O.T.

Dear Madam:

Your letter enclosing postal note for fifty cents (50¢)
and small photograph is received. The two copies of "Stya" were
sent you by mistake and we thank you for remitting for the extra
copy.

The two Sas and Fox girls whom you mention are not here but
there is a Sarah Moore who is here from the same tribe and who says
she remembers you and to whom I have given your photograph. Sarah
said she would write to you as you request.

So far as we know the only returned Carlisle students on the
Ponca reservation are John Primaux and Frank Eagle.

The Carlisle School will have a few of its members at the
World's Fair during the month of July and there will be a permanent
exhibit of our work in the Liberal Arts Building during the whole
of the Fair.

Supe.

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February 14th 1893.

R. L. Beckford,

Editorial Rooms,

"Washington Star",

Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

From Mr. Given's sister now at this school we ascertain
that Mrs. Given was formerly Miss Mabel Redfield; that she probably
never resided in Washington but met Mr. Given in Brooklyn on the
occasion of one of his visits there to speak at a meeting of the
Indian Association. Not much more of interest could be learned but
so far as we hear the marriage has been a happy one.

Surt.

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February 14th 1893.

Mrs. E. P. Gould,

4813 Regent Street,
Philadelphia.

My dear Mrs. Gould:

In reply to your letter of the 13th inquiring about the record made by the Wolfe brothers while at this school, I would say that of the two Reuben was the better scholar; he is fairly educated, was a member of our band, and is a young man of good intentions although we never regarded him as having much strength of character or purpose. He is one who would probably be trusty enough in some one's employ, but I fear he would hardly be able to manage affairs for himself. James is a different character, he is a better worker, but is not so well educated nor as bright as Reuben. James has worked considerably on a farm but the same remarks apply to him as those about Reuben in regard to his reliability.

Thomas Mitchell left the school some years ago. What his history has been during the years that have intervened we do not fully know, but while he was here his record was good at farm work, at his trade and in his general conduct, and I do not believe your trust would be misplaced in him.

Very truly yours,

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February 20, 1893.

Mr. Robert A. McFadden,

502 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

My dear Robert:

Mrs. Pratt and I were both sorry not to meet you at the Y. M. C. A. when we called last Friday. I am sorry that you failed to get to Carlisle. When are you coming? Can't you come over on the first and be present at our Commencement? Get yourself appointed by the Tribune or some of those papers to write us up. I will pay your fare and take care of you while here. Now think of it, and when you think, act.

Had a glorious time at Amherst, Smith, and Mt. Holyoke, also New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Mrs. Pratt and I were off on a ten days' 

Cordially and Faithfully yours,

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February 20, 1893.

Burdett Tisnah,

Mt. Vernon Barracks, Ala.

My dear Burdett :

I am glad to get your letter and am especially glad to know that you get on so well in your soldier life. I compliment you highly on your promotion. I am sure that you try to do your whole duty every place, and if you make a good, faithful, intelligent corporal you may after while become a sergeant.

It is a great pleasure to me to hear from the boys, young men and girls who have been under my care.

I hope you take the "Indian Helper" because that will give you all the news and I am too busy to write you the news of the school.

Faithfully your Friend,

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February 22, 1893.

To the President-Elect,

Grover Cleveland,

Lakewood, N. J.

Dear Sir:

I respectfully suggest that in the matter of appointing a Commissioner of Indian Affairs and determining a line of policy it would be well to delay until you have looked the ground over from the standpoint of control after your inauguration.

Mr. Belt, the Assistant Commissioner, has been connected with the departmental control of Indian management for many years and is, I am sure, perfectly competent to run the Office for a few weeks or months, and no injury would result to the service by such delay.

We have been actively saddling upon the poor Indian the manhood-destroying influences of a great pension system, and the most serious work that confronts us in our efforts to make a self-supporting man of him, is the curtailing and elimination of that system. Even the vastly increased school appropriations have been made to minister to this evil, and not

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February 24th 1893.

Mrs. Rev. Geo. L. Smith,

York, Pa.

Dear Madam:

The Cherokees, Creeks, etc., are not Indians entitled to
the privileges of this school as they have their own special funds
from the United States and carry on their own home schools. I
should be glad if it were possible for me to take the boy, David
Beaver, but it is not. I have had in previous years two or three
of the Cherokees and quite a number of the Creeks here but within
the year the ruling of the Department has been against those tribes
absolutely. I would suggest that this lad could get on well in our
public or private schools and that some arrangement might be made
for him to pay some of his expenses as so many of my boys and girls
do, by working.

Supt.

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February 24th 1893.

Mrs. E. G. Platt,
Tabor, Iowa.

Dear Mrs. Platt:

If you can let me know the measurements of the Sioux boy
about to be dismissed from the prison at Lancaster, Nebraska, I
will have a good substantial suit of clothes made for him. If he
wishes to return to Carlisle and would go out to work under our
outing system I am sure that we would have no trouble in finding
him a good place and fair pay. Please let me know the date of his
quitting the prison, and his destination at his
return.

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February 24th 1893.

Edward Marsden,

Marietta College,

Marietta, Ohio.

My dear Edward:

You have planned exactly the kind of a trip I want to
take, but with the Columbian exhibit on hand in July I do not see
how it is possible this year, do you? When I do go I want you as
my guide and interpreter and I want to take the chance trip certain
and sure, - I have almost a mind to take it this year anyhow, but
again I have an invitation from my son-in-law to spend two weeks
in the mountains in the wild part of Colorado where there are great
coal deposits which in time, when railroads can go there, will be a
competitor of Pennsylvania, and he promises me no end of hunting
and fine fishing.

I wish you could be with us here next Wednesday, March 1st,
Come if you can and I will give you five minutes on the program for
a speech to the great audience that will be assembled.

Cordially your friend,

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February 24th 1893.

J. B. Cooper,

Billings, Mont.

Dear Mr. Cooper:

Sylvania is well and doing excellently. You are mistaken
about the time, students do not come to Carlisle for three years
unless they can graduate in that time, we do not take students for
less than five years. Sylvania is getting up towards our graduat-
ing point and it would be far better for her, and for you and for
her mother to have her graduate. Sylvania seems not only well but
progressing well and entirely happy in her school life.

Sincerely yours,

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February 24th 1893.

James Kariho,

Ponca, Nebraska.

My dear James:

It does not seem best to me that you return to Carlisle.

You are now well along in manhood's years and what you need to do
is to strike out and make use of the knowledge you have and the
very experiences you have in this effort will bring you more know-
ledge. I am glad to know that you think well of Carlisle and wish
that we might see you here next Wednesday at our commencement.

With best wishes for you always,

Cordially your friend,

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February 24th 1893.

Mr. A. B. Allen,

Amherst, Mass.

Dear Sir:

I enclose application papers which will enable me to
endorse you fully when you have them filled out.

Just now I have two vacancies as teachers being filled tempo-
rarily, the position as carpenter is not vacant. The pay of a
teacher is $50.00 per month, board costs $3.00 per week and washing
$2.00 per month, the school provides furnished room with light and
heat.

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February 24th 1893.

Miss A. C. Hamilton,

D-44,

Lawrence, Kansas.

My dear Miss Hamilton:

Yours of the 21st with the request for leave received and
I have written heartily endorsing it both in the document itself
and by special letter. Things are at such "sixes and sevens" that
I am not sure of anything, but more certain than I was some time
ago because Gen. Morgan has really left the office and gone to his
new duties. I think you are wise in holding out until the end of
the year.

We are in the midst of preparation for the commencement next
Wednesday, but as our brood is small we will not, like the old hen,
make extra fuss but rather be modest this year. I expect nobody
from Washington and few persons from anywhere else.

Cordially your friend,

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February 24th 1893.

Zippa Metoxen,

School of Nurses,

New Haven, Conn.

My dear Zippa:

Your excellent pictures and the nice little account of
yourself are received and they are just what I wanted, thank you.

February 24th 1893.

Benjamin S. Coppock,

Supt. Chilocco Indian School,

via Arkansas City, I. T.

Dear Sir:

Mr. Jordon and George Hoograder arrived this morning.
George is duly installed and we trust his migratory disposition may
be restrained. Mr. Jordon spent the forenoon with us and is off
for Washington.

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A.,

Supt.

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February 24th 1893.

Rev. Dr. J. A. McCauley,

150 Wilson St.,

Baltimore, Md.

My dear Doctor:

It is pleasant to get a note from you even though it is a
note of disappointment.

I am making no special demonstration this year: the graduating
class numbers only six, our exercises come just about the time of
the change in administration which will bar out every body from
Washington and I think it best to be quiet in what we do. We shall
have quite a delegation of our farmer patrons and a few from Phila.
Mr. Phillip C. Garrett will present the diplomas, the band will
play, the choir will sing and the speeches will be made by these
six graduates and that will practically be the end of it.

I have not been in Washington for many months, but I shall be
disposed to go there now in-as-much as Gen. Morgan has left the
Indian Office and gone to New York. What the new administration has
in store for us I do not know, but I do know that Mr. Cleveland is a
gentleman and a very great man and that I can at least talk to him.
When I do go to Washington I shall be glad to stop off and see you
all.

Mrs. Pratt and I have just had a delightful trip of ten days
to New England as far east as Boston. I wanted rest and change and

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got them. I talked Indian in several places and received a little
money.

I hope you noted our reception in New York and Chicago a full
account of which was printed in the Red Man for December.

I often wish to see you all and have one of the old time talks
which always did me so much good.

With cordial remembrances to Mrs. McCauley and Fanny in which
Mrs. Pratt joins heartily,

February 24th 1893.

Clarence Three Stars,

Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

Dear Clarence:

Your picture does not do you justice at all and you have
nearly a month in which to get another taken. I hope you will find
time to go and have a large size, full length picture taken of your
self. Please make an effort to do this.

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ADHESIVE STAINS

February 24th 1893.

Gibson Engraving Co.,
Sheridan Building.
Denver, Colorado.

Gentlemen:

What I wanted in the way of a stamp was something that I
could handle myself, something like the seal stamp and I am quite
disappointed to find that what you had made me is practically use-
less for the purpose I intended. However as there has been so much
correspondence about it and I do not care to put you to more trouble
I enclose my check for $28.00 covering your bill.

Yours truly,

Capt. 10th Cav'y o., U.S.A.,

Supt.

I enclose.

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February 24th 1893.

Miss M. F. Knapp,

Northampton, Mass.

My dear Friend:

Mrs. Pratt and I had a royal good time in Boston and New York as well as at Northampton, Amherst and Mt. Holyoke and arrived home after an absence of ten days, feeling greatly benefited by our outing. Mr. Houghton of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., in Boston took us under his care and gave us delightful entertainment. He called together some friends and I had a little parlor talk which realized us $300.00 towards our Chicago expenses.

I feel greatly indebted to you, my Friend, for the pleasant entertainment and the opportunity to forward my cause.

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February 24th 1893.

Lucius Aitsen,

Troop L, 7th Cavalry,

Fort Sill, I. O. T.

My dear Lucius:

I have your letter and am very glad to know that you and
Calvin will have your photographs taken and will write me the
accounts of yourselves I ask. Please do this as soon as you can
and write all on one side of the paper.

It is pleasant to us all to know that you are getting on so
well and feel so happy in your new life. I should think that while
you are a soldier you could save quite a considerable amount of
money. The army is a good place to save and I have known of a
good many soldiers who have been able to save hundreds of dollars
and when they left the service they went into business or farming.

We have our commissent on Wednesday next and every body is
as busy as possible getting ready for it. Our graduating class
numbers only six this year, next year we will have nineteen if all
goes well.

Everything moves on as usual here at the school.

With kindest regards to Mabel, Calvin and yourself, I am,

Your friend and school father,

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February 24th 1893.

Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott,

607 Lexington Ave.,
New York City.

My dear Mrs. Elliott:

It was not possible in the limited time we were in the city to see you. We were in the city so short a time and there were so many of our old friends whom we felt we ought to call upon that we could not get around. It is too late to undertake a meeting in New York and public meetings, in my experience, bring small results. I can do more by going to individuals and talking. If I cannot raise the funds I must simply borrow and carry along. My trip did bring us some small sums but I still need a large amount to get me out of the box.

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201

N. A. Frantz,

725 Spruce Street,
Easton, Pa.

Dear Sir:

Having nothing more from you and being unfavorably impress-
ed with the experiences of others with your steam blower I think
best to advise you that you need not come here to put the blower in.

February 24th 1893.

Miss Dolly Mixwater,

Lucy W. Hays Bible School,
1140 N. Capitol Street,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Dolly:

I am sorry that I cannot help you. You have fallen into
the hands of kind friends and I trust they will help you to accom-
plish the great purposes of your heart. I am burdened with many
children wanting to be forwarded into higher schools and I am now
caring for as many as I can possibly undertake.

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February 24th 1893.

Jacob A. Schanandore,
Sagoie, Wisconsin.

My dear Mr. Schanandore:

Ida is well up in the advanced departments of the school
and I have been hoping that she might continue without interruption
until she can graduate. It seems important to me that she do so
and also important for you and her mother.

Thomas has not done so well in school matters though he is a
good faithful boy and has had large farming and outing experience.

Both Ida and Thomas are entitled to return home this year but
if you and Mrs. Schanandore could bring yourselves to consent to
their remaining so that they might push themselves up higher it
would be the best thing for you and your children. It would seem
that if the Government takes your children feeds, clothes and
educates them that you ought to deny yourselves the satisfaction
of seeing them until they get through with their schooling. I
trust that you may bring yourselves to look at it in this light. I
have great interest in Ida who has been especially before me in the
school ever since she came.

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February 24th 1893.

John M. Chaves,

Laguna, New Mexico.

Dear John:

I find a letter of yours dated January 29th which appears
to have been unanswered. I am sorry for this.

In regard to sending Thomas Kitema home on account of his
father's illness, you must understand that if we recognize the ill-
ness of father, mother or relative as good reason for sending pupils home we would
soon have no school at all for there is no time that some one is
not sick and we cannot deem that a reason for returning students
home. Of course you know John that I would be glad to oblige you
and your father but it is not practicable to do so in this instance.

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February 24th 1893.

Schomacker Piano Co.,
N.W. Corner 11th & Catherine Sts.,
Philadelphia.

Gentlemen:

Replying to your recent letter in which you state that you paid $10.50 as freight on the piano sent from Carlisle to your manufactory I have respectfully to advise you that the freight was prepaid and that the agent at Philadelphia advises under date of February 20th that he did not collect any freight on this shipment and knows nothing of the $10.50.

Supt.

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February 27th 1893.

The Eastman Kodak Co.,

Rochester, N. Y.

Gentlemen:

The Kodak, the five photographs and the negatives are received. I am disappointed to have so many failures, but I thank you for your courtesy in reloading the Kodak with the spool of good film and for the few good prints.

I send you by this mail eight negatives from which I wish to order twenty two, (22), photographs printed and mounted; four are from the five negatives you pronounced good and four from those you pronounced failures, but I wish to have the four last printed because of the incidents connected with them. Will you kindly make as clear pictures as you can from these negatives. I have sent each negative in a separate envelope and marked thereon the number of copies I wish of each picture.

Send bill to me and I will remit.

Capt. & Supt.

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213

February 24th 1893.

Miss Frances Sparhawk,
1260 North Twenty-third Street,
Columbia Station,
Philadelphia.

My dear Miss Sparhawk;

The books arrived safely and I am very greatly obliged
to you for them. Mrs. Goodwin's letter is herewith returned to you

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March 3rd 1893.

President E. O. Lyte,

Millersville State Normal School,
Millersville, Pa.

My dear Doctor:

Do you know of two real tip-top teachers whom I could get
at once for temporary service for the remainder of the school year?
I should like them to have established their ability by some exper-
ience. Do you consider Miss Margaret W. Johnson of your last
year's class exceptionally good?

Please respond by return mail if possible.

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March 3rd 1893.

S. N. Engel,

926 & 928 Market Street,
Philadelphia.

Dear Sir:

In reply to your letter of the 2nd instant I have respect-
fully to advise you that this is an institution to train young
Indians in the educational and industrial systems of our country
and that the pupils have but little time to make moccasins.

I know of no manufacturers of moccasins, but presume the
information you wish could be obtained by applying to Agency traders.

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March 4th 1893.

J. E. Bloom.

Room 4, 9th Floor,

Mills Bldg., 15 Broad St.,
New York City.

Dear Sirs,

Your postal of the 2nd. We have no catalogue of the
school but I send you by this mail three of my last annual reports
which I hope may contain what you wish.

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Dictated.

March 9th 1893.

Mr. R. C. Ogden,

Grand Depot,

Philadelphia.

My Dear Mr. Ogden:

I have a very bright, mixed-blood girl, practically white, good and true, healthy and capable, who wants to become a milliner,-- her aunt carries on an establishment in millinery in Minnesota. She graduates next February and she would like to spend the summer months in some large establishment where she could acquire as varied an ability in the art as she was able and if she could not complete her course in the summer she would wish to return to it again after she graduates next February. She should of course be under the best of influences. Is it not possible for you to make a place for her and give her employment in the line she wishes during the coming summer vacation? Please advise.

Very truly yours,

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great while, so that Carlisle will not be the same old Carlisle it has been for so many years.

Give my kindest regards to Solomon,& his mother and father.
I shall be glad to hear from you all now and then when you
have time to write.

Always your Friend,

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March 18th 1893.

Prof. O. H. Bakeless,
State Normal School,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

My dear Sir:

Miss Phillips, one of our teachers whom I think I said to you had suffered from a stroke of paralysis, is sending in her resignation to take effect the first of April. There are at least two other vacancies to be looked out for and I think we had better consider some of the gentlemen Prof. Cope recommended or others and get them before the Civil Service Examiners on the 11th of April.

I think we shall need at least four new teachers by the beginning of the year besides Mrs. Bakeless and I should of course need your help in selecting. Please write me at once in regard to those suggested by Prof. Cope or any others so that I may instruct them to take the Civil Service examinations.

I have advised the Valedictorian of Millersville, Mr. Ressler recommended by Dr. Lyte, to take the Civil Service examinations. We are not of course compelled to accept them if not satisfied with their showing before the Board or in regard to their character after they are certified to us. There will be no other examination convenient until August and that will be late for us as we ought to have our arrangements settled by the beginning of school.

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March 21, 1893.

Rev. Alexander McMillan,

Rector of St. John's, Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir:

The instructions have been given for the students
named in your note of yesterday to report to you today at 4
o'clock, as you require.

Rev. N. Tamura will be here on Sunday the 9th of April.

The place or places for his talk are not yet settled, but will
be announced.

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March 25, 1893.

Charles H. Ramsey, Superintendent,
Carlisle Gas, Water, & Electric Light Co.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:

The electric light at my office went out at 12.10 last night and remained out the rest of the night. The electric light in front of my office went out at 12 o'clock on the night of the 21st and remained out the rest of the night. The electric light in front of my office was out all night the night of the 18th. The electric light in front of my office went out at 7.30 the night of the 15th and was out the rest of the night. The electric light in front of my office went out at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 13th.

You have had notice of some of these lapses before.

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March 27, 1893.

Chief Chihuahua,

Mt. vernon Barracks, Ala.

My dear Friend:

I got your letter and am very glad indeed to hear from you and especially glad to hear of your good conduct and attention to the best things. You do well to help in the school and you do well to try to be like the white people.

In regard to your coming here to stay with your family I am not able to say anything. This is a place only for children who want education and is not a place for old people and their families. And yet I do not know but what some arrangement might be made, but it would have to be made by the War Department and those in charge of you. I cannot encourage you nor can I discourage you.

I was sorry to hear of the killing of Elmer Datoen and another young man. What a bad thing whiskey is! One of our very nicest Apache boys named Cottonwood who went home last year was out hunting horses a few weeks ago near San Carlos. He came across a little party of Apaches who had been drinking tiswin. One of them was very drunk and was shooting an old woman. He interfered and the Indian shot him dead; so that

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March 28, 1893.

My dear Brown:

of the 16th,
I have thought a good deal over your letter and
have taken some steps to fathom the conditions at Washington.

Allow me first to say that I know Mr. Belt intimately.
I have been his guest, dined with him at his house the last
time I was in Washington, and I know that he is not capable
of being governed by the influences you apprehend. I do not
know of a man in the Government service who is as absolutely
free from doing anything for anybody on account of relation-
ship or friendship or state clanship or pride. I can see how
you, with your great isolated cares and responsibilities and
the long distance between you and Washington and the want of
better acquaintance with those at headquarters that has grown
ou
through the years between the Indian management and the mili-
tary, should feel just exactly as you do.

I said to you months ago that after Morgan left I felt
sure things would be better. I feel sure that they are so far
as Mr. Belt is concerned, I am sure he will do conscientiously
whatever he can to help you and I believe he realizes as much
as anybody in the Indian service the load that is upon you.
I have found that where he had the power and could clearly

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understand the matter, he was prompt and helpful every time. If he does not at once yield to your wishes, there are rules or want of funds or some difference of that kind that he cannot control that prevents his doing so. He realizes the handicapped conditions under which you labor by the probable in-heritance of incompetent employes and the pulling and hauling conditions at a large Indian agency, for he has said so to me.

You are contending with influences that I feel sure you but just begin to apprehend, and under circumstances the most oppressive. You stand alone, remote from association with counsel and interest material for the success of almost any man; but it is splendid training for you, taxing and developing all your powers of judgment and endurance. Not the least of these qualities (and you will allow me to say this as your old friend) is the quality of patience. You may have far more to contend with in the new Commissioner than you had in the old one, because there is likely to be added to the situation more ignorance at the head at the beginning and also a determination to be more economical.

I am glad you will give attention to getting us a new party and hope that you may arrange for it and get it out of the way of the contentions of other schools. I stand ready to arrange the transportation and expense of bringing it on at any time that you notify me, and would be glad to have some

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one from your place to bring it. Please do not under any
circumstances think of sending me those under twelve years of
age or above twenty at the outside, preferably not above
eighteen, nor those without good characters. I would rather
the party were small than to take these.

I have not been in Washington since my last, but am
expecting to go down again in a few days.

Gordially and faithfully yours,

to Capt. George LeRoy Brown.

March 29, 1893.

The W. B. Conkey Co.,

341 Dearborn St., Chicago.

Gentlemen:

Referring to your favor of the 15th instant in
regard to notice in the Official Catalogue of the Exposition,
I submit the following as what I would wish inserted, viz:

"Department of Liberal Arts, Section I, Assignment 605.

United States Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.

Full exhibit of work and methods."

YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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March 29, 1893.

Mr. W. H. Ashburn,
c/o Receivers of Pottstown Iron Co.,
Pottstown, Pa.

Dear Sir:

I am in receipt of your check for $150.00 in payment
of interest due 1st prox. on Pottstown Iron Co. Bonds held by
me in trust for the Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. Receipt
for same is returned herewith.

1 enc.

March 29, 1893.

Prof. O. H. Bakeless,
Normal School, Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dear Professor:

The tickets for yourself and Mrs. Bakeless to
Washington and return to Bloomsburg are herewith.

2 enc.

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March 30th 1893.

My dear Mr. Belt:

I thank you for yours in regard to Capt. Brown, and have
written him a letter of which the enclosed is an extract.

The oppressiveness of isolation that an Agent has to endure is
tremendous. The character of Job is not complete because lacking
the experiences of an Indian Agent and Supt. of an Indian School.

I cautioned Brown a good deal at the beginning about large
expectations and tried to prepare him for disappointment and defeats.
He staved right ahead however and seems to be as full of expecta-
tion as at the start.

A letter from Mr. Woog intimates a condition which I suspected
when at Pine Ridge but of which I said nothing. Brown himself
seemed to be on guard. I will not write Brown about it until
after I see Mr. Woog. It does seem that he ought to know even the
apprehended dangers of his surroundings.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. R. V. Belt,

Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs,

Washington, D. C.

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March 30th 1893.

Hon. Fred Douglas,

Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Douglas:

You know you promised to come up and visit us, bring Mrs. Douglas and give us a talk. I fear from what you said your present engagements will not permit you to come soon. I write to say that after the middle of April we shall have so many of our students out that it would be better if you cannot come before then to come sometime after the first of October. But I should be very glad if it were possible for you to come now.

Mrs. Pratt and I anticipate much pleasure from a visit from you and Mrs. Douglas and I am sure the school will be greatly benefited. We should like to know in time so as to arrange some special recognition of your great services to the country.

Very cordially yours,

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Mr. E. S. Woog,
Chief Finance Division,
Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:

I thank you for yours in regard to Capt. Brown. I
hope to be in Washington before long and to know further of
the matter, and will then, if it seems best, do what I can to
get him right. I had some such suspicions during the time I
was at Pine Ridge in October.

Very truly yours,

March 31, 1893.

Job Printing Department,
Public Ledger, Philadelphia.

Gentlemen:

I return the proof's herewith, suggesting that on the
one covering "Savings System" you make the words "The Savings
of the students" underscored in red pencil, larger and let
them extend across the paper; have the word "and" inserted
where marked; and make "they" "These", as marked.

Please be careful to give us the same sized cards as we
had before, and I shall be glad to have them here as quickly
as possible as we have already shipped our exhibit and the man
goes forward in a few days to set it up.

Very truly yours,

2 enc.

Capt. & Supt.

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April 1, 1893.

To the Honorable,

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:

Mr. T. W. Potter asks me to endorse him for the position
of Supervisor of Indian Schools.

Mr. Potter served us most acceptably as teacher for a
good part of a school year here. I knew him most favorably
as an employe of the Indian Service in the School Service, and
later in charge at Cantonment, a substation of the Cheyenne &
Arrapahoe Agency, and I have followed him in his work since
as Principal Teacher at Totton.

I have never known anything of Mr. Potter during his con-
nection with the Indian Service but what was creditable to
him and showed great interest and good sense in the discharge
of the duties of his several positions.

I most cheerfully add my testimony in his behalf and
express the hope that he may be favored in his ambitions.

Very respectfully,

Capt. 10th U. S. Cav'y.

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Mr. T. W. Potter,

El Reno, O. T.

My dear Mr. Potter:

I send you what you ask in yours of the 27th
and hope that it may aid your cause, though I have my doubts
about my influence amounting to much.

Your other letters are herewith returned.

How is your property in El Reno? What is the outlook
for Oklahoma?

Enclosures.

April 1, 1893.

William Paisano,

Laguna, N. M.

Dear William:

Perry Tsamauwa's people had just better let
Perry go on in the same way. He is in the very best lines
and is doing well. Nothing should be placed before him to
thwart his intention to get a good education. Give him time
and he will come out all right. Please say this to them--
tell them to trust me to do that which is right and best for
Perry.

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April 1, 1893.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,

Barry, Douglass Co., Wash.

My dear Doctor:

Thanks for your good letter, a part of which I
took the liberty to put in the "Helper" so that its ten thou-
sand subscribers may learn at first hand what an Indian thinks

I return your appointment and congratulate you upon the
deserved distinction.

Our mistakes of the past four years have been those of
centering efforts on the reservation, and this is due to wom-
en,--sympathetic, and I guess I had better say meddlesome--
who not having practical knowledge and experience, are guided
by the tender qualities of their natures. My expectation is
that the present administration will be more common-sense and
that there will be a reaction. I count Indian Rights Associ-
ations and National Indian Women's Associations foremost now
among the harmful influences in Indian management.

How I would like to visit you out there! Tell me some-
thing of the fishing and hunting. If at all possible this
year I shall give myself a treat by going back somewhat to my
original blanket condition. Nothing I enjoyed more when

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April 1, 1893.

Mrs. M. J. Miller,

Kewadin, Mich.

My dear Mrs. Miller:

Sometimes people who go away from here,
particularly those who did not carry themselves very straight
when they were here, tell what is not true. I suspect you
have struck one such when they told you that your girls worked
out of doors. Not that I object to girls working out of doors
because that now is becoming common. Civilized women are
taking upon themselves a great many of the duties that used
to be performed by men and are claiming the right to do that,
so that we men have to step aside; but I do not think you have
had any true information in regard to your daughters from the
one who told you that. We do have the best of homes for our
girls. I am sure you would be very greatly pleased to see
the homes that our girls go into.

Yours sincerely,

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April 1, 1893.

Prof. O. H. Bakeless,

My dear Professor:

As you did not give me Mr. Deavor's initials
I send you a set of our papers for him. He must go through
this Civil Service mill and arrange that himself. Let him
apply as you did, and I trust we may work it out to your and
our liking. I feel somewhat inclined to be in Washington at
the same time you are. It is probable that I will be.

Be sure to let me know if Mrs. Bakeless' papers are not
along shortly.

I hope you got the tickets. My arrangement was simply
helpful to you and Mrs. Bakeless personally; I cannot under-
take to pay any expenses connected with other applicants.
Please say to Mr. Drum that it will be necessary for him to
"Paddle his own canoe" in this regard.

enclosures.

April 1, 1893.

A. B. Farquhar,

World's Fair Commissioner,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Sir:

As desired by you, I forward herewith duplicate bills of
lading for shipment of 21 cases of School Exhibit, for the
Department of Liberal Arts; also (5 Pkgs.) of Spring Wagon
for Transportation Department of the Columbian Exhibition.

2 enclosures.

Capt. & Supt.

April 1, 1893.

Mr. J. Ressler,

Ronks, Lanc. Co., Pa.

Dear Sir:

One of my teachers is compelled to quit the service
on account of the critical condition of her mother in Indiana
and leave us on the 13th. If convenient for you to come over
two or three days in advance of that and get acquainted with
the school and then take her place until the matter of your
permanent employment is settled, I should be glad. We can
make some temporary arrangement for your absence on the 11th
to be examined.

Capt. & Supt.

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April 1st 1893.

Hon. Fred Douglas,

Cedar Hill,

Anacostia, D. C.

My dear Mr. Douglas:

I enclose a time table by which you will see the best way to come here is via the Baltimore and Potomac Road. I would suggest that if you can, you leave on the 7.20 A. M. train which will bring you to Gettysburg Junction at 1.10 P. M. in time to take your noon meal with us. You could leave on the next train at 10.15 and reach us at 4.30 P. M. The Baltimore and Potomac and The Northern Central to Harrisburg without change, there you take the Cumberland Valley after a wait of forty minutes on the first train and an hour and a half on the second train. In either case you get off at Gettysburg Junction which is convenient to the School and I will meet you.

I hope the weather may be propitious for your visit as it has been for several days past.

Mrs. Pratt joins me in respectful greetings to Mrs. Douglas and yourself.

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April 1, 1893.

To the Adjutant,

10th U. S. Cav'y,
Fort Custer, Mont.

Cav'y, U. S. A.

Sir:

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of
this school under the provisions of the Act. of Congress ap-
proved June 27th, per S. O. No. 194, Headquarters of the Army,
A. G. O. August 23rd, and letter of instructions from the Hon-
grable Secretary of the Interior, dated Sept. 6th, all 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Very respectfully,

Your Obedient Servant,

Capt. 10th Cav'y, U. S. A., Supt.

334

April 3rd 1893.

Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton,

1823 Arch Street,
Philadelphia.

Dear Mrs. Quinton:

Our period at Chicago is July. I think Albuquerque has
the period covering your appearance before the Woman's Congress. I
do not expect to have any one in Chicago during May except an
Indian representative and probably Mr. Standing, possibly Miss
Burgess. The boy I am thinking of placing there would be very
capable of making an address. He is a full-blooded Sioux. If you
wish I can arrange that, or if you could put off your appearance
until July I think we could give you the band and song too.

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April 4th 1893.

J. R. Wood, G. P. A.,
Philadelphia.

Dear Sirs

I wish to send my Assistant Supt., Mr. Standing, and my
carpenter to Chicago early next week to set up and place our exhibit
in the Liberal Arts' Building and will be obliged to you for two
round-trip tickets for them. The carpenter will return about the
middle of May; Mr. Standing will be in Chicago throughout the
exposition, though it is probable he will return to Carlisle the
last of May or early in June for a brief time. I think it well to
have both tickets made good until the end of June. As this is a
matter entirely outside of Government and is a tax upon my charity
fund I hope you will give me the lowest rate you can.

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April 4th 1893.

Rev. B. H. Hart,
Huntingdon, Pa.

My dear Sir:

You are so far away that it would be quite impossible to give you the entertainment and have anything left for you or ourselves. I could not undertake to repeat it short of $100.00 over and above our expenses and I cannot see that it would be possible to go to Huntingdon and back with our fifty students short of $150.00, making $250.00 in expenses aside from hotel or other entertainment. I should be glad to help you if I could.

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March 4th 1893.

John A. Woodward,

Deputy Executive Commissioner,

Board of World's Fair Managers,

Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Sir:

Referring to yours of the 3rd in reference to bills of
lading I have respectfully to advise you that the original and one
duplicate were sent to Director General Davis.

The car in which the goods were sent was marked "A & Compy,
1648" via Baltimore & Ohio Road.

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April 4th 1893.

Geo. H. Wilson,

Sec. Bureau of Music, Dept. of Liberal Arts,
World's Columbian Exposition,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

I am in receipt by reference of your letter of March 31st
addressed to Mrs. Matilda Hart Shelton, Philadelphia, in reference
to the band and choir of this school.

It is my intention to have our band of thirty pieces on the
grounds throughout the month of July which is the date assigned to
this school to illustrate its methods, etc., in the Indian School
building. Our choir numbers about the same as our band and a
number of the students are in both the choir and the band. If
practicable to have the choir present during the same period and
it can have opportunities to illustrate its quality I hope to have
it. The band I expect to have there anyway. The opportunities
allowed for us to illustrate the trained musical qualities of our
students would have great influence with me in the matter.

Yours very truly,

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A.,

Supt.

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April 4th 1893.

Capt. J. F. Aytoun,

Agent Board of Management, U. S. Gov't. Exhibits,
World's Columbian Exposition,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

I send herein invoice of tinware for use at the Indian School to be established on the Exposition Grounds: also bill of lading Covering the same goods. When duly signed please return me one copy of the invoice.

Supt.

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April 7th 1893.

Dr. Selim H. Peabody,
Chief Dept. Liberal Arts,
World's Columbian Exposition,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

Our exhibit was shipped Friday the 30th ult. in Armour
and Company's car #1648, all for the Department of Liberal Arts
except a spring wagon consigned to the Transportation Dept. Under
the increased allotment of space I wish this wagon to form part of
our general exhibit in your division.

The Railroad Company agreed to have the car through in five
days. The car should be in Chicago by this time and as the contents
are now all for the Department of Liberal Arts please have the whole
unloaded there.

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April 7th 1893.

Mr. Walter C. Lowry,

Penna. State Building,
Columbian Exhibition,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

I am informed through Mr. Standing of your action
in the matter of procuring for this school space for a spring
wagon exhibit in the Transportation Department, necessary
on account of insufficiency in space allotted in Liberal Arts
Department.

This wagon was shipped on the 30th ult. with our other
exhibit in Armour and Company's car #1648, and probably is in
Chicago by this time.

I am now informed of an increase in allotment of space
in the Dept. of Liberal Arts and shall be able to have our
exhibit altogether and will not need the space asked for in
the Transportation Dept.

Thanking you for your interest, I am,

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April 8, 1893.

Stephen Smith,

Fort Walla Walla, Wash.

My dear Stephen:

I was glad to receive your nicely written letter of the 28th of March. You will please send the picture as soon as it is finished, and I trust you will be able to get a truer likeness this time.

We are having a very large exhibit in the Liberal Arts Building at Chicago, most of which has already left Carlisle, but the scholars do not go until July. The Band and very like ly the choir will be in Chicago all through the month of July, so that would be the most enjoyable time for you to be there. Mr. Standing will have charge there and if you go to him when you arrive at Chicago he will no doubt see that you get a good stopping place. You will find him in the Liberal Arts Building.

I am,

Hoping that you will have a pleasant trip this summer,

Faithfully your Friend,

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April 8, 1893.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Agency Physician, &c.,
Barry, Douglass Co., Wash.

My dear Doctor:

The best construction we can give Miss Rankins'
ranting is that given by all of her friends (of whom I am one)
in this Valley, that is that she is a little crazy.

She has managed to so treat many persons of the best
quality who tried to befriend her that she has alienated
everybody. It would have been better had you not noticed her
letter at all. She borrowed money right and left on the
strength of her being an employé here, and could be legally
punished for obtaining money under false pretenses. Her con-
ceptions of things are so distorted that she lays herself open
to the charge of falsehood continually.

I tried my best to harness her up and keep her in line so
as to give her employment, but it was impossible. She would
go before her classes and denounce other employes in school
when she should have been giving instruction, and for no cause
whatever.

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April 10, 1893.

Mr. Arthur Johnson,

Grand River, Ind. Ty.

My dear Arthur:

Your letter of April 3rd was received and read
with interest. Glad to learn of your safe arrival and that
you have been enjoying yourself sine your return. Some people
seem to think that when our boys and girls return that they
have lost their love for their home that they once had, but
such does not seem to have been the case with you, but on the
contrary you express yourself as being only the better able
to enjoy it and to help make it a happy and blessed place.
When you say that you have settled down to work (although
ploughing is rather a change from printing) you have given me
the true reason for your happiness, for I hardly think that a
lazy man can be truly happy. Try to make your life useful in
order that you may be truly happy.

Everything here at the school is progressing about as
usual, and as you have so lately left us I know of no special
news that you will not be able to glean from the "Helper."

Wishing you success in all that you may undertake, I am,

Sincerely your Friend,

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April 10, 1893.

My dear Mr. Belt:

I sent Mr. Standing and my carpenter to Chicago today to set up our exhibit which has already arrived at the Exposition. In any event I am very glad for the turn things have taken. We are to have space enough to place all of the exhibit that we at first contemplated.

I feel assured that the Department and all Government officials will concur that our exhibit is creditable to the Government school work. We do not fear competition with the best industrial schools. I do hope that you may be able to carry the expense of this into our Government accounts. I want to do so much more during the month of July while we are there than I shall be able to do on what you will probably allow, and I have already done so much in my trips to Chicago and New York that I am sure you will agree that we ought to have this help.

To Hon. R. V. Belt,
Washington, D. C.

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April 10, 1893.

Mr. Levi Levering,
University of Omaha,
Bellevue, Neb.

My dear Levi:

I am so glad to know that you are getting into
right shape about this matter of taking money from other peo-
ple. It will be worth thousands of dollars to you to repudi-
ate all help and in some way accomplish it yourself. Then
you are your own man. I do hope that you may be working it
out in that way.

We are getting on nicely here at the school. Mr Standing
and Mr. Gardner go to Chicago today to place our exhibit in
position. I anticipate we shall have the Band and possibly
the Choir there for one month. I have some fears that the
cholera may intervene and possibly prevent everybody.

Yours sincerely,

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April 11, 1893.

Mr. George Balderson,
Colora, Md.

My dear Sir:

I send you a half dozen of the "Red Man" with Mr. Garrett's address.

Judging the Indians of the Cataragus and Alleghany Reservation by the children received here, I must say that they are in a sad state. We have not received into this school a weaker and more troublesome lot as a whole than they are. Of course there are exceptions, but I speak of the mass. While I know much earnest work is done on reservations and there is some progress, yet my long experience condemns most unequivocally the position that such work assumes. The idea that we have to take the Indian a little way at a time in his passage from his old condition into civilization and that we must wait a generation or two for results, is one of the most hurtful imaginable.

My own church, the Presbyterian, assumes a position in regard to these New York Indians that is outrageous to me. They are unwilling that any should escape, and they are entirely unwilling that there should be any division of lands and real individualizing process brought about.

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Mr. George Balderson, page 2.

My school physician, who made a visit there some time ago
tells me he does not think there are very many full bloods
there, though he did not see all of them. I should say the
same from what I have seen.

You are mistaken in the notion that with the whites all
about them they have a chance to adopt civilized life. That
is not true, any more than it is true that the Italians in the
Italian settlement, in the heart of Philadelphia have a good
chance to adopt the English language in American life. Held
together in one body, trained in separate schools, and com-
pelled to associate only among themselves, the chances for
individual development and for civilized ideas to grow are
very limited. I should say that any expenditure of money up
there in the way of missionary or other effort ought to end
very shortly. Properly handled it would end. We can very
easily missionaryize the Indians into a state of pauperism
and continued helplessness, as the results show.

Very respectfully,

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John R. Clarke,

562 West Utica Street,

Buffalo, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Clarke:

By the 27th we will have sent out over 150 of our
students and I would very much rather you postponed your
coming until October or after when the school is full. Will
not this suit you just as well? Sometime when you are in
close this way and can come just as well as not we shall all
be glad to have you.

April 12th 1893.

E. M. Boughton,

106 Fourth Street,

Troy, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

Mr. Dominick left here only a few days ago and can give
you the information in regard to the progress of his son. The boy
has been here but a very short time as you know.

I have been greatly pleased with Mr. Dominick in all my
intercourse with him and attribute to him all the qualities you
claim.

Capt. & Supt.

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April 14th 1838.

Wm. C. B. Girton,

Sergt. Co. I, 16th Infantry,

Fort Douglas, Utah.

My dear William:

I have yours enclosing $35.00 and think it better
that you send me the balance before I send Nellie. I
unfortunately have no money myself just now to spare and I
could not use Government money.

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April 14th 1893.

Raymond Smith,

Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

My dear Sir:

Your sister Josie has concluded to take a summer outing. I have observed her carefully in the school room and about her duties here and feel sure she needs to get outside of Indian life and herself in this way. Nothing has been better for our students than our outing system where they become members of different white families and where the keen active minds about them waken them up and make them alive to the business of life than all the school theorizing we could give: school is theory, work is practical. I have accordingly arranged that Josie shall have a term during the summer of outing. What we may do beyond that remains for the result of this summer's experience. Josie is near Philadelphia and has one of the best places on our list.

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April 14th 1893.

Miss Lydia E. Kaup,

Pineville, Bucks Co., Pa.

Dear Madam:

All teachers wishing to enter the Indian service now
have to pass an examination by the Civil Service Commission. I
therefore suggest that you write to the Chairman of the Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D. C., for information and instructions in
regard to the examination should you wish to take it. If you pass
the requirements you would then be assigned to any Indian school
where there might be a vacancy.

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April 14th 1893.

John H. Seger,

Seger Indian Industrial School,
Seger, Oklahoma.

Dear Sir:

I am sorry that you have made advances to Richard Davis while he is yet an employee here without first consulting me. I have trained Richard up until he fills an important niche in this school and he is doing better here for himself and his family than he could out there even with the $50.00 you offer. Richard comes to me with the determination to go home through the offers you have made him before I have heard anything from you and it places me at a disadvantage. I had intended to raise Richard's salary to $40.00 per month next year which is more here than $50.00 there, but your $50.00 has turned his head. Under the circumstances I feel opposed to your pdans.

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April 12th 1893.

My dear Mr. Standing:

I enclose to you the permit for new space, also letter
from Mr. Lowry, the Pennsylvania Agent in Chicago, in regard to
wagon.

The folks are back from the Washington examinations a little
stirred up.

I note the appointment of Browning of Illinois as Commissioner
and Armstrong as Assistant Commissioner. I am very, very sorry to
lose Mr. Belt and I cannot say I am glad that Armstrong is going in
Army pressure has done that. Judge Browning by accounts is
neither "an eastern sentimentalist nor a western schemer."

All goes well with us at the school.

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April 17, 1893.

Mr. Thomas H. Bambrick,

34 South St., Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir:

I like the papers of Mr. Bonichon very much, but it so happens that I am able to get a man and his wife as Cook and Assistant Cook, and from what information I have I feel satisfied that they can render me the best service, as either would be competent to fill the place in case of temporary absence of the other.

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April 18, 1893.

Prof. O. H. Bakeless,

My dear Professor:

If I exhibited the feeling that you and Mrs
Bakeless conceived I did, it was not warranted by the facts.
I felt, after passing around with you some little time, that
Mrs. Bakeless was not at all friendly to the move, and under
such circumstances it would be a questionable proceeding. From
having imbibed this feeling, I may have given out something
that would have led you to the conclusion. My feeling was
that the conclusion was made beforehand.

Sincerely your friend,

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April 21st 1893.

Mr. Henry A. Kennerly,

Kipp, Montana.

My dear Mr. Kennerly:

Thanks for yours of the 11th. I was beginning to be
anxious to know where you were.

Your little girl is having a sad time with her eyes and I am
inclined to think it will be necessary to send her to Wills Eye
Hospital in Philadelphia for a time at least. The doctor fears
she may lose one eye-- that it may be necessary for her to lose one
in order to save the other. The Wills Eye people have been very
kind to us, in a number of cases taking pupils under their care for
several weeks and even months. Dr. Dixon has corresponded with
Dr. L. Webster Fox, a very celebrated oculist in Philadelphia and
who takes charge of our pupils when their eyes have to be treated.
Dr. Fox considers it a very interesting case and wants it to come
under his care. We are waiting a few days before sending her for a
time when it will be convenient to Dr. Fox. It would be well for
you to place some money with us to meet the expenses incident as I
am unable to place this on Government account.

Little Jerome has become the favorite of everybody. I am a
little afraid he may be spoiled. Mrs. Given takes him under her
especial care and treats him quite as she would Johnnie.

In regard to the pupils going to Chicago I have told them that

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April 21st 1893.

T. W. Potter,

El Reno, O. T.

My dear Potter:

I trust you may be favored in your aspirations and that
you may receive the appointment you seek. I shall be especially
glad to have it so for I know as supervisor of Indian Schools you
would certainly not militate against Carlisle. That has been my
trouble ever since the supervisors have been appointed. Richardson,
the man who has charge in the Indian Territory, asked, and Morgan
ordered, that I be kept off the Indian Territory in obtaining children--
I now anticipate changing that.

I am sincerely glad to know your expectations are so good in
regard to your property. What a turmoil it will expense it must have
been to you?

Mr. Standing is now in Chicago setting up our exhibit in the
Liberal Arts Building and will likely be there most of the time
throughout the exposition.

Things go fairly well with us. I am a little at a loss as to
what we shall do for pupils for the ensuing year unless we make
another raid on the Chippewas, of whom we have more than a proper
proportion now. What is the feeling at Cheyenne and Arapaho so far
as you have incidentally learned it, could we make up a good party
there?

Cordially your friend,

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April 21st 1893.

My dear Mr. Standing:

I have a letter from Mr. Goode dated the 17th advising
that our Madrid exhibit is en route. Is there anything of this
that you want for Chicago?

Glad to hear you are getting on so well with the placing of
affairs. A note from a printers' supply firm in Chicago advises
us that we can rent a press but would have to buy type. This was
in regard to running a little printing department on our space.

There is nothing new of especial interest here. No favorable
action on our request for exposition fund. The new Commissioner
is in office and I feel inclined to go to Washington and see him
but may put it off until the first of next week.

From what you say about the Indian School building it is more
and more evident that the Indian Department made a mistake in not
adopting our suggestions and plan of exhibit in the beginning:
economy and a just presentation of the work would have been served.

We had a terrific storm yesterday and last night but this
morning is as beautiful and bright as can be.

I enclose circular just received. Look up Camp Lincoln and see
what it amounts to.

Mr. A. J. Standing,
5757 Madison Ave.,
Chicago,

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April 21st 1893.

Rev. Noami Tamura,

96 Fifth Avenue,

Pittsburg, Pa.

My dear Brother Tamura:

Nothing more has come to me for you and no letters or
any mail has reached me.

Your visit was a very delightful incident in our round of life
here and we shall always feel grateful to you for coming to see us.

I hope the good Lord is opening the hearts and purses for you
and that you may be gathering in the funds you are seeking.

Yesterday and last night we had a terrible wind, rain and
lightening storm but this morning we have as bright and beautiful
a day as one ever saw.

With great regards from us all,

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April 21st 1893.

Mrs. Frederick Douglass,

Cedar Hill,

Anacostia, D. C.

My dear Mrs. Douglass:

Your kind note and Mr. Douglass' MSS came during my absence from home. We are very glad to have the MSS and shall go to work upon the printing of it at once. We shall have to send the proof to Mr. Douglass at Chicago as you direct, in sections owing to our limited ability to print pamphlets.

Have you not a Photo-engraving of Mr. Douglass which we could use as Frontispiece? It would add so much to the book could we have Mr. Douglass' likeness appear in it.

Mrs. Pratt joins me in kindest regards to yourself and Mr. Douglass.

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April 21st 1893.

Mr. Robert McFadden,

502 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

My dear Robert:

It is exceedingly doubtful that I shall be able to be
in Brooklyn on the date you name. Mr. Standing is now in Chicago
and the cutting business absorbs my time closely. We sent out forty
four girls this morning and we have already sent out one hundred
and ten boys. We shall keep on sending until we get down to vaca-
tion smallness here. I should greatly enjoy the parade but I fear
it is wholly impracticable.

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Mr. John Sullivan,

c/o T. Clement Campbell, Room 11,
206 Broadway, New York City.

My dear Sir:

Gen. Woodford is quite mistaken in regard to my being in command of the Dispatch Boat on which you served. My service during the war was with the cavalry and almost entirely in the West with Gen. Thomas.

Sorry I am not able to serve you.

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April 25th 1893.

Harry Kopay,

20 Noxon Street,

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Dear Harry:

You have, out of a large sum of money to your credit when you went to Poughkeepsie, only $52.88 here, and this takes into account your $100.00 on interest, so you can see just where you stand. I sent quite a sum last time so that you might have all that was necessary for your personal expenses as well as your school expenses and I think you had better draw on that and let this lie here until the case becomes more emergent.

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April 26th 1893.

A. J. Standing,

5757 Madison Avenue,
Chicago, Ill.

If you see Mr. Taylor in charge Interior exhibit, or some
of his men you can get good and convenient hotel accommodations,
including lodging at low rates.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

Copy respectfully forwarded by mail.

26,

Miss E.L Fisher,
Gov't Indian School,
Albuquerque, N.M.

If best and practicable get a nurse
for Henry and see he has regular medical attendance, at my
cost if necessary.

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April 29, 1898.

Mr. Thomas W. Potter,

Darlington, O. T.

My dear Mr. Potter:

I am convinced that it is far better for me to observe strictly just now the rule I have made in reference to persons in the Indian service, and not attempt to advocate the claims of anybody for any place. This resolution does not prevent me from giving such an endorsement as I gave you on your application.

If I were in your place I would not count very much on getting the position you seek. There is a small army of office seekers in Washington, and that place will be wanted.

I do not count much on any increase of our numbers from the Indian Territory just now. Morgan's craze to build up home and Western schools was a great disaster to the Indian school service and the civilization and advancement of the Indian.

Yours sincerely,

Capt. 10th Cav'y, U. S. A.

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