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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 9, 1903.

Col. James H. Lambert, Executive Officer,
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission,
Real Estate Trust Bldg.,
Broad & Chestnut Sts.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Colonel :

I am just home from a two months absence and find your letter
of August 27th.

I told you if we could have a space 25 x 30 feet we could use
it in a way that would be a credit to the state and to the general
government; and you advised me you thought you could give me more.
It will be important now that I know as soon as possible just what
you can give us in order that we may prepare accordingly. I under-
stand of course the limitations you will be under, and shall be glad
to make use of whatever space you can give.

I trust the band matter is not only in mind, but well in hand.
I am counting as much on that as I am on the exhibit itself.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 9, 1903.

Mr. James Stuart,
Kootkia, Idaho.

My dear James :

I have just arrived at home after more than two months absence.
It will be all right for you to bring us a small party of children.
Be sure to bring only good ones. Indicate to me the time and place
of starting and number of tickets needed and I will place them.
all
Keep a careful account of your expenses in connection with gathering
and bringing them in and I will reimburse you on arrival here.

Sorry I cannot be there to go fishing, but the time will come I
hope when I can have some real sport of that kind in your neighbor-
hood.

Excuse hasts.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 9, 1903.

Rev. Edward Marsden,
C/o Rev. W. A. Major,
714 Queen Anne Ave.,
Seattle, Wash.

My dear Edward :

I have just reached Carlisle and have telegraphed you, hoping to hasten your arrival here so as to go with me to Mohonk. I think it not at all unlikely I can manage to bring up your case in such a way as to get the six hundred dollars you want for your church. They do such things there now and then, but it has to be discreetly managed.

If you leave Ketchikan on the 14th I take it you can leave Seattle on the 16th. This will bring you here by the 21st and I can arrange for you to come on or I might wait for you. Telegraph me from Seattle just how many boys and girls you have.

Oct. 9, 1903.

Col. J. G. C. Lee, retired,
Island Harbor House,
The Hague,
Lake George, New York.

Dear Colonel Lee :

I have just returned from a two months absence. While away I had a letter from Colonel Hennisse advising that you would undertake to labor with Congress the ensuing winter in behalf of a bill to give us Civil War veterans who were retired without that, an increased grade. I write now to say that I return to my labors here at the school with an overwhelming lot of correspondence and work before me, and that I will act under your direction in every way and will cheerfully supply my proportion of the expenses whatever that may be, leaving it entirely to you.

I am quite in the dark as to what is to be done except that we are to appeal to members of Congress, and as there is plenty of time to do that and for me to get posted I shall do nothing until I hear from you in answer to this. If you can indicate what money I ought to send you I shall be glad to do that.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 10, 1903.

My dear Doctor Abbott :-

Your note and editorial comes to me on my return to the school
yesterday. Have been absent in Alaska and our western states since
August third looking over the Indian field and the Carlisle results.
I read the Outlook articles and editorial while in Alaska and only
waited return to Carlisle and the end of constant travel to write
and thank you for them. You have hit the nail square on the head and
I hope you will continue until it is driven home and clinched.

The transfer of Indian education and all dependent peoples' ed-
ucation to the Bureau of Education would result in breaking up spec-
ializing and bringing to bear unification. The great heart of the
Bureau of Education glowing with interest in all education and espe-
ially concerned for the public schools would work all these special
schools into the general system and so end race and class education
which blocks the way so completely now. Am especially glad you can
see it best to abolish the Supt. of Indian Schools.

Shall see you at Mohonk and can give an account. Why would it
not be a good thing to get Dr. Harris, Commissioner of Education, to
the Conference? Can't you write him and Mr. Smiley?

Copied from letter in Colonel Pratt's hand.

Dr. Lyman Abbott,
Editor, The Outlook,
New York City.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 10, 1903.

Vaughn Washburn,
83 Seneca St.,
Buffalo, New York.

Dear Vaughn :

You have so flagrantly violated all the rules of the Carlisle
Outing and been so treacherous to your own interests in it, acting
entirely without consultation here, running away from your place, not
letting the people there know you were going nor your whereabouts,
that I feel it is best to drop you from our Carlisle lists and let
you keep on managing your own affairs. You are therefore dropped
from the rolls of Carlisle.

I just returned yesterday from a long absence or you would have
had this answer sooner.

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PERSONAL.

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 10, 1903.

Hon. W. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

I have just asked officially for a renewal of the position of an extra teacher. The work looms up very heavy. Already we have 1025 pupils and inside of ten days we shall number about 1050. In letting Miss McIntire go last year on account of ill health we lost our best equipment in the normal room.

Miss Cora B. Hawk of Williamstown, Pa., who is on the eligible list, came here to fill in during Miss Robbins' illness. Mr. Allen thinks she is just the person to take care of our normal room and if you can allow the extra teacher and will manoeuvre the situation so as to give us Miss Hawk, who is anxious to come, I shall be very greatly obliged.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 10, 1903.

Mrs. Frederick Nathan, Chairman, etc.,
162 W. 86th St.,
New York City.

Dear Madam :

Replying to yours of the 8th instant I would suggest that Miss M. Burgess who has been connected with the Carlisle school since its foundation now twenty-four years ago, who is an author, and manager of our school paper and is entirely familiar with all Indian matters, will be the best spokeswoman I could recommend for your purpose and she will undertake it if you desire.

I should not give the address the title you suggest, however. The Indians all together number a bare 250,000. If all their young women were to enter into service it would, as you can see from their paucity of numbers, cut scarcely any figure in a solution of the domestic service problem. It would be impossible to place any considerable number of those who would be available on account of age, training, etc., for the reason that when educated they became so valuable that they are wanted in connection with the Indian school service everywhere at much higher salaries than domestics receive. We have in the Indian school service a very considerable number of Indians who have been trained and have had these outing and domestic service experiences. They receive wages ranging from $420 to $800 per year; so you can see how the matter stands.

It may be after learning this you will not care for the paper, but if you still think your Confederation wants to be informed on the subject I could not make any better suggestion I have above. It ought

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 10, 1903.

Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson,
Jordanville, New York.

My dear Sir :

I am today sending Mrs. Bread one of our school catalogs and
application blanks for her children. I enclose similar ones to you
for your information and use should you find others who ought to
come to Carlisle. The qualifications are that they shall be at least
one fourth Indian, full Indians preferred, be between the ages of
twelve and twenty years, preferably between fourteen and eighteen,
in good health and of reasonably good character. To such our doors
are open. We pay transportation expenses and all expenses after
their arrival at the school including books, clothing, meals, etc.
All that are suitable for outing privileges are allowed to go to the
country in the summer to become accustomed to proper American liv-
ing. We find all homes and look after them when away from the school
see that their wages are paid, etc.

If Mrs. Bread's boys are suitable for entrance here and their
mother consents to their coming for five years I can place transpor-
tation for them at such place as you name. The consent blanks should
be filled out and returned to me.

I appreciate your interest in the cause, and should the boys
come to Carlisle will give them such industrial and other advantage
as our system offers.

Yours truly,

Col. & Supt.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 12, 193.

Mrs. W. P. White,
Oak Lane,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Mrs. White :

Thanks for your kindly greeting. Mrs. Pratt and I returned fairly well rejuvenated, but are planning to go away again. I wish to see more of what is going on in the Indian country and want Mrs. Pratt to help me do it.

With regard to the band; I will say that if you can raise one hundred dollars and can take care of the boys I will do the rest and you can have them for the evening before the football game, as you propose. I think you might safely distribute them among your people, and their conduct would be so satisfactory that everyone would be glad to entertain them. The boys are nice, clean and gentlemanly in their habits, and I am not afraid of having them tried anywhere.

Mr. Wheelock, having his instrumentation at fifty, is not disposed to lower the number. He is bringing the band up in good shape and it will appear in St. Louis next year for a long engagement in competition with many other excellent bands of the country.

I believe if you could see Mr. Wanamaker himself you could accomplish his giving $75 for a morning program in his great store. A little advertising of it there would certainly bring him many times more than the cost. With the $25 already promised you and the collection you will take up at that time I should think you might make up more than the hundred dollars required. You understand I shall manage the transportation to and from. If I cannot accomplish that I

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will pay the balance from our own funds. I say this because on a
special occasion formerly I got the Philadelphia and Reading people
to take it to Philadelphia and bring it back for that amount, one
hundred dollars. Indeed, I should not wonder if you went to the Gen-
eral Passenger Agent yourself and submitted the situation to him,
leaving out the football part of it that you could get him to bring
it down and back for $100. If he said he was under obligations with
the Pennsylvania Railroad not to reduce the rates you might suggest
to him, "Why can't you bring it down and take it back for $3.70 per
capita and make us a donation of the difference?" The boys would
travel in one car and $100 is a pretty good price for one car to
Philadelphia and return. I doubt if their cars begin to average
that.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 12, 1963.

Prof. Howard J. Rogers,
Chief of Educational Department,
World's Fair,
St. Louis, Mo.

My dear Prof. Rogers :

The Indian Bureau proposes to repeat its exhibition at Chicago, i.e., they intend to have a building and there present the old Indian in contrast with the new, with a great deal of emphasis on the old to please the ethnological and Buffalo Bill elements. I have no sympathy with the method, and as you may possibly remember did not have at Chicago.

At Chicago I asked for a place for Carlisle in the general educational exhibit and was awarded a space, as I remember, of 25 x 30 feet, and made an exhibit that attracted as I think quite as much attention and interest as any other educational exhibit there. I would like to repeat that at St. Louis and if you can give me space say 25 x 30 feet or even 25 x 25 I will guarantee to put an industrial exhibit upon it that will be entirely worthy of the consideration. I have asked the Indian Bureau to excuse me from taking any part in their hybrid exhibit and have been excused, so that if I cannot get space from you I shall probably not appear.

I expect to be in St. Louis one of the last days in the month and would be glad to know whether you will be there and if I can see you with regard to this matter. Our Pennsylvania people have been encouraging me to appear as a part of their exhibit, but the award of space made to them is so small that they could not give me sufficie

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 12, 1903.

Rev. L. F. Jones,

Juneau, Alaska.

My dear Friend :

Yours of August 25th is only received by me on my return to Car-
lisle Friday last. I have been traveling among the Indians in Cana-
da, Montana, Idaho and Oklahoma.

I was greatly disappointed to meet so few of the missionaries.
I had anticipated meeting a good many, but with the exception of Mr.
Harrison, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Marsden I seemed to miss everybody. It
was not only a time of absence of missionaries, but of the Indians
themselves. The few communities I did visit were mostly off among
the fisheries and other industries. I not only called at your house
but at the house of the other missionary in Juneau and found nobody
at home there.

I sincerely hope we may have better luck next time and if you
or Mrs. Jones come to the states don't fail to visit Carlisle
where you will have a warm welcome.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 12, 1903.

Colonel James H. Lambert,
Executive Officer,
L. P. E. Commission,
710 Real Estate Trust Bldg.,
Broad & Chestnut Sts.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Colonel Lambert :

Thanks for yours of the 10th. I know Prof. Rogers, chief of the
Educational Department, and joined with others in urging his appoint-
ment to his present place. I have therefore thought best to write
him first about it and as I am hoping to be in St. Louis one of the
last days of the month will try to see him there and get concessions
if I can. In the meantime, if I am not allowed a special concession
I should be glad to make use of whatever space you can give me in
the small allowance made to you, and trust you will hold the matter
somewhat in abeyance until I can settle along this other line.

Glad to know you feel so confident of the band. It is getting
into fine shape. The two months under special instruction in Leipzig
and additional experience with a great musical oratoric in London
this summer has given my leader very much more skill in his business
and the band is showing it. It will surely be an attraction musical-
ly aside from the fact that they are Indians.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 30, 1903.

To the Adjutant General, U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:

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

My address for the next month is as above.

Col. U.S.A., retired, & supt.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 13, 1903.

Rev. J. P. Rice, Supt.,
Indian School,
Red Deer,
Alberta, B. C.

My dear Sir :

Upon receipt of your letter of Sept. 26th printed matter relat-
ing to this school was sent you. I have just returned to the school
and have only to say that we shall be glad to correspond with you
and if in any way we can help you, please command us.

TELEGRAM.

James Stewart,
Continental Hotel,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Oct. 13, 1903 .

On receipt of this be sure to call me long distance phone, my ex-
pense.

Pratt. Col.

W. U. 1:52 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1903.

Summer S. Riggs,
Colony, Okla.

My dear Summer :

I was four days at Colony and did not see you. Why was it ?
I hope to be down at the Kiowa and Comanche Agencies again at the
end of the month and want very much to see something of the old stu-
dents and other Indians. I want to learn just how they are getting
on under the new conditions and whether they will rise to their op-
portunities and will join with and become a part of the regular pop-
ulation.

I have often thought about you since you left Carlisle and am
certainly greatly interested in your success. Miss Burgess will
probably be with me when I come down so you can see one of your old
teachers. Mrs. Pratt will also accompany me.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1903.

Mr. Moses Smith,
C/o Mr. D. P. Hill,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Sir :

Your letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs written by Mr. Hill and dated October 5th has been referred to me by the Honorable Commissioner for "proper reply to the writer."

When I went away I expected to send Freddie home when he came in from the farm about the 15th of September, and he would certainly have gone had he wanted to do that. Instead, he asked to go to the country again. I have before me his written request to that effect. If he wants now to go home he has changed his mind. Probably we would have done better to send him home at that time whether he wished to go or not; but now that he has arranged it himself and gone out where he can attend school all winter I feel that I ought to carry out the regular routine, and this course would be for his own good.

However, I am willing to hear again from you about it before making final conclusion.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1903.

Mr. Octavius I Bates,
Merrill,
Clinton Co., New York.

My dear Sir :

Yours of the 20th ult, was received in my absence and I only
now have it, having just returned to my desk on Friday last after a
long trip among the Indians in the west.

I should be glad to have you come to Carlisle at any time it
suits you and we shall be able to take care of you here at a very
small cost for your meals. You can then make a study of our methods
and of the Indians under them and satisfy yourself.

It would be well for you, I think, to visit the Onondaga Reserve
near Syracuse, New York, and the Seneca, Tonawanda and Tuscarora Re-
serve near Buffalo as well as the St. Regis Reserve at Hogansburg on
the St. Lawrence. They are all fair illustrations of what a con-
tinuance of the reservation system means to the Indians. A good man
for you to see among the Indians of Western New York is Rev. M. F.
Trippe, of Salamanca, who has been a missionary among them for many
many years. Rev. W. C. Kingsbury is a missionary among the St. Regis
Indians. In their labors for the Indians at these places both men
have come upon all phases of Indian life within their jurisdiction
and can give you facts worth your while to secure.

Make free to use and study us in any way you care to.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1903.

Mr. Geo. L. Rose,
Tecumseh, Okla.

My dear Sir :

Eli Foreman, one of our students, states to me that his brother
advises him that since the death of his mother the property has no
tenant and wants me to write you about it. Will you please write
either to Eli or to me what you think would best be done.

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1903.

Mr. H. N. Kellogg, Bus. Mgr.,
New York Tribune,
New York City.

Dear Sir :

I have pleasure in forwarding you today copy of our last catalog
also copy of my annual report for the year ending June 30th, 1903.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1903.

Mr. John D. Miles,

Lawrence, Kans.

My dear J. D. :

I got home in good season, delayed only two hours in Ohio by a
freight wreck.

I am thinking quite a little of that project of yours, but it
seems to me that I ought to hold on here until some action is taken
by Congress or the Administration. As I told you, I feel that I am
free to quit at any time and so far as my treatment by the Depart-
ment is concerned I believe I ought to quit; but there is a principle
that holds me to the work longer and that is the fact that I suggest-
ed and built up the school and have been its superintendent through
all the years, and that it was not established by the Indian Bureau
but rather by the action of Congress. I was placed on special duty
by act of Congress and Congress has been kind enough to give me an
extra thousand dollars a year nearly ever since I have been here.
I am therefore somewhat obligated to wait until Congress has had a
chance to pronounce upon the situation. That of course will be dur-
ing the coming session.

I wish I had the facts as you gave them to me about that asphalt
business down in the Territory. Can't you write them out at once and
let me have them ? These things are likely to come up in a confiden-
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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13, 1903.

Gen. John Eaton
The Concor-
Washington, D. C.

My dear General :

I expect to be in Washington Thursday and Friday and shall hope to see you. I have not met with my old comrades of the Army of the Cumberland since '69 and as I was with Pap Thomas from the fall of '61 to the end of the war I count myself one of the grenadiers of that army, and the present seems a propitious time to renew my standing.

Thanks for your letter in regard to Dr. Newton. The superintendent of the school at Fort Defiance wrote me that he intended to bring us a party of students this summer, but put it off till fall. I have heard nothing from him since My suspicion is that it was simply a flank movement to prevent children from coming, as I find here and there just such action on the part of superintendents. However, I give him the benefit of the doubt and as he is in charge will of course have to operate through him.

I am glad to know by letter that things are going well with you. My health is much improved and Mrs. Pratt's also. I shall be at Mo-honk. Hope you are planning that way.

With kindest remembrance from us all to Mrs. Eaton,

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Oct. 13, 1903.

Ron. James S. Sherman,
Utica, New York.

My dear Mr. Sherman :

I am hoping I may see you at Mohonk next week. I have just returned from a long trip and have seen quite a good deal of the Indians of Alaska and have been renewing my observations of them in the west, both north and south. There are quite a good many things I would like to talk to you about.

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Oct. 13, 1903.

Gen. Thos. Schwan,
Manoir Richelieu,
Point a Pic, P. Q.,
Canada.

Dear General Schwan :

I have yours of August 27th on my return last
Friday from a long absence.

The selection of employes for this school is
absolutely in the hands of the Civil Service Commiss-
sion and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. I may go to
Washington and look over the papers of candidates
whose names have been sent over to the Indian Office
and indicate my preference, but that is all. Miss
Gilbreath has not been certified to the Office by the
Civil Service Commission. Two young ladies and a gen-
tleman were certified some days ago and we think we
prefer a gentleman for the place and so told them
to send him. You understand how these matters are
conducted. The names of the highest three on the
list of eligibles are certified to the Office to-
gather when a position is to be filled and selection
must be made from those. I should be glad of course
if it were in my power to give fullest consideration
to one of our army people, but am barred from every-
thing.

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Carliole, Pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Marie A. Santacilla,
Normal School,
Bloomington, Pa.

Dear Maria,

I have just looked up your record here and find that, about a year ago, you left from Number 10. I cannot understand what would prompt you to ask for a diploma under the circumstances. You have done none of the work of either the junior or senior class. The junior year work at Bloomington does not fill the requirements for graduating at Carlisle. It may be that you are in the same class that others have been in who have graduated at this school, but they had previously taken much work at Carlisle which you have missed entirely. A diploma that is not deserved would be of no benefit to you because it would not certify the truth.

I sincerely hope that you may be able to complete your normal school course and that it will be of great benefit to you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Angela L. Rivera,
State Normal School,
Bloomington, Ia.

Dear Angela,

In your request that you be allowed to graduate next
February, you may the Indian girls who are there have done so.
I do not believe that any girl has gone to Bloomington a junior and
graduated the same year. It would be of no benefit to you to re-
cive a diploma that you do not merit even granting that others
who are undeserving have been so treated in the past. You have
not done the senior work at Carlisle nor any work equivalent to it.
Lilian Brown whom you mention put in her full time and graduated
in regular order. Whenever a diploma is due you from the school,
it will be cheerfully given. in your life work, a diploma will
be of no special use to you. You will pass for what you know and
can do.

I trust that you will be able to finish your course at Bloom-
burg and on greatly pleased to know that you are making good progress.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Dr. L. Webster Fox,
1304 Walnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Doctor :

I am sending to you tomorrow Annie Cowhead and Maude Sampson, as you advise. They will reach Philadelphia at 11:48 and will come immediately to the hospital.

I got home Friday noon last after roaming about among the Indians in Montana, Idaho and Oklahoma where I spent two most interesting weeks. I will tell you about it when I see you. Am feeling first rate. The trip did me a lot of good. Richenda will remain in Denver till the holidays. Mrs. Pratt is here and joins me in cordial remembrance to Mrs. Fox and the hope that both of you are well.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Hon. Thad. M. Mahon,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear friend :

On receipt of your letter I telegraphed you last night that the band could come over on the 16th. It is quite a tax on the boys' to separate them from their school work for even a day; but I recognize that patriotism is cultivated and that we veterans are entitled to special consideration. There will be no charge for the band unless your funds should permit you to make us some small payment. I should tell you that the band has to support itself and that latterly it has been running behind. However, that need not matter if there should be nothing to turn over to us.

I shall expect to hear from someone about it, time of leaving here, returning, what is expected, etc.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Mr. M. C. Kennedy,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Mr. Kennedy :

I have yours of yesterday asking me to act as one of the judges
on your riding tournament on the 22nd. I am very sorry that a pre-
vious engagement compels me to forego a visit to Chambersburg under
such pleasant auspices. The Annual Indian Conference at Lake Mohonk,
New York, is at that time and it is especially imperative I be there
this year.

Thanking you for your kind thought, I am

TELEGRAM.

Oct. 14.

James Stewart,
Phila., Pa.

Your message. Annual Indian Conference, Lake Mohonk, N. Y. next
week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Come and go with me. Be here
Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

Pratt. Col.

W. U. 3:35 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Sir :

I have asked that as many tickets to Carlisle as may be need-
ed be delivered on your order for Peter Cole and the two or three
children you are sending with him. Transportation has been wait-
ing so sometime for Mr. Cole, but that would scarcely cover the condi-
tions now. Please let us know when they start.

Mitchell Solomon has typhoid fever. It has run its course and
he is now well on the way to recovery. The doctor should have ad-
vised his parents, but there is now no cause for anxiety. I see him
every day and he is cheerful and mending rapidly.

Moses Herring left the other night and we have no trace of him
yet.

Faithfully yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 15, 1903.

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

Dear Professor :

The enclosed letters explain the situation in which Susie Rayos
finds herself. Do you know of any opening in Bloomsburg for her ?
Please return the letters with any suggestions you may have to make,
and obligo,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Mr. Ralph D. Payne,
Illustrated Sporting News,
7 W. 27th St.,
New York City.

My dear Mr. Payne :

I send you our illustrated catalog, also a souvenir gotten out
by a photographer in the town of Carlisle. If you will indicate to
me what you would like in the way of photographs in either pamphlet
I will send you originals.

Sincerely yours,

TELEGRAM.

Oct. 14.

A. K. Smiley,

Lake Mohonk, New York.

Rev. James Stewart, Scotch, collaborer with Livingstone, has a Carlisle for negro tribes at Lovedale, South Africa, my guest. Also Edward Marsden, Alaskan. May I bring them to conference ?

Pratt. Col.

W. U. 3:35 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Henry Standing Bear,

Allen, S. Dak.

Dear Henry :

I have your letter of the 11th instant with regard to your half-sister. On investigating the case I find you were here a number of days and just left the day before I returned to the school; that you made no statement to Mr. Allen nor to the matron in charge of the girls relative to the matters contained in your letter. It would seem that you should have done that in order to be perfectly square and fair about it and to give a chance to look into it and have a full understanding while that was practicable.

I find also that you or someone else was in the habit of visiting your sister this summer while she was out and that it had the effect of making her discontented and sometimes very ugly in her conduct so that it was almost impossible for the people with whom she was living to get along with her. Your sister is not truthful. A letter from her this morning makes several statements that are entirely untrue. It would seem therefore that your meddling with the affair is not productive of good results. Your sister is committed to my care for a certain period. It is as well known to you as to anyone who ever attended the Carlisle school what this outing system is. We have followed it twenty-four years and when I ask my old students what feature of Carlisle did them the most good the universal testimony is "The outing." I have just made a long trip in the west and seen many of our old students, some of the first and some of the

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latest, and I made it a point to ask each one about that. The answer
was the same each time.

You are somewhat of a veteran and a veteran Carlisle. I can
go back in my files and find letters from you thanking me for my
course with you which you will remember was along this same line.
I fear your letters to your sister are not what they ought to be and
that you are doing her harm. I shall have her more particularly un-
der my eye and shall make more careful inquiries, but until I am sat-
isfied by the observations of my visiting agents and the testimony
that comes to me direct that I am not doing for her just what I ought
or can I shall continue to treat her just as I am treating her now
and she must reconcile herself to her surroundings. If she wants to
change and improve her condition she must improve her own conduct.

To show you just how Jennie deceives, I am informed that her
home letter written to her guardian, Mrs. Hugg, went through the
outing office a few days ago and Miss Swallow, who has charge of
the remailing of these letters, read it. In that letter Jennie stat-
ed that this was the best place she had ever had and that she was
perfectly satisfied. I have the testimony of two girls who have
just been in my office and who lived with Mrs. Gifford this summer
and the summer before, that this is one of the best places they ever
had, that Mrs. Gifford was always kind and helpful and they were
very happy with her.

I am writing Jennie today.

Faithfully your friend,

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Dr. A. E. Marden,
Sacaton, Arizona.

My dear Doctor :

I thank you very much for your full letter of Sept. 22nd. My
desire is to have you with us at Carlisle as our school physician.
The present arrangement of doctor from the town can be continued for
some time so that I can await your convenience. From your letter I
understand that you wish to come. I believe we would get on very
well together and that you would do us and the Indians a great ser-
vice here. I have therefore concluded if it suits you to come to us
that I will make no change for the present, hoping that the time of
your coming may not be long delayed. Please write me on receipt of
this.

With kind regards to both yourself and Mrs. Marden I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 15, 1903.

Mr. Harry S. Musser,
232 Main St.,
Gettysburg, pa.

Dear Sir :

I write to advise you that the gentleman appointed by the Indian Office to the position of Baker at this school has arrived and entered upon duty. I regret very much that we could not secure your services at this time and hope you will receive a congenial appointment.

Carlisle, pa., Oct. 15, 1903.

Mr. J. C. Groome,
Carlisle, Pa.

Replying to yours of the 13th, there are so many publications wanting to send their representatives to canvass among our students that it became necessary to make a regulation forbidding it. There is no objection to students' subscribing for periodicals if they have the money to spare, but it is done individually and not in clubs.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 15, 1903.

Miss Lilian Cornelius,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Lilian :

You are getting just a little ahead of me in asking when you may
expect a position. It will be necessary first for you to make appli-
cation. I enclose a blank which you should fill out very carefully,
answering all the questions pertaining to the position you desire,
and return it to me. It will then be sent to Washington

It is pretty hard to tell how long it will take to obtain a po-
sition after that. It might be a few days or it might be a few weeks
or a few months. At the same time the Department is looking for some
thing for you I will keep my eyes open here for any inquiries that
come to the school for a seamstress.

I am glad to be able to tell you that Louise is still improving
and will no doubt be in school in a very short time. It was partic-
ularly gratifying Sunday morning to notice how her wasted look has
disappeared and how nearly she looks as she did when in perfect
health.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 15, 1903.

Os. ar D. Davis,

Lisbon, North Dakota.

Dear Oscar :

I read with regret the statement of your illness during the
year, but hope you have exaggerated the conditions and will be your-
self much sooner than you anticipate.

About Mr. Hefflefinger's bill; don't you think it would show a
greater interest in the settlement of it if you were willing to let
him take your violin at a reasonable price in part payment ? It
seems to me that would be the square thing to do and would manifest
a real disposition to settle it. I would not allow the instrument
to be sacrificed. Mr. Hefflefinger would probably be willing to al-
low you what you consider a fair valuation, and if you let me know
what that is I will see him about it.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 15, 1903.

J. Claudius Potts,
1111 Witherspoon Bldg.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

The case of water arrived yesterday but there were only 6 bot-
tles, a half case, instead of 12 bottles or whole case. Your bill
is for a case of 12 bottles. Please rectify.

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 15, 1903.

Mr. Solomon Spring,
Bason, New York.

Dear Mr. Spring :

Your letter with four blanks came duly. Transportation to Car-
lisle has been waiting for you for some time in the hands of Mr. B.P.
Fraser, in Buffalo, from whom you secured your tickets before. All
you have to do is to call for the tickets and receipt for them.

I note that one of the students you wish to bring is a Jennie
Hill. In 1897 we had a Jennie Hill from Indian Falls, N. Y. then 13
years of age, whose father was Wm. Hill. Her sister Maggie is now a
student here. Jennie was afflicted with something in the nature of
fits which made her entirely unfit for school and she had to be sent
home. If this is the same girl I would not think it advisable to
bring her to Carlisle unless she had fully recovered.

Unless I hear from you to the contrary we shall expect you Tues-
day morning next.

C O P Y .

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 16, 1903.

Miss F. L. Ozanne,
785 Republic St.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

Dear Madam :

I have your letter of the 12th inst., and regret that you are
not near enough to Carlisle to make your plan so far as the Carlisle
students are concerned, feasible. We place out a great many boys
and girls, but within a distance that can be compassed by our visit-
ing agents regularly. Within this limited district we have many
more applications than we can fill, so that it is entirely unneces-
sary to look beyond for homes. After students graduate from this
school they are usually or often employed by the Government in In-
dian schools in the west, receiving much better wages than they could
at housework, so that those who are capable can seldom be secured for
household help.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 16, 1903.

Silas S. Rouillard,
Hancock, Minn.

My dear Sir : -

From your letter I judge you live in a small town among white people where certainly you can have the privileges of the public schools, in taking advantage of which you would be fitting yourself for actual competition with citizens and as a citizen of the United States. That I believe to be far better for you than to enter any Indian school. If you came here it would be my aim to get you into the public schools and I should send you out from Carlisle for that purpose. As there seems no necessity for you to come here in order to accomplish such a purpose I think it better not to arrange transportation for you but to urge you to make use of the opportunities immediately about you. Forget you are an Indian and become a citizen in the only proper way.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Kish Hawkins,

Darlington, Okla.

My dear Kish :

I find it quite impossible to do anything about arranging to
get you Carlislers and the prisoners together at Darlington, but if
you can manage it among yourselves so as to have a gathering at your
father-in-law's or any other place the first Tuesday in November I
think I can promise you that Mrs. Pratt and I will be there and pos-
sibly Miss Burgess, Miss Ely, Miss Cutter and Mrs. Given and her two
sons. Talk it over with the other boys about the agency and see what
you can do and telegraph me within a day after you get this letter,
in order that I may know what to count on.

The enclosed invitation is for the affair at the Kiowa Agency
and explains itself. I wish you might be down at Anadarko at that
time ? Could you not do that ? Let me know at once.

A list of all the Cheyenne and Arapaho ex-students will be sent
you within a mail or two.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Paul Tsaitskopta,

Anadarko, Okla.

My dear Paul :

I am sending to the agency office a bunch of invitations and would like to have you go there and get some to send to the Kiowas and Comanches who were with me in Florida. Please attend to it at once. I trust all arrangements are satisfactory and that we shall have not only a big time but a good time in your pleasant grove.

Mrs. Pratt is going to be with me and I shall have also Miss Burgess, Miss Ely, Miss Cutter, and Mrs. Given and her two boys who are living in Oklahoma, and Neal Evans, one of your old traders. If you think of any other old-timers there will be enough invitations to send to them also.

I expect to reach Anadarko on Thursday and your committee there should have everything in readiness for the next day. You will, among you, of course, carefully guard and see that there are no improprieties of any sort, no intoxicants or Indian performances that might cause us trouble. The barbecue and a social time together, with a few speeches, ought to cover the day.

I find that it has been arranged on Julia's request that she remain out for the winter, and I am sure, my good friend, that that is the best thing for her. I have placed her out twice before since she came here and those who have had her have not been entirely pleased because she does not seem to be practical. I am sure you want her to be a noble woman and entirely competent to become an excellent

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wife and mother, able to look after her own household. These qualities are best learned at first hand from good wives and mothers.
They cannot be taught by theorists to youth of any sort. It is therefore important that I hold Julia to her own arrangement. In the meantime her literary education is not neglected, for she attends the public schools and so gets a double benefit from her family life.

Faithfully your friend,

Carlisle, pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Dear Sir :

On my return from a short absence I find the box of water here,
but only five bottles in the case, and part of the top gone. I am
refusing to receive it from the express company and until that matter
is settled I will withhold payment to you.

Yours truly,

Col., U.S.A.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

William Hazlett,

Cobb, Okla.

Dear William :

I am looking to you boys to see that the beeves are provided
and everything made ready for the barbecue on the 30th. Mrs. Pratt
will be with me and probably Miss Burgess, Miss Cutter, Miss Ely and
Mrs. Given and her two boys, Jim and Johny. You will of course be
very careful that there are no intoxicants on the grounds nor any In-
dian performances that might cause trouble.

We shall probably reach Anadarko on Thursday, the 29th. I have
written Mr. Charles Cleveland to provide apples, sugar, coffee and
bread. Please telegraph me on receipt of this if you have secured
the beeves. Will talk over with you when I see you the matter of
an addition to your town-site.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Otto Wells,

Anadarko, Okla.

My dear Otto :

I am sending to the agency office a number of the enclosed to be delivered to all my old scouts and prisoners, expecting that you and Frank and the others will help to see that they are addressed and placed in the hands of those for whom they are meant. Those for the old students have the name and tribe written on the envelope. When you find the names of those who are dead I wish you would mark them "Dead" and keep them for me, so I may know just who are living.

Mrs. Pratt, Miss Burgess, Miss Cutter, Miss Ely and Mrs. Given and her two boys will probably be with us. We expect to reach Anadarko on Thursday, the 29th. Be sure that everything is ready and I shall depend upon you boys to see that there is no disorder of any kind. We want to have a good social time with a few speeches.

Wm. Hazlett is going to provide the bees and Mr. Cleveland the sugar, coffee, apples and bread.

We are shock full of children, 1070, with more to come. Still, if there are a few extra good pupils, particularly if they are the children of those who participate in the day's affairs I shall take them, but the number should be limited.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Frank Everett,

Anadarko, Okla.

My dear Frank :

I am sending under separate cover to the agent's office a quantity of the enclosed invitations with the names of all our former students. I do not have a list of the scouts and Florida Indians, and I wish some of you boys would take hold and see that invitations are delivered to every one of the scouts, prisoners and old students who are living within reach. The names of the students are on the envelopes, and when you find those who have died please mark "died" on the envelope and keep it for me, so that I may make my records complete here.

Mrs. Pratt, Miss Burgess, Miss Cutter, Miss Ely and Mrs. Given and her two boys will be with us on the 30th. We shall reach Anadarko probably on Thursday, the 29th. Be sure to have the big fat steers ready and all arrangements necessary to make the day a success. Mr. Charles Cleveland will provide some barrels of apples, sugar, coffee and bread, which with the beef will be ample for our purposes. Caution everyone that there is to be no disorder of any kind, particularly no intoxicating drinks. We are to be an orderly crowd having a good social time and a few speeches.

We are chock full of children, 1070, with more to come. still, if there are a few extra good pupils, particularly if they are the children of those who participate in the day's affairs I shall take them, but the number should be limited.

A.T. Hostet

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Dear Mrs. White :

The boys will be on hand in accordance with your wishes. I am
very very sorry, as is Mrs. Pratt also, that we shall not be here to
go down. We have planned to make a tour among Indian schools, tribes
and agencies in the west that will probably last through November,
leaving here Monday the 26th.

The boys would better leave Carlisle so as to reach Broad Street
Station at 3:17 on the Seashore Express, Pennsylvania Railroad; or
they could leave at two o'clock and reach Philadelphia at 5:47. Let
us know which hour will suit you best.

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Carlisle, pa., oct, 19, 1903.

Mrs. Lida B. Given,
Ponca City, Okla.

My dear Mrs. Given :

The enclosed tells its own story. Mrs. Pratt, Miss Burgess, Miss Cutter, Miss Ely and I expect to be in Anadarko on Thursday the 29th. We shall probably go over the Frisco lines from St. Louis so will not be able to see you. Miss Ely is at Mound City and might join you. We want you there and Jim and Johnnie also. We are going to have a reunion that I am sure will be intensely interesting to us who have worked so long for the Indians.

Faithfully yours,

Oct. 19, 1903.

Mr. L. A. Maynard,
Pittsfield, Mass.

My dear Friend :

We are going to have a reunion of Indians, ex-soldiers, scouts, guides, etc. in my command, prisoners under my care in Florida, and old students of this school, as per the enclosed.

I shall be at Mohawk and hope to meet you there.

If it is possible for you to come down and join us on our trip to the Territory for this convention

I shall be only too glad to take you without cost to yourself. I would like you to see things just as they are and get some idea of the results.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Mr. Charles Cleveland,
Anadarko, Okla.

Dear Charlie :

The enclosed is on the line of my talk with you and explains
itself. I send you a number of invitations and should you happen to
hear of any old prisoners or Caddo scouts of the years '67 and '68,
Klowa, Comanche, Caddo, Wichita, Keechi, Delaware or other scouts
of '74 and '75 who have not received invitations please see that they
get one. I have told the boys at the agency to get hold of some of
the old scouts and find out from them just who are alive.

I think a couple of barrels of nice apples, if you can get them,
will be enough, and say, 25 pounds of good browned coffee, 50 pounds
of sugar and 300 to 400 pounds of various kinds of bread will serve.

Mrs. Pratt and I with Mrs. Given and Jim and Johnnie, Miss Bur-
gess, Miss Ely and Miss Cutter will be down on Thursday the 29th or
before. I have no doubt they can take care of some or all of us over
at the Riverside school. I am asking Neal Evans to come down from
El Reno.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Mr. Neal W. Evans,

Mr. Reno, Okla.

My dear Friend :

As one of the old-timers I send you an invitation to the affair at Anadarko and shall expect to see you there with any of yours whom you care to bring. Our party will arrive at Anadarko Thursday evening. I should be glad to hear from you at once that you will attend.

Cordially yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Mr. R. V. Belt,
416 Bond Bldg.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :

I shall be glad to see your electric motor for driving the sewing machine, but inasmuch as our students when they leave the school will take hold of such things practically and are not likely to have electric motors it seems better to me not to introduce it as a feature in this school; and for the same reason I would not be in favor of its being utilized in other schools.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Col. James F. Randlett,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Anadarke, Okla.

My dear Colonel :

I enclose to you an invitation to our barbecue and have mailed to you today a box of the same and shall be glad if you will let Frank Everett, Otto Wells and some of the other old boys see to their distribution. I have put the names and tribes of all the former Carlisle students on the envelopes and have written Frank and Otto about them, asking that they see that they are delivered, and where the students have died that they mark "Dead" across the envelope and keep them for me, so that I may note the fact in my records here. In addition to these I am sending one hundred fifty invitations undressed to cover, first, the Caddo scouts that were with me at Fort Arbuckle in '67 and '68; second, the Kiowa, Comanche, Wichita, Keechi and other scouts that were with me in '74 and '75; and third, the prisoners who were with me in Florida. I am trusting that Frank Everett, Otto Wells, Paul Tsoutekeopta and the other boys will be able to find out all those that are living by talking with the scouts and the prisoners, and will address the invitations and see that one goes to each for himself and his family.

As I told you, it does not seem likely that I shall be continued on Indian duty much longer and this meeting with those who have been in my command and under my care all the years will be a very pleasant thing for them I think. It certainly will be for Mrs. Pratt and myself. I am bringing some of my oldest helps from Carlisle with me.

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and Judge Henderson, a neighbor, who has been my friend and legal
adviser all the years, has agreed to join the party. It is to be
only a simple little affair on the banks of the Wachita, without any
inproprieties of any sort, entirely social in its nature and to do
honor to the memories of the past. I shall be very glad indeed,
Colonel, if you are able and will be with us on that day. I am sure
you will come if you are able. Please telegraph me on receipt of
this, my expense, that you have received the box of invitations and
that the matter will be attended to. I will be obliged to you if
some of my school people might stop at the Riverside school - Miss
Burgess, Miss Ely, Miss Cutter and Mrs. Given, who have been with me
throughout the history of the school. The rest of us will go to a
hotel.

I saw the Commissioner on Friday and Saturday and had quite a
talk with him. He tells me you are all right; that the official re-
port is not made yet, but no fault was found; and that quite a num-
ber of those who have been persecuting you will be brought to trial
for criminal libel and Mr. Leupp is to follow that feature of it up.
I never anticipated any other result, but it is too infernal bad you
have had all the care and surveillance of it. For that you can never
be recompensed.

Fraternally yours,

We expect to reach Riverside Thursday, the 29th.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Mr. G. S. Wetherill,
218 N. 19th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear George :

I owe you a very extended apology for not having written you while away, but the fact is I was in such condition that it seemed best to avoid writing as much as possible, and I wrote very little even to the school.

We had a wonderful trip, one that you would have enjoyed to the full. We traveled about eleven thousand miles, got over to the head waters of the Yukon, saw much of Alaska and something of Canada from Vancouver as far east as Banff. Then I visited some of the Indians in the states of Washington and Idaho in the vicinity of Spokane; and afterward Mrs. Pratt and I spent some little time with our children in Denver and Richmond is still there. From Denver I went down into the Territory and was there two weeks among my old scouts, prisoners and returned students and only got back home a week ago Friday. I certainly improved quite a little and it seems best to continue the treatment, so Mrs. Pratt and I are going to leave Carlisle again Monday next, going down to Oklahoma and then out into New Mexico, Arizona and elsewhere to see the different Indian schools and what is going on among the Indians, hunting up our old students and finding out what they are doing. Shall probably be away to the end of December.

The school is full - 1070 pupils - and never was in better condition and I can go away with some confidence and satisfaction.

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we get back. I trust I may be able to drop in to see you in Philadel-
phia. I go to Mohawk on Tuesday, tomorrow, to be back Friday.

Your request for a copy of Fred Waterman's account, etc. has
already been attended to.

Faithfully yours,

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903.

Mr. N. T. Snooker
Age
Fort Berthold, N. Dak.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 9th instant, if Peter Camp were
here I could easily find a place for him to work, but he is over age
and could only get here at his own expense. The employment would be
so what precarious, as it is with all mechanics, but if he chooses
to come I will surely help him. However, if he has a good job there
at, one other work he would better stick to it.

Yours truly.

Col. & Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 20, 1903.

Mr. Wm. H. Lewis,
Wrangell, Alaska.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter of Oct. 7th, and am sorry to inform you that
it will be impossible for us to accept of any more students this
year. There are now thirty-three children en route from various
Alaskan points under the care of Rev. Edward Marsden, and with these
we shall be very much overcrowded, our numbers reaching above 1070.
If there is opportunity next year for students from Wrangell I
shall be very glad to accept those you offer if they meet all the re-
quirements.

Colonel Pratt handed me your letter as he was leaving for a
short absence and directed that make answer for him as above.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 20, 1903.

Lewis Chingwe,
Petoskey, Mich.

Dear Sir :

Carlisle is so filled with pupils that it will be impossible
to accept any more now. We have enrolled 1070, all we can accommo-
date for the present, so that it will be better for you not to de-
gend upon coming here.

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 20, 1903.

Miss Ida Mae Rieger,
26 Columbia Hall,
Valparaiso, Ind.

Dear Madam :

Replying to your letter of the 17th, I have to advise you that
all positions at this school are subject to the Civil Service Commis-
sion and all vacancies are filled by certification from the Civil
Service register of eligibles. Should you care to take the teachers'
examination for Indian school work address The Civil Service Commis-
sion, Washington, D. C. and you will receive information relative
thereto.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 21, 1903.

Mr. Howard Miller,
Editor, "The Inglenook",
Elgin, Ill.

Dear Sir :

Your letter of the 12th instant to Miss Burgess has been re-
ferred to the academic department. As our students' time is so
fully taken up with their regular school and work program and as they
are naturally more interested in the subject to which your periodical
is devoted and know more about that than about anything else it does
not seem best to take the time for what you propose.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 21, 1963.

Prof. H. W. Elson,
2122 Natrona St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Doctor Elson :

Referring to your engagement to lecture to the school, an arrangement was made with Dr. Lemuel Moss previous to the closing of our agreement with you whereby he has Saturday, the 7th of November. The Saturday following, the 14th, comes our football game with the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and of course it will be impossible to have you at that time; so after your lectures Oct. 24th and 31st it seems necessary the next date to November 22nd.

I trust this will be satisfactory to you.

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Carlisle, Pa. , Oct. 21, 1903.

Dear Sir :

One of the boys recently brought to this school from Oklahoma
has such trouble with his eyes that it is impossible for him to at-
tend school and Colonel Pratt directs that I arrange with you to have
him go down to Philadelphia for examination and treatment if there
is any chance for benefit.

Will you please notify me when it will be convenient for you to
receive him.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 21, 1903.

Dr. C. M. Philips, Prin.,
State Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I do not like to impose further upon your generosity towards our school, but am writing now in behalf of a Pueblo girl, a graduate of last February who is very anxious to enter West Chester. I thought it possible you might be able to make arrangements for one more. She is a very deserving girl and was an excellent student here. I believe she would do good work with you. Kindly consider the matter and if anything can be done we shall greatly appreciate the favor as we do the many you have shown us in the past.

The young woman is Miss Susie Rayos.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 21, 1903.

Mr. W. W. Canfield,
Editor, Utica Observer,
Utica, New York.

Dear Sir :

* In accordance with your request I am sending you a copy of our illustrated catalog and other printed matter pertaining to the school

We expect your son to be with us Saturday and trust he will find his life in our school family very pleasant. There is a good field for his work here and every opportunity for usefulness.

Colonel Pratt is absent at present, but I am certain he would wish me to say in his behalf that we hope to have the pleasure of meeting you at Carlisle at some time during your son's connection with the school.

Yours very truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 21, 1903.

Mrs. Dora R. Wray,
3638 Armour Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Mrs. Wray :

Replying to your letter of the 19th instant, I am glad to say
that all three of your children are in excellent health. They are in
country homes for the winter and we are getting good reports from
them. On inquiry I find that their letters addressed to you have
been coming back. Their failure to reach you is probably on account
of your change in name. I give their addresses below, and I feel sure
you will hear from them in a short time when they have your correct
address.

Marguerite : with Mrs. M. M. Baugh, Palymra, N. Jersey.
Lillie : with R. N. Hannum, Kennett Square, Chester Co., Pa.
Phoebe : with Deborah Downing, Whitford, Chester Co., Pa.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 22, 1903.

Rev. F. G. Mackintosh,
Iroquois,
Erie Co., New York.

Dear Sir :

Margaret Johnijohn, a student of this school from your vicinity who since Sept. 26th of this year has been living with Mrs. J.C. Parry of Wynocote, Pa. under our outing, left her place last Friday evening and nothing has been heard from her since. Our outing agent was sent down but no trace has been found except that she may have purchased a ticket to Philadelphia. Her patron thinks she may have received money from home. Her father lives near Collins. If you will kindly make inquiry as to whether she has reached home and let us know it will relieve our anxiety and we will greatly appreciate your favor.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 22, 1903.

Miss Amy Hill,
C/o M. F. Hawk,
Swarthmore, Pa.

My dear Amy :

I think your last letter to me an exceedingly foolish one and am very much surprised that it would enter your mind to write that sort of one. I think you would better shake yourself to wake up. There is no reason why you should fail at all if you wish to be a nurse or to be anything else if you go in with a determination to succeed. All that is required to be a successful nurse is an average amount of intelligence, good health and a love for mankind. You have all these qualifications so far as I know and should be able to succeed. You did not make a mistake by coming east and you know it. The mistake you would like to make, however, is to be released from the school, which would probably result before long in your going back to the west among the conditions you were not able to stand when you left us last winter.

Now, I want you to sit down and write me a good sensible letter such as you can write and tell me what you want to do. If you want to be a nurse a good place can be secured for you and you can succeed if you wish to. You are mistaken about Mollie's not being under school rules. She is out under our outing and is subject to all the rules and regulations that govern you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 23, 1903.

Rev. Thomas Jenkins,
St. Agnes' Mission House,
Ketchikan, Alaska.

Dear Sir :

Relying to your favor of the 14th instant, I take it for granted that the four children you mention are with the party of Rev. Mc- ward Marsden, which is due here tomorrow monring. We had word from Mr. Marsden at Seattle by telegraph Monday.

We shall be very glad indeed to have Mr. McMillan call upon them and they will of course be allowed to attend his church. In addition to his services in town Mr. McMillan is in the habit a portion of the year of meeting his children once or twice a week at the school.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 23, 1903.

Rev. M. F. Trippe,
Salamanca, New York.

Dear Mr. Trippe :

I am sending you with this letter application blanks to be filled
for the children of Henry Redeye. We are pretty well crowded now,
but as you say the children ought to be here we will try to stretch
our accommodations a little more if they are all right as to age, con-
ditions, etc.

Colonel Pratt is away at Mohonk, but will be back tomorrow.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 23, 1903.

Mr. Bonus Pierce,
Sherman Institute,
Riverside, Cal.

Dear Bonus :

I enclose herewith bill from the Santa Fe Railroad Company for
the two tickets furnished you and Mrs. Pierce. Will you please make
remittance promptly to Mr. W. J. Black, General Passenger Agent, and
write Colonel Pratt that you have done so.

We hope to hear that you are satisfactorily settled at Riverside
and have prospects of developing an excellent football team. It must
give a good account of itself this fall.

With kindest regards to Mr. and Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Cook and other
friends at the school,

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Oct. 25, 1903.

Dear Mr. Commissioner :

I have written my official letter with regard to the matters I spoke to you about, Mr. Gansworth's salary and a salary for the special cutting agent for the girls.

I should be very glad indeed if it were possible for you to give me this promptly so that I might have the person I have talked with you about ready to begin not later than the first of December. Matters will need to be adjusted not only here but there.

I leave home tomorrow night for the trip to Anadarko to meet my old Indian friends. From there I shall make quite a little trip to different parts and tribes, studying the conditions and finding out so far as I am able what my old students are doing, and gathering up the Indian situation generally.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 26, 1903.

Mr. Seymour H. Stone,
Commercial Trust Bldg.,
Jersey City, N. J.

My dear Sir :

Your letters of Sept. 24th and October 1st have been held for
my return from a long absence. At first I did not feel inclined to
give the information requested, fearing we would be at cross purpos-
es and that your Society might be putting boys and girls into the
same homes we use. I am sorry to say that during the twenty-four
years we have been placing our students out we have had experiences
that were exceedingly unfortunate as the result of white or colored
boys from other institutions being placed in families where we had
sent our girls, and vice versa.

On thinking it over more carefully, I send you a list of New
Jersey applicants. Some are in towns where we have our girls, others
in places where we have boys, but they are not families where we
intend to place students, and so I should not stand in the way of
your knowing them and doing what you like. I am satisfied that most
of them are worthy people and would make satisfactory patrons for
you or for us. We simply have not the pupils to send out, and you
are welcome to make use of them if that can be done.

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Oct. 24, 1903.

Dear Sam :

It is pleasant to hear of your good fortune and
you have my hearty congratulations. Please express
to Mrs. Miller my best wishes. Your photograph
has not reached us yet and as I leave tonight with
Mrs. Pratt for an absence of some weeks I fear it
will be some time before I shall have it. We go
to Anadarko to be present at a barbecue given by
a number of my old prisoners among the Kiowas and
Comanches, the old scouts that were with me thirty-
six years ago, and the old Carlisle students. Miss
Cutter and Miss Burgess accompany us.

All wish to be included in remembrance to you
and your wife.

Mr. Samuel A. Miller,
Red Springs, Wis.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 26, 1903.

Rev. Thomas Jenkins,
St. Agnes' Mission,
Ketchikan, Alaska.

My dear Sir :

Yours of the 13th awaited me on my return from a short absence.
The children are here and I have placed the three boys and the girl
you name under the care of Rev. A. McMillan, rector of St. John's
Episcopal Church, as you desire, and he has just been here and had a
personal talk with Mr. Marsden about it. The arrangement seems en-
tirely satisfactory all around.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 26, 1943.

Mr. Josiah W. Prickett,
Biglersville, Route 2,
Adams Co., Pa.

Dear Mr. Prickett :

I have your letter about the boys and think you would better to
send the boys in as soon as the time has expired for which they were
permitted to go to you. They are losing time in school which they
can ill afford. I am sorry it does not seem best to let them help
you further, but the conditions are just as I have stated.

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Carlisle, Pa./ Oct. 26, 1903.

Mr. Wm. Dickinson,

Ketchikan, Alaska.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter of Oct. 25th with regard to your daughter.
I am sorry of course to have the moral character of any of the young
people coming to Carlisle put in question; but I have found that peo-
ple who make such statements are often mistaken and when they are cor-
rect it also often happens that the best thing possible was done for
the young people by sending them to new surroundings where in new
associations they can rise from their degradation and become useful.
I hope that may be the case with the girls you condemn. I have
talked with Mr. Marsden about it and he is confidently hopeful. I
shall be governed by his judgment about it.

With regard to your daughter's associating with any particular
person, that is a question for her to settle herself. She can find
the very best of associates here and need have no others if she does
not want them. On the contrary, she can also find here some who are
not as good as they might be, and she can make them her special as-
sociates. I trust, of course, she will choose the better kind. We
are here to improve the mental, moral and industrial conditions of
those committed to us. To that end we bend all our energies and will
try to make your daughter glad that she has come to Carlisle.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 14, 1903.

Miss Olga Hilton,
Sitka, Alaska.

My dear Olga :

I did not make up a party of students for Carlisle but I did see your brother. He did not seem particularly anxious to come here and I could not handle him very well alone, so I let it drop. There is this also to be said about it; we must maintain the semblance of an Indian school. The Alaskans are here by suffrance, not because they are a part of our appropriation authority, and if the Alaska contingent is too white it operates against my keeping any of them here. Last winter there was quite a fight against them in Indian schools.

With regard to Lottie, I have arranged that she take a special course in sewing at Temple College, Phila., and remain just where she is. While I would be willing to drop her from our rolls and let you and her manage her case it does not seem to me the wisest course. The authority of the school has a great deal to do with the fair treatment of our pupils and the fact that students are visited by our outing agent and are reported upon each month by the patrons is a great factor in the general success of our outing; so unless you yourself determine otherwise Lottie would better remain under Carlisle care. It will be no detriment to her in any way. She will on- ly need to conform to the rules of the school and may remain out as long as you care to have her do so.

In a letter which you wrote Lottie, copy of which comes to me I

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TELEGRAM.

Oct. 26.

Wm. Hazlett,

Fort Cobb, Okla.

Mrs. Pratt, Burgess, Cutter and I reach Anadarko Thursday. Imagine
two bees will be ample.

Pratt, Col.

W. U. 12:00 M.

TELEGRAM.

Washington, D. C.

The Metropolitan,

Oct. 26.

Col. Pratt.

Hope see you tomorrow forenoon few hours.

Stewart.

W. U. 7:30 P.M.

Forwarded to Col. Pratt, Planters Hotel, St. Louis, Mo.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 27, 1903.

Miss Alice Doxtator,
Indian School,
Crow Agency, Mont.

Dear Alice :

We have at last received the bill for your ticket from Chicago
to Crow Agency. The amount is $18.95. It is paid today and I send
you with this letter a check for the balance of your account amount-
ing to $25.05.

I was greatly interested in your letter written shortly after
your arrival at Crow Agency, and was especially glad to know that you
take such a common-sense view of the conditions you meet. One of the
troubles with the Carlisle graduates is that they look with such fine
disdain on all the things of the outside world after they have left
the school. To know there is one at Crow Agency who is not troubled
that way at all is very comforting. I am sure you are getting along
well and will be satisfactory to the superintendent of the school,
and it will give me pleasure to hear from you at any time you have
the time and inclination to write.

Colonel Pratt has just left for a trip through the west to be
gone probably five or six weeks. He found his previous trip very
beneficial.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 27, 1903.

Dear Mr. Kingsbury :

Peter Cole tells me that Mary and John McDonald and Anna Paul who came with you to the school are residents of Canada, hence have no right to be educated in the Government schools of the United States. Will you please investigate and let me know about it. It must be very difficult so near the line always to keep this sort out. Of course if they are Canadians we shall be obliged to return them to their homes.

We had a very pleasant with Mr. Cole and he expressed himself as greatly pleased with all he had seen and said that a most excellent report would be given by him to his people. His railway fare both ways was met by the school because he brought a party of students. He has promised to look up the two boys who ran away and notify us if they are at home and offered to bring them back himself if transportation is placed at Massena Springs; so whenever a telegram is received from him or from you arrangements will be made with the railroad company.

With best wishes,

Yours truly,

Acting Subt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 27, 1903.

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 27, 1903.

Dear Lizette :

It will be necessary for anyone taking the place in Mr. Miller's office to take an examination on account of a recent ruling by the Civil Service Commission. Ida Swallow took it some time ago for her position and found it extremely difficult. The arithmetic was particularly hard. If you wish to come in and be nominated for the place temporarily and take the chances of passing the examination, write to Miss Robertson and she will arrange for your coming in. I will leave the matter with you entirely as I will know best your preparedness for submitting to the test. I think you can do the work Mr. Miller requires very well, but think the examination will test your power pretty thoroughly. However, it is a good plan to make these trials. If we never do we have no means of knowing how strong we are.

Acting Supt.

Acting Supt.

Miss Lizette Roubideau,
3034 Susquehanna Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 27, 1903.

Mrs. O. J. Allison,
247 E. 62nd St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Mrs. Allison :

Mr. Rensler has forwarded your boxes as you request and in course
of time they should arrive in Chicago. However, it takes freight a
long time to reach that place and you will have to be very patient.

When I read your letter it did not seem possible I would have
any opportunity soon to accept your invitation to look you up in
Chicago, but it has lately been decreed that if I can leave the school
at that time I will accompany the football team when it goes to your
city Thanksgiving Day. Of course we shall expect you and Mr. Allis-
son to be with us and forget for the time being that you belong to
Chicago and cheer lustily for the Carlisle team. We shall need your
assistance in order to win. I am certain we shall be able to find a
couple of tickets somewhere for your use. I don't know what hotel
will be honored with our presence but will try to let you know in due
time so that you may come around and give the boys the pleasure of
seeing you again.

With best wishes for all your life,

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 27, 1903.

Freddie Smith,
C/o Jennie Kirk,
Forest Grove, Pa.

Dear Freddie :

Before you came in this summer I wrote your father that if you chose to go home when your summer outing was over you would be allowed to do so. However, when you came in nothing was said about it and you signed to go to the country again, and I presumed that you desired to stay out another winter. Your father is anxious to have you at home and in view of the promise made him to let you go if you wished to do so I feel it is right to place the subject before you. I would much prefer that you remain during the winter as I think you are better off where you are than you could possibly be in New York. Mr. Gansworth shares this opinion with me.

Please write as soon as you receive this letter and tell me what you think about it.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, pa., Oct. 28, 1903.

Mrs. Ella Ripley,

Fort Berthold, N. Dak.

Dear Mrs. Ripley :

I have just had word from the Association in Pittsburg to the effect that the first check issued by them to you dated about Sept. 9th has been cashed and that they hold your receipt therefor. Lavoring under the impression that this check was lost I applied for and received a duplicate which was forwarded to you on Oct. 7th. Have you received both these checks? I would like to know when each was received and whom the original check was sent you by. If you cashed the original, the other should not have been used. The total amount due you on your stock was $393.80. If you have received that amount twice you should remit to me at once the sum of $393.80 to cover the duplicate check.

Please let me hear from you at once.

If you still hold the duplicate check, return it.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 28, 1903.

Miss Ann Hill,
1/2 N. W. Hawke,
Swarthmore, Pa.

My dear Ann :

I am very glad to get your letter and arrangements will be made just as soon as possible to get you a place in a hospital. Miss Barr has been cultured to Billings, Montana, on account of an Alaskan boy who had to be left there because he became ill en route to Carlisle last week. She will be back before a great while, however, and then your case will be considered. I am quite sure she will be able to secure you a place. In the meantime you should write her a letter telling your desires so it will be here when she returns. That will prevent delay.

I do not think it would be wise for you to come in at present, as in all probability your location will be Philadelphia and you will save expense, being so near the city. I do not say this because we would not be glad to see you but because I know you wish to economize in your funds. You will of course want to come and see us at Commencement time and that is not far away now.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 28, 1903.

Peter S. Smith,
Indian Falls, New York.

Dear Sir :

I enclose herewith duplicate check for the trunk lately sent by
you to your daughter, which is returned to you today. In due time
you will find it at the Akron station, probably as soon as you re-
cerve this letter.

I am more sorry than I can tell you for the complications that
compelled us to return Rosa to you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 28, 1903.

Mr. W. J. Miller, Jr., Secy.,
Y. M. C. A., Calder Bldg.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Mr. Miller :

There seems to be a strange fatality attending your efforts to reach Colonel Pratt either in person or by mail. Your communication of the 28th instant arrived the day after he had left for a prolonged trip through the southwest.

I note what you say about the week of prayer and will refer your letter to the Presidents of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., and trust they will find it convenient to carry out your desired program.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 28, 1903.

Mrs. Rose John,
Irequeis,
Erie Co., New York.

Dear Mrs. John :

I send you herewith application blank for the girl you mention.
Have it properly filled out and when it is returned her admission
will be considered,

In this connection will you please tell me what has become of
Emma Doxtator. We would like to have her return to the school and
if she can be persuaded to do so tickets can be sent for both girls
to come together.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 27, 1903.

Anon R. Frank, Teacher,
Yuma Grande, Cal.

Dear Mr. Frank :

I have had mailed to you a collection of our cutting literature
from which you can see what we do.

If the brother of Richard Nejo is in good physical condition I
shall be glad to send him transportation to Carlisle from such
point as you name. I am expecting to be at Sherman Institute before
a great while. Am glad you have warned me that the smallpox is there
but having had it I am not afraid. If possible I may run down and
see you.

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