289

July 30th, 1889.

Lorrie Smith,

Lorrie, Wis.

Dear Lorrie:

If you come here at your own cost you can return home at
the end of one year if you care to. You can come here and
then
stay one year and go home at your own cost; or you can stay
two years and go home at your own cost; but I cannot pay your
way here or promise to pay your way home if you come for a
less period than five years. You can come with Peter, if you
choose, and if you return for five years Peter can take you
as one of his 20s.

All goes well with us at Carlisle. We have our annual
banquet at Gettysburg on Friday next. It will take a train to
carry us over.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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July 29th, 1889.

White Wolf,

Anadarko, I.T.

My Dear Friend:

I got your letter and am glad to hear from you that the Comanches are doing well, that a good many are farming and taking care of what they have. You have a rich country and some day it will be full of industrious, energetic, go-ahead people. By looking over into Oklahoma you see what the white man can do in a day. It is my opinion that the Indians will ultimately come to that degree of push and energy that will enable them to join hands with the white men and together work out great improvements rapidly. Of one thing I have always been sorry, that you leading Comanche men have been so backward about sending your children to school. I hear every now and then that you have hundreds of young children running about your camps growing up without education. They will have to meet the white man face to face. They will have to get along without an Agent to help them; and you leaders make a great mistake that you do not compel every single one of them to go to school continuously. I do not mean for a day or a

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year, or two years or even five years, but until they are well
educated. The several young Comanche men who are here with
me have gotten on well and a number of them will graduate from
us next year. I feel that they have now some strength and
skill and judgment in civilized and educational ways and that
their future is more likely to be all right than is the fu-
ture of those children who have come and stayed with us only
a year or two or three.

You ask me to help you, but you do not tell me how I am
to help you. I shall certainly be glad to do anything I can
at any time for my old friends the Comanches. I have wanted
to help you a great deal more than I did through your children
and it has been your fault that I have not. If you are wise
you would send me 50 Comanches this Fall, half boys, half
girls, and you would require them to stay here until they were
well educated. If Quanah stands in the way of the education
of the children I hope that lightning will strike him or some-
thing befall him that will take him out of the way. That
would be a mercy to the Comanches and their future. If you do
not educate your children you must expect your people to be at
the bottom and become helpless and dependent. If you would
wisely educate all your children you might reasonably expect
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able to go to the front and be on top. If you can tell me in
what way I may help you or any of my Comanche friends and it
is possible for me to do it you can depend upon me taking hold
with a good heat and to do all I can.

Nothing I would delight to see more than the beautiful
valleys, the splendid farming and grazing lands of the Coman-
che reservation filled with good homes and farms and fine
cattle and horses, and the people going to and fro with energy
attending to their business, and all the Comanches, Kiowas and
Apaches, entirely over their wild hunting and fighting life,
and fully entered upon the civilized, educated and industri-
ous life with the whites.

Please give my love to my old friends Tabinanica, Chee-
vers, Black Horse and all the others.

Faithfully your friend,

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July 29th, 1889.

Constant Bread,

San Carlos Agency, Arizona.

Dear Constant:

I have your letter of the 19th telling me of the arrival
of the boys and of your satisfaction that the others remain
at Carlisle. I am pleased with the position you take in this
matter and have no doubt that the outcome will show their
wisdom in staying and bring good results for them and their
people.

You did not mention whether you received the tools or
not. Of course I am anxious to know that you did receive
them and that they suit you.

Please give my regards to Capt. Bullis and also to the
boys who have returned to the Agency from Carlisle. Tell them
I hope they will not spend too much time idling around visit-
ing but do as I urged them to go to work at once.

Truly your friend,

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July 29th, 1889.

Anne S. Ludlum,
Rondout, N.Y.

Dear Friend:

I enclose herein the information you ask. You can paste it on the back of the picture you have. It would have been quite a pleasure to have seen you on our first real CommenceMENT day. It was most gratifying to us all. The presence and cordial support of the Honorable Secretary of the Interior was an inspiration which will last us all through his administraTION.

If at any time it comes in your way to turn some help to me I shall be glad, for I have constant need over and above what the Government allows; indeed, were it not for the outside help we should many times be at a great disadvantage.

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July 30th, 1889.

Laura M. Reid,

La guna, M.M.

Dear Laura:

I have your letter in which you say you would like to come back to Carlisle, if you could come for only two years. My instructions to Miss Burgess and Miss Irvine to bring the children for five years or until they graduate only. To make no promise to return them earlier, except in case of sickness. If you should graduate before five years I would send you home; but if you did not graduate it would be necessary for you to stay here five years. The Government is making a great effort, paying money to educate your people, and you children must be willing to do something yourselves. It is not much that the Government asks you to do when it asks you to stick to school until you know something. I should be very glad to have you return to Carlisle with Miss Burgess and Miss Irvine and to bring in any of your family or friends suitable for school, but your returning must be for the term as above.

Truly your friend,

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July 30th, 1889.

Frank Jannes,

Wheeler, Dakota.

Dear Frank:

I write as you request to the Agent in your behalf, but
doubt very much that I have any influence with him to secure
you the appointment you desire. He being the grounds knows
best what to do for his Agency. If you declined the position
of carpenter I should be afraid that hurt your chances for the
appointment of interpreter. It is the willing laborer that
men who have large interests to manage always desire most.
You might very easily through the carpenter shop have worked
your way into the position of interpreter. I shall be glad to
know that I am wrong in this and that you have secured the
appointment. I only express to you my views.

All goes well with us at the School. We are getting
ready for the new term. The old stable is down and the found-
dations laid for the new one; and the carpenters are as busy
as they can be preparing the timbers. We have our annual pic-
nic at Gettysburg this year on Friday next.

With my best wishes for you, Frank, and for your success
in every way, I am,

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July 30th, 1889.

John H. Charles,
Sect. Benton Trans. Co.,
Sioux City, Iowa.

My Dear Sir:

My annual reports have never been printed in pamphlet form. They appear from year to year in the report of the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs published for the information of Congress. I have printed them in our School paper every year and herewith forward you such of them as I am enabled to find. I also send you several addresses of mine especially one made at Reading which will give you my sentiments upon the subject matter of your proposed paper.

Under the most favorable circumstances Day and other schools among the Indians are without very considerable success. With all the noise on the subject we have now only about twenty-five percent. of the Indian youth in schools. So long as this is the case we cannot reasonably hope for much success. Our civilization would go back very rapidly if we reduced the percentage of our children attending school to twenty-five.

Very truly yours,

Capt. & Subt.

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July 30th, 1889.

James A. Youmans,
Millward P.O.,
North West Territory.

My Dear Sir:

Your letter to the Man-on-the-Band-Stand is laid before me. I am greatly interested in your venture. It requires a good deal of courage to undertake such a work as you have in hand, and I can from more than twenty-two years experience and observation well understand the annoyances you are continually subjected to. In regard to our regulations for governing merits and demerits, we have no rewards, and I do not believe in the system. We do keep track of the standing of our pupils, using the numbers from one to ten--10 being perfect. I allow latitude to the teachers--trusting largely to their judgment. Following them up I find occasionally that they lack in unity of discrimination, but the general results satisfy me that we are on good lines. This record is only kept in the school room, for our industrial departments we accept of a general judgment formed by the mechanic and supervising management. In regard to language, we have one roll call a day and allow the students to report for themselves.

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This report is accepted unless contradicted, which is very seldom the case. We also have confession in regard to using tobacco, holding that "open confession is good for the soul." We have followed this plan from the start and have been in the main satisfied with it. We only established grades and a graduating point for our pupils within the last year. When my report this year is published it will contain an account of the system, and I will see that you get a copy. Our new Superintendent of Indian Schools is a man of acknowledged executive ability and we anticipate that he will work out for the whole school cause some better organization than we have yet had. If you do not get his report when it is published in December or January drop me a line and I will see that one is sent you.

I regret that I have been unable to accept the very warm invitation I had from your Commissioner, Mr. Reed, of the North West Territory to visit your section this year. We are making an effort to get in from 225 to 250 new pupils, and my Agents are out operating under my direction, so I shall have to postpone the pleasure, but anticipate I may be able to get off next year.

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August 6, 1889.

Gen. T. J. Morgan,
Comm'r of Ind. Aff'rs,
Washington, D.C.,

Dear General:

In my endorsement of Dr. Cundall for a place in the Indian service I did not intend to say that I knew him to be entirely qualified for any and every position, nor did I mean to say that I would not on investigation endorse him for a high position. I hope you and Dr. Dorchester understood that my feeling toward him is , that he is a man of such character as will add credit to the service; yet I do not know him at all, personally; having never met him. My favorable notion of him has been formed by a personal correspondence; through reading what he has written on the Indian question and from those who did know him personally, speaking to me about him.

I desire to bring my Mr. Standing more particularly to your notice. He has been here with me and a most faithful and efficient assistant in every way, almost the entire period of our school history, ten years. He is a thoroughly good man and is one of the best posted men in the Indian service. I should like to see him advanced, or at least have the oppor-

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tunity of accepting advancement. He is thoroughly true to
the principles of this administration, and no more tireless
worker can be found in the service. If a vacancy should
occur in one of the large Indian schools, I should take it as
a personal favor if it were offered to him. I do not with-
draw what I said to Dr. Dorchester about him for Haskell but
from what I see now of the difficulty in securing a man for
the place, the chances are against the Department finding one
as well equipped as Mr. Standing is.

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August 7th, 1889.

Col. L. F. Spencer,
Rosebud Agency, Dak.

Dear Colonel!

I send you a package of contrast pictures as you desire. Timber has only written me once and I have rather mcagre knowledge of what his prospects are. As soon as I am informed I will make the necessary transportation arrangement in. It would be well he started by or before the 28th, so as to be-gin promptly with the School year.

I congratulate you on the success of the Commission at your Agency, which I see now has become uniform throughout the reservation. Your prophesy about their not signing at Standing Rock shows you are not a good prophet.

There is no charge for the pictures.

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August 7th, 1889.

Susie Young,

Winnebago Agency, Neb.

Dear Susie:

Since hearing that the students Dr. Dorchester wrote me about had all gone to Lincoln I have not arranged farther for a party from the Winnebagoes. Mr. Frank LaFlesche is going home in a week or so and may bring back to Carlisle a few students. If he does I will arrange for him to bring you. If there is nobody to come in with you I hardly know how to get you here. I am very willing to arrange for your fare whenever we can see the way to bring you in. Perhaps you can give me some way to accomplish your getting here.

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August 7th, 1880.

W. D. Myers,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Kiowa and Comanche Agency, I.T.

Sir:

I am exceedingly sorry to notice by yesterday's paper that another Agent has been appointed for the Kiowas. This constant changing of Agents amounts to a calamity; and although I never met you I had learned to think highly of you from what I had heard, and was in hopes you would remain permanently as Agent.

I should be very glad to have a party of students from the Kiowas and Comanches, especially from the Comanche. I wrote White Wolf about it the other day, also Big Tree both of whom had written me. I would take a good party, and were it necessary in order to secure them I should be greatly tempted to come down myself if they showed any signs of making up a party. I would rather some one of your employees who wanted to come East would make up a party and bring it in, for the reason my Mr. Standing off among the Chippewas in Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota, getting children; and others of my employees are away, and it would be very inconvenient for me to

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leave.. I can arrange the transportation at any time—in
fact have arrangements made most of the way, and of course
would cover the incidental expenses on route for which I have
the authority of the Department as I wrote you.

Very sincerely yours,

August 7th, 1989.

William F. Campbell,
White Earth, Minn.

My Dear William:

The date of Mr. Standing's arrival at White Earth is doubt-
ful, but I have told him to keep the Agent informed, and I
have also advised him to write you, sending him your letter.

Your diploma has been sent to you some days ago. I con-
gratulate you on your position and especially do I congratu-
late you on the success of your Commission. Mr. Standing will
be very glad to take charge of any boys and girls of suitable
ages and qualifications that may be willing to come to Car-
lisle from your Agency. 18 Chippewas from Michigan arrived
this morning. Another party nearly double is expected in a
day or two. I see since we have taken hold that the Chippewa
family is quite a large one.

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August 7th, 1888.

Kish Hawkins,

Darlington, I.T.

My Dear Friend:

I think it just as well for you to linger along a little
about getting students, provided you let those who would come
and are suitable in every way understand that an opportunity
will be given them to come to Carlisle. I have arranged for
the transportation so that whenever the party is ready there
will be no trouble about them coming here. I want you to write
me about every individual one that proposes to come in.

The Kiowa and Comanche Agent wrote me a few days ago
wanting to send a party from there, and it may be we can ar-
range to have the two parties come together. I will write
you later. In the meantime write me as you go about from
time to time.

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August 7th, 1889.

Luther Kuhn,

Pawnee Agency, Ind. Ter.

Dear Luther:

I do not see how it is possible for me to aid you in your
difficulty about your cousin Lucy. The Agent there has all
the power to do that and it is his place. I have no power,
and it is not my place. If you promised that she should re-
turn to Haskell you ought not to think of sending her to Car-
lisle. Always do what you promise.

I should be glad if there were some Pawnee boys and girls
to come to Carlisle and would arrange for them, but I would not
want to take any of Haskell's students; that would not be
right. I am glad to hear good news about you. Tell Frank
if he wants to come back to let me know, and I will arrange
the transportation for him. He can if he chooses come back
at any time. Miss Burgess and Miss Irvine will be coming in
from New Mexico with a party of Pueblos before very long. That
would be a good chance for Frank if he was afraid to come alone

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August 7th, 1889.

A.J. Standing, Asst. Supt.,

Petoskey, Emmit County, Mich.

Dear MR Standing.

Your party of 18 arrived this morning, early train. Mr.
McFadden met them in Harrisburg. They were in good shape and
generally quite creditable. Doctor has looked them over. He
finds one of the smaller boys has chicken breast (rachitis),
one large boy, malformation of the chest, and one of the girls
has goitre, but nothing serious in any case. There is one
boy who evidently is stupid and one of the girls probably in
the same boat. On the whole you have done pretty well. I see
by your papers you probably had no physical examination. I
quite agree with you that it would be better to make up your
in one place then
party, and send it in and go on and make up another party. The
good letting things lay for opposition to grow is not policy. I
send you a book of receipts and in it a letter from William
Campbell. Also one from Charley Martin by which you will see
the chances at Leech Lake are. On account of the weather and so
on, I would be inclined to think your better plan might be to
go there immediately after you are through the Southern penin-
sula.

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Mrs. Standing and the children are well. Mrs. Pratt and Richenda reach St. Louis last night. We had a delightful picnic yesterday at Round Top. I was in Washington Friday and Saturday. Met the Commissioner and Secretary both very pleasantly. Your name was seriously canvassed for Haskell. Dr. Coffin could not get it. Under the pressure of politics affecting that Institution your resolution in regard to taking hold of any outside school would certainly apply there. Putton and the Senators seem to be directly opposite to each other. Coffin telegraphed asking me to stand by you for the place, and I find in Washington that both he and Mrs. Haskell had asked your appointment. Mrs. Haskell is to be matron, and the Gorman-Reilly elements have been eliminated. I congratulate you on your success with the railroads.

Miss Burgess and Miss Irvine are at work at Laguna and Acoma. Will probably go no farther in their efforts among the Pueblos on account of small pox which is epidemic in six of the other villages. The Kiowa Agent writes favorably of a party and Kish also from the Cheyennes. If you were at home I should go down there. All send kind regards.

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August 8th, 1886.

William B. Harvey,

Wes Grove, Pa.

My Dear Friend:

Your letter came as I was leaving for Washington and sine
my return I have been suffering from diarrhoea and have not
been attending to my work as fully as I ought.

I find that we have all the hogs that we ought to carry
until School opens next month. I should be very glad to have
the young Guernsey bull and later I may be glad to have the
Berkshires. Would you not have a later litter that would
serve us quite as well?

My trip paid me well because it was a day off and it
opened my eyes to the importance of your assembly. I begin to
see how it is done. I was especially pleased to meet such an
intelligent lot of agriculturists and stock raisers.

With kind regards to Mrs. Harvey and the rest of your
household,

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August 8th, 1889.

Hon. Thomas J. Morgan,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Washington, D.C.

My Dear Sirs,

The transportation will reach you in time, leaving Washington on the morning train (7:20) you arrive at 12:57, and I will meet you at Gettysburg Junction.

I am glad the oppressive delay in settling on a Superintendent for Haskell is over and shall be happy to receive the visit from Mr. Meserve. Would he go with us to visit our pupils? Haskell is in a section filled with Quakers who are our best patrons, and the outing there ought to be made a complete success.

I am much gratified by the change of heads in the Educational Division, presuming of course the new man is anything else but a catholic.

Respectfully and very truly yours,

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August 12th, 1889.

T. W. Potter,

El Reno, Oklahoma, I.T.

My Dear Sir,

I am exceedingly obliged to you for the information con-
tained in your letter of the 8th. Mr. Morgan the new Commiss-\sioner of Indian Affairs will be here on Thursday and I will
lay your letter aside to show to him, and talk to him about
you and your work that you did at the Cantonment.
I am very sorry for the change there.

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August 13th, 1939.

Miss Anna Lovejoy,

Santee Agency, Neb.

Dear Miss:

Answering your letter in which you express a desire to come to this School because you think it more advanced than Santee and advising me to come to Santee after children, I have to tell you that your very nicely written letter indicates that you have been under good training, and I am not entirely satisfied that Carlisle would give you the superior advantages you anticipate. We are an ordinary school, graduating our students from about the Grammar Grade of city schools. If you are a student at Santee, as I am led to believe, I would not favor your changing to Carlisle without the fullest understanding and concurrence of Mr. Kings. If you make a change you ought to go to some higher school where there are no Indians. I have no doubt plenty such schools are open to you in Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Dakota, and I know the present Administration favors such privileges for advanced Indian students. We are sending quite a number of our graduates to different high schools this year. Two of our girls go to Alma College, Michigan. Two others go to the Millersville State

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Normal School in this state, and a number of our boys go to
different colleges. If you have gotten through at Santee
get Mr. Riggs or your Agent or some other one in authority to
make application to the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Af-
fairs for advanced privileges, and if your talents and your
character warrant it, you will find no difficulty in getting
a higher education.

Degm.

Augt. 13. 1889.

Philadelphia.

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August 19, 1888.

Emaline Mullins,
Quapaw Agency, Seneca, Mo.,

Dear Mrs Mullins:

Your daughter has spent the vacation in a
very nice family near Colora, Maryland. Over 300 of our boys
and girls are out in this way, and all of them at very great
profit and gain to themselves, in all that pertains to home
life. Allie is doing nicely in every way. Our school re-
opens the middle of September, at which time the students re-
turn to the school; except such as we find can go to good pri-
vate schools. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has been
visiting many of these out pupils and is greatly please-
ed with the nice homes we find for them and with the benefit
they are receiving from such outing. We shall do all we can
for Allie and I have hope that she may become well educated
and a good intelligent woman.

Your friend,

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August 19, 1889.

Frank West.

Pawnee Agency, I. T.

Dear Frank:

I expect that Kish will bring a party of
students from the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, and I want you to come
in with them. If he fail to make up a party you and he can come
in together. I will arrange transportation and will write you in
time. Kish thinks he can do better in September than now.
I am anxious to have you back at Carlisle and you may depend on me
fixing it for you, even if you come alone.

Your friend,

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August 19, 1889.

L. L. Mason,
Jamestown, N. Y.

Dear Leovant:

Miss Hunt sends me most satisfactory comments, and as we are compelled to get our forces together I have concluded to give her an appointment. I am greatly obliged for your interest in the matter. I still have room for two more, and an anxious to secure a superior teacher to take charge of our Normal department. She should be a graduate of Normal school who has proved herself capable by several years experience in teaching.

I have been out for three days with General Morgan, visiting our country pupils. He is greatly pleased with the situation of our students and with the school and is now urging that I shall undertake 1000 children and make large improvements here for this purpose.

Laura has had one of her very worst attacks at St. Louis and is greatly disturbed because she is away from home. She and Eunice expedite go, by boat, to Dubuque last Friday; stay here overnight, then return home by way of St. Louis. Love to Mother.

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August 19, 1889.

Rev. John Robinson,
Sisseton Agency,
South Dakota,

My Dear Friend:

I have wondered where you and Mrs Robinson were for weeks, and am very glad to hear from you. I sincerely hope that your anticipations may be fully realized and I sympathize with you in all your adversity. If you see any way by which I can help you advise me. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has been here since Thursday. I took him around to visit our out pupils. He has been a school man all his life; has had charge of three large Normal Schools, and he knows what he is about. He thinks I should onlarge, here and undertake greater numbers. I can speak a good word for you when necessary. With respects to Mrs Robinson, believe

faithfully your friend,

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August 19, 1889.

Laban J. Miles,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Osage Agency, Pawnee, I. O. T.,

Dear friend:

General Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs has been with me since Thursday. We have been out among the farm pupils for three days. Mrs Morgan and her daughter accompanied us. He is especially taken with our out-ing methods, is pleased with the school in general and insists that I shall enlarge its borders greatly while he is Commiss-ioner. He says that in no instance should we make an agree-ment about a certain period for the children to return home. The office of the Government is to educate these people and it takes time. The cruelty is not in keeping the children away, but in not educating enough, therefore if we get pupils who should hold on to them without reference to the ur-gent appeals of their people for them to return, and thus break up their school life before they are half through, I have arrangements ready for transporting pupils from the Territory and shall be glad to furnish you with transportation at any time. I am greatly pleased to find how well the Com-missioner appreciates your worth. I am sure you can depend

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upon him to stand by you in any emergency. I spoke to him about your proposition, when in Washington, to bring me a good party of Osages. He wishes me to say to you that he especially approves of it and that he desires not only to have the children brought away, but to have them kept away until they are sufficiently educated to stand for something. He also desires me to say that he would like you to keep him privately and fully informed of the conditions surrounding you, and that he will support you in every plan calculated to advance the Osages, you inaugurate.

I consider the sending of the party of Osages to Martinsburg as having been a serious disaster. You know I have never had a good square chance at the Osages.

Gurney Miles wrote me for $100. of his money, in order to help his sister whose husband killed himself while drunk. I enclose check for that amount, drawn in your favor.

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August 19th, 1889.

Andrew Atchison,

Richmond, Kansas.

Dear Sir:

I send you here with a slip giving our grading system and
what we are working to. You see it is very simple, and there
will be no difficulty in your establishing it for Haskell. I
sincerely hope that you will succeed. Haskell has been in the mud
long enough. Mr. Meserve your new Superintendent is to be here
today and spend several days with me. I shall talk matters
over quite fully with him.

General Morgan, the Commissioner, has been here since
Thursday. Leaves for Indiana to-morrow. He is exceedingly
anxious that these two schools should become very much strong-
or than they now are.

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August 19th, 1889.

Col. S. F. Tappan,
1329 F Street,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Colonel:

The paper you refer to was not published in the August number. Indeed it has been impossible for me to run it over with the care I think necessary before printing it. Miss Burges and Mr. Standing are away and I have no one sufficiently familiar with Indian matters of that kind of work to whom I could entrust it and I therefore laid it aside for further consideration.

Your favorable endorsement of Miss Stanton comes too late I held her nomination for a time and then forwarded it. She is already appointed by the Office.

Hope all goes well with you.

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August 19th, 1889.

Jemima Wheelock,

Oneida, Wis.

Dear Jemima:

Use the 3 tickets left by Peter and bring me three girls
and three boys, or I do not care if you bring all girls, except
Benjamin who we he has promised to come may come with you.

About that you shall do after you graduate will be no
trouble. If you wish to teach in the Indian Service anywhere
General Morgan informed me that he will give you an appoint-
ment if I recommend you, and I certainly shall if you do as
well in the future as you have in the past. The first thing
is to graduate. Don't cross a bridge until you get to it.

Let me know just when you will start and how many boys
and girls you have. You can do this by mail a day or two be-
fore starting.

Your friend,

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August 21st, 1880.

Dr. T. S. Childs,
1300 Connecticut Avenue,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Doctor:

The care case my daughter lost was of little consequence
that we thought it not worth while to inquire about it. I am
obliged to you for the trouble you have taken in regard to it,

I agree with you the Workman will rather ignore your
wishes to insert your paper. The last number which I have re-
ceived since being in Washington contains additional tirade.
I send it to you herewith and you can return it if you get
another copy. The copy previous to this is the one I spoke
of.

Dr. Deats has been here and I like him, and am now hopeful
that I can give him the appointment. He is a Democrat which is
rather bad for him as things now stand; however I have never
paid any attention to politics and so long as I am here shall
not do so if I can have my own way.

General and Mrs. Morgan were with me from Thursday until
Tuesday. We visited among our out-pupils and went over the
round of Indian matters generally. I consider his selection

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opportune and most excellent. We must hold up his hands in
every way we can. I certainly hope both you and Mrs. Childs
will take pains to become acquainted with General and Mrs. Mor-
gan and make them feel at home in Washington. He is the
broadest and best man in that position since I have been in
the work.

Kind regards to your family.

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August 22, 1869.

Lilly Wind,
128 Park Place,
Brooklyn, N. Y.,

Dear Lily:

I sincerely hope that you may succeed in getting the place which Dr. Mann has so kindly interested himself in trying to secure for you in the New York Training School for Nurses. Should you fail in getting it I will send you a return ticket and you had better come to Carlisle and talk it over here until we can get you into some Training School. Write me as soon as you know the decision.

Miss Burgess and Miss Irvine will be here Saturday with a party of Pueblos, which will bring the number of new students increased this year, up to 125, which is about the number we hope to send home. We expect others from different points and will probably have 200 in all added to the school, making us near 700.

Your friend,

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August 22, 1889.

Dr. Edward C. Mann,

My Dear Doctor:

I have just written Lily and if she fail
to get an appointment in the School to which you have reconn-
ounced her, I will send her a ticket back to Carlisle.

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August 22, 1889.

Nancy Cornelius,
Training School for Nurses,
Hartford, Conn.

Dear Nancy:

Lily Wind is no longer needed at Dr. Mann's Hospital and has made application into the New York Hospital for Nurses. I very much doubt they will receive her, for the reason that applications have to be made so far in advance.

I wish you would talk with Mrs Kinney, tell her what a nice good girl Lily is, how well she has gotten on, in the Hospital, and ask her if she can be admitted where you are, and let me know at once.

I read your nice letter to Mrs Pratt, and then forwarded it to her at Mason's where she and Richenda are, at Duquesne.

Sincerely your friend,

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August 21st, 1889.

Albert K. Smiley,

Mohonk Lake, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Smiley:

Commissioner and Mrs. Morgan have been with me for the past five days and have just gone over to Indianapolis. We were three days among our out-pupils, and with this feature of our work he was greatly pleased.

I intend to be at Mohonk this year, and will endeavor to be there on Tuesday as you suggest. Mrs. Pratt is in such health that her coming is doubtful. She ventured on a little visit to our relatives in St. Louis and our son in Dubuque; and has received quite a set back as a result of the exertion and excitement. She is now in Dubuque, but will be here early in September. If able to come, I know she will be very glad to accept your and Mrs. Smiley's kind invitation.

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August 26th, 1889.

Chief Louis Micksawby,

Charlevoix, Mich.

My Dear Friend:

My Mr. Standing writes me fully of your great interest
the
and valuable assistance in securing a nice party of children
sent from the Charlevoix region. I want to express to you my
personal obligation and thanks, though I know you did it in
the interests of your people and that you have your full re-
ward in doing them good. I am greatly pleased with the bright
faces and happy-hearted dispositions of that party, and trust
we may be able to do them the greatest possible good. The
Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs has been here since
their arrival and I called his especial attention to them and
told him of some of the difficulties which I knew surrounded
your people in Michigan. He is a large hearted, broad minded
Indian
educational man and intends to crowd education all he can dur-
ing his tenure of position as Commissioner.

I have directed that our weekly paper should be sent to
you and trust that the items which appear in it from time to
time will interest you and help lay lines between this School
and your people, pleasant to all of us.

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August 26th, 1889.

E. D. Santley,

Cor. 7th and Seneca Streets,
Oswego, N.Y.

Dear Friend:

I send you my last report and a notice of our last Commencement exercises. We publish no catalogue.

Sorry you could not turn this way. Shall be glad to hear from you in the future. Our appointments are made for the fiscal year beginning July 1st. In March and April are the best times to apply.

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August 31st, 1880.

Rev. Dr. Daniel Dorchester,
Superintendent of Indian Schools,
Office of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Doctor:

I enclose you a clipping sent to me which appears in the
Helena, Montana, Journal, under date of August 18th.

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September 2d, 1889.

Gurney H. Miles,

Pawhuska, Okage Agency, 1.T.

Dear Gurney:

I got your letter. All goes well with us at Carlisle.
I have not heard from Agent Miles in regard to party of Onges
coming here and am led to think it is not advisable to send
him.

I gave your message to Myrtie.

Your friend,

September 2d, 1889.

George Bushotter,
Hedgesville, W. Va.

My Dear George:

I have your letter and your wife's and will take an
early opportunity to present the same to the Honorable Con-
missioner of Indian Affairs in person. I can do it better
than way than by writing.

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September 2d, 1909.

Mr. Albert K. Smiley,

Mohonk Lake, N.Y.

My Dear Friend:

I would suggest as two persons to be invited from here: Miss M. Burgess, who has been with me from the beginning and taught in an Indian Agency school five years before coming here, and Miss Anna Hamilton who taught at Cheyenne Agency for quite a number of years and also at Haskell, and is now here with me. These are the most experienced help that I have, and their presence at the Conference will be valuable. I will bring one of my Indian boys, Dennison Wheelock with me, and we will be on hand Tuesday the 1st as you desire.

Thanking you for this prospective and most pleasurable outing and for the privilege of being present, I am,

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September 2d, 1889.

Mr. S.A.Ellis,
13 Clifton Street,
Rochester, N.Y.

Dear friend:

I send you several documents which will inform you to some extent in regard to our school.

The school was first opened in October '79 beginning with 157k pupils. We have increased to above 600 representing about 40 tribes. We can claim for our boys and girls as much spirit and interest in their own education as the children of other races exhibit. In the Industrial Departments we have great success, carrying forward our work with more practical results than any school in the country.

We explore the return of students to their tribes as we would explore the sending of so many youth of our own race to the same places. It is practically a consignment back to barbarism. However we have planted ideas that have grown in the tribes until today the Government can do with the Indians many times more than it could ten years ago when it began.

Indian education is a great success, but we must bring

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September 2d, 1889.

Miss Jennie L. Crie.

129 Spring Street,
Portland, Me.

Dear Friend:

I have never been east of Boston but having been that far
I am not afraid to venture farther. Your invitation offers
the long wished for chance to visit Maine and if you can see
your way to cover the transportation and expenses of myself
and Mrs. Pratt I will be at your meeting and do what I can
to inform you both about the Apaches and other Indian matters.

I make this condition because I am under bonds to take
Mrs. Pratt with me on my next trip East. Our fares to and
from will be about $55.00

You speak of the Apaches alone. They form a small part
of our school work. We have had in the school during the
ten years 1597 from 43 different tribes, and only 173 of these
were Apaches, so that I hope you will rather care to hear of
our general Indian work.

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September 3d, 1889.

Hon. Thomas J. Morgan,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

Dear General:

Mr. Foster goes down to see you today. I have taken plen-
ty of time and considered the situation well, and am satis-
fied that it will be better not to disturb our organization
this year by appointing him to the position of Principal teach-
er. I have taken special pains this year to bring into our
corps three additional veteran Indian teachers whom I know to
be most competent in every way. In addition to that I have
those who have been with me from the beginning, Miss Fisher,
Miss Cutler and Miss Phillips. Mr. Foster is a young man.
These are teachers of many years experience and they feel
strong and equal to the work. Miss Fisher is probably as com-
petent to teacher in the higher departments as Mr. Foster, both
Latin and Greek; while Miss Luckenback, a new teacher, comes
from the celebrated Moravian School at Lititz, and is also
competent in the higher departments, so that I am not in that
lack without abundant ability to carry forward your purposes,
or it shall be possible to go so, of raising our grades and
preparing for College.

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I believe that Mr. Foster can be used to the greatest ad-
vantage in the Indian work. I am satisfied that your judgment
of him is not misplaced. He can serve you better as the Prin-
cipal of Chiloccoo or Albuquerque than he can as an assistant
to us at Carlisle, where he is not so especially needed now.

I have made it comfortable and pleasant for him and talk-
ed freely with him, and feel that he is fully in sympathy with
the highest interests of our Indian school work, and sincerely
trust that you may make use of him elsewhere.

Were it not for the presence of Inspector Tinker I would
come to Washington with Mr. Foster today. Mr. Tinker expresses
his intention to remain here several days and give plenty of
time to the inspection of us.

Very respectfully,

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September 6th, 1889.

Laura Doannoe,

Anadarko, I.T.

Dear Laura:

I was very very sad to hear of little Etienne's death.
I do hope Richard may get well. You must take the best of
care of him.

Sincerely your friend,

September 6th, 1889.

Lillie Wind,

120 Park Place, Brooklyn,

Dear Lillie:

Dancy writes me very favorably of your prospects in Art-
ture, and think it much better than you carry a little with
Dr. Mann until that is settled. Of course it would not be
worth while for you to go to the expense of coming to Carlisle
and then go away again. You might find something to do outside
of Dr. Mann's family at the situation there requires you to do
so.

Sincerely your friend,

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September 6, 1889.

Joshua A. Given,

Anadarko, I.T.

Dear Joshua:

If I were you I would not gloat over Laura's downfall,
rather in a manly way cover it up, if she did fall, which I
am inclined to doubt, your statement to the contrary, notwithstanding.

Julia does not desire to return and it is best that she
should not return until she is much more mature than she is
now. She has been with Mrs. Alvord during the summer and will
return here in a few days. She is in the best of health, and
has made new and good friends for herself and the Indians by
her good conduct this summer.

I trust you will give Mr. Maltby loyal support in his efforts to obtain children.

Your friend,

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September 6th, 1889.

Katie Grindrod,

Grand River, I.T.

Dear Katie:

I have had your letter of the 30th three days and no other letter so you indicate.

I send by this mail to Edith Abner tickets for you and Esther, Elsie's sister, Edith and a friend of Edith's; and I have authorized Edith to bring two or three others if they were good substantial girls.

You will have to look out for your food on the way, other wise you will be well cared for. I will instruct the railroad people to pay you special attention. Your route will be by way of Springfield, Memphis, Chattanooga and Hagerstown.

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September 6th, 1889.

Levant I. Mason,
Jamestown, N.Y.

Dear Levant:

I have been rather expecting to hear from you and Hender-
sen for several days. I have still one vacancy but will close
it very soon. Laura is in Indiana but I suppose will start
today and arrive here to-morrow. Dana starts for Atlanta on
Monday. She will attend Miss Bayards School there.

We began School on Monday but shall not get under full
headway until after the 18th. Our out-pupils return on the
13th. Several delegations of pupils from different Agencies
are yet to come.

Monroe did not send me bill for the picture, nor have I
heard that it arrived in Dubuque.

Love to Eunice and all.

Yours truly,

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September 6th, 1889.

Nancy Cornelius,

City Hospital, Hartford, Conn.

My dearest Nancy:

It is quite important that Lillie should know as early as
possible whether her appointment will be made at Hartford or
not. Please ask Mrs. Kinney to forward it all she can, as
Lillie will have to leave New York soon and come here unless
we can get her appointed to one of the Nurse Schools. She
has nothing to do in New York.

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September 3th, 1889.

Clara Faber,

Millersville, Pa.

Dear Clara:

I fear that you and Cecelia are undertaking altogether too many studies and have concluded to send Miss Cutter down tomorrow to look the matter over and consult with Prof. Lyte and advise me.

You must be careful with your eyes, and your health. Do not neglect the exercise. In trying to put something in the house don't tear the house down.

When Katie comes, if she does, I will do what is best for her. I am delighted that you seem so much at home already.

Love to Cecelia.

Faithfully your friend,

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September 6th, 1889.

Chief L. Micksawby,

Charlevoix, Michigan.

Sir:

I spent five days with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs recently and we talked Indian matters generally. I find that he is not at all posted in regard to the tribes and their wants and so what he would say in regard to your people in Michigan at present would amount to but little. When the time comes in the near future and I can talk to him intelligently I will endeavor to direct his attention especially your way.

I feel the responsibility you have placed upon me by intruding your children to my care. I have hopes that we shall do them all good. I hope the notion that we are not two separate peoples is growing among you and that your people and my people may unite fully and fraternally, and in every way becoming a united people we may still sway this land together to the honor and glory of him whom you and I serve.

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September 10th, 1889

Frank Maltby,

Anadarko, I.T.

My Dear Friends:

I have your several letters in reference to Councils and am beginning to think that Agent Myers is a Catholic. I reported from previous letters that he was quite anxious that children should come here. I of course must leave you to manage in your own way, you being on the ground.

The Government will make no allowance for your resulting ineligibility, but I will take care of that, and will be glad to, if you are successful. I am sure you will do all that can be done, and if you make a partial failure of it it will be because the time is not as ripe as I have thought.

A letter from Mr. *P. Poeter* who is working up a party among the Chayennes and Arapahoes informs me that he expects to leave today with from 30 to 38. I had authorized him to bring 30.

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September 16, 1889.

Edward Iwins,
Tullytown, Pa.,

Dear Friend:

I have noted since last we return from Har-
vey Iwins that he has received letters in the same way
and writing frequently and have also noted his great
satisfaction. As I must necessarily know something about the
conduct of the students, where a case comes to me I like
, I take the liberty of opening and reading the letters.
I have enclosed some yesterday. I have to respectfully inform
you that I cannot allow such correspondence with the boys
at school and I refer the matter to you to take such
steps as you may think necessary to end it. I deem it ad-
wise to inform you that the same person, last year wrote in
which the same way to Felix Eaglefeather. herein is a sneat
out of her letters to him last year, which has just come
into my possession. I have read the piece of a letter and
the whole letter to the two boys. They both confess they
freely indulged the familiarity of hugging and kissing this
lady. Please advise me in regard to your action.

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Sept. 26th. 1889.

Richard Davis.
West Grove, Pa.

Dear Richard: -

Thanks to you and Nannie for your congratulations, we have
not yet reached our best. I have just returned from Washington and Commissioner
Morgan says we must carry a thousand children.

Regarding shows I will make use of your letter by sending it to
the commissioner as he is very much against Wild West shows. I have by the same
mail a letter from Cheape who is now in Georgia with a wild west show. I hope to
be able to see you and Nannie in your new house and I congratulate you upon your
prospects. The class transferred from the Cheyenne tribe this year, four of the
young men were very much over age, Tom Carlyle being one of them. Three of the girls
were either too old or too young or too much invalided.

My regards to Nannie and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey.

Yours truly,

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Sept. 27, 1889.

Dear Gen'l. Morgan:

I am unable to bring my judgment to admit that the interests of the Government and the Indiana would be specially served by the project Miss Sparhawk advances. She proposes nothing we are not doing at Carlisle far better than she can, because we are dealing with more practical people. We have girls out in families, and for long periods. They go to the Public Schools, and are treated as the white children. We could put out many more, if we had them.

By our system the girls pay their own expenses, which, aside from the economy to the Government, is immeasurably better for the girls, teaching them self-reliance. Miss Sparhawk seems to want the $107 each and transportation expenses and their work as well. Miss Sparhawk's scheme is what you said it was, the establishment of another contract school. If you give her three girls, how can you deny three, two or one, to Miss Smith, Miss Jones and a thousand others? The difficulty of securing children to supply all these people and of supervising them is practically insurmountable by any scheme or device the Government can adopt.

Miss Sparhawk would be in the employ of this school now, and her real desires accomplished, were she more practical.

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Sept. 27, 1889.

Dear General Morgan:

Since my return I have a letter from
Col. Robert Marmon at Laguna denouncing the Governor and Of-
ficials of Acoma Village, which is only 18 miles away, for their
brutality in punishing children who have been away to school
both here and at Albuquerque, and their parents. Also an-
other letter from Mr Bibo who lives at Cubero, nearer Acoma.
I would suggest that Special Agent Lewis get off at Laguna
see the Marmons and then go to Cubero and see Mr Bibo. From
these two sources he can get facts and names. James Mil-
ler, an Acoma, who returned from Carlisle some three years
ago is cognizant of the conduct of the Governor and his Of-
ficials. The four Carlisle girls who were returned in July
who were abused, and whom the Governor boasted to Miss Bur-
gess and Miss Irvine of having forced back to Indian customs
are named Juana Estaban, Maria Iteye, Louisa Sweet and Juan-
ita. Whatever may be the testimony he can secure, the fact
remains that Miss Burgess and Miss Irvine saw the girls and
had their statement of mistreatment and the boasting in Coun-
cil of the Governor himself.

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September 30, 1889.

Cheapie Ross,

Comanche Bill's Wild West Show,

Atlanta Ga.,

My dear Cheapie:

I am sorry to get a letter from you
from such company. You are travelling around the country try-
ing to persuade the white boys to buy pistols and guns to go
around shooting Indians, and I think it is wicked. After you
left Philadelphia the other day some white boys tried to do
just what you showed them about pistols and about robbing.
The other young men here will be away ahead of you in the
end.

Your friend,

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September 30, 1889.

Joel Archiquette,
Oneida, Wisconsin,

Dear Joel:

I thank you for your nicely written and nicely worded letter. I hope you will continue to write just as nicely and even improve from year to year. Yours is a plain business hand. I am glad to hear that you are at work and that you remember what you learned at Carlisle on that line. Never forget it; good honest work will save the Indians. I don't think anything else will. All goes well with us at Carlisle. Your sister is in excellent health.

 Cordially yours,

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September 30, 1889.

White Wolf,
Comanche Chief,
Anadarko, Ind. Terr.

My dear friend:

You Comanches do not take hold upon
right lines. You resist the Government and violate your own
treaty contract about educating your children. If you would
vigorously take hold of it and show your intention to meet the
Government's expectations and conform to what you agreed 21
years ago, you would soon make friends, and I believe I could
handle your case about the horses, so as to help you greatly.
I know all about it and I know the way it is to be done if
anything can be done. But you discourage me by pulling back
about educating your children, and I am not brave to go and
ask the great men of the country to help you. I know there
are mischief makers who put bad notions in your heads and you
are ready to take up any sort of an argument that will keep
you from doing what you ought. I do not mean you nor Tapan-
unies, personally nor specially, but I mean the Comanches gen-
erally. I know you gave me your boy long ago. I am only
sorry he did not stay longer. When you can show the people
that you are willing to work, and carry out your own treaty
in good faith, and take hold of every opportunity for your

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good, you may depend upon me to make just as good and strong
a fight for you as I can, and I shall not do it for anything
else but my old time friendship and great desire to see the
Comanches come to the front. My kindest regards to Tubananoa.
Cheevers, Black Heros and my other Comanche friends,

Fathfully your friend,

September 30, 1889.

Seward Mott,

San Carlos, Arizona,

My dear friend:

I was quite pleased with your letter and with your good spirit. I believe in Indians going out into the world and seeing what there is outside of the reservation. Capt. Bullis asked me sometime ago to take six boys and I said I would if he would send me six good girls. If you boys and he can arrange it I will fix it so that six boys and six girls could come here from San Carlos; but I must have as many girls as boys. With love to your brother Roland and all the Carlisle boys and the hope that they are all doing the best they can,

Your friend,

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Sept. 30, 1889.

George W. VanSiclen,
7 Wall Street, N. Y.

My dear Sir:

The summons to Washington kept me several
days and an extra press of other matters has prevented my get-
ting at my correspondence as much as it demanded.

We have no photographs of the graduating class as they ap-
peared on entering school. There might be and possibly are
individual photographs of a number of them taken soon after
entering school but those would not serve your purpose.
I send you contrast photos of an Apache party. I have never
favored the scheme so common, of naming an Indian after an
individual and have that individual cultivate and pay special
attention to such pupil, for a number of reasons. Even the
best of our own race are indiscreet in their conduct toward
the young Indians, and the advice given is generally along
lines quite at war with my own notions of what should be done.
This would lay upon me the necessity of educating those who
would attempt to educate my pupils. Another reason is that
it leads to deception. I have seen a good deal of it in a
prominent school and I could not bring myself to join in that

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some of them. Again, I believe in Indians keeping their own names. Further, I do not take much stock in lending money to Indian couples. What I would do for Indian youth is to place them in the way of acquiring the means for their support, themselves. My students by remaining in civilization, away from the Agencies, in almost every case can be placed in money making lines. Every month I can keep them thus away, I count clear gain. You would do something to induce them to go back. While I would like to relieve myself of the debt, I would rather carry it than go in lines that conflict with my ideas of what is to be done. To my mind, the Indian should be induced, pursued and if such things were possible, compelled to get out of and away from his commune. I would be glad indeed to have help and can furnish you as many copies of the graduating class as you may care to use, also as many of the Apaches should you care to use that contrast.

I enclose to you copy of a letter published in the Herald and Presbyter of Cincinnati, written by one of its editors who visited us for a day recently.

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Oct. 9th. 1888. 08

Kiss Red Wolf,

Darlington,

Ind. Ter'ty.

My Dear Kisses,

I have your letter of Sept. 5th, asking me to encourage the young men here to aid you in building a house in Darlington. I am hardly prepared to say I think it a good thing to do, for the reason it will take money to sustain it, and the disorganized condition things are in at your Agency does not warrant a very long look into the future. The chances are that your reservation will, before very long, come under the operation of the land in severality laws, and such a home, if erected might fall into that part of the reservation not occupied by Indians.

I question very much whether such a house has or would have very much to do with the retrograding of pupils. Those who have not the force of character to stand up for what they have learned without such a house, would, I fear, fail to stand up with one. However, not using my own judgment or influence in any way to prevent our boys helping you, I have placed your letter in the hands of the boys from your Agency,

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Oct. 12th. 1889.

Rev. W.H.Miller,
Bryn Mawr,
Penna.

My dear Sir;

Yours inclosing $75.00 towards Henry's education
is received with thanks. I had him with me at Mononk and he is
anticipating with great pleasure his visit to you. He made a
speech before the convention and was discreet in his words
and modest in his bearing and made friends with all.

It would be a great personal satisfaction to me
if you could find time to make us a visit.

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Oct. 19th, 1889.

Rev. Dr. T. S. Childs,

1506 Connecticut Ave.

Washington, D.C.

My dear Dr.:

The situation at Mohawk affairs you in staying
away. The thing is fast becoming a machine. Armstrong, Welsh
and a few others manipulate its work. The little remark in the
Tribune, as well as the full proceedings in the day following
were both manipulated by Armstrong. At the Conference he made
a dead set at the politicians and exhibited all the qualities
of one of the foremost politicians of the country. This was
noted by some of the oldest and wisest hends there.

Smiley read your letter, but made quite a pre-
-liminary speech in favor of Armstrong and his school, assert-
ing his own ability to tell what a good school it was which was
applauded all over, inasmuch as everyone was his guest. He
deplor'd your not coming to the Conference and that you had
written and taken notices of his matter. He was followed by
Judge Strong, who hoped nothing more would be said on the sub-
ject during the Conference, and there was a but ad
hearty concurrence in that. I talked to no one about it.

Both Armstrong and Welsh got several black eyes

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Oct. 12th, 1890.

To Black,

Arkansas City, Kans.

My dear Sir,

I am so sorry to hear of your ailment.

My Agent telegraphed to Pension Agency for Frank
to join him at Pension station. The Agent there received the
telegram, but instead of following it, wrote the trust Frank and
a number of other boys wanted to go and said Frank was a
number of miles away and that it was impossible to notify him

Frank had better use the ticket and come in. If
he does not I am willing and other good voy of the Pension
Agency or One Agency to come. I do not know to make arrangements
for additional boys.

I have written the Agent that if a party of ten
or twelve can be made up, half boys and half girls, I would take
them.

I am thankful for your interest in the matter,
but it was not our fault that Frank was not informed.

Very truly yours,

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Oct. 12. 1889.

Col. S. Tappan,

1328 F. St.

Washington, D.C.

Dear Colonel;

I have been absent for a week and your letter
arrived then.

I did not feel like publishing your former article
without slashing into it very heavily, and laid it aside for
the time to do that. Things have crowded me so I have not had
time to meet near all the issues that arise.

Referring to your suggestion about bringing in
students, I am quite full up for the year, and have felt it to
be an advantage to have our employes, who are acquainted with
theins and outs of the business, to perform this service. There
are so many questions asked about the children here and about
the school, that this course seems necessary. It would seem
that your long experience could be used somewhere and I
trust it will be. Between ourselves, Morgan is making one of the
best Comrs. we ever had and I would advise you to make his
acquaintance.

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Daniel Asher,

My dear friends,

Your boy Joseph comes to be all right. I look up his accommodations and find he has a comfortable sleeping room. His general health is good with the exception of a slight cold, just as before of others here. Don't you hear nothing but good reports about him.

He has been pleased under the care of the religious Church in town and attends their Sunday School. I assure you it is our great desire to forward the interests of all the children in every way we can and to give them pleasure in doing so. In case of any serious trouble I should notify you as soon as possible.

Your boy will write you once a month under the direction of his teacher, and at the same time a report of his health, condition, &c. will be sent him. He is also at liberty to write to you as often as he pleases.

Very truly,

Your friend,

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Oct. 16th. 1889.

Peter Skripogosh,

Mich.

My dear friends,

I inclose you report of my school physician
in regard to your daughter Louisa. This was sent to the doctor
-day. Her condition is improving slowly and my doctor is quite
encouraged that she will come through all right.

Very truly yours,

Capt. & Supt.

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Oct. 19th. 1889.

Black Woman,

Burlington,

Ind. Terty.

My friend!

I am greatly pleased with your kind letter of
October 10th. The fact that Indians appreciate my work is
more gratifying to me than that so many white people think
well of it, for it is in the Indians I am specially interested.

I have shown your letter to Casper, who has returned
to school for another winter's struggle with books. He tells
me it is his desire to remain another year. He will probably
write you his purposes. I am glad to speak of your son in the
highest terms. Casper has shown himself to be manly in every
way, and I feel sure will make something of a future if he has
a chance.

With kind regards,

Sincerely your friend,

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Oct.21. 1889.

C.D.Wheelock,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Charlie,

I have your letter and thank you for it. I am
glad to hear of your prosperous condition and trust it may
increase in every way.

I have no doubt you keep fully informed through the
Helper, if not, you ought to. I know of nothing special, or
new, to write you. Of course I have only the greatest desire
you should be worthy of your opportunities in every way.

Your friend,

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Oct. 21, 1889.

Aaron Pequongay,

Northport,

Mich.

Dear Sir;

Your son Luke has entirely recovered from his
attack of fever and is again regularly in his place in school.
A number of the boys were sick in like manner, but all are
recovering. It seems a little epidemic is traveling through
this country affecting the whites as well as us.

Very truly yours,

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Oct. 28th. 1888.

Gen.Thos.J.Morgan,
Commr.of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Gen'1.

I forwarded on Saturday the clippings -200 of each
of the Congregationalist editorial and that of the Red Man -
as you desired. They were both on one slip.

I am in receipt of a letter from Capt. J. E.
Quentin, of Grand Junction, in which, anticipating his appointment
as Supt. of that school, he asks me a great many questions. If
he is really appointed I shall be glad, of course, to aid him
with whatever information and advice I may be able; but if he
is not to be appointed, it will be something of a saving to
know that. It would save me the labor of giving the extended
information. I shall be glad if you will let me know.

Your appointment of Superintendent for Chilocco
will, I believe, turn out to be one of the very best.

I did not succeed in obtaining an interview
with Mr. Blaine, and so wrote him a brief note inclosing Sect.
Noble's introduction.

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Oct. 26th, 1900.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,

Ft. Stevenson,

N. Dak.

My dear Carlos;

I was greatly pleased to receive your kind letter and to know that you are not only engaged in the work which you have been anxious to undertake so long, but that you are interested and feel yourself to be successful. The experience will be invaluable to you. I felt great confidence in your outcome when I noticed a little incident on the cars when one of our girls was taken ill. I am sure you can make yourself invaluable to the Superintendent and together you can make many improvements in the school.

All goes well with us at Carlisle. We have a much larger school than usual and anticipate still further increase in the near future. Our facilities are equaled by few schools in the country, and I doubt if excelled by any.

I shall be very glad to hear from you at any time, with such interesting details as you and Supt. Gerowe may think proper for publication in our two papers.

Faithfully your friend,

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Oct. 29th. 1889.

Hon. James G. Blaine,
Secty. of State,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir;

In the two minutes which I had to write you the
brief note, inclosing the introduction from the Hon. Secty!
of the Interior, I could not recall the Duke of Sutherland's
name and title, which should have appeared in my note. When
he visited us he told me he came because the Hon. Secty. of
State, yourself, had advised the visit.

Should the party of Commissioners, on their
return to Washington, pass through Harrisburg, they would be
only forty minutes distant from us, and if they could give us
an hour or an hour and a half it would be ample. The Cumbd.
Valley Railroad lines our school grounds. I can make all the
necessary railread arrangements from either Harrisburg or
Martinsburg, and shall be very glad to do anything else to
make their visit pleasant. I am sure it will be profitable
to them.

Capt. & Supt.

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