Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 10, 1899.

Miss Angeline View,
C/o F. T. Comley,
Edgehill, Pa.

Frier Angeline :

A letter comes to hand from Elizabeth View of Dals, Okla. Ty,
asking if you had started home or not, to which I have replied that you
had not and were not expecting to. The letter alludes to a matter of
a payment being made to the Indians, of which it seems there is some
due you. She makes the statement that you should write to the agent
who will be there for three weeks yet, and make application for your
money. I do not know just what money this is, but I have no doubt your
application would bring the payment to you, or if you wish to write
here and say what the payment is and make application through the In-
dian agent, you can do so. To what agency do you belong? The writer
Elizabeth View, also asks you to let her have $20 of the money. This
of course is a matter for you to fix yourself.

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NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF
THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 10, 1899.

Rev. Jos. W. Cook,

Greenwood, S. Dak.

Dear Mr. Cook :-

Dear Mr. Cook :

Your letter to Major Pratt in regard to the Baker children comes to hand in his absence, but will be brought to his attention on his return to Carlisle in about two weeks from now.

There has been considerable correspondence in regard to Alice Baker, but the plea has always been on account of her eye sight, which however, under the treatment given here is improved. A copy of the last report in regard to this was sent Mr. Baker a few days ago. Your letter presents another view of the case, hitherto not presented, but which will have to be considered.

It requires continual pressure to keep the Indians up to the mark. They are as a rule easily turned aside from the main object and we have to be very careful what credence is given to requests for home going. Major Pratt will take the matter up and you will hear from him before long. With kind regards,

Asst. Gapt. in uhg.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 10, 1899.

Mr. Edward Marsten,
Saxman, Ala.

Dear Friend Edward t-

Your letter to Major Pratt in regard to the two girls from
Juneau comes to hand in his absence. I think, however, there will be
no doubt of his willingness to receive the girls provided they are suit-
able on the score of health and intelligence. They are a little too
young; two years later For each would be better, but if your judgment
is that this is the best time for them to come, it will be all right.
The difficulty is in getting them here. Whenever there is an opportu-
nity for them to come in company with someone, transportation can be
arranged for them at Seattle. I would not think well of having them
attempt the journey east alone,

Am always glad to hear from you and know of your doings.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 11, 1899.

Mrs. Nancy Dixon,
Pinconning, Mich.

Dear Madam :-

Your letter of the 8th finds Major Pratt still away, but it
will be brought to his attention on his return. Meanwhile I must in-
form you that Ernest is not at the school- has been missing fr om here
about two weeks and I suppose is making his way home as we havenot
heard of him since. He left in the night as it was not difficult for
him to do, this not being a prison. In thus doing he has taken his fu-
ture into his own hands and relieved the school of further responsi-
bility in his case. I regret very much that Ernest should have done
this at the end of his school life, because while not bright as a
scholar he has always been a good worker and until recently has born an
excellent character.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 10, 1899.

Frank B. Lewey,

Bar Harbor, Me.

Dear Sir :—

Application for admission to this school has been made by Mr. Harry L. Brown on your behalf. In reply I said to him that you were almost too old to enter the school now as the term is for five years, or until pupils graduate if they can do so earlier. Unless you were willing to come for that period we could do nothing for you. From Mr. Brown's letter I understand you can read but not write. This would necessitate your beginning very low in school. Our rule is not to accept pupils over 20, and exceptions are made only where applicants give fair evidence of being capable of at least average progress in work and school. If you let us know more definitely about yourself, your age, health, schooling you have had, character, etc. we will be better able to consider your case.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 11, 1899.

Wm. N. Buiro,

Haskell Institute,
Lawrence, Kans.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 9th just to hand. On receipt of your tele-
gram for transportation I arranged it, supposing you were entirely
free from any obligation, and simply waiting a chance to come on. It
seems this was not the case and that you have in some way become obli-
gated to Haskell. Carlisle of course does not want to interfere with
Haskell pupils. I have therefore written to Supt. Peairs, stating just
how the matter came up and leaving the decision as what is best to do
with him. Transportation will still be available when wanted.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 11, 1899.

Mr. Charles E. Dagnette,
Miama, Ind. Ty.

Friend Charles :-

Your letter in regard to your trip east has been received
but finds Major away from home. The dates you mention do not give any
opportunity for getting special quotations. In fact I do not think
any advantage could be gained for you on the route you propose to take.
They are roads over which we have very little business. Advantageous
rates can be made generally when considerable parties are traveling
either way but of late all railroads have been very stiff on their fig-
tures. Had your route been over the Santa Fe something could have been
done for you, but the difference would not have been very great. Your
trip around by boat from Chicago will be pleasant but very slow.

If you had decided to use Erie, we could help you from that point
considerably by having tickets for you placed with the agent there,
on which you could come to Carlisle on our Indian rates; or if you came
right through from Chicago we could probably do something for you,
Chicago to Carlisle. Write again if you want us to do either.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 11, 1899.

Mrs. Mattie E. Foodry,
Versailles, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Foodry :-

Your letter of the 8th to hand. In reply I have to say that while Major Pratt is not yet at home nor likely to be for about two weeks yet, I find there was something of an understanding reached before he went away that Rose would be allowed to go home about the middle of this month and do some work in helping to raise a return party which Dr. Diven will be with you to look after about the 25th of this month.

You say you cannot think of any reason why Rose should not be allowed to go home. I can tell you a very good one, namely, that if going home in vacation periods were to become the custom of the school we might as well give up all attempts to do anything for the New York pupils. They will come to no good except as they are held to the one steady purpose. Circumstances in this case make it possible to allow a visit without breaking the general rule on the ground that she is to do some work for the school while at home.

You may look for her on Tuesday, the 15th.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 11, 1899.

Juan A. Jequez,

Largo, N. Mex.

Sir :-

On July 12th I wrote you in regard to your daughter Delfina, stating that she was in good health in every way and that you had no need to be anxious about her. I am therefore surprised at your efforts to have her break away from her school work. She came here for a specified term and except by a general arrangement satisfactory all around she is not at liberty to leave until the expiration of that period. If the method you have pursued were allowed to prevail, the school would soon be on the down grade. Delfina herself is well and happy and so far as she is concerned there is nothing to call for the action you are taking. Your request is therefore not complied with.

Major Pratt at present absent from the school will be back in the course of two weeks and will attend to anything further you may have to say in the matter.

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Carlisle, Penna., August 14, 1899.

Miss Lizzie Wind,

Care of Mr. Beggs,
Seneca, Mo.

Dear Friend:--

Your letter asking for information to Carlisle School has been received. You do not say what age you are, or give any particulars in regard to yourself. We would like to know whether your health is good, whether you are full Indian blood, or part Indian only, and would like to have from an agent or some responsible person a certificate in regard to you. On sending this, your application will be properly considered.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 12, 1899.

Miss Minnie H. Finley,
C/o Dr. Mattson,
Moorestown, N. J.

Friend Minnie :-

Enclosed herewith find notice of your appointment as seamstress at the Potawatomi Agency, Kansas. If you accept, telegraph at once to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, that you accept the appointment and will report for duty as soon as practicable. It would also be well for you to write to the Indian Agent so that he may know you will be on hand.

Your friend,
A. G. Mattson

Asst. Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 12, 1899.

Levi Levering,

Fort Hall, via

Blackfoot, Idaho.

Dear friend Levi :

Your message to Major Pratt giving the news of Reuben's death
comes to hand in his absence, he not having returned yet from the Pa-
cific Coast. With the rest of us I am sure he will be surprised and
shocked to hear the news which we as yet cannot well understand as it
seems so sudden, Reuben I believe having been with you at the Los Ange-
les Convention.

We appreciate your message but there seems nothing at this distance
that we can do more than to assure you of our sorrow and sympathy with
you. I hope you will write and give particulars.

We look for Major to be away for about ten days yet or it may be
two weeks. With kind regards,

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 12, 1899.

Frank Taople,
Baraga, Mich.

Dear Sir :

Supt. Graham has written to me in regard to you and your bro-
ther John being ready to start for Carlisle about the 25th of this
month, and that you will come from Baraga instead of from Mt. Pleasant.

I have asked that two tickets be placed at Baraga for you and your brother, for which you will receive only, as they will be paid for here. You will then need to have a few dollars in pocket or a good lunch, and can come through without any difficulty.

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Carlisle, Penna. August 14, 1899.

Mr. William Benson,
Juneau, Alaska.

Dear Sir:--

A letter to hand from Mr. Edward Marsdon speaks of two
girls from Juneau who are wishing to come to Carlisle and asks that
you be notified in case we are willing to receive them.

The only difficulty in the matter is that the girls are young--
a little too young, really, and would not be able to make the journey
alone. They will therefore have to wait until some suitable chance
occurs for them to travel in company from the Pacific coast. When an
opportune time comes, tickets will be provided for them, but the move
must not be undertaken unless they are absolutely physically sound,
and mentally bright. In regard to these requirements, will be glad to
hear from you more particularly.

Major Pratt is now on the Pacific coast, but there would not be
time to communicate with him and arrange the matter, so must let it
wait for a future occasion, and meanwhile shall expect full informa-
tion from you.

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Mr. James Powrie,

Pinconning, Mich.

Dear Sir:--

Replying to your letter of the 10th instant in regard to
Ernest Peters I have to say that I wrote Mrs. Dixon a few days ago,
giving the facts concerning Ernest, namely, that he had run away from
the School some two weeks ago and that up to this time I am quite in
ignorance of his whereabouts, but suppose that he is making his way
towards home and is likely to reach there in time.

I regret very much that the close of his school life should have
been so unsatisfactory, as he for many years did very well,--not par-
ticularly bright, but a well behaved, industrious boy. He is now,
however, quite out of our range and control.

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Mr. Albert Nash,

Care of M. J. Herman,
Huron, Nebraska.

Friend Albert!—

Your letter to Major finds him away from home
not to return for a week or ten days yet. On his return I will bring
your letter to his attention and you will hear from him in relation to
the matter of your brother and sister coming to the School. In his
absence I cannot make you any promises.

I am pleased to see from your letter that you are getting along
all right.

Dictated.
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Mr. John A. Tuck,

560 East 58th St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Sir:-

Your letter of August 11th duly to hand this morning. In
locking the matter up I find that all of the pupils you allude to,
except Sosipatra, are in the country for the summer, not to return
until September.

I am sorry this happens to be so, but would be pleased to have
you call if it suited you, whether they are here or not.

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Carlisle, Penna. August 12, 1892.

Mr. William H. Todd,
P.O. Box No. 6,
North Haven, Conn.

Dear Sirs:

Yours of the 14th instant with check enclosed, a
contribution from the North Haven Sunday School, comes to hand in
the absence of Major Pratt. I therefore acknowledge it in his stead
and thank you and the Sunday School very much for the kind remem-
brances.

As a matter of interest and acknowledgement I send to you a copy
of our last Annual Report and a Souvenir of the School.

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Carlisle, Penna., August 16, 1899.

Miss Ella G. Hill,

Avenue House, Peak Island,
Portland, Maine.

Dear Miss Hill:--

I have your letter telling of your movements
and your probable return on the 28th. I do not know of anything that
would make it necessary for you to return sooner, although Miss James
is still unable for duty, and Mrs. Peters has been irregular, but for
some days has provided a substitute. Otherwise the work of the laun-
dry seems to be going all right and I think will do until numbers
increase very considerably.

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Penna., August 17, 1899.

Mr. Laban J. Miles,

c/o Geo. Chandler,

McGill Bidg, Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Miles: Your letter of the 16th comes to my hand in
the absence of Major.

On Thursday last Miss Miles received a dispatch from Newberg,
stating that her father was not expected to live. She, understanding
that you were to be in Washington about that time, wished to consult
with you in regard to what she had better do. We therefore wired to
Mr. Belt, on her behalf, as being one who would probably know of your
presence in the City. The same time having need of sending an escort
to Washington with a girl bound for the Pacific Coast, Miss Miles made
the trip and endeavored to find you, but without success. Returning
home, she decided to go West, and left here Friday morning last. She
therefore should by this time be at home.

Since leaving, a couple of postal cards have come for her, stating
that her father is still living, and we therefore hope she may be in
time to see him.

Miss Miles wished very much to have had a talk with you before
taking her journey, but finally decided that the safest thing for her
to do was to go. She therefore put in an application for her annual
leave of absence and left as quickly as possible.

Very truly yours,

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Carllisle, Penna., August 23, 1899.

Mrs. Mary A. Albertson,

For 07, Nantucket, Mass.

Dear Madam:-

Relying to your postal of the 20th instant, I would say that this School is for Indians only. The Institution you properly have in mind for Indians and Indians is at Hampton, Virginia.

The requirement for admission here is that the pupils to Indians, and not members of the five civilized tribes of Ind. Ter. who are not eligible. All others are eligible if each comes within our limits of age and have the qualifications of health and character. Once admit- ted, the entire expense is borne by the Government for a five years' term, unless the pupil should graduate sooner.

I forward you to-day a copy of one of our Annual Reports that will give you an idea of the school, but we have no printed circulars in regard to admission, rules, etc.

Yours very truly,

Asst. Bunt in charge.

Distributed.

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Carlisle, Penna., August 24,1899.

Miss Sophie R. Worthington,
Neshaminy, Penna.

Dear Miss Worthington:--

Your letter of the 22nd, making appli-
cation for position as teacher at this School comes to hand in the
absence of Major Pratt.

In reply I will say that all the positions here are now filled
through the Civil Service Commission in Washington, and those who
wish to enter the Indian service have to take the Civil Service exami-
nation. If they pass this successfully, they are placed on the list
of eligibles, and receive appointments as there is call for their
services and such an appointment may mean any place in the Indian
Service and cannot be limited to Carlisle only.

Any information about examinations that you may desire can be
obtained by addressing the Civil Service Commission at Washington.

Very truly yours,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

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Carlisle, Penna., August 24, 1899.

Mr. W. S. Field,

Oklahoma City, Okla. Ter.

Dear Sir:--

Your two letters to Major Pratt in regard to Cheyenne, Arapahoe and other pupils coming in this fall, finds him away from home, he not having returned from the West yet. I look for him in about a week from this time. I prefer that your letters should wait for his attention, as he will be able to speak more definitely in regard to some points than I can, although there are some few expected to come in from Darlington.

Just what steps Major might choose to take in selecting a party from your district, I do not know, but if you have any further information in about a week, I know that he will be glad to have it.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna., August 25, 1899.

Mr. Ellis Harp,

Stilwell, Ind. Ter.

Dear Sir:--

Your letter, making application to this School has
been received, but as I find you are a Cherokee, a favorable answer
cannot be given you.

The Government has always ruled that members of the five civiliz-
ed Tribes are not eligible to this of other schools of the same kind
for the reason that they have schools and educational funds of their
own.

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Carlisle, Penna., August 25,1899.

Mr. George Conner,

Maple City, Kansas.

Friend George:--

Your letter of the 21st to Major, asking about
returning to Carlisle, comes to hand in his absence.

I think I was away from home when you left Carlisle, and as I
now get the information from Prof. Bakeless and Mr. Thompson I find
the idea was that you were not expected to return, having been here
and elsewhere at school for a good many years, and according to the
records, having reached the age of twenty-eight years, it would seem
as though you had given time enough to schooling and should now be
doing something permanent for yourself. However, I will leave the
matter so that Major can write you himself, but meanwhile will not
arrange any ticket for you.

Your friend,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

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Mr. F. B. Cleason,
C/o Mondamin Hotel,
Sioux City, Iowa.

Dear Sirs--

Yours of the 20th instant in regard to Walter Hill
has been received. In reply I have to say that Walter's record at
Carlisle was not good. He is not deficient in ability at all, but
while here could not be broken of the tobacco habit and generally was
hard to discipline. What effect a year at home may have had on him
I cannot tell, but as he left Carlisle he would not be a profitable
subject for any school.

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Carlisle, Penna., August 26, 1899.

Master John Dillon,

C/o J. W. Crawford,
Reacon-by-the-Sea,
Point Pleasant, N.J.

Friend John:--

Your letter about being free from the School and
going to live with Mr. Bales in Indiana has been received.

Your request seems a reasonable one, and I have no doubt will be
granted when you are through with your work at Mount Pleasant. The
way would be for you to come home here and then bring the matter to
Major, and I think it will surely meet with his approval.

Very truly yours,

Dictated.
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183

Mr. Edgar Rickard,

Sanborn, N.Y.

Friend Edgar:--

I have your letter about your affairs and think
very likely before my answer reaches you Dr. Diven will have made his
visit and you be on your road back to Carlisle.

In regard to your ticket, you know you said that your father would
pay it, as that is the custom when pupils go on a visit. The Govern-
ment does not expect to bear the expense of visiting.

I do not remember any expression I may have used about dropping
you, but if I did, it would mean that in case of your father failing
to buy the ticket as he said, you could be dropped from the School
roll and then taken up when you came in again; but on the arrangement
made when you went, that would not be necessary.

As to being treated like others at Carlisle, the necessity of
keeping you in any way separate has all passed away now, and you would
take your place as formerly.

If it should happen that this reaches you before Dr. Diven leaves,
I hope you will give him all the assistance he needs and bring in the
party from Sanborn.

Very truly your friend,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna., August 28,1899.

Master Edward Rogers,

C/o Mrs. J.W. Crawford,
Beacon-by-the-Sea,
Point Pleasant, N.J.

Friend Edward:--

Your letter of the 25th about coming in on the 1st of September has been received.

On inquiry from Mr. Thompson I find that your name was included among others who were to come in for the football practice, but that in your case Mr. Thompson says that he can get along without you for a couple of weeks, and if you are in by the 15th, that will be all right.

Dictated.

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Carlirose, Penna., August 30,1899.

My dear Healy:

Beacon-by-the-Sea,

Point Pleasant, N.J.

My dear Healy:--

I got home Monday evening, and your letter of
July 6th just now comes to me. I want to tell you how glad I am that
you have had another such good opportunity and how much I hope that
you have improved every minute of it.

I think you are a little severe on the Korean to call him a
"young tin can."

I expect to see you back here at Carlirose as full of life and
energy as ever, and a little more; and shall be glad to greet you.

I have had a long, long journey and have much to talk to the boys
and girls about and just now, of course, I am filled with the work
that has accumulated during my absence.

With love to all the boys,

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189

Carlisle, Penna., August 30, 1898.

Mr. Rudolph Blakenburg,

West Loge Square,
Philadelphia, Penna.

My dear General:--

I returned from a six months' absence on the
Pacific Coast and the South and North East Monday evening, and the
G.A.R. had been on my mind with an intention to go, but I hesitated
because of the crowd and the belief that you and your friends were in Europe
and other friends I knew to be out of town and that I might be in-
convenienced for lodging.

Your note sets that matter all right. You may please, therefore,
have room 3848 reserved for me, and I shall hope to come down on the
early train Monday, though as you can understand I am a good deal crowded
with the affairs that have accumulated and I may not be able to do
what I hope to.

With kind regard to you and all the household,

Faithfully yours,

Disturbed.

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Carlisle, Penna., August 30, 1899.

Mrs. Mabel Comie Jones,
623 North Second St.,
Harrisburg, Penna.

My dear Mrs. Jones:--

I have just returned from a two-month's
absence and am not any way near caught up with the letters, let alone
newspaper accumulations.

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Albert Nash, Jr.,

C/o M.J.Herman,
Homer, Neb.

My dear Albert:--

Mr. Atkinson, who I believe is clerk at your agency, has been authorized I believe by Mr. Standing, to make up a party for Carlisle, and you had better see him concerning your brother and sister so that all the official and legal forms may be complied with. There will be no objection to your joining his party yourself, and we shall be glad to have a visit from you here.

Just back from a two months' absence and am very busy. Remember
me kindly to your father, and believe me,

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It was done in presenting our case and it is satisfactory
for several of us to get together and go to Washington before
the convention, including the Committee of the House and Senate. I
believe that we may get some legislation and some kind of change
that will both relieve us and greatly forward our work.

Creasy G. Davis, Dept.,

Indian School,

Pierre, South Dakota.

(My dear Sirs—

Yours of July 20th was held against me, return,
which occurred Monday evening.

The trouble surrounding our non-reservation schools was up
pretty generally at the Convention at Los Angeles and as passed some
resolutions, copies of which I expect to send you and other superin-
tendents very shortly. We must form an organization of Indian
School Superintendents and I was made its president, and Allen, of
Albuquerque, secretary. We hope to get out a circular letter pretty
soon with a view to bringing what we consider our drawbacks and ne-
cessary conditions for success before the authorities in Washington,
both administrative and legislative.

I, for one, was sorry to miss your clear head and experience in
Convention, and would be obliged if you would write me quite fully so
as to the hindrances and the methods of relief you would suggest, at
an early date, that we may so far as we can have the knowledge in
formulating information so to what ought to be done.

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Protestors of us and the followers of God really preferred us
over the Indians, and we should not be prohibited from theire of restriction
life, but would be scattered throughout the State, and, as the year
goes on, in a short time we shall be reduced to a very small number,
and in a short time the rest will be scattered abroad, which is not
right, nor is it just with the Indians to take away their lands by
force.

Miss Eunice Choteau, of the church of the Civil Service Commission will be the next President of the State Deaf-Mute's Division, who will be elected to a term of three years.

My dear Lady, I am very sorry to hear of your recent loss. You
have been a very kind and friendly person, and I am very sorry to hear
that you are no longer with us. I am sure you will be very happy in
your new home, and I wish you all the happiness that is in store for
you. May God bless you, and give you all the happiness that is in store
for you.

The loss of one so young and beautiful is a great blow to the

The loss of you has been a great blow to me, and I am very sorry to
hear that you are no longer with us. I am sure you will be very happy in
your new home, and I wish you all the happiness that is in store for
you.

I am glad that you liked the "Red Man." I am sorry I cannot be with
you again, but I am sure you will be very happy in your new home, and
I wish you all the happiness that is in store for you.

[3]

It does not seem that I can possibly understand your reason for
complaining to me, and I cannot see how your complaint can be just.
I have been your friend and companion for over three years, and the
only reason why I have not been your friend and companion for the last
three years has been your bad behavior. You have been very kind and
helpful to me, and I am very sorry to hear that you are no longer my
companion. I am sorry I cannot be your companion, but I am sure you
will be very happy in your new home, and I wish you all the happiness
that is in store for you.

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Carlisle, Penna., August 31, 1999.

Mr. Thomas R. Burger,
Chairman Committee of Arrangements,
Pennsylvania State Miller's Inn's.

Plainfield, Pa.

My dear Sirs--

It will be entirely agreeable to us to have your
Convention of Miller's come to us on Thursday, September 14th at such
dear age as is most convenient to you. Please notify us and you will be
not and have good attention generally.

Yours truly yours,

Major 10th Cavalry, Sept.

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Carlisle, Penn., September 1, 1906.

Dr. Charles Montemone,

100 State Street,

Chicago, Ill.

My dear Doctor--

Frank has finally determined to go tolio
University and I have agreed to give him transportation and outfit
him a little with bedding, etc. I certainly agree with you that it is
the place for him.

Every Indian that can separate himself from the crowd and get out
among the people to any purpose, moves in the right direction.

I am glad to know that you will be stayed by him and get your
friends in Urban and Country to do so.

It is to wait on the table at the hotel for his board and
clerk for a dry goods merchant on Saturday, then will give him 82.50
a week and his board, and if necessary I will back him up from time
to time with something in the way of clothing from here.

I came through Chicago the other day, but I wanted a good walk
with my friends at 5789 Mornson Avenue, and did not call until 6 p.m.
deed I was very tired from a long railroad journey and a good deal of
waggon riding just prior to that and needed to lie abed.

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Curtisville, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1884

Charles W. Buck,
Browning, Mont.

Dear Charles:

The complications in regard to getting children from your region are such as to make me heartate about doing any action upon requests unless they come to me officially through the Agent or the Dept. of the School. You had better manage the whole matter through one of these.

I hope you understand that I must have students who are in good health and of good character, none under twelve, or over eighteen years of age.

We should all be glad, of course, to see you and your wife here at the School, and if your party numbered ten, I could pay the expense of one in charge, and if twenty or more, I could pay the expense of two.

Mr. Thompson will write Anthony Alston about his proposition, and give him his decision.

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Carlisle, Penna., August 31st,

Edgar A. Allen, Supt.,

Indian School,

Albuquerque, N.M.

My dear Allen:--

Supt. Peirce of Oneida is here and I have just read him McArthur's letter and our resolutions. We concur that it would be a good beginning to get out the resolutions on a sheet of fool's cap, giving space for opinions on each resolution and send duplicates of these papers to every superintendent in the service, requesting a terse expression in regard to each resolution.

By having two, the superintendent will have a copy to keep, and his own expressions. When these are sent in we can make a synopsis and tabulate the answers for and against, print that, and make use of it in our work, in the department and before Congress.

Believing that you will concur in this, I at once give the order to have the printing done in our office, and when accomplished, will get out a circular letter to be sent to and mailed by you. With all the pressure upon you, I can probably do the work here more readily than you, and will send the whole batch to you for mailing.

It might be well for you to write me at once your views and also make any suggestions as to the circular letter that you think we had

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better put out, and I will be governed accordingly.

McArthur's letter is full of suggestion, and our superiors, both legislative and executive, should understand the difficulties under which any and all of us labor. One thing that will probably have an effect against McArthur's position is the fact that there must be one supreme head in every bailiwick, and there must be cooperation.

I return McArthur's paper which you will want to file as part of your secretary business.

Fraternally yours,

Dictated.
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P.S. The printing office has been expeditious in getting out this circular, and I send you a copy in order that you may add any comments or changes you may think best, and will hold the forms until I hear from you, so I hope that you will answer at once.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 2, 1899.

To the Publishers of

"The Ram's Horn,"

110 LaSalle St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Gentlemen:--

Enclosed please find check for $1.50 in payment of
subscription to the "Ram's Horn," from July 1899 to July 1900, as per
enclosed bill containing "special offer." In accordance with your
offers accompanying bill, please send copy of "100 World Leaders" and
also copy of "Malcolm Kirk," and oblige.

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Penna., Sept. 4, 1899.

Mr. Eugene T. Conner,

3202 Summer St.,
Philadelphia, Penna.

My dear Sir:

We are forbidden by law to accept any gratuitous
service. The Civil Service Commission is expected to find all em-
ployees for us. Nevertheless, I think so well of what you write, and
of your wishes, that I should be glad to see you and talking over the
matter. I expect on Tuesday, tomorrow, to be the guest of Mr. Ru-
dolph Blakenburg, of West Logan Square, and to be there several days
in connection with the G.A.R. I cannot make an appointment with you,
but it can be arranged by your calling there after I have reached
Philadelphia.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 2, "99.

Dr. Morrill E. Gates,
Northampton Beach,
Lond Island, N.Y.

Dear Doctor:--

I sign and return the two receipts as you request
and also send you a list of the names of those who attended the Los
Angeles Convention. I think my receipt is all right, as I make no
bills against the Government for that service for myself.

Mrs. Pratt and Richenda are still in Indiana, to be home Monday.
Things have gone well in my absence. Our numbers have increased to
nine-hundred and twenty-four, with enough in sight to make it a thousand, for
which I have appropriation. I will write you later about the lecture
business.

My kindest regards to Mrs. Gates.

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Carlisle, Pa. September 4, 1899.

Mrs. Laura B. Dandridge,

Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, School,

Via Holbrock, Airtona.

Dear Mrs. Dandridge:--

I returned to Carlisle a week ago to-day and have been quite busy getting things in hand. I trust that your longer experience has brought you better impressions of your surroundings. As some one had a letter from Mrs. Patterson in my absence, speaking very highly of Mr. Dandridge, I am led to believe that he is reconciled. I trust the transfers that may bring you together may be brought about ultimately, and you may count on me to do anything that I am able to, to accomplish that.

Mrs. Pratt, Richenda and I, in company with Dr. Gates went to San Francisco and then to Klamath Agency, where I had a splendid time fishing for two weeks, then to Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck and Wolfe Point, Indian Agencies. Mrs. Pratt then went to visit her sisters in St. Louis and Indiana, and will arrive on the next train.

All goes nicely here at Carlisle: I find things brushed up in every way and the addition to the school building well advanced towards completion.

With kindest regards to Mr. Dandridge, I am,

Sincerely yours, R.W. Pratt

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Carlisle, Pa., September 4, 1899.

Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright,
San Carlos, Arizona.

My dear Mrs. Wright:

I reached home a week ago to-day after long stops in California, Oregon and Montana. Mrs. Pratt will be in on the next train, having stopped off at St. Louis and Indiana to see her sisters.

I have not yet had communication with Washington more than the official, and nothing is signed by Mr. Jones, who is to be back about this time. He has been in Wisconsin at a Convention to nominate a candidate for Governor, with some expectation of being a candidate himself. Any letters that I would have sent to Washington would, I fear, have been opened by others than the Commissioner. I have already had trouble with letters sent to his house and marked personal, so I had to depend upon Mr. Tonner, and he gave me the assurance which I wrote you. I have been anxious ever since. I hope that things have assumed better shape. Please give me the situation at once.

I find that the Indian Office is capable, through its chiefs of division, of doing some of the meanest and outrageous things. I have a case, with all the facts in my possession now, that Supt. who was appointed to Puyallup, then ousted and sent to Belknap at a

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Carlisle, Penna., September 5,1899.

Mr. George R. Chambers,
132 Locust Street,

Harrisburg, Penna.

Dear Sir;--

Replying to your letter of the 4th instant and in
response to your request, I send you a copy of our last Annual Re-
port and would say that any week day most convenient to you will be
agreeable to us for your proposed visit to our School, though pre-
ferably not Saturday. If you postpone the visit for about two weeks,
you will find it more interesting as there is still a large number of
pupils who have not returned from their summer outing and who will be
in by that time. When the School is full and in its usual running
order there is, of course, more to interest, yet if you come at this
time you will find shops and school rooms in operation and we shall
be pleased to see you at any time you choose to come.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 5, 1899.

Miss Polly A. Slack,
Delaware, Indian Territory.

Dear Friends:

Your letter of September 1st to Major Pratt about
entering this School has been received. Major is away just now, but
before he answered you he would want to know something more about you.
You write from the Cherokee Nation, but say that you are a New York
Indian. Had your father joined the Cherokee tribe, or are you enrolled
as a Cherokee? Do you have good health? Can you send a letter from
some responsible person in regard to yourself, and finally, what is
your nearest railroad station? On having this information a decision
will be made in your case.

Dissated.
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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 8, 1899.

Mr. W. R. Miller,
Act. C.V.R.B.
Gettysburg Junction Station.

Dear Sirs:

Referring to the matter of the crossed baggage checks
between Bancroft, Neb. and Davenport, Wash. as stated in your
message of July 14th. I have to say that the baggage has now
reached its proper destination in both cases, but that the return
trunk from Davenport was sent by Express and not checked as I ex-
pected. The charges being $6.40. This charge was paid as being
the thing to do for the time being, but I do not know why it came
by Express, my request was for it to be returned to the R.R. Agent
at Davenport, Washington to be forwarded to Gettysburg Junction,
which Mr. Monrel did. see his letter herewith.

The sending by Express was a mistake, and while the service
has been rendered the charge is a difficult one for us to meet
having no funds applicable, and if it be possible to have the
amount refunded in any way would be glad to have it so.

A.J.S.
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Carlisle, Penna., September 9, 1899.

Levi StCyr,

Omaha & Winnebago Agency,
Winnebago, Neb.

Dear Levi:--

Your letter of September 1st comes to me after a five days absence in Philadelphia. I have sent it to Mr. Atkinson, who is engaged in making up a party for Carlisle. We cannot have so many at work in the field. You had better see Mr. Atkinson yourself, and if there should be a party of ten, I could pay the cost of an escort both ways; if five or over, and under ten, one way; but the arrangements will rest with Mr. Atkinson.

Mrs. Pratt, Richenda and I had an instructive and pleasant trip, taken as a whole, but some parts of it were rather depressing, particularly when we stopped at Indian Agencies and found so many of our boys and girls in hard lines.

I do not sympathize with Mrs. Densmore's idea of having you dress up in fancy Indian costume, but that is a matter that you must determine for yourself. You are now your own man and have experience and knowledge enough to guide your own bark.

W. S. Pratt,

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Horton G. Elm,
Caledonia, New York.

Dear Sir:--

Your letter of the 1st gives us no information as to
who you are, whether you are an Indian, a Negro or a white person. If
an Indian, to what tribe do you belong, and are you of full blood, or
only half or quarter? We must also know whether you are in good health
and whether you are of good character. These facts must be estab-
lished by some well known authority, also what previous education you
have had, and where.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna., September 11, 1899.

H.A.Gross, G.P.A.,

461 Broadway,
New York City.

My dear Mr. Gross;--

Please have your Agent atire deliver
one ticket reading to Carlisle, to Jonas Metoxen on his application;
also one ticket with your Agent at Shawano to the order of David E.
Peake, and bill to me at the lowest rate you can.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1903.

H. B.快, U.S. Indian Agency,

Lead Agency, Idaho.

Dear Sirs,

Complying with your request of September 4th I have ordered the tickets to be winded up which were placed to your order at Providence.

Allow me to suggest that when you again have children offered of the kind, that you fill up one of the enclosed blanks at once and then do not allow them to change their minds, and advise me by wire. Possibly this may catch on a little better.

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Carlisle, Pa., September 11, 1893.

Dr. J.J. Sturm,

Anadarko,

Oklahoma Territory.

Dear Doctor:--

When you get ready to send Nannie, take her to
the Station at Chickasha, show this letter to the Agent, and he will
give you a ticket to Carlisle. Provide her with lunch, give her a
note to railroad officials, and she will come through safely and with-
out any trouble.

Dictated.
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Mr. John Lay,

P.O. Box No. 47,

Lawton Station, N.Y.

My dear Friend:—

It is against our rule to let children go
home because of the illness of relatives. If we made that a reason
for children going home, paying their way to and from, or even al-
lowing their parents to do so, we should have large numbers of chil-
dren on the road all the time, for we have a thousand children on the
road this year.

No material good can come to either the children, the sick, poor or the parents by giving way to such appeals. The important thing in every child's life is to teach him to live properly, and the greatest part of this is his education, and when the white parent is anxious to educate his children, large sums are paid for such education. In the case of the Indian, the Government undertakes to pay such expenses, and it only asks the parents that their children be given up for its education. I cannot allow the return of your son, and I return to you the $7.50 (less cost of money order) you sent to me for the purpose.

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Carlisle, Pa., September 11, 1999.

Miss Jeannette W. Roberts,

92 South Broadway,
New York, N.Y.

Dear Miss Roberts:--

Yours with donation from Smith College
Missionary Society for this School came while I was in the West, and
was held for my return, which occurred very soon after, and I find
now was not acknowledged.

I am certainly very grateful to the young ladies of the College
for their remembrance and their sympathy in our work.

Enclosed please find receipt for the donation.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna. August 31, 1899.

Miss Luzena Choteau,
C/o Loan & Currency Division,

Treasury, Washington, D.C.

My dear Luzena:--

Your letter arrived the same day I did. I am glad to hear from you, and especially glad to hear that you are getting on so well I sympathize with all your efforts in your own behalf, and while, sometimes it may have seemed a little otherwise, I assure you there never has been a time when I have not been in deepest sympathy with every effort you have made to lift yourself into a higher plain. I do not know that I can fully endorse your struggle for promotion. Ambition, of course, has its benefits, but the rewards that come to one as the result of patient and superior service without the pressure of the help of friends or one's own urgency are far more gratifying to the person and the person's friends, I am sure, than place that is captured by influence.

I am glad that you liked the "Red Man." I did too. I had no hand in getting it up. I went away for two months absolute rest and I avoided writing letters as far as possible.

It looks paradoxical to charge the church as being the author of much mischief to the Indian, but I do just that. If the much vaunted

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principle of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God really prevailed among us, the Indian would not now be crowded into the mire of reservation life, but they would be scattered throughout the length and breadth of the land in unity with the people,--a help instead of a burden to the State.

Your idea that the church and the Civil Service Commission will do more good work when they become more practical is a nail in a sure place. .

Why cannot you run up to see us during your vacation? Then we can talk over your proposition about the Band and give it full consideration. If the Band keeps on improving, I shall feel that it is important for the people of Washington to get a chance to hear it this winter, and when we come to take it up I shall be glad to avail myself of all the help you can give.

Cordially and faithfully your friend,

Dictated.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 12,1899.

Messrs. Mayfield & True, Att'ys,

122 1/2 Main Street,

Vincennes, Indiana.

Gentlemen:--

We were at Fort Griffin in Texas in 1872 and '73. It is impossible for me to recall anything in regard to a man being in the hospital at Fort Griffin after such a lapse of time. The morning report and sick book of the Company and hospital records, if any exists, are really the only data that would be of use for reference. Fort Griffin was abandoned years ago, and the records likely sent to the War Department.

On account of the limited transportation allowed the Company, and the lapse of time, it is not likely that the records for that period are available further than the muster roll and the ordinary permanent records. I am sorry that I cannot help you, but it is not in my power.

What Sam means by "Slippery Jack," I do not know, unless it be the horse that I once owned.

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Hon. E.A.Hitchcock.

dent indicated an intention of visiting the School
but stated that he would not be able to do so for
aometime, perhaps not for a year. The war with Spain
came on, and with it so many added cares that I have
not, until now felt like speaking of it again. It is
possible that he might be induced to come up at the
time mentioned. Will you not favor us by speaking
of it to him?

We have now close to 950 students, and by the
6th of October will expect to have our full 1000,
which is the complement provided for this year.

Hoping for an early and favorable reply, I am,

With great respect,

Your obedient servant,

Dictated.
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Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

256

Carlisle, Penna., September 12, 1899.

B. H. Coppock,

Supervisor of Education,
Tahlequah, Ind. Ter.

My dear Coppock:--

I was away during July and August and since my return, I have put in one week in Philadelphia, so that your letter of July 31st, enclosing the "Daily Chieftain," with the article about our girls is unanswered. I am obliged to you for sending it to me and for looking up the facts. We never had any such girl at Carlisle, and I think the story is manufactured entirely out of the fellow's imagination. I am sure there is no ground for any of it. There has been an unprecedented activity on these lines, I presume to have its influence at Washington: I would not be surprised if our Catholic brethren were at the bottom of it. They are the slickest liars on the planet, and hesitate at nothing when they think they can accomplish their purpose.

I am glad to hear from you. Congratulate you on being back in the service and on the promotion, which indicates a just appreciation. We will carry one thousand children this year, of which we have about 950, with the balance probably coming on within a month.

Dictated.
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C. H. Mebane,
Supt. Public Instruction,

Raleigh, N.C.

Dear Sir:--

Your letter to Dr. Schaeffer, our State Supt., about a teacher for the Indiana in your State is referred to me for answer. While our Indiana make very fair teachers, and a very few of them excellent teachers, under guidance, in our Government schools, I fear they would disappoint you for any normal school work.

We graduate about half way between the grammar and high school grades. Every graduate that shows any kind of aptness for teaching is at once seized up by the Government for the various Indian schools in the West; so that if I felt it was practicable for us, with our limited curriculum to reach the case, I really would not know where to turn to find the young man.

Dictated.
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Major F. K. Ward,

Fort Keogh, Mont.

Dear Major:--

On my return from the West a few days ago I found
a handsome saddle cloth I suspected you had sent from the Rock Island
Arsenal; and this morning I am in receipt of shoulder knots and collar
devices. I am certainly very much obliged to you for these things
which completes my equipment for the Tenth.

I have always felt that my long detail at Carlisle called for
just the position that I took in complying with your request. I ought
perhaps to tell you, however, that when I was promoted I was requested
by Major Kelley, then of the 10th, to transfer with him, and declined.
But that was entirely on grounds that related to Major Kelley.

It would be a very great pleasure to meet you at any time, and
should you be passing to or from Washington, you will find that we are
only a few miles out of Harrisburg, and Mrs. Pratt and I would be
only too pleased to have you come to visit us.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna., September 12, 1999.

W. S. Field,

Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma Territory,

My dear Sir:--

It would impracticable, probably impossible, to
get a party of children from either of the agencies without the con-
sent of the Agent, who should be a full party to their transfer.

I should be very glad indeed to have Robert Burns make up a good
party for Carlisle and bring them here, but unless it has the approval
of the Agent, it would be useless to undertake it. If the matter is
arranged, and the number is all right--in good health and of good
character and proper subjects for Carlisle, I should be very glad to
make all the necessary arrangements for transportation and transfer.

I must advise you that last week, after correspondence with Major
Woodson, two boys arrived from the Cheyenne Agency. One is well ad-
vanced in consumption and one has a serious form of heart disease.
Both are so condemned by my doctor, that I must return them at once.

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Mr. Edward Paull, Sec'y,

Milton, Penna.

Dear Sir:--

The Indian Band is open for engagements until we
can pay for our instruments, at the rate of $100 per day and expenses,
whether out one day or more. There are sixty pieces in the Band. We
have a half-rate arrangement with the R.R., which could be used in
your case.

We have one "fair" appointment up your way for two days on
these terms.

Dictated.
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Carlsbad, Penna., September 14, 1899.

Miss Fannie Rubinkam,

Newtown, Penna.

Dear Miss Rubinkam:--

I thank you for your letter and the reading
of the letter from Howard Marsden. Shall endeavor to send a good lot
of boys again next year, and hope that you will take the same interest
that you always have.

I am just up to my eyes in work, and must make you a short letter
this time.

Diated.
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Carlisle, Penna., September 14, 1899.

Patrick Miguel,

Guma, Arizona.

My dear Sir:--

I ought to know just how old you are and have
somebody vouch for your character and health. If you are of good
character and in good health and are under twenty years of age and
are a full Indian, I should be very glad to have you come to Carlisle.

Dictated.
(M)

Edward Oga,

Co. "A" 8th U.S. Infantry,
Camp Columbia, Cuba.

My dear Edward:--

I got your letter just after my return from my two months trip in the West, and I am delighted to hear from you and to know that all goes so well with you. How thankful I am that you have been moved out to a healthy locality and that there is so little sickness among the troops.

You tell me so much about the army that it makes me wish that I could get rid of the great care upon me here and see real service once again.

In regard to your money, you may send it here as you request and I shall be glad to place it on interest for you. When it amounts to as much as $100 I can place it where I can get 0.05% for you; while it is less than that, 0.03%. I shall be glad to serve you in that or any other way that I can. The only point would be that you would have to leave it at least six months before drawing it. Any time after that you could draw it and the interest.

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Oga.

Our country girls will be in tomorrow, and the boys the next day.
We have 933 on our rolls now, with enough promised to come within a
short time to make us a full thousand, which I propose to carry this
year.

The additions to the school building are almost ready to move
into and everything has been brushed up this summer, so that the old
School looks bright and pleasant, and when you have served your enlist-
ment, if you come to visit us we shall give you a real rousing welcome,
in its way something like Dewey will get when he lands in New York.

We are all well, and everybody is interested to hear from our
soldier boys.

Dictated.
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Albert H. Smith,

918 North Albany Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Sir:--

I send you several copies of my Annual Report from
which you will gather something of our methods; perhaps as much as I
could tell you otherwise.

The best way would be for you to visit us and thus obtain not
only information of the School, but also learn something of the country
cutting.

Dictated.

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Paul Teesnakekezen,

"I" Troop, 8th Cavalry,

Puerto Principie, Cuba.

My dear Paul:--

I returned home two weeks ago and found your letter of July 14th as well as many others awaiting. I am so glad to hear from you and to know that you get on so well and like your surroundings.

I expect that you will make a model soldier, that your habits will be correct all through the soldier life, and that you will come out of the service with quite a sum of money saved, with which to push your own interests hereafter.

How I should like to drop in on you and see how you get on, and I should especially like for myself to see the interesting things in Cuba.

Our School is gathering for the winter term. About the end of the month we expect to number a full thousand. We now have 933.

As I am very much pressed with all that comes upon me after my long absence, I must write you a short letter this time, but I do hope that you will write again.

Dictated.
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Carlielle, Penna., September 14, 1899.

E. M. Yearian, U.S. Indian Agent,
Lemhi Agency, Idaho.

My dear Sirs:

If the children of the Interpreter are Indians and
entitled to entrance to this School, they could come, but I cannot pay
the expense of one in charge for so few. The rule is for five, and less
than ten, the expense of an escort is paid one way. For ten, and less
than twenty, the expense of an escort is paid both ways, and for
twenty and over, two escorts are allowed.

My letter to you of yesterday should have said that I would be
glad to receive the girl, the daughter of the Interpreter, and if he
chooses to send her here alone, there would be no trouble about it if
you placed her on the cars, with a ticket through and a lunch and
gave her a letter to railroad officials, she would come through with-
out the slightest trouble. I have sent girls across the continent
many times and not a single thing has ever happened. The boy is too
young. I will arrange transportation for the girl on hearing from you.

Yours respectfully,

Dictated.
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Edward A. Allen, Supt.,

Indian School,

Albuquerque, N.M.

My dear Sirs--

I send you by official frank the documents for circulation. I changed the substance of your note to Superintendents a little so as to open the door for wider suggestion.

If we can get these back and into some shape before Congress meets, it will certainly help us not a little.

Distated.
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Hon. W. A. Jones,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

Firs:

When at Los Angeles, Superintendent Cox, of the Rosebud Boarding School, advised me that there were thirty-five of his boys and girls who had expressed a desire to attend some nonreservation school this year, and some wanted to come to Carlisle, but in an interview with the Agent about it, the Agent told him that he had no sympathy with sending children away.

It seems to me that such an Agent ought to be informed that it is not his province to stand in the way of children's advancement. Congress appropriates for the nonreservation as well as for the reservation schools, and no one ought to stand in the way of either one or the other.

Superintendent Cox says that years of work on some of these students will be lost because many of these children will not return to his school nor go to any other, and such will stop in the camps. This has been the history of our school effort for many years. We are constantly wasting our work.

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(2) Commissioner.

I believe that a letter from your office to this Agent, asking him to send some children have been forwarded to our reservation schools in 1898, how many in 1899; and what he is doing to encourage his people to send some children to such schools, will have some effect.

I suppose you will hear Mr. Cox write me about this matter.

Sincerely,
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Carlisle, Penna., September 14, 1895.

Commissioner W. A. Jones,

Mr. Dear Sirs--

I am credibly informed that the Clerk at the Sacaton (Arizona) Agency directly interfered with the gathering of children for Carlisle by one of the agency teachers who recently undertook to make up a party to bring here.

I suggest that you write to the Agent and ask him to report to you whether his clerk is loyal to all the school interests the Department has under its care, whether he influences by his talk or otherwise against the education of young Indians either at the Agency or away from it. A letter of inquiry of this kind I believe will have influence in the right direction, if it does not entirely stop that course of action.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Penna., September 14,1899.

Mrs. Ruth Shaffner-Etnier,

Ponce, Porto Rico.

My dear Mrs. Etnier:--

I find that it is not possible for the
War Department to allow purchases to be made by civilians who are not
in the employ of the War Department. You can very readily see that a
loophole like that would be susceptible to no end of abuse throughout
the whole service.

You will have all the Carlisle news from Miss Ericson, so that
I need not stop to tell you. Things are going very well with us, I
am glad to say, and we have in prospect a better year than ever. I am
still a long ways behind in my work. Hope you are all recovering from
the effects of the storm.

With kind regards to Mr. Etnier, I am,

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Carlisle, Penna., September 14, 1999.

Bunko Matsuki,
380 Boylston St.,

Boston, Mass.

My dear Sir:--

Your letter of the 2nd of August was held for my
return from a long Western trip. We have used your Japanese brushes
in our School for two years and it gives me pleasure to recommend
them for water color work. They are excellent in quality and very
durable.

I trust this may not be too late for your uses. It would be a
very great pleasure to have you visit our School where we are carrying
this year a thousand Indian children representing over seventy dif-
ferent tribes or languages. It would be especially pleasant because
Mrs. Pratt and myself had two months in Japan ten years ago, and we
count that the one great trip of our life.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 15,1899.

Mr. Albert K. Smiley,

Mohonk Lake, New York,
My dear Mr. Smiley:--

On the 6th of October we
have our Twentieth Anniversary of the establishment
of this School. I hope to have Mr. Schurz and the
present Secretary and Mr. Sherman here as special
guests.

You are one of my Board of Trustees. Will you
not come and be with us and help to make the day a
notable one? Bring Mrs. Smiley. Mrs. Pratt and I
will be delighted to have you for our guests, and
I am sure that you will be greatly interested in
seeing our growth since your last visit.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 15, 1899.

Miss M.E.Dissette,

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My dear Miss Dissette;--

I congratulate you on your appointment and
have no doubt that you can make things go, Lumis et al to the contrary,
notwithstanding.

I trust that as you go about, and here and there find a pupil that
is exceptionally bright and capable you may influence them to come
away, and if you send any such to Carlisle, I will be glad to arrange
their transfer at any time. Do what you can to break down the oppo-
sition to children going away from home, which has been pretty thor-
cughly planted both by the home school people and by the church, and
in some cases by the Government officials.

Faithfully your friend,

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Maj. Charles J. Cooper,
Mayaguez, Porto Rico.

My dear Cooper:--

I got back on the 1st, and have been up to my ears in affairs every since. Have not been in Washington, but have stuck my nose right down to the grind here and kept right at it.

I was glad to oblige Ward by transferring and have the same old feeling that I have always had about it, that is, that my long absence from military duty would require that I should be entirely willing to be in any regiment the Department saw fit to place me, and should I be returned to duty, would feel that I ought to be content with whatever comes. As my retirement is near, a little over five years off, I suppose I may with a fair degree of certainty count on remaining here and not serving any more with troops.

I am glad to see that you have still the old eclat and bonhomie and you and I certainly must begin now to take things as they come. The old ambitions and ardor is on the wane.

When you come North next spring, I want you to come to Carlisle and make us a visit and Mrs. Pratt and I will do what we can to make

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it pleasant and recompense you for some of the service which you have
performed and we have not.

I understood some time ago that it was the intention to have a
squadron of each regiment remain in the Country, but that was only in
a general way and nothing definite has come to me about it.

I do not feel that General Miles is yet occupying, and I hardly
feel that he will occupy the place that he feels he ought to. There
seems to be some want of harmony yet.

Thank you for the information about Russell White Bear. He is one
of the boys that I presented to Captain Miller for enlistment at Har-
risburg. I should be glad to have a line from one of his officers,
telling whether he fills the bill or not.

Mrs. Pratt did not return with me, but is back now, and we will
call on Mrs. Gurovita as you suggest.

What a mean, contemptible place the French Army is getting into.
An't you glad you don't belong in that?

With kindest regards to Mrs. Cooper, I am, as ever,

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Mr. Herbert Johnston,

Editorial Room, "The Times,"

Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Herb:--

When in Chemawa I read your editorial about "Fake
Indian Stories," and just now happen to find the copy of "The Times,"
with it in, and your card attached, for which attention, please ac-
cept my thanks.

I want to say to you, Herb, that you are a good editorial writer,
and you have done the best you could with a bad subject. The news pa-
pers have not seemed inclined to blame Carlisle. Eugene came to Car-
lisle in the fall of 1880. He staid here seven years, then went to Mas-
sachusetts, where he remained twelve years. Up to the time that act
was committed, I do not know of a blemish on his record, there or
here. My information is that the girl met him more than half way all
along the line, that he farmed her mother's farm better than her moth-
er's own relatives did; he was a member of the same church and of the
Christian Endeavor Society, and with the mother's consent and the girl's
desire, accompanied the girl to and from the Christian Endeavor meetings

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and she encouraged his attentions in every way until the mother dis-
missed him for no other reason except his desire to become the husband
of the young lady.

Fifty white men who do not behave themselves half so well are
married to the best young women of his tribe. Public opinion, includ-
ing the church, approves of that, and the church itself ties the
knots. Why is it right in one case, and not in the other? There
are thousands of white men married to Indian women, but when a young
Indian of exceptional character desires to marry a young white woman,
and the young woman herself is willing, there is too much pressure
of opinion to permit it.

Cannot you make an editorial sometime along this line? I was
very glad to hear through Mrs. Campbell of your success.

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Malcolm W. O'Dell,

Pullman, Washington.

My dear Sir:--

It has simply been impossible for me, since my
recent return from more than a two months trip in the West, to ans-
wer all the letters awaiting my attention before this, and yours
only now comes before me.

Unfortunately, your application reached me too late. I did have
three vacancies in my teaching force, but two of them were filled early
in July, and the other the first of August.

If you get into the service, and there are vacancies here later
and you still wish to come here I shall be glad to be in correspon-
dence with you. It is quite possible, also, that I could use Mrs.
O'Dell in time.

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Miss Lillie Miller,
Hotel Spaulding,
Central Lake, Mich.

Dear Lillie:--

Your letter, asking that your brother be allowed to go home, is here. The rule established by the Department for our School twelve years ago and which has remained in force all this time is that students who come after the School has opened in the fall shall remain, not only the five years, but until the end of the next following the expiration of the five years. Your brother came here September 19th. Under the rule he is not entitled to go home until the end of this year. I am sorry to disappoint you and your father, but surely the great thing for you and for him and for your brother--the important thing is the preparation to live a useful life, and education is the important factor in that.

Neither you nor your father, nor your brothers will regret later on that they remained here the full time for which they came.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 16,1899.

Mr. F. M. Campbell,

Richwood, Minn.

My dear Mr. Campbell:--

Yours of the 7th instant in regard to your
daughter Rose is received. I cannot recall that we ever had a Rose
Campbell, nor do our records show it. We had a Donna Campbell here
who was with us less than a year and left us in 1892; so that I would
be unable to state to the Commissioner anything that would be helpful
to her.

My rule has been to indorse my pupils the best I can when they
leave the School. After that, they make their own records, and must
depend upon such records for their appointments and promotions.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 16, 1899.

Messrs. Bausch & Lomb,
Optical Company,
Rochester, New York,

Gentlemen:--

I took the glass, purchased from you about four or five months ago, with me on a Western trip, and also had an old field glass with me of considerable power.

When on the top of Pike's Peak, I was surprised and very greatly annoyed to find that my old glass was far better than the new, revealing remote objects much better, and was led to feel that there was some defect in the glass. Before sending it back to you for overhauling, I thought best to write.

Please advise.

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Rev. J. J. Methvin,

Anaarko, O.T.

My dear Sir:--

We have now 933 pupils on our rolls with several parties to come which will lift our numbers to the thousand mark, if they come in the strength proposed. I can take one or two additional girls, and shall be glad to place the transportation to your or their order at such point as you name provided all the conditions are complied with,--that is, parental consent, in writing, the pupils over twelve and under twenty years of age, in good health and of good character.

In regard to what I said at Los Angeles about the church, I was speaking entirely from my experiences here at Carlisle, and I do not by any means think that the Catholic church is the church. I was speaking of all churches. All missionary work among the Indians, in my observation, stands in the way of the Indian getting out from their agency and mixing with the people of the United States. The missionaries capture the best young people and those who are dissatisfied with their surroundings and hold on to them, binding them to their parents and to tribalism. The most of the Government schools among them do the same thing. The agency system throughout is along the same line, and the

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and the contrivances that the churches have made and that are forced
upon the Government through sentimental feeling for the Indian, have
been and are terribly expensive. Catholicism has always led the way
in segregating and aggregating, but the other churches that work among
the Indians all, more or less do the same thing.

I do not, of course, think that any of the churches, outside of
the Catholic church, have stood in the way of individualizing and
Americanizing the Indians intentionally. I mean to say that the sys-
tems established by the different churches in working upon our native
people have been detrimental to the individual by holding him to as-
sociations with his past. I think that the Catholic church has been
and is criminal in this respect. The churches, pretty much all of
them, have constantly urged reasons why Indian children should not be
separated from their parents, but at the same time they have not hos-
white
tated to separate children from their parents in the slums of the
great cities. Conditions have not been studied, nor methods thought
out and worked out logically to accomplish the Americanizing of the
Indian. The churches do not cooperate with the Government, however
much they may think they do, and as a result the Indians are coddled
and pauperized into worthlessness and into conditions that are constant-
ly working their destruction.

Smallpox, for instance, breaks out in different places and carries
off hundreds, especially children, and in localities where the church
is practically supreme in control. Smallpox breaks out at Carlisle,

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but having a knowledge of it and the power to control it, one is lost
out of seventeen cases, and it is stamped out. Measles kills Indian
children by the hundred on the reservations, but measles never kills
any one at the schools that are intelligently managed, and so on.

The reservation, with all its appliances of every sort, the Missionary as well, teach the Indian to lean upon the Government or to expect something from charity.

The Missionary cannot help it. The system does it in spite of
him. I do not see how the Government is to put these people on their
feet as individuals and train them from the pauper and dependent con-
ditions through any system that exists on any reservation anywhere.
If you do, I shall be glad to hear it. I know about what you will
say. We differ, and perhaps always shall. I speak from my standpoint--
you speak from yours.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Penna., September 18,1899.

Hon. W. A. Fought,

Chief Burgess, Carlisle,

Carlisle, Penna.,

My dear Mr. Fought:--

It comes to my ears that you are again engaged in the good cause of trying to clean the town of nastiness. I am informed that you have made a raid on the obscene pictures and have notified the company at the Opera House of your intention to enforce the law.

Allow me to congratulate you and to say that you can count on me for all the backing that I can give in every emergency on this line.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 19, 1899.

Mrs. William Thomas,
1075 Water Street,
Meadville, Penna.

Dear Mrs. Thomas:--

I am sorry to tell you that the Shasta Indians
are one band that I know practically nothing about. I do know that
they are not under the care of any agency and that they are quite a
good deal distributed, and my impression has always been that they were
getting on pretty well in comparison with the people about them, but
I may be somewhat mistaken about that. We have seventy-five tribes
represented here, but no Shastas, and they do not appear on the offi-
cial records anywhere.

Regretting that I cannot give you definite information, I am,

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Miss Elinor A. Howland,

Greenfield, Mass.

My Dear Miss Howland:--

I have yours of the 17th with enclosures.

I note with regret what Mr. Harmon says of Eugene's unsatisfactory service and conduct the last year he was with him.

The search for his bank account seems fruitless, and unless we get some clue, it hardly seems worth while to follow it. There would be a melancholy satisfaction in turning over whatever he might have to the poor bereaved mother. Otherwise, there is nothing to be gained, as Eugene had no near relatives.

Mr. Harmon's statement is the first adverse report that has come to me, though, of course, I know that Eugene was not without some fault.

Sad as the affair has been, there seems no way but to overcome prejudice by persistency. This was the first and only case of the kind in nearly 3500 young Indians passing under my care during twenty years, and I feel assured that there were extenuating circumstances, as you and Mr. Harmon have indicated.

I feel very sorry for you and your father and family that so untoward a result should come after so many years of kindness. Perhaps the best way now is to close the matter.

With kind regards to your father, I am,

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Carliole, Penna., September 19, 1899.

Herwood Hall, Supt.,
Indian School,
Perris, California.

My dear Hallie--

Thanks for yours of the 7th with the San Jacinto news
paper clipping.

I question whether it would be worth while for me to pay atten-
tion to Lummis. The San Jacinto paper seems to have struck him just
about right and, perhaps for the present, at least, we had better let
it go at that.

I enclose to you my Nurse's statement about the two Amago chil-
dren. There seems no reason for anxiety.

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Carlisle, Penna., Sept. 19, 1899.

Montgomery Ward & Co.,
Michigan Ave. & Madison St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Gentlemen:--

I enclose P.O. order for $2.50 for which please send
me one pair of E.E. No. 9, Dewey Shoes; order number U. 1.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 20, 1899.

Levi Levering,
Indian School, Fort Hall,
Blackfoot, Idaho.

My dear Levi:--

Somewhere on the road between Los Angeles and
home via San Francisco, Klamath Agency, Chemawa, Portland, Tacoma,
Seattle, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck and Chicago the cane you gave me got
away from me and entirely slipped my mind until two or three days ago
when Mrs. Pratt spoke of it. Then I tried to think where I had seen
it last and have been entirely unable to recall where I had it last.
Mrs. Pratt thinks she remembers that I had it in Seattle, and I seem
to remember it there also, but I cannot remember having it since. I
feel very much annoyed at the loss of it, because it was so useful to
me in my limping condition. It may turn up yet.

I am glad to hear such a good account of Master Lincoln Levering.
With kindest regards to his mother, I am,

Very faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Penna., September 21, 1899.

Mr. Howard S. Neiman,

C/o Wm. J. Matheson & Co., Ltd.,

184 Front Street,

New York City.

My dear Sir:--

Replying to yours of September 20th in regard to
Mr. Appenzeller, a graduate of Dickinson, I take pleasure in advising
you that Mr. Appenzeller, as a student at Dickinson College, has fal-
len under my observation quite a little, and I can safely say that he is
a young man of good moral qualities and of exceptional forces of char-
acter. I believe that you will be entirely satisfied with his quali-
ties and ability.

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Hon. W. A. Jones,

Sir:--

I enclose you a letter from Mr. John R. Hughes, who claims to have been a blacksmith in the Indian Service. He makes statements and complaints which may or may not be worth inquiring into. I do not know Mr. Hughes, and have no personal knowledge of affairs at that Agency beyond a limited correspondence for the last dozen years.

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Carliole, Penna., September 21, 1899.

Miss R. Florence Dyer,

Fergus Falls, Minn.

My dear Miss Dyer:

Replying to your letter of the 18th instant I have to respectfully advise you that just at present there is no stenographer required here.

We have an application pending consideration in Washington, but that one has to be supplied by the Civil Service Bureau. The Civil Service Bureau undertakes to provide ~~all~~ of our employees.

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1899.

The Outlook Company,
287 Fourth Avenue,

New York City.

Gentlemen:--

Enclosed please find renewal of subscription to the "Outlook," together with one new subscription and order for the Outlook Edition of Shakespeare, with check to cover full amount. Please send me a receipted bill for three dollars, subscription to the "Outlook" for one year, using enclosed envelope. The balance of the check, $4.50, is to cover price of new subscription and the "Shakespeare," and, being a personal matter, will need no receipt.

Very truly,

C. L. M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 10, 1899.

Mrs. Lillie Kalama,

Warm Springs, Oregon.

Dear Mrs. Kalama:--

Miss Miles sent me your letter to her and now I have your letter of October 1st direct. I shall be glad to receive whatever children the Agent sends me provided he carefully complies with our rules. Children should not be sent to Carlisle who are not in good health. They should be over twelve, and under twenty, preferably over fourteen and under eighteen and should be, of course, at least of fairly good character. We do not want to let ourselves drift into a hospital or a reformatory. We wish to remain a school.

I did not write you on receipt of your letter to Miss Miles for the reason that the time seemed short, and the whole matter was in the Agent's hands. I fear before this reaches you, the party will be on the way East. If your children are not strong and healthy it would be better, I should think, to let them go to Chemawa, where they would be near you and where you could look after them in case of emergency. If they are in good health, I would be glad to receive them here and will certainly do all I can to educate and train them into noble manhood and womanhood.

I am glad to know that you approve of our cutting system. I feel quite sure there is no scheme connected with Indian education that at all compares with it in benefit to the young. It is the one thing that

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surely leads out and away from tribalizing, and gives opportunities to
know our civilized home life and to become a part of it. It does the
work for a vast foreign element every year, and would do the same for
the Indian if those who have to do with them were wise enough to take
hold of it on a large scale.

I am glad to know that you were acquainted with my aunt, Mrs.
Rhoda Hubbard, of Forestgrove. She was my mother's favorite sister,
and in 1857 I came very near going to Oregon to become her adopted
son. Fortune turned me in another direction, and I am here instead of
in Oregon. Very likely it is because of the "Divinity that shapes
our ends, rough hew them how we will."

Very sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Penna., October 10, 1899.

Miss Gertrude Sherman,

Omaha Agency, Nebraska.

My dear Gertrude:--

I will be glad to place tickets for you and
your brother at any point and just whenever you say you are ready to re-
turn to Carlisle; and my judgment is that you ought to return and fin-
ish your course, and your brother also. Then you will be entitled to
consideration throughout the Indian Service. Tell your father that I
say he makes a mistake in not allowing you to complete your course,
that it ought not to be a matter of solicitation and urgency on your
part, but that the urgency should come from him to you.

Faithfully your friend,

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Mr. Sidney B. Wood,

P. O. Box 101,

Williamstown, Penna.

My dear Sirs:

We have no students just at present unprovided for. Dickinson College opens its doors to our students, and by boarding and getting their clothing at the School here, they make their expenses very small. But I shall be glad to have some of our young people go into Williams College, and if you will tell me the terms, it is quite likely that when our next graduating class passes out in February, we may find suitable ones anxious to avail themselves of the opportunity.

Our pupils graduate mid way between the grammar and high school grades of the public schools, and the preparatory of Dickinson College can take them at that point and in two years fit them for entering at Dickinson.

Thank you for the article on Williams College, for which I have always had the highest respect because I knew its Great President, and counted James A. Garfield among my best friends.

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Carlisle, Penna. 11,1699.

H. E. Devendorf,

Utica, N.Y.

My dear Sir:--

I am counting on a trip to Utica with the team with a good deal of pleasure. It is more than twenty years since I was in Utica. One of my very first outing experiences was having four Indians at some point seven or eight miles out from Utica. They were under the care of an Episcopalian clergyman and belonged to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe prisoners that I had under my care at St. Augustine, Florida, for three years. So you see that historically in the Indian work, Utica occupies a somewhat important place, but the greatest pleasure I shall have will be in meeting Mr. Sherman and yourself again. Commissioner Jones is more than half inclined to witness the game also. He told me of the urgency of Mr. Sherman and his expectation.

We have just had individual pictures taken of the team and a number of them will be printed off to-day. A full picture of this year's team was taken last evening and when printed, we will send you a copy.

The record of last year was as follows:--

Carlisle 43; Bloomsburg, 0, Carlisle, 5; Harvard, 11.
" 48; Susquehanna, 0, " 46; Dickinson, 0.
" 6; Cornell, 23, " 5; Pennsylvania, 36.
" 17; Williams, 6, " 11; Illinois, 0.
" 5; Yale, 18. " 40; Harrisburg, 0.

I should have sent you an answer to your letter of the 5th before,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 11, 1899.

Mr. Addison Ballard,
New York University,
University Heights, New York.

Dear Sir :-

The position assumed that education has done the Indian
more harm than good, is supremely ridiculous.

Eli Parker, a member of General Grant's staff, afterwards occupying an official position in the municipal government of New York for many years, was an educated Indian. While on the staff force he had the fullest respect of both the General and his staff associates. He was also Commissioner of Indian Affairs under General Grant, and it is said of him in the office that he was the only Commissioner who kept the business of the office closed up each day. He never let a case go over to the future that could be settled at the time.

One of the best lieutenants in the Seventh Cavalry, Donald MacIntosh, killed in the Little Big Horn with Custer, was an Indian. I well remember when the officers of his regiment were together at Leav恩worth in 1870, an important matter came up in which a particular paper was to be draughted, and they unanimously turned to MacIntosh to draw it up.

One of the most trusted clerks in the Indian Office for many
years, is an Indian. He has the respect and fullest recognition of
his fellow clerks, and has a large circle of friends. Dr. Carlos Mon
tezuma, a full blooded Apache, captured when a little boy, is a prac-

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ticing physician in the city of Chicago and has many warm and distinguished friends.

In the last twenty years I have had under my care here over 3800 young Indians from about every tribe in the United States. A very large proportion of them have been educated and trained, and now fill positions of civilized usefulness with at least average success. It would fail me to begin to enumerate. There is no hope for the Indian except he becomes educated and civilized, and the more quickly and completely that can be accomplished the greater will be his saving from the total annihilation his continuing Indian surely presages.

There is a strong influence against educating and civilizing the Indian from the so-called "Science" organizations of our country. One horse Indian ethnologists, so to speak, are dead sure they know the Indian cannot be civilized and ought not to be civilized. He is so much more useful as a study and interesting for exhibition purposes as he is. The civilization and education of the Indian is breaking up the missionary fields, and people who have gone into the field and acquired an Indian language, and have written and translated books and built up separate language systems for Indian tribes, are losing their distinction; consequently, they see reasons why educating Indians in English and civilizing them out of their old life into ours is not a success.

Then there is an army of contractors, traders, and surrounding whites and employees in the Indian service in Washington and even among the tribes, whose living comes from the $8,000,000 annually appropriated for the Indians. Their resources are endangered by Indian civilization. These find reasons why Indian civilization and educa-

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tion is not a success.

However, Indian education is marching right along, and if we can
break up the tribalizing systems of education and replace them with
true Americanizing systems, and through these secure a flow out from
the tribes, we shall not be so very long in putting our Indians hap-
pily and substantially on their feet as civilized men and women, able
and glad to share with us the burdens and benefits of our American
life.

We have never issued a catalog. Our reports have always been
annually to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and are printed as par
of the public documents each year. I send you a copy of my last re-
port, reprinted in our school paper.

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October 12, 1899.

George Vaux, Jr.,
Girard Building,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear George:--

I think you said you could use three tickets for Saturday afternoon, so I send you three. Should you want others, I shall be down on the train reaching the city at 11.48, Mrs. Pratt, Richenda and I, and will have a few extra tickets with me. These will place you near us.

I concluded to postpone my visit until Saturday. It is barely possible that I will go down myself to-morrow evening. If I do, I will stop around to see you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 12, 1899.

R. N. Pyle, Chief Clerk,

P. & R. R. Company,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Pyle:--

Mr. Thompson, the Manager, will be with the
Team at the Windsor Hotel, on Filbert Street, on Saturday morning and
will himself deliver you as many tickets as you require for your own
personal use. I said six, but it need not stop at that if you want
more.

I wrote Mr. Wood for the number required in your office and he
says twelve. Mr. Thompson will deliver those also. Will you please
say so to Mr. Wood.

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