251

Miss Mary E. Raymond,

Pine Ridge, S. D.

My dear Miss Raymond,

Tears of 18th just received. It as
happens that there is a prospect of Miss Cooke taking a year's
leave from us. She will be within a few days.
Her sister, who is the telegraph operator in the Interior De-
partment at Washington, has been already certified for many
years and wishes to lay off a year and go to Europe, and as
Miss Cooke herself is an operator and has filled the place
before she desired me to consent that she shall take her
place, provided she can herself get a year's leave.
Her case is now before the Secretary. It has been referred by
him to the Civil Service Commission to use if he is authorized
to grant a year's leave. Should it work all right I
shall need some one to fill Miss Cooke's place. Now I
write you in reference to it and on receipt of this will you
please telegraph me simply yes or no. Do this, of course,
with the fullest expectation that you would make yourself all
right with Capt. Penny, or I would not, under any circum-


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July 16, 1891.

N. Hoff,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear Sir:-

I have yours in reference to your daughter. Her hus-
band applied to me and I directed him to arrange with you and he
has now applied to the Commissioner as I was informed to-day while
in Washington by the Commissioner. His appeal will be referred to
me and I shall insist under the circumstances insist that the whole
matter shall rest in your hands. If you want her to remain at
Carlisle she shall remain, if you want her returned to her husband
she shall return to him, provided he or you pay what it cost to
bring her away and what it will cost to take her back. I see no
need of her leaving Carlisle unless you yourself want it and pro-
vide for it.

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Personal.

Gust. E. & H. Morgan,

Gustavus, of Indian Place,

Washington, D. C.

Dear General:

We are writing up your letter and Father Coppie's reply. It is delightful if all the boys will hold out to complete them as half the boys to be in the army and will not be printed off until the first of next week, and that takes nearly all the time we have. I still and will continue as soon as it is possible to get them off, - perhaps not before next week. I shall be very glad to have your opinion to place the whole correspondence in the next Red Book, coming out early in August, - July and August combined.

I have just received a letter from Clarence Three here in which he expresses appreciation in regard to getting the translation of his appointment. It still is a very greatonor appointment to me personally should you not give him this appointment and let him try what an Indian can do in composition.

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July 10th, 1881.

Index Dear Shield,

Gare, E. Bowne,

Birmingham, Pa.

My dear friend

I have just received your male's letter,
and in reference to your allotment have to any, that the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs has made it a special point
to protect the interests of students only at school and to
make it unnecessary that they should either return home or
feel disturbed lest they should not receive proper allowances.

It is entirely unnecessary for you to return at the agent
can attend to it for you as well as though you were present
yourself. The expenditure of your own money to carry
you must be foolish. Of that we would be for the
government to pay you 50 or 60 and have you to at once ar-
rest it in the course of a few days in Railroad travel. Your
lands can be selected for you and your money can remain in
the Treasury subject to your future request, or it can be paid
to you now after the allotments are closed at the agency,
through the Department at Washington, and so you have both

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July 10th, 1882.

Clarissa Three,

Pine Ridge, &c.

Dear Clarissa:

I have your letter and am very happy to hear that you are completing your studies for one of our students. We are just completing five years to be able to differenciate you at Pine Ridge, and I am totally satisfied we shall tear down the old blacksmith shop and put up one much larger. While doing this one, of course, shall be unable to build any more shops and those will have to suit two months or more for him. I will probably get it ready as soon as possible and ship it. I have written the Governor that it will be a great disappointment to me personally if he fails to give you the appointment of trader he prefers. I am sure his yesterday letter did not think to ask him in regard to it. He should very positive about giving you the appointment when I spoke to him about it before. In the matter of keeping premises, the white men is quite as good as the Indians. The great business matter is to go to work years ago and take allotments. There seems a little disposition on their part to do it now as before they made any such agreement. I doubt

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if they ever still until they are forced to do it.

Our friend,

July 18th, 1901.

James A. Perrine,

Blackford Agency, Dept.

Dear Sir,

I have made inquiries in regard to your statement, Minnie, and while her place is not the best it is not by any means the hardest. For her own good, I think it best she should fight it out for the position, which use the period for which she went away from us. I have written Minnie so and also her employer she writes me that Minnie complains that the work is too hard. Neither he nor Minnie know how I get my information. The fact that she wrote to you so immediately after she had reached her place to some ground to feel that her complaints are not well founded.

I have sent you a small package of photographs.

I am sure sincerely,

Dept. & Supt.

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July 26th, 1881.

Rev. Pres't. & Hon.ators,

Baltimore Biological Society,
Baltimore, Pa.

My dear Sirs,

Both George and David are at Cornell. George's health has not been good; he has been in hospital and my doctor fears a recurrence of the thrivedon phthisis. He is out and working a little more. David does quite hard and happy.

I analogize to you bill for balance due their first year.

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July 20th, 1880

Chief Spotted Horse,

Burlington, Ind. July 22, 1880.

My dear friend,

I have your letter in relation to Ladette,
but I have written you before what has best in her case.
There is no reason why you cannot select her land for her,
nor is there any reason why she should draw her money now.
It can go back to the Treasury and be drawn any time she
likes, or she can draw it from here or she can arrange to let
you draw it there. But she to here and doing well it is
not best to end her home. But now you think we should
send her back that never happens. Boys and girls who leave
school before they are ready have neither the education nor
the strength to stand up against the difficulties at home.
All should be more man and more before they get school.
In Ladette's case, that is absolutely necessary, because she
to a promising young if only allowed to develop in the direc-
tion in which she has begun. We have every reason to be
satisfied with her progress and proud of her development.

As ever, your friend,

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July 23rd, 1901.

William P. Campbell,

Whiteark, Ill.

Dear William:

Your letter, Daily News, has been in just
now and she has repeatedly appeared for the privilege of
Carlisle for her brother Fred, who, she says, will come here
if I will furnish tickets. The asking of one ticket on an
uncertainty has often proved to be a mistake that I do not
care to do that again. She best may be have some responsible
party who will arrange and not attempt to bring to such
small numbers. I can afford to pay the way of an accord to
Carlisle and back if as many as 10 good students come along.
Is it not practicable between you and Mr. Johnsen to get up
a party of that number, at least four of whom should be girls,
and you to bring them down here. If it is practicable, I
can pay all expenses for collection and provide the transportation
and make some allowance to you for the time engaged in
doing it. We should be glad to see you here. No students
should be under 12, preferably none under 14; and none over
20; preferably none over 18. It is important that all be in

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July 27th, 1891.

Rosa Mettowen,

Freedon P. O.,
Outagama, Wic.

Dear Rosa:

A number of the Oneidas who went home with you, and
others who have been home longer, ask to return to Carlisle
and I have written to Peter Cornelius to make up a list of
such and forward to me and I will make arrangements for you
all to come at one time in the end of August. Your two
sisters, if they are well and strong and good girls and above
12 years of age, may come with you. Am glad you think of
coming back to Carlisle; I think it is best for you, and I
am also glad that you desire to bring your sisters here. You
will see great changes when you return. Foundations for the
girls building are all laid and the brick work begins to-day;
all the walks from the guard house, around in front of the
little boys' quarters to the Hospital and down to the large
boys' quarters are down in good shape. They are just now
working in front of the large boys' quarters. When we get
these walks down it will be much nicer for us in every way in

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getting about. Our new office building, where the old chapel stood, is well under way. The big barn at the farm is nearly completed, an addition to the hospital is going up, and we are putting in a central steam heating plant where we can have all the better in-one place, adjoining old coal house back of the gymnasium. When we get all these things accomplished we shall be in better shape for the winter than we ever have been before. There are some changes among the teachers, but not many. Miss Cooks, who I believe was your teacher, will be away for six months, and may be a year. Miss Stanton and Miss Wood have both left us, but we have good teachers in their places.

With kindest regards to you and all returned students.

Your friend,

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July 27th, 1891.

Long Lock,

Apache Chief,

Anadarho, Ok. T'la.

My dear friend!

I have taken time and some pains to make in-
quiry in regard to the necessity for <u>your</u> letting your son
go home because of my kindly personal feeling for you and my
desire to meet your wishes, if possible; but after a full in-
quiry, and considering the condition of your boy, his present
state of advancement and so on, it has seemed to me decidedly
best for his good especially, and for your and your wife's
also, that he continue his course here at school. He is a
good boy, kind and promising in every way and making good
progress. He has shown also that he has good judgment in
regard to his money affairs. He has earned and saved above
$75 since he came here and altogether I feel that he is one of
our most promising students. Under these circumstances, I
very much dislike to send him home unprepared to meet the very
great difficulties which all of our students who return to
the agency havent to meet. What he needs is to be a good
strong man before he encounters the reservation surroundings.

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He also needs a much better education than he has. I can understand very well how your heart-string and those of your wife are pulled in regard to him. It was the same with me and with Mrs. Pratt when our children were away at school. We longed to have our boy with us when he was east and we were west, but for his good we kept him in school and urged him to do his best. Now we have the satisfaction of knowing that he is a strong, well educated man and capable of meeting the difficulties and duties of life for better than he would have been able to do had we given way to our father and mother feeling and called him back to us at Fort Stock when we were there. I hope, my dear friend, you will bring yourself to do the same thing for your boy and trust him to me for I am greatly interested in him and>want him to know that he should be a success in every way.

Faithfully, your friend,

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July 27th, 1891.

Rev. S. S. Burlison,

Missionary, Ojuela, Wis.

My dear Mr. Burlison!

The little girl, King, who just arrived is less than 10 years of age and in order to get her here it was represented that she was 12 years old. She states that her mother sent her here in order to get her away from home where her father was compelling her to work above what she was able to. There is another stater here about 12, and Louise, about whom you write, who is, she says, 15, though she looks younger. Before finally concluding in regard to your em-dorsement of Mr. King's application, I thought you had better know these facts. It strikes me as being a good deal out of place to lay upon Louise the care and responsibilities that belong to the place you would call her to, and it would be impossible for her to fill the place at all well. Placing such duties upon her at her years invites a breakdown. It seems to me as though it were something that I ought not, and you ought not, to permit, if we can avoid it. The main thing for the girl is her education and preparation for life.

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This child is in the way of and has the opportunity for, and
without expense to her father. Certainly, that being the
case, he should make very great sacrifices to accomplish it.
You would do so; I would do so; anybody of education and
sense would do that. Now, if on the face of these words you
still think I ought to send Louise home, let me know. The
little girl who came with Mr. Campbell never should have been
sent here and I am disappointed in my agent that he accepted
of and brought her here.

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I am.

July 27th, 1891.

Mr. Frank LaFlambe,
Bloomroft, Ohio.

My dear Frank

I have heard about Diley Bess and how
started an inquiry. I think her statements are probably
without foundation, for one is in a most excellent neighbor-
hood, where our girls are especially well treated,-- a little
outlying portion of Philadelphia.

I enclose to you a letter I wrote Mr. Gutter in
answer to one received from him, also his correspondent on
some. From the writing, I judge that it is done by some one
else. Both the Gutter girls are doing especially well here
and are anxious to continue. I feel as though it were
better to do violence to the conditions at home rather than
to them, but will you be kind enough to make a little inquiry,
without letting it be known, and advise me by return of mail
and return the letter to me.

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July 29th, 1901.

T. W. Potter,

Elane, Mrs. F.

My dear Mr. Potter!

I have years from your reach and am ever so glad to know that your channels are so good for propagating your property.

I had nothing whatever to do with permitting Benzie to come here, but encouraged to perform his otherwise. He was not informed of any appointment at Fort Totten; in fact, was led to believe by the delay, according to his own statement, that his appointment was doubtful. He says he waited four months expecting the appointment, and as it did not come it seemed to him best to return to Carlisle, which was what he intended to do ultimately, although. His purpose was to go to Fort Totten and earn some money to put himself through college. I gave him the opportunity to retrieve his steps and still go to Fort Totten, which he prefers not to do now that he has started here, but recommends John Elm as a suitable person to lead the Fort Totten band, and as you know John is quite a capable mechanic, and aside from his musical

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ability would be useful in other capacities. You would
perhaps lose something if you did get John. I have written
advertising him to write to Mr. Graft and have also written
Mr. Graft. I trust this will satisfy him that you
propose up there.

I am sure the less heartily with you than I have
always been, and I think I understand your fight and glory in
your事业. I send you copies of some correspondence be-
to whom the Commissioner and the Catholic Sunday which will
have a strong influence in your locality.

It would be glad to have you drop in on me at Grafton
on your return trip. Do you come part of the way, say so,
and that

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July 28th, 1881.

J. W. Powell,

Director of Geological Survey,

Washington, D. C.

My dear Major Powell,

Judge Wright, of the General Land Office, who was one of my fellow Commissionors in our profession with the Sioux in 1888, is now deceased to get a place for his son on your force, as a distilled laborer in the field. He is a bright active boy and a good pensioner, nearly 22 years of age; can use the typewriter well, and also writes short hands. He is a good hand at work and good at computation. It would be a great favor to Judge Wright, and, as I think, secure for you an exceptionally good help at modest cost, if you should take the boy. I should regard it as a personal favor to myself.

Very sincerely, yours,

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July 28th, 1891.

Hon. John B. Wright,
General Land Office,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Judge!

I have just written to Major Powell, as you request in your letter of yesterday, and shall take it as a personal favor to myself if he will give your boy an appointment. I remember him as a bright active young fellow, and it would be a big education for him to get on the Major's force.

Yours cordially,

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July 26th, 1901.

Mossabat-Bint Abou
Pine Ridge, 2, 3a.

Dear Mossabat

I send you back your money order. It would be quite impossible for us to send you a money order under three months. We to-day ship the wages ordered by the Department to be sent to certain chiefs at your agency.

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July 26th, 1801.

Miss Mary E. DeSoto.

Susi, M. M.,

Via Fort Wingate.

My dear friends!

I have your letter enclosing one from Indian Office, and Inspector Janikin's two letters. If I thought I could turn the mind of the Commissioner and secure a reversal of his decision, I would gladly undertake it, but it must be plain to you that in giving you a wagon he opens a door that would call for many wagons. In the first place, you would become responsible for it and have to make quarterly returns to the government and then turn it over to your successor, or to such other accounting officer as he might determine, and in order to become responsible for government property in that manner you must be regularly appointed and give bonds. If I were Comer, of Indian Affairs, I could not give you a wagon except on these conditions. Why not make the government repair its building, or in part repair it, and you could take some of the repair money and buy your wagons. Certainly if it is a government building you are using and it

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is a government day school, the government should keep the building in proper repair. I am greatly tempted to make an effort to get a wagon donated to you. But for the fact that I am so loaded and so consistently working for my own purposes I would. I can readily see how the matter looks to be very proper and just to you and yet how it is not at all so under the rules and regulations of the government.

Sincerely, your friend.

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August 4th, 1891.

William F. Campbell,
Write Earth, Minn.

My dears William:

I am not at all in favor of attempting to get students from any agency where the agent is not in line with us. I do not know to what the agent refers. I was ready at any time to furnish transportation for Mr. Johnston, or any one else who would bring us a suitable party, but I never got a request direct, although there was correspondence. My feeling is, since you gave me the temper of the agent and Mr. Johnston, that it would be better to let the matter drop. I only took it up because of the information which I wrote you of in my last. We do not want very many students; in fact, I should be quite as well satisfied not to increase our numbers for the ensuing year above what we have at present, - 148. If you did bring a party I should desire that you would limit it to ten.

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August 4th, 1891.

Henry Standing Bear,

Redback Agency, S. D.

Dear Henry:

I have your letter. What I said must have been interpreted to your father. I simply told him that Miss Stockton had written for money for you. I did not send her any money on your account.

In regard to the wages for your father, we shipped five wages to Pine Ridge last week. I do not know if one was for your father.

I hope your Chicago store will prove all you anticipate.

With best wishes from us all for your success,

Gordially, your friend,

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August 4th, 1891.

Mrs. Abner Bowness,
Atkin, Minn.

Dear Madam:

Just now Annie is under discipline. I must say to you that ever since she came to Carlisle she has been a bother, and although she has been repeatedly disciplined it seems to do no good. Her tendency is to make familiarity with the boys and to influence other girls. She generally has a desperate love affair on hands and mouth with great success and skill. She selects her victim and proceeds to enrich him most skillfully. I have just recalled her from a country home because of her intangibles with a young white man near where she lived and since her return I have intercepted a desperate letter of his to her and at the same time two others from a former student of this school who is in New Mexico and who has been sending her money and proposing that she go to New Mexico. It would not be at all in line with my thoughts to send Annie home when she is in such character. I have her confined in a room and her meals are

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being sent to her, and shall keep her under this treatment
for some time. She always appears pleasant enough, can get
up a good cry and say forgiveness and all that at once, but
she at the same time would go out among the girls and laugh
and talk about it. She really needs more severe discipline
than I feel warranted in giving. Her desire to go home
appears to recur at the time she has been caught in one of
her scruples. As soon as that is over and settled she goes
on again all right and is not disappointed to go home. She has
a friend there who signs the name "May" to her letters whose
intimacy with her I question the value of.

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August 8th, 1891.

Louie Montowash,
Omaha, Mich.

My dear Sir!

You have been quite misinformed in regard to the condition of your daughter. She is not sick. As you know, we do not accept students here for short periods. They come to stay five years and it is not practicable for me to arrange to send your daughter home before her time is up unless she should be very sick and not likely to get well. In that case we do send them home.

Yours sincerely,

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August 5th, 1891.

Peter Cornelius,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Peter:

I have yours in regard to the boys and girls
who wish to come back to Carlisle. On inquiry, I find that
Jool Cornelius is probably older than we ought to take them,
and as he has not been a pupil here formerly I do not feel
that we ought to go behind our rules so much as we would be
doing in taking him. Adam Metoxen would be of no use in
the band, and as he is quite mature and has good chances, it
seems to me it would be better for him not to return to
school. If he was a bandman, inasmuch as we are planning
to have a first class band, I should be glad to have him
back, notwithstanding his age, but as he is not and would
simply return as a pupil, and is not especially interested in
getting an education as I thought when he was here, it seems
to me it would be better for him not to return. Those who
have been at Carlisle before need not be examined. Those
who have not had better be examined and I enclose you the

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A necessary form to be made out by the doctor. We pay the doctor 50c. for examinations and want him to make them thorough. You can pay that for each one and take the doctor's receipt, and I will reimburse you. Leaving out Adam and Joel, gives you a party of 12. I have asked that 15 tickets be placed at DePere, subject to your order and I will pay. You may fix your own time of starting. Let each one start with enough lunch to last them for two days between DePere and Carlisle, and you will come through all right.

Sincerely, your friend,

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August 5th, 1891.

Thomas A. Matoxem,

Cantons, Wis.

Dear Thomas

I have made the appointments for the ensuing
year and covered all my allowances for expenditures. On that
account I can hardly see how I can handle you at $12 per
month. I am perfectly willing for you to come back to
Carlisle to work, working all day in our computer shop at
24c. per day that I am allowed to pay apprentices, and if it
can be arranged so I can give you different employment at
$12 per month, which may be the case, I will do that. I
should certainly be very glad to have you come back and my
own judgment is that it would be better for you to go half a
day to school. For your own good I would advise you to
do this. I should be very glad to have you come back if
you can see your way, and I will do the best I can for you.

Your friend,

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August 8th, 1881.

Red Fotheringby,

705 West Adams Street,
Chicago, IL 60601

Dear Sirs

We are on Indian School and not able to indulge in
extravagant entertainments, but on account of the advertise-
ment of it and the character of the school, we usually get
the best entertainments passing to give us what they have at
a low rate. We can accommodate ourselves to the conven-
tion of the entertainers, taking it in the day time or even-
ing as suitebed. Should Miss Dainty be passing this way
and it be convenient for her to give us an exhibition of her
powers some time during the winter, at a moderate cost, I
shall be glad to correspond about it.

Yours respectfully,

Capt. & Supt.

August 6th, 1891.

Mrs. Nahmait,

Round Lake, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Nahmait:

Your son is with Robert Longshore, at Dolington, Pa. A letter addressed to him there in care of Mr. Longshore will reach him. He is out only for the vacation, as nearly 500 of our other boys and girls are. When we open school in the fall he returns here. He is well and doing well and earning a little pocket money, besides learning the English language better, and many of the things that he should learn in regard to American life.

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August 7th, 1891.

Chief White Shield,
Contoonton, Ind. T'y.

My dear friend!

You have no reason to say that I forced
the boys to sign any agreement. They had perfect freedom to
do as they pleased. Because I encouraged them to sign it,
and stated that my judgment was in favor if it, did not take
away their liberty to do as they thought best. No statement
that those who did not sign it would not be sent home, nor
anything like that, was made, and any one who says that such
a statement was made by me or any one else tells a barefaced
lie. It is not practicable nor advisable for me to send
Mark home now. He is here in good lines and should stay
until he is developed into a strong capable man. It was, I
fear, a misfortune that Harvey left Carlisle so soon.

Your friend,

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August 7th, 1891.

Miss Annie B. Wrestling,
Mont Albo, Pa.

Dear Miss Wrestling!

I have been expecting to receive
authority for several days to purchase some. It has not yet
reached me and I can do nothing until it does arrive. I
would not want the shop nor would I care for the bill; but
if the cows are such as you say, I should no doubt be glad to
purchase them. The difficulty of getting them here is some-
thing. It is probable that you can sell the whole lot to
some one person who wants to buy.

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August 7th, 1891.

Miss Alice C. Fletcher,
Fort Lapawai, Idaho.

My dear Miss Fletcher:-

I am going to use the shorthand and type-writing ability
of dear Nana to write to you in answer to yours of July fifth which
I have carried in my pocket for some time waiting for a chance to
talk to you.

When you get out on the reservation you and I agree en-
tirely, not so however, when you get back east. I do not mean to
say by this that you are different in one place than you are in
another, but when I get messages from you from the reservation you
emphasize the individual and when you talk or write in the east you
emphasize land. Now don't you know that I think the Indian would
be far better off financially, physically and morally if his right
to land had never been awarded. Do the best you can with it it
places him down and not up, make the best arrangements you can at
dispersion and you still community him, moreover you die him to the
place by distribution and allotment, and that place in almost every
case remains far from the place where he can develop mentally,
morally and physically (I think I may say the last with equal
certainty). It is therefore a curse to him in every aspect. However
I will not argue the land question with you for I will be sure to
be whipped out for I know so little about it. I am sorry the
Indians are not all blacks, or washer men, as well as women.

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or barbers, hotel waiters, etc. These qualifications would bring the
into fellowship with the world, not having these qualities they
are out of fellowship with the world and it seems to me every move
we make is only calculated to keep them so. I am getting tired and
pessimistic. I despise the plans of my good friend Gen. Morgan
more than I can tell you. The public system at home is like lands
and sevralty, another anchor to keep them there and as lands and
sevralty and the public school system on the reservation are on
top I feel as though the service has little use for me, and there
is not a day but what I am willing and more than willing to quit.
I can get them into fellowship with the country, I can get them
into the public school system of the country, I can make them self-
supporting on many lines, which means supremest manhood. I suppose
really I am to work and wait so that's what I am doing. Morgan help
me all he can but notwithstanding all the noise of that he says 'he
dabbles in politics as much as any man I have come in contact with
in my experience. He tells the Catholics the Constitution is
against his helping them and then presents to them an increased
amount of the school fund. He makes a great deal of noise in the
fight over the contract with the Catholic Bureau and seems to whip
but having the increased appropriation they are after they retire
but in reality are more strongly entrenched.

I realize you must be driven. What an easy thing it
seemed to us at first, - to allot the lands your way, and educate the
children my way! I can still see that it was just as easy but I

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can see that it cannot be done from the bottom it must be done from
the top. I have no doubt that you see your part in the same way.
Where we have one land agent you would say that we should have twen
ty. I say where we have one Carlisle school we should have fifty,
for no other school is a Carlisle school, none of them are working
on Carlisle lines although they all came into being on the pretence
of imitating Carlisle.

The children arrived safely from Lapawai. Isn't that
progress - five Indians leave Fort Lapawai and come to Carlisle
alone? And five too who had had no experience in traveling. That
shows a great deal to me. I am very glad to undertake the couple.
They both look into my face with such trust and kindly feeling
beaming from their black eyes that I am more glad to help them after
what you write than I can tell. They all drop into our work; there
are no idlers at Carlisle to-day. We have five buildings on hand
and granolithic walks all over the ground, - brick, mortar, earth,
sand, cement, lumber, iron-pipe, stone etc., have all to be handled
from morning until night. When it doesn't rain our grounds are
covered with busy workmen and busy Indians helping.

Tell Mr. Corbett if you see him that we shall give Paul
a good chance to work up with brain and muscle. As yet I see no
weakness.

Steven Reubens is out in the country for the summer and
has not yet seen his son. How glad he will be when he returns in
September! But the boy is too small to be here and I was a little

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sorry when he came.

When school opens or the beginning of October I hope to
have comfortable accommodations for three hundred girls with an
increase of fifty. Our hospital accommodations will be doubled; I
shall have a new office building on the site of the old chapel,
vastating the old offices for teachers quarters; and we shall be
heating all the buildings from one place, a building we are erecting
beside the old coal house back of the gymnasium; and we shall also
have the biggest barn in the county and be able to keep sixty cows
giving milk, and as many as seventy-five all told. Four hundred and
eighty-nine students are out in families for the summer and our
earnings this year will run above twenty thousand dollars. Congress
refused again to pay the five thousand dollar debt on the gymnasium.
The students have taken it up and have given about four thousand
dollars and will I guess pay it all.

Four of our graduate boys turn into Dickinson and
Maryland Agricultural College this fall and several of our graduate
girls run into higher schools. I have the way cleared up top for
all who will climb there and shall keep it open notwithstanding
some opposition from those in authority. Secretary Noble seemed
warmly against it.

We did not fall below seven hundred when the home goers
left us.

I am glad to tell you that Mrs. Pratt is now very much
better health than she has been for years. Nana is also improved

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and to contemplating Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Smith and Wellesley, but
will probably have to give a year to preparation. We had a six
week's visit from Marion, Guy and the baby, and during that time
Benson, Mabel and their baby were over several times, so that the
summer has been very pleasant in the family.

Miss Gay's article will have to go through two more
numbers of the Red Man. My, what a volume she is! Give her my
kindest regards and accept for yourself the assurance of the loving
remembrances of Mrs. Pratt and myself and all at Carlisle who know
you. Your name is often mentioned at Carlisle.

Your friend,

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August 7th, 1891.

Miss Mary E. Raymond,

Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

My dear Miss Raymond:

I have been intending for several days to write you in reference to Hattie and other items in your letter, but I have been away in New York and other places and have been very busy with the pressing duties of the school, so that much of my correspondence has been neglected.

While I am a little sorry that Hattie should give up her school just at the time she is to graduate, I shall not prevent her doing so if she herself desires to do so. Hattie is not a strong character nor will she be as efficient help as you need, yet she will be of great help to you as she can speak and write English very well and is free from those habits of shyness that the boys and girls on the reservation have.

Adelia Lowe is in the same boat. She is not far from graduation and it would be a pity for her to miss doing that, but to help your schools I will be willing to let her go if she desires and receives the appointment.

I was a little sorry to have you decline coming here because your seal and interest in the work would be of

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August 10th, 1882.

William B. Harvey,

West Grove, Pa.

My dear friends:

It is my intention now to leave here Thursday morning for your place, taking Mrs. Pratt and my little girl, Rechanda, with us. We will arrive at Pomeroy at 9 and leave there for Baker's at 10.05, where I hope you will send to meet us. We want to spend the night with you and then go on to Philadelphia sometime the next day. Indeed, I would like to go so as to reach Ocean Grove that evening. However, if there is any stock that it is worth while to look at, I can give more time. We want to take a little trip to the ocean and get back home Saturday.

If you have any engagements that conflict with this visit, please wire me at once.

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August 11th, 1891.

Constantin Sternberg,

1742 N. 15th Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Sternberg!

I have heard so much of you through
my daughter that I feel quite well acquainted with you.
I think I can quite easily handle the concert for you here in
Carlisle on the date you name. We shall expect you and Mrs.
Sternberg to step with us. Name will be known, probably in
Germantown, but will, of course, wait to come home for that
occasion. Be kind enough to give me a goodly number of the
large lithographs, also of the circulars, a sufficient time in
advance.

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1 Mm.

August 11th, 1891.

Mr. Gordon,

Reserve, Sanger Co., Waseda

My dear Mr. Gordon!

I think you have chosen well for your
boys. I do as you say, give each of them $2.00, or rather
place that amount to their credit and will allow them to make
use of it judiciously as they may need. Once a month boys
who have money have the opportunity to state what they want
to purchase and receive money to make such purchases. The
remainder, $80, is herewith returned to you.

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I am.

August 11th, 1861.

Mrs. Elizabeth Fletcher,

Langhorne, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Fletcher

I am not only certified but greatly in-
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my lady, and more especially towards a lady of your years,
as your friend.
On the first information, which was rather
I had Nori tried by a court composed of the students.
no more, I had Nori tried by a court composed of the students.
You can gather their estimate of such conduct by the sentence
they imposed, which is herewith, and which is now being
carried out.
Nori is in a dark dungeon and will remain
there for two weeks and afterwards remain in the guardhouse
for two weeks longer and will be subject to the other loss
of privileges imposed by the Court.

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August 11th, 1891.

Saw - Townend,
Olive Agency,
Ponceo, Oo.

Dear Auntie!

Glad to hear from you and to know something of how
Miss Clarke is getting on. Glad to know that she is fight-
ing it out on that line.

About students, would it not be better for you to
make up a little party and bring them in? Then, I can give
you a ticket and you can step off on route. I want really
good students, I do not care whether they are from the Otoea,
Ponceo or Pameo, or all of them, and we should have a pro-
portion of girls, as you understand. None should be under
18, preferably none under 14, and we prefer not to have any
under 18, but still we have had some 10 and even 20 come in.
They should be in good health and have good characters. If
you will make up a little party of these, and let me know
their names and age and what you know about each one, and
where you want the tickets placed, I shall have the tickets
there at the time you require.

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August 22th, 1881.

Levi Levering,

Credit Agency, N.Y.

Dear Levi!

At your request and that of Mr. Hamilton, I
have arranged to have Daily return home at the end of this
week. As he is at present near Philadelphia, but will come in
Thursday and start at once for Boston.

With regard to Louisa, his progress and conduct here
is discouraging and I do not feel much hope for his success,
but will do so you will.

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August 18th, 1891.

Howard G. Logan,

Winnebago, Neb.

My dear Howard:

Several months ago I received a letter from you asking me how you could return me the $50 I loaned you. I wrote informing you: "Since that time I have had nothing from you, and as it was a personal matter and it was not within my power to give you the benefit of any Government aid farther than I had already done, I trust you will see the situation in which I am placed and will, as early as you can, replace the money."

What are your intentions for the future? Is your health improved, so that you can seriously consider the higher education? If so, can I help you?

Faithfully, your friend,

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August 18th, 1891.

Daniel Boughman,
Shibbolet, Kansas.

My dear Boughman:

It is not possible for me to recall incidents connected with individual members of Company C, at the time we were in Huntsville in 1865, which you refer to, sufficiently to make affidavit thereto. The records of the medical department of the regiment ought to indicate something in regard to your being in the doctor's hands, and these taken together with the evidences of your comrades who were more with you, and can remember more distinctly, must bear you out. I would suggest, now that there is a general service pension which would relieve you of the necessity of hunting up such information as you are after and which will give you a pension without it being necessary for you to establish the occurrence of the particular disability that you claim, that you make application under the general service pension law.

Sincerely, your friend,

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August 18th, 1891.

Dr. S. M. Whistler,
Secretary, etc.,
Bainbridge, Pa.

My dear Sir

It would be quite convenient for us to have
you here at the hour you name. It will save time if you
arrange to have your car run on to our siding. I am very
sure the C. V. R. R. officials will do that for you, if you
ask them. That will place you at once on the school grounds.
Our siding is on the freight track which runs to one side of
the town, but we frequently have excursion trains stop there.
Advise me a day or two before in order that I may give you
the better reception.

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August 18th, 1898.

Miss Laura M. Reed,

/o Judge L. H. Warren,

Albuquerque, N. M.

My dear Laura!

On my return from an absence at the ocean,
I find your letter, and it makes me glad to know that you re-
member Carlisle and your school life with so much pleasure.
I have not time to write you much, for many letters have
accumulated. Maria is thinking of returning to Carlisle
and I have agreed to send her transportation. Should a few
other good healthy students who are ambitious to increase
their education care to come in at the same time I will be
glad to furnish them tickets too. If you care to come
again, you can. We have grown much larger and are putting
up many new buildings, and altogether we anticipate that our
next year's school will be the best we have ever had.

With kindest regards to yourself and to all Carlisle
students whom you may meet.

Faithfully, your friend,

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August 18th, 1891.

Nathalthdsetelh,

Mt. Vernon Barracks, Ala.

My dear Friend!

Replying to yours, in regard to your son, Knox
Nostlin, I must inform you that it is, to my mind, quite
impracticable to send him to Mt. Vernon just now. Know how
made great advancement in the knowledge of English and in
his education and has become quite a man. He is in the best
of lines for his own interests and for yours eventually, as
I think, and while that is so better keep him there.

Sincerely, your friend,

Capt. & Sup't.

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August 18th, 1891.

Louis Bordeaux,
Rosebud Agency, S. D.

My dear Louis:

I have just returned from an absence of a few days at the ocean and find your letter in regard to Jennie Dubray. Jennie left us with the distinct and most unequivocal understanding that she would come back and finish her course here, which now is not long; and while I can speak in very high terms of her, and can say good things as to her qualifications as a teacher, I shall not, for two reasons, do that: First, - Because her duty to herself is to give herself the better preparation which her coming back to Carlisle for a year or two more contemplated; and second, it is contrary to my principles to say anything to agent or Department in relation to employes for Agencies or other schools unless I am asked by the agent or the Department. Should the Department want to know from me what Jennie's qualities as a teacher are, I should state them, and, at the same time, I should state just what I have above, that she left here to return and finish her course and that that is her only wise thing to do.

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August 16th, 1908.

Joel Tymcaill,

Omaha Agency, Neb.

Dear Joel:

I am just back from an absence at the ocean and have your letter. If you can bring us more than eight, not less than three of whom shall be girls, preferably four, all in good health, of good character, above 12 years of age, not more than 18, who can be recommended by Mrs. Wade and whom Dr. LaFliesche will pass as strong and healthy. I will cheerfully give you a ticket to Carlisle and return to Worcester.

I am sorry to hear what you say about Howard and the other boys and can only live in hopes that they may see differently and change.

My feeling is that Jennie Mitchell, on account of her years and her health, had better not return to Carlisle, but if she does return to Carlisle, it must be with the expectation of finding a good place somewhere where she can make her own way. I will cheerfully aid her to that end, but do not think it best that she come back to take up school life.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Wade,
Sincerely yours,

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August 19th, 1891.

Miss Mary E. DeSett,
Luna, Pueblo,
Via Fort Wingate, N. M.

Dear Miss DeSett:

I can thoroughly understand how you are placed and sympathize fully with your wants, and were it in my power I should ship you a wagon forthwith.

I can also see how that the agent could himself have special agents in charge of property in the different villages, - that is quite common in the Indian service, - they being responsible to him and he being responsible to the government.

Miss Wood had left us and gone into the mission work again at Omaha and her address is Omaha Agency, Neb. Miss Hamilton is away on her leave, but will be back in a few days now. The registered package for Miss Hamilton came here and was duly forwarded to her, so that you probably have her acknowledgment before this.

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August 18th, 1891.

Thomas W. Potter,

Fort Totten, N. D.

My dear Mr. Potter:

Tell Mr. Canfield that I buy capes from Horstmann, Bros. & Co., Philadelphia. They cost us about 60c. each. It is the regular army standard cap, very durable.

In regard to the band, I don't see how I can aid you. I am just investing $500 in my own band and shall have to make a beg of friends to do that, and with the increased numbers at Carlisle and decreasing avenues of charity supplies I am put to it a good deal to make ends meet. I wish I could help you out. Making a fight yourselves and getting somebody stirred up ought to give you the amount.

Glad the boys serve you so well. Shall depend largely upon the inspiration of your enthusiasm to help them out.

Have just returned from a week's absence at the ocean.

With kindest regards,

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August 18th, 1891.

C. Bennett,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Dear Sir!

Replying to your letter of 11th inst., in reference
to the two daughters of James Williams, I have to respectfully
advise you that the duty of the Government is towards the
children, and it becomes necessary all the time to contend
with the parents in reference to their children's schooling.
The Indians are not disposed to push their children and are
not generally inclined to be grateful even for the education
which the government gives their children free, but rather
inclined to interpose every obstacle possible to the con-
summation of an education for individual children. A few
weeks or a few months seem to rest in their minds as suffic-
ient for their children's education. I have had some corres-
pondence before about these girls, and as I now know them
thoroughly and the disposition of the father, I must say that
the purposes of the government to educate the children are of
much greater importance to the government and to the children,
and to the father himself, than the gratification of the

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August 18th, 1891.

Mr. Chas. L. Hyde,

Pierre, &c.

My dear Sir:

I have just called Chauncey Yellow Robe to the office and had a little talk with him about your proposition. Chauncey is within a year or two of graduating from our grammar grade; he began with nothing and he has developed well and rapidly. He is a good strong character, has many excellent traits but he is not as strong in his education, or in his civilized notions, as he ought to be before being placed in such close juxtaposition to the Sioux reservation. I have no doubt that Chauncey would do well with you and be all that you would desire and would earn what you propose to give him. He would be an excellent person to have in your family just as you propose, but for his own sake and the sake of his race he ought to have a little more rounding off in his education and be better established in his civilized notions. These conditions can best be reached where he is now, and after talking it over with him he has concluded to remain at Carlisle. When he is through here, if you have a

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place for him, I doubt if you could do better.

August 18th, 1891.

John Bishop.
Columbus, N. J.

My dear Sir:

I am exceedingly obliged to you for your prompt and explicit letter in regard to A. B. and shall keep a careful look out. If the party puts in an appearance here, and makes any demonstrations on our ground, he will land in the Guard house.

Word has been sent to you about the R. N. fare.

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August 20th, 1891.

John P. Young.

Highland Park, Ill.

My dear Sir:

I shall need to know something about your
character, your age, and whether you are a full-bred
Indian or a mixed blood, before I can decide whether to
accept of you or not. Please have some one who knows you
write me directly telling me what kind of a young man you are;
also write me yourself telling me who your parents are, how
old you are, what you have been doing the three years you
have been absent from Fort Berthold. I shall also want to
know where you attended school and how far you had advanced.
If the answers to these questions are satisfactory, I will
cheerfully send you a ticket.

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August 20th, 1891.

Levi St. Cnr,

Winnebago Agency, Neb.

My dear Levi:

I got your letter. We could not accept the small boys you speak of. We do not want children under 12. Occasionally such children are sent to us but it is always against our wish. I have authorized Joel Tyndall to make up to a party of 8. You might cooperate with him. We are so full we have no room for more than that number and they must be all good characters and healthy, and come with the intention to stay until they graduate. We do not want them to come for five years, if they can graduate in less. If they graduate in two or three years, that is all right, we will open a way for them to go home; but we want them to stay until they graduate, whether it takes them five, six or seven years.

With regard to yourself, Levi, I have thought that it would not be bad policy for you to stay out of school for a year, and yet if you think it best to return to Carlisle and go over some of the ground I shall not object to your

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August 21st, 1891.

Mr. Ab Bameson,

Atkin, Minn.

Dear Sirs,

The situation is such in reference to Annie that both for her own good and for the discipline of the school I do not feel that it is well to consent to your wishes just now. Later on I may think it best, but to furnish her an opportunity to run away from discipline, and to place before the school a thing of that kind, unless I dismissed her in disgrace which I do not think it best to do, would be bad both for her and for the school.

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August 21st, 1891.

Laurence Smith,

Winnipeg Agency, Neb.

Dear Laurence:

I have had your letter under advisement for
several days and have not thought it best for you to return
to Carliole for the reason that our higher departments would
not specially aid you, and I am undertaking about as much as I
can carry in the way of extras, in the shape of boys and girls
I have already arranged to go to college and higher schools.
Hampton could carry you further, though I would not give you
advice about going there. It has not seemed to us that
you had in you the qualities necessary to make a teacher, after
trying you through the winter here, and whether you should
go to Hampton and get more education or not would depend
largely upon your purpose or aim in life. You are fairly
educated now for all purposes of a life in such lines as you
are likely to be placed, and you are old enough to make your
start. You yourself chose to do it at the agency. That
interfere with my enthusiasm for giving you a greater
eastern education.

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August 21st, 1891.

Miss Ida Johnston,
Seneca, Mo.

My dear Miss Johnston!

Miss Choteau, a sister of Luzena Choteau, wants to come to Carlisle, and if she is perfectly satisfactory in health and other matters I shall be glad to have her come. Won't you kindly give me your judgment at once.

Referring to your own coming, I have nothing from you to the contrary and am expecting you sometime in September. If you should desire the benefit of our special rate from Seneca to Carlisle, $19, I can arrange to have ticket delivered to you at Seneca.

Sincerely, your friend,

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August 21st, 1881.

Stacy Matlack,

Indian Industrial School,
Fort Totten, N. D.

My dear Stacy!

Yours received. I am exceedingly glad to know that you are content with your surroundings and of the promise you have for making yourself largely useful. It would be a very great pleasure to me to enjoy the advantages of fishing in your lake and I hope to some time. Your school is greatly favored in buildings and land, but I think you will find eventually that the loss of the opportunity to get the students among good white people as we do at Carlisle and into friendly relations with the country at large, will be very much more than overcome the extra advantage you have in large land, new buildings and your beautiful lake. However that may be, we are all working towards the same end and will not quarrel on these minor points particular.

Wishing you every success, and desiring to be or

from you from time to time as you may feel inclined to write, and with cordial remembrances to Mr. Potter and your super-
intendent.

Faithfully, your friend,

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August 22nd, 1891.

Tall Red Bird,

Dorlington, O. T.

Dear Sirs

I do not know why on your instructions I should
send Lake Bear Shield home. I know Lake's father very well
and his name is not Tall Red Bird. Lake remained here
this year at his own instance and it will be better for him
to continue.

The $25 you sent to Lake Bear Shield has been
credited to his account and is subject to your order. If
you want it returned to you advice me.

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August 22d, 1891.

H. Barada,

Buneroft, Noh.

Dear Girl

There is no evidence in our records of the receipt
of $5 by your daughter. If you sent it in a registered
letter we should know all about it. If you sent it by P. O.
order direct to your daughter we would know nothing about it.
The safest way to send money is by registered letter or send
it direct to me; then we would make a record and know that the
money is received. If you write to your daughter, care of
Mrs. H. M. Beamer, Oak Lane, Philadelphia, Pa., there is no
doubt of her getting the letter.

Yours sincerely,

Sept. 4 & Sept.

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August 23rd, 1881.

Kich Hainline,

Gerryne & Aropahoe Agency,

Burlington, &c.

Dear Kish-

I have you're written at the instance of White
Foster, it had planned to bring Bell back to the school this
fall, feeling that it was best we gave him one good year's
work here before letting him go home. I do not think it
best to deviate from this course, unless it is urged by the
agent. If Agent Ashley writes me that in his judgment the
boy should be sent home, I should, under the conditions of
your letter, be willing to send him; otherwise, I am sure he
had better stay here. It is Bell's good that the govern-
ment is after which, remotely of course, means the good of
the father and family. The more he knows the stronger he is
in civilized notions, and the better for himself and in-
directly for his people. You understand this as well as
I do.

Sincerely, your friend,

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August 22nd, 1892.

Louise Lorillard,

Gainsboro Agency, New York

My dear Louisa,

Louis is not well. He is in his usual good health. He sent $40 to his father in January, at my instance through Miss Laffitte's. This was returned by Miss Laffitte, it being her judgment that it was not wise to let his father have it at that time. Afterwards, in March, she wrote for his father again and advised that the money be sent to him again, and it was so sent. I think this is all, with the exception perhaps of $5 that Louis sent his father previously. I am willing to keep him here and am willing to send him home. My judgment is with you that his own good is best served by his remaining here, but if there is any good reason why he should go home I will cheerfully send him.

You do not tell me anything of yourself, what your plans and prospects are.

With kindest regards,

Faithfully, your friend,

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August 20th, 1991.

Baltimore, MDive
Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen

I send the two crests which I spoke about to your man in charge of your engraving, and would be glad to have his ideas in reference to combining the two to make one. In case I should be satisfied with his notion, I would like a little stamp of a smaller size and a plate, or whatever may be necessary, to make a print of a larger size, corresponding to examples he showed me for letter heads and envelopes that of The Barrick crest in my mother's family and the Pratt's came from my father's side, and I thought that some design which would include portions of each, and the nettle of the Barrick crest, would form a very pretty combination. Then sending me a little draft of what you may make, please let me know what would be the expense. Please also keep the leaves perfect and return to me as I wish to place them back in the book.

Yours truly,

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August 22nd, 1901.

Randall Belchey,

Port Bampard, Ct. Ma.

My dearest Randall,

I got your letter and am glad to hear
from you after so long a absence. I had begun to think you
were forgetting me and the Indian School at Carlisle. I
hope you will make a good, true soldier, that you will do
nothing that is wrong, or bad and will always be able to hold
your head up and look people in the face. Give my kindest
regards to Constant and Bland and all the Carlisle boys.

We are doing a great deal of work at Carlisle. The old chapel is torn down, and we are building a nice brick home there for office. We have good stone walls all over the ground and are making a large addition to the girls' building, also an addition to the hospital and have one of the largest barns in the county at the Parker Farm. We are just getting ready to begin school. Some of the teachers are back from their vacation; others will be here in a few days. The Apache boys, so far as I know, are in good health and good spirits. Our school this winter will probably be member

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378

August 24th, 1891.

Miss L. E. Dittes,
/o Dr. Haines,
Racooas, N. J.

Dear Miss Dittes:

You jump about so that we have no chance
ci you and your letters do not tell us where to find you,
except the letter of 22nd, received this morning, in which
you say that you want vouchers to care of Dr. Haines, Ran-
cocas. I find nothing in your letters in reference to the
preposition of girls who care to stay out and proportion that
are wanted to remain out.

Annie Thomas wrote Miss Fisher of her wishes and I
authorized Miss Fisher to encourage her to take the course
at Carlisle that she proposes this winter. I believe Annie
can pick up as much here during the winter, if she goes into
the Normal class and takes up the other work that she ought to
us she could if she went back to Alma, as things do not seem
as favorable to her as they have heretofore been.

William Campbell came in from White Earth last
night with five boys and five girls, all of them somewhat ad-

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vancea.

We are pushing our work all we can, but the contin-
ual rain sets the masons back on the brick work of your girls
quarters, and it is now not possible for us to have the
buildings ready for occupancy by the end of September, as we
had planned and as the contractor agreed. It rained hard
here yesterday, and as a matter of course the work can be off
to-day waiting for the material to dry.

It is quite likely that we shall have to make
special arrangements for the girls to remain out until the
middle or last of October, for I cannot see how it is poss-
ible for us to care for them here.

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August 24th, 1891.

William P. Campbell,
Newtown, Bucks Co., Pa.

My dear Mr. Campbell:

I have years of 22nd, and am greatly pleased to see how successful you are in the matter of places wanting boys and boys wanting to stay, but we shall necessarily have to limit, for we must do the very best we can for the school and the pupils this year. However, we shall talk that all over when you reach Carlisle.

I find that it will be practicable for you to be absent for a couple of days at the seashore, as you desire, and certainly you are entitled to the respite.

I am doubtful about the case of Charles Wright and the girl and shall let matters rest until you come in when we will bring it up again.

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August 25th, 1891.

Prof. F. B. Palmer, Ph. D.,
Principal, Normal School,
Fredonia, N. Y.

My dear Sirs:

Miss Hunt writes me of your willingness to
take a couple of our students into your Normal school. The
expense of it is the important item to me. Won't you be
kind enough to send me your catalogue and let me know all the
cost per annum for each one.

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August 20th, 1891.

Kich Haskine.

Cheyenne & Arapahoe Agency.

Burlington, Ind. T'y.

Dear Kish:

If in the judgment of Agent Ashley, Eunory Ballew
should return, and he will write me to that effect, I shall
certainly give it the most favorable consideration I can.
Eunory is here at Carlisle longer than his time upon his own
expression of desire. I may have encouraged him to remain, -
doubtless I have, as I encourage all to remain, but that does
not take away their personal option. Certainly, it would be
a great deal better for Eunory to continue longer. You and
others now at the agency are standing examples of the ad-
vantage of a long stay east.

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August 25th, 1991.

J. P. Young

Island Park, Ill.

My dear Sir:

You are so much above the age at which we
accept students here that I feel it is not practicable for
me to encourage you to come to Carlisle. You have already
pushed yourself through for a few years, as you state, and I
should at any cost, if I were you, continue to do just that.
Stay at Island Park if you can. Ask the superintendent to
try you ever again. You must not get offended or out of
patience with little things.

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August 18th, 1891.

Mrs. Helen R. Dunham,

Schleswig, Ind. P'y.

Dear Mrs. Dunham:

I have years of August 18th, awaiting
Walter Hollings' letter. It will not be objected to if I
take Walter here, provided he reports here at his own expense.
I can then carry him along very well. If you or his friends
can see him this far on the way in his expenses I will attend
to the rest. I do not feel warranted in giving you en-
couragement about the other you speak of, even in the same
way. I understand very well that Haskell has, and always
has had, Cherokees and Orieke, but I am frequently told in
the Department at Washington of their intention to break
it up and require the Cherokees to educate their own children.

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August 26th, 1891.

Percy Xenides,

Chestnut Hill,
Philadelphia.

Dear Percy:

To go to Hampton, as you propose, would be re-
treating, - not only retreating from your position but re-
treating upon a point not to your greatest advantage nor to
the greatest advantage of your people. Why have you not
been back here? Why don't you come and see us and let us
consider your case, if you do not feel equal to the emer-
gencies about you. I should raise an objection in the
Indian Office against your going to Hampton, but if you want
to go to school again come here and let me consider it with
you.

Your friend,

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August 27th, 1891.

Dear Friends:

Nellie and the children arrived 4 o'clock
Tuesday, and Richard was here at daylight Wednesday morning
with the cattle. Thanks for your attention. My check for
$958 is here with it and the odd 35c. in postage stamps. Please
send the vouchers herewith and return. Make me a bill on
one of your headings, not receipted, in exact form as the
voucher and add the descriptions of the four cows received
from Hughes and McFaden, for which I find no description in
your name.

I feel inclined to try the Union Cutter, after
looking at it yesterday at Williams Grove and finding that I
can buy the largest size, having about the same capacity as
the Ohio cutter you name, together with a masher and the
necessary carrier, 60 feet, for about what our friend in
Philadelphia asks for his carrier. His price on carrier
was $50. I got the machine, crusher and carrier for $158.

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August 27th, 1891.

Georgie Parrish,

Vinita, Ind. T'y.

Dear Georgie!

Yours telling of your safe arrival and of your pleasant trip received. It is a great satisfaction to know that you reached home in good time and are able to render such valuable assistance to those in distress. We remember you, of course, at Carlisle, sorry that you left and hope that all things may be pleasant with you.

Sincerely, your friend,

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August 27th, 1891.

Peter Shongo,

Versailles,

Caterpillar Co., N. Y.

Dear Sir:

We have a very few representatives of the New York
tribes in our school, but it is against the law and I cannot
take any more. The Commissioner graciously permitted me
to accept of the few we have. If you get the Comr. of
Indian Affairs or the Secretary of the Interior to direct
me to receive a few students, I would, of course, be glad
to do it, but I cannot without their authority.

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August 28th, 1891.

Abram Piatt,

Palm Beach Agency, Ind. T'y.

Dear Abram:

I have a notion that you, being now nearly or
en route 25 years of age, should feel yourself a man and push out
into the world in your own lines and not try school more,
and yet, if you are very strongly bent on trying to improve
yourself, I feel that we ought not to entirely deny you the
privilege, so I will say that if you report here at your own
cost, for the purpose of staying here a year or two longer,
and will then go home at your own cost, I shall make no objections to taking you.

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August 28th, 1891.

Loose Quarters,

Reserve, Wis.

Dear Sir:

After considering the matter until this time, I must inform you that it is not practicable to send the children, Mary Barker and your son, home as you desire. They came here for a period of five years or until they should graduate. We take children under no other conditions. The improvement in Mary Barker's health has been remarkable and so herself begs to stay. Your son is reported as being bright, active, healthy, and there is certainly no good substantial reason why he should return home. I have, therefore, to advise you that the $45 sent for their transportation is subject to your order. If you desire either or both to keep the whole or any part of it, and that the rest be returned to you, write me and I will do just as you say.

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2 Bic.

August 28th, 1891.

Mr. Chas. Aubrey,

Blackfeet Agency, Mont.

My dear Mr. Aubrey:

not
Your letter of July 18th came in due time,
but as I had settled my Railload accounts, and was not able to
do so until recently, I could not send you the necessary re-
ceipt and account. As my recollection was that you had
spoken of sleeping car accommodations home for Alice, I was
compelled to purchase a first class ticket, which I did, and
hereewith enclose to you the receipt of Mr. J. R. Wood, G.P.A.,
Penna. R. A. for the same, by which you will see the ticket
cost $60.50, and covers the sum which I had reserved to pay
for it. Sorry to hear of the misadventure and detention of
Alice and pleased that all turned out well in the end. There
is no doubt about Alice's condition and it is certain to me
that you have adopted the best course, - plenty of horse-back
out-deer exercise. Rose seems in the best of health and
quite happy. I see her almost daily and she always pleas-
antly responds to my greeting.

We have been greatly burdened with improvements in

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the school and are just in the midst yet, but shall begin our
session next week as usual. I should be very glad to have
a visit from you at any time. Bring me a good party of
Indians, who are parents of children here, with you if you
would can. We shall hardly be under full headway until
first or middle of October for I must, for want of room,
keep many girls out in the country.

Alice's bank book is returned.

Yours sincerely,

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August 27th, 1891.

Hon. John D. Miles, Comdr.,
World's Columbian Commission,
Chicago, Ill.

Friend Miles:

Our Department has had quite a setback, as I understand, in the allowance made by your Commission for us. The whole Indian Bureau has been allowed but $5,000 with which to make an exhibit. Of course, this amounts to an invitation not to make any exhibit. I shall want space, as much as I can get, for Carlisle, whether the Indian Department is on hands or not. I would, of course, merely present school and civilized work. I would represent all of our working departments as well as our school rooms and think I can present an exhibit worth looking at. I shall be ready to come to Chicago with 300 Indian young men and the best Indian band in the country and march in the parade unless I am choked off by some overpowering influence. Whatever may happen along the balance of the line I trust you to look out for these and thus much for Carlisle.

Faithfully, your friend,

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September 1st, 1891.

Dr. F. B. Palmer,
Normal School,
Frederia, N. Y.

Dear Doctor:

I am sending you by to-night's train Annie Thomas, one of my first and very best pupils. She came to us ten years ago from the dregs of the lowest Indian life, from Acoma, one of the Pueblo villages of New Mexico. I have held on to her hopefully through all the years, anxious to make her capable for good life anywhere. The last two years she has spent in Alma College, Mich. The expense of keeping her there and the distance, as well as the change in administration and the moving away of friends in Alma who induced me to send her there, have led me to take her away from there this year. I would like her to take a thorough Normal course and to know a little something of kindergarten in order that she may become a successful teacher. I can use her here when she is ready, or, better still, send her out into American life to fight her way as others do. She is an exceptionally good girl. You will find her willing to fill

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her place anywhere and perfectly willing to labor in any capacity. I do not think it best to send two or more for the reason that an Indian community is formed everywhere so soon as there is a plurality. Annie herself would not care to go to any school, away from Carlisle, if she had Indian company. Her experiences are her guides.

Though I do not know you personally, doctor, I know a great deal about you, and I commit this young lady to your care with great confidence and hope and with a desire that you will, so far as possible in connection with your great numbers, be her friend and adviser, as I am here. I will pay all of her bills on presentation, and as I am making myself personally accountable I shall be glad, of course, to have them no larger than is absolutely necessary. I should be glad to have Annie Thomas with you, if no preventing providence intervenes, until she graduates from your higher Normal course.

I sometimes visit my brother-in-law, Mr. L. L. Mason, Jamestown, and when I do shall now be glad to run over to Fredonia.

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September 2, 1891.

Col. Walter G. Harmon,
Laguna, N. M.

My dear Colonel:

I like your frankness and am glad that we
are not over against each other. I will do as you re-
commend about Jean Matia. She probably will not return to
the school, however, for six weeks or more. I read the
article you sent with great interest. I am sure the half is
not asserted. My correspondence for years has been more
than confirmatory of all that this article says, and the
tricks the priests in New Mexico and elsewhere have played,
the underhanded methods they have resorted to, condemn them
as enemies to the advancement of the Indians and also enemies
of the government of the United States. I am sorry to tell
you that our good Commissioner, notwithstanding all he writes
in reference to catholicism and all that he says about the
unconstitutionality of giving to religious sects, and especially
to catholics, funds of the United States to enable them
to educate Indian youth in their particular doctrine, has this
year added $40,000 more to their allowance than they had last

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year. Mothinks the catholic priests put up their sleeves
and laugh and say to themselves, "Just whip us that way all
the time."

Sorry to hear of the loss of your old cavalry horse.
I know how to sympathize with you, for I have in my time lost
a most valuable animal under such circumstances and nobody
prizes a good horse better than I do.

We are doing no end of work and improving our
accommodations here far more than ever before. Our school
to-day numbers 769 and we shall probably creep above the 800
before Christmas.

With cordial greetings to your brother and Major
Prudt,

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September 2, 1891.

William B. Hartery,

West Grove, Pa.

My dear friend:

I have your enclostng vouchers. In sending
the vouchers we omitted to enclose the 33c. in stamps. We
now enclose them.

The cattle are doing well, and Richard is getting
things well in hand. Our general milk supply is on the
increase, close up to 50 gallons to-day.

If it suits you quite as well, I think you had
better come and see us, as you suggest, in November. Our
girls are not likely to come in until latter part of October
and our school will not be in full running order until they
are in. We should be glad, of course, to see you earlier,
but for your own satisfaction and ours as well, the time in-
dicated is best.

I am hearing of registered Guernseys andjerseys
up this way, of large flow, that I can get here,- thrice I am
to look at in a day or two.

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Any time that you have anything specially good to
-- offer, let me know.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Harvey.

Gordially yours,

September 2nd, 1921.

Miss Rila S. Hart,

Louisville, Pa.

Dear Miss Hart:

You were very kind to write so in extenuation
of Thomas' conduct. I think him however too much of an
offender to overlook his conduct, and I have plumed him on
the black list until December 31st. I am sorry that he
should have given you the annoyance that he has and shall try
to make the lesson that I shall give him for it last him a
lifetime.

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September 1st, 1892.

Martin Hill.

Oneida, Wis.

My dear Sir:

I am made aware that you are not helping your
son by counsels from home. On the contrary, he is worried
by what is written him from home. Nicodemus himself is all
right and disposed to make the very best use of his very
valuable privileges. I think perhaps if you knew that he is
in one of the best schools in Pennsylvania, and is in just
the line's which will enable him to learn how to be a man and
transact business with men of the white race, as well as the
red race, and that in no other way could he acquire as rapidly
all the principles and qualities necessary to make him a
good man, that you would write him differently. His own
welfare is at stake. If he is made contented by what he
hears from home and is encouraged, he will make far better
use of his privileges than he will if he is not encouraged.
I beg of you, therefore, having an equal interest in him,
that you give him good fatherly advice and encourage him to
improve every opportunity that comes to him to make a man of
himself.
Sincerely, your friend,
R. H. Poach

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September 2nd, 1891.

P. M. Brown,

New Britain, Conn.

My dear Sir:

Yours truly,

September 2, 1891.

Wilton Abram,

Akron, Ohio, M. Y.

My dear Sir,

Yours truly,

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September 2, 1891.

Thomas W. Potter,
Portsmouth, N. H.

My dear Potter:

I am compelled, as a measure of self-protection,
to hold on to the very students that you have selected.
I am encouraging to build up a good band for next year's
Colombian parade. I wish to take, at least, two hundred of
my boys into the line in October next year with our band and
join the procession which shall stand out as one of the most
remarkable in the history of the world. Edwin, as you know,
is one of our best bandmen, and aside from that he is my
principal baker. While I could spare him from the bakery, I
feel that it is better we held on to him. William Baird is
also one of our best players, and he is also in the graduat-
ing class, which makes it important that he stay. Ben Gas-
well is in the graduating class, and on that account should
not leave Carlisle.

I would not, if I were you or Mr. Gansfield, do or
say anything to make a distinction between protestants and
catholics. Ben Ganswell and the other catholics here are not

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In my way at all, I rather enjoy having them here. If we
allow them exclusively to the private, it is the blind leading
the blind, and they never will be anything else. If we
let them get out and by contrast and comparison get a know-
ledge of different things we have hopes that they will volun-
tarily change, as many have done who were here; and yet, we
have never proselyted in my knowledge.

While I agree with you, in the main, with regard to
the young Indians having employment, don't you see that what
you propose is simply going back on the record of what I
would do? I don't believe in having the Indian play upon the
Indian so much. The benefits are not so great as you
suppose. Under your kindly care and direction, and that of
Mr. Canfield, I am sure our boys will do well, but you may
be ordered home and Mrs. Canfield, and one some time is not
so friendly and who knows less about handling them and any
they go. It has been so always; it will always be so. The
best thing to be done for the Indian is to put him on a foot-
ing and an equality with the white man, - make him think as
the white man thinks, holler as the white man hollers, and
compete in every department with the white man. Make him
 capable to do this, and then have him do so and let him branch
 out, disintegrate, -separate himself. If I gave all my best

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students who could make a success of living among civilized
people to such place as you propose. I should be constantly
fulfilling. I have failed a great deal on that account. I
have yielded far more than I ought to. I am western school.
Haskell started out with exactly the same notion that you
have, so did Gwinnett and others. I helped every one of them
to the same manner as I have helped you, but some of my stu-
dents remained there; changes of administration drove them
away as it drove the white employee away. Civil Service
Reform is a good deal of a loading. There will be more ways to
dodge any benefits that may be supposed to accrue from it
than you can count, in the course of a few years; but, I am
with you, and if it is possible for me to add to your force
up there I shall most cheerfully go it. It is not, however,
in my judgment, best that I should let the boys you can go
from us at present.

Gordially, your friend,

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September 2nd, 1891.

George Byruch,

Portsmouth, N.H.

Dear George:

I have your letter telling me that you are a scout. I hope that you are adding yourself just as useful as possible. I am glad you tell me of the men who died of whisky. I do hope that you may never be led into the trap of this that destroys more men than bullets. We are getting on very nicely at the school, making large improvements.

School began yesterday but the country boys will not come in until the 10th, and the girls will stay out until about the middle of October. I wish you would write me the names of all the boys who are in the Army that you know of and what companies they are in, where they are stationed, and tell me, so far as you can, how they are doing. Are they making good soldiers? I am anxious about this. Let me hear from you soon, please.

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September 2nd, 1901.

Josie Vetter,

Netawake,

Jackson Co., Conn.

Dear Josie:

I am very very sorry to hear that you will not come east and visit us now. Whatever others may say to you about nursing, they know nothing of what they are talking about. One of our girls is getting $15 a week right along nursing. She lives in the best of families and people want her. Phoebe Howell, whom you know, will graduate in four months. She can find plenty of work at $12 to $15 per week. Willie Wind graduates next month as a nurse; you remember her. She is already offered a place up in Massachusetts where she can make good wages; but it is all right for you, Josie, to determine your own lines. We shall be happy to see you sometime.

Your money will be located for another year.

Your friend,

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