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January 22nd, 1898.

Col. R.G. Marmon,

Laguna, New Mexico.

My dear Colonel:

Feeling assured that you would meet the issue,
I sent Effie down several days ago under the care of my Miss Miles,
who was going to Philadelphia, and it seemed the best chance.

Miss Miles writes that she took her to the Medico Chirurgi-
cal Hospital as I instructed. She will be under the care of
Dr. L. Webster Fox, one of the best occuliats in Philadelphia,
who has made some very marvelous cures. I will be in Philadelphia
on Tuesday next, and shall go to see Effie myself. It appears
that the cure if effected will take time, but I will let you
know particulars later. I was guided in the matter by what I
would have done for my own daughter was she in like circumstances.
With cordial greetings to you all

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Carlisle, Pa., January 28th, 1898.

Rev. George Edward Reed,
President Dickinson College.
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sirs:

Joseph Adams, after some experiences in the West, comes back to Carlisle, and it is Captain's wish that he take up again his work at Dickinson, which I hope can be done, and oblige.

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Carlisle, Penna. Feb. 4, 1898.

Mr. Alfred Philippi,
Editor Staats-Zeitung,
New York City.

Dear sir;

By direction of Capt. Pratt I forward you today some photo-
graphs for the illustrated article on the Carlisle Indian School
spoken of in your letter to Dr. W.N.Hailman dated Jan. 24, 1898.

D.w.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 5th 1898.

Hon. Cornelius N. Bliss, Secretary of the Interior,
Through Hon. W. A. Jones, Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:-

I enclose to you a clipping sent to me from the Evening Post of New York, doubtless written by its correspondent Mr. Frances B. Leupp, the Washington Agent of the Indian Rights Association. This is a fair sample of the way the officials of the Indian Rights Association and Civil Service Reformers manipulate to control the Government business.

It may be needless but I wish to say that Dr. Gilbert is in a
sense whatever a candidate of mine for the position of Superintendent
of Indian Schools, that I never knew him and have not directly or
indirectly in any way whatsoever advocated or asked others to
advocate his appointment. I never met him but once and that was
four or five days ago in the hallway of the hotel in Washington where
we stopped and talked two or three moments, he saying that the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs suggested that we meet.

This effort to degrade me and make it appear to the public that
the judgment of these very distinguished people, signers of this
petition, are against me ought to be met, and I can meet it, but I
first submit it to you and shall wait your judgment in the matter
for a time, inasmuch as the duree of the Department under which I
was placed by the last administration the day before it left office
has not yet been removed.

With great respect, Very truly yours,

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

My dear Sir:-

The Philadelphia Press gives an account of the appearance
before the Committee of the Senate on the Indian Appropriation Bill
of Archbishop Ryan, and states that he informed the Committee that
there would be no place for the pupils to go if turned out of the
Catholic contract schools. I respectfully invite your attention to
my estimate for the school year '99 in which I state that for $106,000
I will care for 1000 children and make certain improvements. This
would care for 150 and as we shall send home this year a possible
150 more it would give room here for 300. I go further than this
and invite your attention to my estimates of '96 and I think '95,
in which I state that with $157,000 I will take care of 1500 children
using my outing for 700 to 750.

It would be better not to increase the number here above 1000
or 1100 the first year, but I am ready to undertake a larger number
should there be any emergency. There are other training schools
that are not as well filled as they might be, so that I am sure all
the excess can be taken care of without any especial arrangement,
Archbishop Ryan to the contrary notwithstanding.

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N.

Carlisle, Pa., February 7th, 1896.

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 the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June
27th per S.O., No. 194, Headquarter of the Army A.O.O., August
23rd, and letter of Instructions from the Honorable Secretary
of the Interior, dated September 5th, all 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Capt. 10th Coy., U.S.A., Supt.

Me

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Carlisle, Pa., February 1st, 1898.

Philips White,

Pine Ridge Agency,
South Dakota.

Dear Philips:

I received your letter some time, and wanted to write you before, but affairs connected with the school and absence from home have prevented me from doing so.

I am glad you are making use of the education you have, and doing what you can to keep yourself independent. There are some, who, having the education, make no good use of it, but that is the way all over the world, and those who make the most of what they have will be the ones to succeed.

You know what I think about whisky, and the principles of Carlisle. Try and stick to them, and you will not go wrong.

We have had a larger number of pupils than ever this fall, and the health of the school has never been better than at this time. I have had the windows near the school flooded, and it takes an excellent skating pond, which all enjoy, girls and boys.

Commencement this year is fixed for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of April, and we expect to have a bigger time than ever. Mr. Thompson is busy preparing his gymnastic classes for their exhibition work.

Last Saturday, our regular sociable night, was devoted to pay sociable, where, for tickets purchased for five and ten cents, you could get bananas, oranges, peanuts, cake, ice cream, coffee, etc. The proceeds is to be devoted to sending some delegates from the

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Miss Stella T. Sittingbear,

Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

My dearest Stella:

I was very glad, indeed, to get your letter, and to know how you think of us all so kindly, although you may not always put your thoughts in writing.

I am always interested in the welfare of pupils who go out from Carlisle, and was pleased to hear of your prospective position as assistant at the Boarding School. I hope you will enjoy it and succeed in your work.

You ask for news in regard to the school, but the "Helper", if you receive it, will tell you all, as we consider that the letter sent from the school to let old pupils and friends of the school know how we are getting along.

Our school numbers more than ever, and we are all in the best of health, and getting ready for Commencement, which takes place the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of March. I send you my last Annual Report, that you may clean something of our work the past year.

Assuring you of a warm welcome at Carlisle at any time, and with most cordial remembrances, I am,

Your friend,

Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., February 7th, 1898.

Rev. Dr. Geo. L. Spinning,
East Orange, New Jersey.

My dear Doctor:

Mrs. Pratt and I did not return to Carlisle until Saturday night; matters in Washington took us all the rest.

We have talked it over further, and think the Lincoln picture will suit us best. You may, therefore, if you will, come over to fire that off. I will send you tickets for your self and Mrs. Spinning in good time. Remember, we want the pleasure Tuesday night. Ma ch best.

The attack on us in the House in Washington was beneficial. It gave our friends a chance to talk, and our enemiesemptied themselves, and no doubt feel better. Expect to have some of both up to our Commencement.

(Dicated to Geo. L. Spinning)

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Carlisle, Pa., February 8th, 1898.

Lieut. Col. Geo. M. Randall,

Ft. Yukon, Alaska.

My dear Colonel:

Mr. M.F. Arnold, who for a number of years kept a hotel in the town of Carlisle, and has for several years past been keeping a hotel in Harrisburg, has the Klondyke fever, and wishes to get rid of his surplus by undertaking a personal expiation. He asks me for a recommendation to you.

Mr. Arnold is a generous whole-souled boniface, somewhat inclined to conviviality, but with many sterling qualities.

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Mr. J. Shirley Eaton,

300 West 70th Street,

New York.

My dear Mr. Eaton:

Your letter of the 31st ult. has remained for
my return. I have been absent two weeks, most of the time in
Washington. Your father's lecture on his "Personal Reminiscences
of Lincoln and Grant" was intensely interesting to the large
audience who heard him.

I have scarcely anything to do outside of the school, and
do not see how I can help you in the matter of getting appoint-
ments, but I will cheerfully answer any who ask me in regard to
it, and if you can suggest a way in which I can help, I shall
take greatest pleasure in complying.

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Hon. W.A. Jones,

1315 N Street N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner;

I am just a little bit sorry that I spoke to you even about Dr. Lippincott. I intended to religiously keep my hands off from making any recommendations whatsoever of any man. You will remember that I really did not recommend, that I only spoke of him, and you suggested that I write him. I enclose you his letter (which also includes his telegram) by which you will see how utterly impossible it is to even think of him. I cannot help saying that one of the most unfortunate, if not fatal evils of the new Civil Service System, is the complete tying of our hands to a regulation that only those who apply are to be considered for Government Service. I believe that the tone of our Service must necessarily go down continually under such a system. On the contrary, I am sure that if use proper common sense in our Governmental affairs we will finally see that it would be far better that those who apply, and multiply their applications, receive less consideration, and we come to accept the fact that those who are too modest to apply are often of more real worth, and then we can give them the more consideration.

If you have not shown my letter with the newspaper article to the Secretary, I would be glad you withheld it for a

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Carlisle, Pa., February 9th, 1898.

Hon. C.N. Bliss,
Secretary of the Interior,

Thro.' Hon. W.A. Jones, Com. of Ind'n Affrs.,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I enclose to you a clipping sent to me from the "Evening Post" of New York, doubtless written by its correspondent Mr. Francis M. Leupp, the Washington agent of the Indian Rights Association. It is a fair sample, so far as my experience goes, of the spoils method by which the officials of the Indian Rights Association, and Civil Service Reformers, generally manipulate to control Government business.

I wish to say that Dr. Gilbert has never been in any sense, whatever, a candidate of mine for the position of Superintendent of Indian Schools. I never knew him, and have not, directly or indirectly, in any manner whatsoever advocated, or asked others to advocate, his appointment. We have met but once, and that was a few days ago (probably after this article was written) in the hallway of the hotel in Washington, where we talked a very few minutes, he saying that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs had suggested that we meet. Nor am I in any sense, directly or indirectly, an endorser of any of those who have applied to you for the position of Superintendent of Indian Schools.

This effort to make it appear to the public that these

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"It follows logically that if certain subordinates, solicited "thereto, may endorse favorably their superior officer, other "subordinates, believing they have reason in the contrary direc- "tion, may with equal right condemn said official. If, therefore, "the favorable endorsements, which have been solicited, are to ex- "ercise any weight in determining the retention of Dr. Hailman as "Superintendent of Indian Schools, I respectfully suggest and re- "quest that the door may be open for a full and free expression "from all in the School Service under the assurance that no harm "for opposition, or benefit for approval, shall result to those "giving such expressions.

"This method of securing or holding on to office is thor- "oughly destructive of all discipline and right administration, "and in itself negatives the value of all other endorsement, "however favorable. For my own part, if the door is opened, I "can and will give most substantial reasons why Dr. Hailman "should not be continued as Superintendent of Indian Schools."

This attack is no doubt part of Dr. Hailman's program, and now rather forces me to express myself to you in regard to him as Superintendent of Indian Schools, I have, therefore, to respect- fully advise you that I think him unfit for the place because,

First:- He entered the Service as the selection of the Civil Service Reform and Anti-spoilamen elements, and still has their feverish and somewhat unanimous endorsement, though his management from the very start until this present reeks with spoils purposes and actions; notably in his immediately giving his wife, his son, and his daughter (all the available members of his family) positions in the Indian School Service; by his appointing direct, and without Civil Service examination, to teach in the Indian Schools, considerable numbers of the kinder- garten teacher graduates of his wife's kindergarten schools, evading the law by calling them "Kindergartners," by his driving from Service many tired and efficient superintendents and other school employes, some of them at least on political grounds.

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Second:- When his daughter, at his solicitation, was an employe at the Carlisle School, he accepted and acted on her judgments of my employes and pupils, as against my judgment.

Third:- He early began to carry on a private correspondence with my principal teacher, giving him directions in regard to the management of his department of the school, ignoring me as superintendent, and this is notoriously a trait of his throughout the Service.

Fourth:- When I reported employes as unfit for Service, he repeatedly transferred them elsewhere at advanced salaries. (I may add that the later dismissal of such employes has confirmed my judgments).

Fifth:- While by his orders and regulations he has seemed to favor methods of securing pupils for Carlisle, I find that he uses his influence, and the influence of his supervisors, to prevent me getting students, and that fact, together with the fact that employes for Carlisle who have come to me by his designation from Civil Service were so generally inefficient, permit of only one conclusion.

Sixth:- When I asked permission to come to Washington, and with him look over the Civil Service papers, and have an opportunity to help arrive at the best selections of employes, he informed me that such action was against the rules of the Indian Office, and also against the rules of the Civil Service Commission, which latter, if not the former also, was untrue.

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Seventh:- I asked to transfer by exchange a clerk to teacher, and a teacher to clerk, both salaries being the same, the persons desiring it, and it being an advantage to the Service. The exchange was refused on the allegation that Civil Service rules required re-examination of each person for the new places, but like transfers were made elsewhere, and even persons taken into Civil Service places without any examination.

Eighth:- I also object to Dr. Hailman because the people, whose candidate and willing tool he is, assume to dictate the Indian policy of the Government, and have been successful in directing it in lines I know to be adverse to the civilizing and citizenizing of the Indians, which lines have and will continue to create vast, needless and continuous expense to the Government, and prolong and enlarge the claims of the Indians as a pauper class.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 10th, 1898.

Henry Standing Bear,

Allen P.O. So. Dak.

Dear Henry:

I only find five of the Epworth Hymnals that you used
to use, and they were sent to you some days ago. I sent them
under official frank by mail, so that they will cost you noth-
ing.

How are you getting along? What are you doing? Tell me
all about yourself and the Carlisle boys and girls. I wish
you could be with us at our Commencement the 2nd and 3rd of
March. The class this year number twenty-four.

Love to you and yours,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., February 10th, 1893.

Rev. Rob't A. MacFadden,
Andover, Mass.

My dear Robert:

Congratulations, many of them.

The assault upon us did not hurt us any, it rather gave
opportunity for our enemies to empty themselves, and doubtless
feel better over it, and gave our friends an opportunity to
stand by us.

Our Commencement exercises are to be the 2nd and 3rd of
March. Can you not come down? though under the circumstances
I hesitate to say that, but if you can we will be delighted to
have you.

With kindest regards from us all,

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Prof. S.B. Shearer,
Supt. of Schools,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Professor:

What you did in regard to your teachers attend-
ing our Commencement is all right. We shall be glad to have
all the officials and teachers with us, and I think under the
circumstances we shall have to limit the attendance of the chil-
dren to the seniors of the High School. However, I shall be
glad to hear from you about this, and to know how many there are
in this class.

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Mrs. Ella M. Thatcher,
Florence, New Jersey.

My dear Mrs. Thatcher:

Replying to that part of your letter of
the 21st of January in regard to drinking at the Soldiers' Home,
I have to advise you that you are correctly informed. It would
be well for your association to get the facts from your local or-
ganizations in the vicinity of these homes, which are open and
flagrant. I have much feeling on this subject, and yet belong-
ing to the Army I am unable to speak of it. Confidentially, I
will say to you that in my judgment the crime the Government com-
mits, first, in taking money from whisky dealers and whisky
makers, thereby legalizing the drink, is to me an awful crime,
portentious of the greatest final disaster, in addition to the
constant disasters and other effects of the drink we experience
from day to day. The canteen in the Army and at the Soldiers'
Home is argued for by those in authority as a source of minimizing
the drink habit, but men who have never indulged in such habits
are led to them by this official sanction.

You ought to get through your societies the facts in these
cases, and keep up the agitation against them unceasingly. You
can understand, of course, that being off to one side, I am barred
from the discussion to a very great extent, and I trust that

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Capt. C.A. Bradley,

Prin. of the Manual Training High School,
Denver, Colo.

My dear Bradley:

I quite finally forgot my promise to send you the photographs. They were sent by mail yesterday. I also send you my last report, and a copy of the New England Magazine containing an article on the school, which you will probably be interested in reading.

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Mr. H.M. Devendorf,

Clerk of the House Com. on Indian Affairs.

House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Devendorf:

I sent you the printed invitations in this noon mail. I have printed twenty-five for your Committee use only. These are in the envelopes with the rubber band around them. Then in order that Mr. Sherman's general invitation may have its full force and effect, I have printed 150 for such members of the House as you may care to address them to, and put them in the separate loose envelopes. Now, the whole matter is in your hands. I have made no other invitations to the members of the House. I shall leave that entirely to your Committee, and wish to say that I shall meet in full the results of Mr. Sherman's invitations, and that it will be no inconvenience, whatever, but on the contrary a great pleasure even though the number of members and their families should be very large. I should only be compelled to have them stay in the town of Carlisle for the night, and that I can easily arrange. So on this basis you can go ahead, but please as early as you can give me an inkling of the possible number, so that I can make arrangements. I simply wish to make this special request that your Committee will do all it can to bring Mr. Smith

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Gen. J.A. Hawley,
United States Senate,
Washington, D.C.

Dear General:

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs indicated that the answer to the regulations about schools would be in your hands shortly, and I wish very much to have it, so as to post you on its merits. He promised to send me one copy direct here. I have not received it, but I see the Indian Bill has been introduced. I trust it may not come up for discussion until I get into your hands information that ought to be before the Senate during the discussion. If the answer has reached you, please get copy to me at once.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 10th, 1896.

Mr. George Vaux,

Girard Building,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear George:

I think now that the photograph business had better come after Commencement. We are going to be dreadfully busy until after that time. Immediately after, would be an excellent time for everything except the summer views, which will have to wait. I should be delighted if something could be made of the Commencement occasion. Mr. I could come here at the time of our Commencement, prepared to stay a number of days.

We could give Friday and Saturday after Commencement to his special work, and accomplish the whole very nicely. We could then early the following week take in Gettysburg. What say you?

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Carlisle, Pa., February 10th, 1808.

Mr. James N. Earl,

Philadelphia, Penn'a.

My dear Sir;

I did not return from Washington until Saturday evening last. My time was so taken up there that it was impossible for me to give the information about our expenses, and I did not have Mr. Gansworth's.

Our expense for railroad fare was $11.80, and our other expenses $11.50; in all $23.30.

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Mrs. Helen N. Mauck,
Conshohocken, Penn'a.

My dear Mrs. Mauck:

Mrs. Pratt and I were away from home two weeks,
and returned Saturday evening to find a very heavy mail, your
letter a part.

I am so driven with work, and it being on the eve of our
Commencement, that I am quite unable to write you such a letter
as I would like to, and be glad to do when things have ceased off.

I send you a New England Magazine with an article about
the Carlisle School, and also my last Annual Report, from which
you will gather quite a good deal of what I would write if I
were writing. I also send you an address that I made at Den-
ver some years ago, and a paper on the "Potency of Environment."
Please excuse me with this contribution at present, and if later
I can do anything for you, I shall be most happy to.

What memories your letter brings up. I wish you could
come and see us. If possible for you to come as our guest on the
2nd and 3rd of March, our Commencement occasion, let me know and
I will provide you transportation from Philadelphia to Carlisle
and return, and Mrs. Pratt and I shall be glad to provide for
your entertainment here.

With many good wishes.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 11th, 1898.

William H. Rau,
1324 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Penn'a.

My dear Mr. Rau:

It will be quite impossible for me to give time
for what I want you to do before Commencement; but if you
could come at Commencement, the 2nd and 3rd of March, and get
some views on these days, they would be good for my purpose.
Then on the two days after, Friday and Saturday, you can take
the rest I think very well. Then if you will stay over Sun-
day, we will go to Gettysburg and get all you may want there.

If this program does not suit, we must plan to do the work
early in March for I am hoping to get away from Carlisle for
a good rest soon after Commencement.

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Mrs. D.R. Wawanosh,

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

Dear Friend:

There was no evidence on the basket when it arrived
here as to whom it was from, and I waited anxiously to know
the donor, for I was greatly pleased with it. Please tell
Wesley of my receipt of it, and of my gratitude to him for
remembering me so kindly. Should Wesley get entirely well, and
be able to send us a certificate from the doctor to that effect,
there is no objection to his returning here, but entire recovery
had best be well established.

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Dr. Carlos Montezuma,
100 State Street,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Doctor:

I was in Washington for two weeks. Your speech was tip top. Miss Burgess will get out a pamphlet of it, and probably use it in the Red Man. It would be a good thing to have it mailed from the Indian Association in Chicago. You and Dr. Dudley and one or two others could form the association. I would put it up in proper form in envelopes and have it addressed, and then send the whole package to you at Chicago, and you could stick it in the mail. What do you think of it? You could write a letter yourself to Smith, the member of Congress, who is always abusing Carlisle, and enclose a copy as Secretary of the association and also an Apache Indian.

What do you say to coming down to Commencement. Could not you and Dr. Dudley be with us? Leave there the forenoon of the 1st; get here the 2nd, so as to be here all the time the Congressional party is with us, and leave on the evening of the 3rd and be home the evening of the 4th. I will pay your way. Let me know.

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H.A. Parker,
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.P.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Sir:

I am glad you had Montezuma. Use him up there all you can. It will help the cause along. Montezuma is as sound as he can be on his positions, and being a native it is all the more telling.

We have our Commencement here on the 2nd and 3rd of March. Wish you could come down, and bring the President of your Road along, it would do you both good.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 11th, 1998.

Mark Wolfe,
Edgewood, Penn'a.

My dear Mark:

I send you a check for $10.00, made payable to yourself, and you can do what you like with it. My advice to you is to let the Grady Medical Co. go to grass. I remember when I was a young man, having letters from just such companies, and I yielded to some extent, but always to my own cost and no benefit. They make it their business to hunt up young men and young women, and correspond and get money from them. Their medicines are a fraud. I return the Medical Company's letter to you.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., February 10th, '88.

Mr. Durham White Stevens,
Counselor of the Japanese Legation,
The Bancroft, Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Stevens:

Yours cordially,

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Hon. W.A. Jones,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I have sent invitations to the Asst. Commissioner and the Superintendent of Indian Schools, but I enclose here-with six invitations, which you can dispose of as you think best in your office. I will provide for the transportation of those accepting and can entertain them here at the school.

Very truly yours,

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To the Right Hon. Sir Julian Pauncefote, C.C.B., G.C.M.Q.,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,
British Embassy, Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

Inasmuch as the Dominion of Canada has a very
large number of Indians of the same character as those we are
dealing with, I have often thought you might care to visit this
school where we have about 850 pupils from almost all the tribes
in the United States, including Alaska, and witness the opera-
tions of the system carried out here on such a large scale. I,
therefore, add the urgency of this letter to the enclosed invi-
tation for yourself and any members of your Legation whom you
may care to bring or send. I have special arrangements for the
transportation of guests leaving Washington from the Baltimore
and Potomac Station at 7:55 A.M., Wednesday March 2nd, and trust
I may include you and some members of your Legation in the party.
The train reaches Carlisle at 12.25 in time for lunch. The after-
noon will be spent in viewing the physical and industrial cul-
ture features of the school. Thursday morning is given to the
inspection of the school rooms, and the afternoon will be devoted
to the Commemoration exercises proper. The Washington train will
leave here Thursday afternoon after the exercises and arrives
in Washington at 10:55.

With greatest respect,

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Carliella, Pa., February 14th, 1898.

Editor of the Press,
Philadelphia, Penn'a.

Dear Sir:

I note that my subscription for your paper expired the 31st of December. I enclose $1.00. When the time for which this pays has expired, please discontinue sending it by mail. It often fails to reach me until noon, and I can always have it delivered by the news dealers in town a little after eight o'clock, and I understand that all Philadelphia papers will be delivered here in the early morning train at 6 o'clock. It will, therefore, suit me better to take it from the town then to take it through the mail.

(Diated) Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., February 14th, 1898.

Hon. R.M. Pettigrew,

U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator:

We are sending the annual invitations to our Carlisle Commencement. Allow me to add a personal urgency for you, and the members of your Committee and their families, and to assure you that the arrangements for your comfort, should you honor us with your presence, would be our especial care. Accommodations will be provided on the train leaving Washington at 7:00 A.M. Wednesday, March 2nd, which will reach Carlisle at 12:23 in time for dinner. The afternoon will be given to illustrate our physical and industrial culture features. We shall entertain and care for the special guests from the Senate and House, and the Washington officials, on the school grounds.

Thursday morning will be an illustration of our schoolroom work, and in the afternoon the general Commencement exercises. The class that graduates this year numbers twenty-four, representing a great variety of tribes, including several of our late most nomadic.

Should your Committee accept of this invitation, and think well of inviting other Senators and their families, we should be glad to welcome them as our guests. I leave this matter entirely in your hands.

I am, Senator, with great respect,

Yours very truly,

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Josie Vetter,
Rule, Nebraska.

My dear Josie:

I forgot to cut off your coupons and send you
your interest for the 1st of January. Your letter reminded me
of it, and I have done that and collected $27.00. I take one
of your bonds at $100, and send you in all $127.00, instead of
$150.00 as you ask. Should you want more you had better
take an even $100, because your bonds are all for $100.00 each,
and should you not care to leave the money here any longer, it
is at your disposal. I can sell the bonds at any time for their
face value, $100 each. You still have eight, $800.

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Hon. J.R. Hawley,

Dear General:

I have been expecting a reply from the Indian Office, but it does not come. I expected to give you some very important facts and pointers. The delay in sending you the reply, and the haste with the Indian Bill seems a little queer. What I specially desired was that the real facts in regard to the expense of educating in the East and West should come out, and also that the western people, who are continually representing eastern graduates, should be compelled to make a showing of the western graduate. Let us have the two stood up together, and see what they look like. We had reservation schools long before Carlisle was established. Though not at all in my line of thought, and not at all what I am sure sooner or later Congress will demand must be done, I can safely say that the western schools have produced no such ability and character, nor is it within the range of possibility for agency schools particularly to produce such quality; but I intended to get it all into shape so that you might see just how it was, and have it confirmed by the Indian Office Report. The facts are that there is a catering to members of Congress from the West in the establishment and enlargement of western schools, simply

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to get money into particular localities. That there are results in any way commensurate with the outlay in comparison with what may be done elsewhere is not considered. The whole system of Indian education is likely to be called in question before long, because of the immense outlay and the small results.

The loaves and fishes in the Indian Service in the shape of offices, and expenditure of public money, are at bottom of all the hinderance to Indian civilization and education. These conditions can be exposed and ought to be exposed, and future success of the work demands that they be shown, and that this cry against the returned student should be stopped.

I see that the Indian Bill is through, and, as a means of influence on that, the reply to our resolution will amount to nothing, but when it comes I hope to utilize it.

With great respect,

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., February 24th, 1898.

Hon. C.N. Bliss,
Secretary of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Secretary:

We are sending the invitations for our annual Commencement, the 2nd and 3rd of March. I have written a special letter to Mr. Romero and Mr. Foster, former Secretary of State, renewing the invitations of last year which they both accepted, and which was prevented of consummation by some important incident. I have also written the British Minister, Sir Julian Pauncefote, thinking that on account of the great number of Indians in Canada, and the large increase of schools there, which has mostly been incited by our own Government's action along this line, it would offer sufficient inducement for him to step aside and see what the United States is doing at this point. I have also written Senator Allison, who has always been a firm friend of Carlisle, and as chairman of the Appropriation's Committee of the Senate has to pass upon our allowance.

If you think proper, I shall be very glad, indeed, if you add your influence and invite Mr. Romero and the British Minister, Mr. Foster and Senator Allison, to accompany you on the trip to Carlisle. If any other Senators occur to you as desirable, I should be glad to have a special invitation direct to them from you.

Mr. Pettigrew, chairman of the Indian Committee of the

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Carlisle, Pa., February 14th, 1896.

Mrs. Mary R. Cresettt,

782 Republic St.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

Dear Copley Mary:

I am compelled to use the hand of my typewriter
in answering your letter. Ask the Committee to let you have
Vincent Nahtailor and George Wolf, two Indian boys from the
Carlisle School. You will have an Apache and a Cherokee. The
Apache is one of my boys who has grown up in the school. Both
are entitled to the highest consideration by their good conduct
and Christian character.

We are just getting ready for our annual Commencement, which
occurs on the 3rd and 3rd of March, and it is utterly impossi-
ble for us to get away, when we otherwise situated, so that we
could be at your Convention. We were very glad to hear from
you, and should be delighted to have any of you present at our
Commencement, or at any other time that may suit you.

Give my love to your mother, and all your family.

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Rev. Wm. Duncan,

Dr. Shelden Jackson,

Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Duncan:

On the 2nd and 3rd of March, as you will see by the enclosed, we have our annual Commencement exercises. We always have a party from Washington, made up of the Committee of the House and Senate and officials generally, and as this will give you an occasion to talk over your matter, with which I have the greatest sympathy, I hope you will accept of the invitation to come up with the party which leave Washington March 2nd, at 7:55 in the morning, and returns to Washington the evening of the 3rd. We shall be glad to take care of you here.

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Mr. Geo. Vaux, Jr.,

Room 404, Girard Building,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear George:

I can send tickets for you and Mr. Rau, and you
could come Wednesday morning, or if you cared to Tuesday evening,
I think well of Mr. Rau having an assistant about your size. In-
deed, I think it of the greatest importance. Your taste in such
matters will be valuable to us. I wrote Mr. Rau when I wrote
you, and a note from either of you that you have definitely
fixed upon a date to come will be sufficient, and I will send
tickets to either.

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Hon. A.K. McClure,

Editor of The Philadelphia Times,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Col. McClure:

There is special need this year for some showing of hands of the friends of the Indian School. We are to have quite a large delegation from Congress here the 2nd and 3rd of March, and I would especially like to have several of the most eminent men of the State present on that occasion to show their interest. Will it not be possible for you to come to Carlisle on the 2nd, and remain with us on the 3rd, and at one of thegatherings make a brief address of four or five minutes? I am aware of the load you are carrying, and the difficulty you have in doing such things as this, but public interest and attention just now would be a special help.

Mrs. Pratt and I called upon Mrs. Parker and Mrs. McKeehan the other evening, and we will all co-operate to make your visit as comfortable as we can.

With highest regard,

Very truly yours,

(Disted from) the

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Carlisle, Pa., February 15th, 1898.

Miss A.F. Hotchkin,
163 South Street,
Morristown, N.J.

My dear Miss Hotchkin:

All our teachers are selected by the Civil Service Commission in Washington. Everybody has to apply to the Commission and then pass the examinations and get on the eligible list. When teachers are wanted the names of the three highest on the lists are sent over to the Indian Office, and from those names is selected the teacher, so that you see I have no control over these things.

I am sorry both for your safe and mine, for I should like very much to have you at Carlisle. There are no positions now in the Service but what this machinery covers.

If you took a fancy to secure a place by this method, I would be very glad to know that, so that in case of a vacancy here, I might in some way manage that you came here after getting into the

Service.

(D. I. R. A. D.) Me

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Carlisle, Pa., February 16th, 1866

Hon. Wm. J. Pollock,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Sirs

I wrote to quite a number of the most intelligent young men who came to Carlisle with the first party of pupils from Rosebud and Pine Ridge. The following, Ralph Eaglefeather, Raymond Stewart of Rosebud; Amos High Wolf, Clarence Three Stars, Edgar Fire Thunder, of Pine Ridge Agency, write to me that you were not at the River at the time we left there, and Clarence Three Stars says he asked American Horse about it, and American Horse said you were not there, but I met while in Washington Rothen Quick Dear and Charley Tackett, who were both in that party, and they told me that you were at the River. So there the matter stands.

I am willing to admit that you were at the River, though I have no recollection of it, but as to your having turned over the children to me in any sense, whatever, I cannot admit in any way. I do not mean by this to in any way detract from your and our and faithful service, nor to cast any reflection upon your interest and help for Carlisle in other ways.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 16th, 1898.

Mrs. W.P. White,

Room 221, Witherspoon Building,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mrs. White:

If your meeting does not occur during the first week in March, I shall very cheerfully let our band go to you without other cost than your care of their transportation and keep. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd of March are our Commencement days, and I wish the band here for other purposes Friday and Saturday of that week. There are thirty-two members in the band, for whom transportation would have to be provided. I do not know what you could do with the railroad people, but we have half rates for Indians over both the Penna. and Reading Roads. This amounts to $3.70 for the round trip. I think, perhaps, the band could be cut down without detriment to twenty-five pieces, so that the transportation at our rate would be less than $100.00; but confidentially I should not wonder if a Committee of your ladies called upon Mr. J.R. Wood, G.P.A., or some other officials of the Penna. R.R., that they would give you free transportation from Harrisburg, and if you succeed in getting that I will guanartee that Mr. Kennedy, Pres. of the Cumberland Valley R.R., on my application will give free transportation to Harrisburg, as he is a good staunch Presbyterian, and never fails to respond to any request I make.

I do not know the religious affiliations of any of the Penns.

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people, except Mr. Pugh, the vice-president, whose wife is a member of the Arch Street Methodist Church, and he attends there. My judgment is that either the General Passenger Agent of the Penn. R.R., or the General Passenger Agent of the Reading Road, would hardly resist an appeal of three or four of you ladies. If the boys went down, it would be better for them to remain over night, and come back in the morning, for the reason that your meeting will probably be late, and the little courtesy shown to them would be something of a reward for their trip. They are nice, clean, manly fellows and will fit in anywhere as guests, and will help make sentiment for your cause by that.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 17th, 1898.

Miss C.M. Semple,

Fort Worth, Texas.

My dear Miss Semple:

Another Commencement occasion is nearing, and
in sending you the enclosed invitation, I wish to add this letter
to tell you how very gratifying it would be to me to have you
with us at this time. You know I have been anxious to have
you return to see the growth we have made since the early years
when you were one of the sowers. If you will advise me that you
can come, I will gladly send you transportation, and we shall want
you not only for our gala days, but for as long a visit as you
can make us. Mrs. Pratt joins me in offering this, as do all at
Carlisle who knew you of old, or know you now through hearing of the
early days.

The class graduated this year will number twenty-four, and
there will be the usual number of distinguished guests present.
The Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Bliss, and the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, and other officials will come from Washington.

With very warm greeting from us all, I am,

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., February 17th, 1936.

His Excellency Senor Don Matías Romero,

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary,

1613 I Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Sirs:

Last year it was arranged that you and Mr. Foster
would come to Carlisle to our Commencement, but for some reason
when the time arrived you were unable to do so. I renew the invitation,
and should be very glad, indeed, to have you accompany the
officials of the Administration, and members of Congress, who will
template coming to us on the 2nd and 3rd of March.

The train will leave Washington at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning,
the 2nd, from the Baltimore and Potomac station, and arrive in
Carlisle at 12:25, and returning, will leave here at 8:00 o'clock
on the evening of the 3rd, and reach Washington at 10:30. The
members of the party will be the guests of the school, both for
entertainment and transportation. We shall be greatly honored by your
presence, and that of Senora Romero, and any of your Legation you
wish to bring.

With greatest respect,

(Dictated N)
No

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Hon. John M. Allen,

Dear Sir:

I have never had a good chance to repay you for that monkey-parrot story on me you fired off in the House some years ago. I write you now to say that if you will relax for a couple of days, the 2nd and 3rd of March, and come to Carlisle with my party of Indian Committee men of the House and Senate and others, I shall be very happy to forgive you, knowing you to be an honest man, because of your unique career, and I am willing to trust myself, and all the public interests in my keeping to your care, notwithstanding my contentions with you as a private in the ranks on the other side throughout the War, and our differences since.

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Hon. R.F. Pettigrew,

Chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs,
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator:

If you cannot come for the two days, why not run
up for one day? You could come Wednesday with the party, and
go back that evening at 6:00 o'clock reaching Washington 10:00,
or come up Thursday morning at 7:55, and return that evening at
10:05. I shall be glad to make either of these arrangements for
you, if you find it is practicable to make the trip.

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Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott,

110 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, N.Y.

My dear Dr. Abbott:

It would afford Mrs. Pratt and myself, as well
as all at Carlisle, much pleasure to welcome you and Mrs. Abbott
to our Commencement exercises, the 2nd and 3rd of March. I should
be glad to send you transportation and to entertain you if you can come
to us. The growth in the work of the school in the few years
since you were here would interest you, I am sure, and is reason for
our anticipation that this anniversary occasion will be the most
interesting in our history.

With warm regards,

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., February 17th 1898.

My dear Dr. Martin:-

In sending you the enclosed invitation, I wish to add this
note to say that we shall be very happy to welcome any members of your
faculty and any of the young ladies of the College at our Commencement
exercises, and upon advice from you I will send you cards.

Mrs. Pratt and I will be happy to have you and Mrs. Martin
lunch or dine with us on any of the days, and I shall want you to
come to the platform whenever you are present. at the general gathering.

N.

Dr. Martin,

President Wilson College,
Chambersburg, Pa.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 16th, 1895.

William H. Bau,
1224 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Bau:

We have been considering the possibility of
commencement efforts, and it does not seem practical to make the
introduction of the Commencement exercises, but it will be all right
to undertake a number of interior views of school rooms, shops, etc.,
and I will have a list made and place you under the care of somebody
and give full instructions, so that you may do what you can at
that time, and then Friday and Saturday following we can finish,
and provide inless time. I shall have my Commencement R.R. tickets
good from Monday the 27th, so that you could come Monday or Tuesday
if you thought best, and be with us the week.

What is the cost of the electric light attachment (circuit in your letter)

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Carlisle, Pa., February 18th, 1898.

Mr. Jacob Haggerty,
Plumsteadville, Penna.

My dear Sir:

Rev. Mr. A. Haggerty is pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church here. I belong to the Second Presbyterian Church. I have
never heard Mr. Haggerty preach but once. He is a very tall man, I
should say 6ft, 2-1/2 or 3. He stands well in the community, and is
liked by his people as a pastor and preacher. I think he generally
preaches orally.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 13th, 1898.

Gen. John Eaton,

The Concord,

Washington, D.C.

My dear General:

I have your several letters with suggestions for Commencement invitations, and have had them all followed. Thank you for the interest. We are delighted that you and Mrs. Eaton are going to be with us, and I will see that transportation reaches you. I also have acceptance from your son, and if he has no other arrangement I should be glad to include him in the Washington party. Please advise me if he desires railroad ticket. I trust Dr. Jackson will be able to come to Carlisle, too. Secretary Bliss has promised that he will be here. His wife and daughter go South soon. The Commissioner, Mr. Jones, will also be here, and probably a large delegation from Congress and several Senators. Secretary Bliss is to invite Mr. Foster and Mr. Romero to accompany him, but the Secretary's absence from the city just now has delayed this. I will be glad to have you speak to Mr. Foster, if you have the opportunity, and trust he will come this year.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 19th, 1898.

Rev. Dr. D.J. McMillan,

Corresponding Secretary, Presby. Board of Home Missions,
156 Fifth Avenue, New York.

My dear Doctor:

The copy of the "Church at Home and Abroad" came
last evening, and I am grateful to you for your kind observations
of the school. I regret that you cannot be with us for our
Commencement.

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Rev. Sherman Coolidge,

4 Washington Place,
New York City.

My dear Coolidge:

I find by note from our town minister, Rev. Mc
Millan, that you are in New York, and I want you to come over to
our Commencement on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of March. If you can do
that, I will cheerfully send you transportation, and we will take care
of you here at Carlisle, either in the town or at the school,
so that it will cost you nothing. What say you? Answer promptly.

Faithfully yours,

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Dr. Alice M. Seabrook,

M.E. Hospital, So. Broad & Wolfe Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Doctor:

I am delighted that you and Mrs. Edwards are coming
to our Commencement. We have reduced rates for our guests, and
you certainly may have the use of that. I have directed Miss Emily
to send you two tickets.

Faithfully yours,

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Miss Lilly Payne,

Vinetta, Ind. Ty.

Dear Lilly:

Your letter of the 14th is received with great pleasure. I rejoice to know that you are not only profitably employed, but appreciatively so. There is only one thing to be done, and that is to go ahead and take no steps backward. You can do a great deal towards fitting yourself for better work by liberal reading and study, even though you may be remote from intelligent people, and there may be difficulties in getting mail, etc. There is always a way, and good books are splendid company and always profitable.

We are in the midst of preparation for our Commencement, the 1st and 2nd and 3rd of March. It would be pleasant if we could see all of our pupils back, but it is not possible. We are always hopeful that sometime they will drop in upon us after another.

As those who have gone out from us enlarge their usefulness and strengthen themselves, just that much they guarantee success to our Carlisle work, and of the final adjustment of all differences between the Indians and the Whites. This is to be found only in a full equality and meet enlarged liberty. We want Indians in business, in politics, in literature, and in every field of usefulness and adornment, and then will Indian education

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Mrs. Maggie Darco,

Beulieu, Minn.

My dear Maggie:

I have your letter, and am very greatly pleased to hear from you, and to know of your well doing. I congratulate you on your increased health, and the possession of an heir.

We are all of us always pleased to know that those who have been here remember us, and that they prosper after they leave us.

The other day Senator Nelson wanted me to quit Carlisle, and take charge of the Chippewa Indians in Minn., and argued quite a little with me about it, but of course I cannot do that, though there is one thing that is a great temptation to Capt. Pratt, and that is the splendid fishing you have up there.

I have given instruction that some patches for your purpose be sent from the sewing-room. Miss Shaffner is just in the office, and desires to send her love.

I wish you could be with us at our Commencement, which occurs on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of March. We expect the usual good time.

With all good wishes,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., February 21st, 1898.

Dr. L. Webster Fox,
1504 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Dr. Fox:

I am especially sorry to receive your letter of the 16th, advising that you will not be able to attend our Commencement exercises. I am sure the occasion will warrant any effort you find it possible to make. However, your promise to send Mrs. Fox is good news, and Mrs. Pratt and I shall be very happy to welcome her and entertain her while here. I hope she will be able to be here in good time for our exercises Wednesday, and remain over Thursday anyhow. I will send you transportation in good time.

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Miss Edna Dean Proctor,

Framingham, Mass.

My dear Miss Proctor:

Your kind letter of the 7th has not received answer, because I have been so overwhelmed with Commencement preparations and other important matters connected with the school. You know, however, from last year I am sure that we shall be most happy to welcome your friends, Dr. and Mrs. Bigelow, at our Commencement. In regard to the entertainment, it will be our pleasure for your sake to have them here on the school grounds, unless the party from Washington, which promises to be larger than usual this year, necessitates our resorting to the town. In that case I will see that as good care as the town affords is given your friends. However, I hope that we can care for all our guests here on the grounds. If Dr. Bigelow will advise me when he reaches Carlisle, I will see that he is met at the station.

We are especially sorry that you are not able to be with us, but are glad to know that you are growing stronger. I more and more realize as the days go on that I must get away from the burden here, and Mrs. Pratt and I do hope to get away after Commencement. Just where we will go is not decided.

With loving greetings from us all,

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., February 22nd, 1898.

Hon. W.J. McConnell,

Boise City, Idaho.

My dear Governor:

I send you herewith the correspondence in the Williams case. It pretty much explains the whole matter. I was influenced quite a little in my attempts to get on with him by Miss Fletcher, who had been among his people and knew him well, and claimed that there was no hope for him if sent back. In spite of what I said, Dr. Hailman made arrangements for Williams in the Preparatory of Pennsylvania College, Philadelphia, and he was there for about a year. I think. I was repeatedly informed of his misdoing there, using his influence on our boys and trying to persuade them into the worst of lines. He was finally expelled and then went out among my boys in the country, where he again gave trouble. He then drifted down to Washington and was there for some weeks. He got himself into the paper several times by his misconduct, once in a drunken controversy with a cabman. He finally committed forgery, and was saved from the penalties of his offense by being sent back to his home in Idaho. He did not come to Carlisle as a good boy, and I am sorry to say that our efforts to improve him morally seemed to have been useless. You can see how it is.

I also enclose to you a full list of my employees with the salaries they receive. I am sorry your stay was so short that

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you did not see more of them, and understood the conditions a little better so as to make a judicious report. I have a number of employees that I ought to get rid of on account of age and deafness, and one or two others that are below the mark in qualification; but my experience with employees from Civil Service leads me to feel that I would stand little chance of bettering myself if I undertook to bring about a change. Besides, I have the difficulty that these people have been with me seventeen or eighteen years, and one naturally shrinks from ending the service of those who have in years past been exceptionally efficient. I sometimes think, though, of reducing their salaries and naming them for assistant positions, and getting more efficient heads. However, this is only information for you, and should you come again, we can look it over more carefully and judiciously. I send you a week's reports from the dining-hall, by which you will see the system we follow, and the menu.

Mrs. Richardson, wife of the trader at Crow Agency, was with Mrs. Capt. Stouch, the Agent's wife, and the eleven children which they brought from Crow Agency, arriving at the same time you left, passing your train at the Junction. She regretted very much not being in time to meet you. Said she knew you.

David McFarland, who has correspondence about going to Moscow, is, I am afraid, a little persuaded to stay here because of the desire of the other boys that he should fight another season with them on the football field. I believe he is a strong enough character to meet the expectations coming from his reservation, even at Moscow, and it would be better for him to go out

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Carlisle, Pa., February 22nd, 1998.

Rev. C.H. Van Natter,

Staffordville, Conn.

My dear Sir:

I send you several papers of mine, which cover the ground somewhat that you are to contend for. The present condition of the Indian. I count many times worse than that of the Negro ever was, from the fact that the Negro was so tenderly cared for. He lived among white people, and, although they did not educate him, they gave him the language. He was in a way the child of his owner. His sickness or death meant loss, consequently his health was looked after. It meant disaster and loss to deprave him with drink, hence he was kept from this influence, and anything like license in drinking was not allowed, whatever the habits of his master. Then, his tribalism was broken up completely, and he was placed under the sure care and direction of the higher intelligence.

The case of the Indian is exactly the reverse of this. He is met on the threshold with the exclamation that "the only good of Indian is the dead Indian", and even the children it was said that they make. Hence in the destruction of him there was no hesitancy in making the act complete. Men, women and children went down together. He has always been drivenaway from the whites, never forced nor invited to dwell among them, and so the range of

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his development from observation has been far more limited than
that of the Negro. While the Negro was a slave, and, therefore,
in a way a prisoner, he was always sure of enough to eat, and
enough care to keep him in good condition for his work. The In-
dian was imprisoned on a reservation from which the whites were
excluded, except the limited officials and traders permitted by
the Government, who in too many cases were among the Indian only
to defraud him as far as they could of what the Government gave
him. He was surrounded by very cruel and even savage frontiersmen
who hated him, and used every opportunity to destroy him, welcoming
every little act of his that would work a bad upon him. Many
things I have known personally, and many more have I heard of in
my long experience of nearly thirty-one years, of the most har-
barous massacre committed upon the Indian, fully as dreadful as
all their details as anything committed by the Indians upon the
whites.

The Government having given him a reservation from
which the whites were excluded placed a cause of enmity between
him and his neighbors. No white man likes to have it imposed
for him to go where he pleases, or to own what he feels he can
utilize, and seeing the Indian clothed and fed at the public ex-
penses, and holding in many cases large tracts of land far in ex-
cess of his needs, the white man has resorted to all kinds of
demoralizing and degrading influences. There has been no restriction,
notwithstanding law, and not withstanding the good intentions of
the Government and many good people, upon the getting of whisky,
and the pollution of the morals and the use of every damning
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devise.

I say unhesitatingly, that the condition of the Indian since
he has fallen into our hands is far worse in every way, than was
ever the condition of the African in slavery. The results demon-
strate this beyond all question. The Negro has always multiplied
in numbers. The Indian has always decreased in numbers, and yet
from my reading of both races, and long association of both races,
for I went through the War from beginning to end, and from June '67
until this present have belonged to a colored regiment in the
United States Army. I can say that in his native state the Indian
was far superior to the Negro in his native state. I enclose
you a little leaflet which just comes to me from an able Indian
man, Dr. Carlos Monesazuma, now successfully following his pre-
fession in the State of Illinois. He comes from one of the so-
called lowest of tribes, the Apaches of Arizona.

Trusting these views, etc., may aid you, I am

Very sincerely yours,

Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 22, 1898.

Mrs. M. E. Best,

Kaw Agency, O. T.

My Dear Mrs. Best:

I have a full and fairly satisfactory copy of
teachers at present. The changes that may occur at the end of the
year have not been indicated yet, so that I am unable to give
you any assurance.

I remember you and my visit to Cherokee very pleasantly,
and my special pleasure at your musical qualifications. If there
are changes to occur here that would come under the scope of
your consideration, I shall be glad to take the matter up.

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Feb. 22, 1898.

J. W. Shelley,

Hatton, Cumb. Co.,
Penna.

My Dear Sir:

I have given instruction that eight tickets be sent
you, as you requested.

John Wanamaker,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Feb. 22, 1898.

Sir:

I herewith send One Dollar to become a member of your History Club. Please send me "Ridpath's History of the World" in Half-Russie binding.

Is there any reduction for full cash payment?

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Maj. Alfred R. Quaiffe,

The Concord,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Major Quaiffe:

I have your letter of the 20th with acceptance for Mrs. Quaiffe and your guest, Miss Bullis, for our Commencement. I have reduced rates arrangements for railroad tickets, and if you so desire can send you two round trip tickets for $3.90 each. Please advise me promptly if you care to make use of this rate. I shall be glad to entertain Mrs. Quaiffe and Miss Bullis here on the school grounds if we have the room at Commencement time. I can hardly tell just yet what demands there will be upon our resources in this line. If we have not the room here at the school, I should be glad to make as comfortable arrangements as possible for them in the town, which is connected with the school by trogly.

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Mr. J. Wells Champney,

96 Fifth Avenue,

New York.

My dear Champney:

Mrs. Pratt and I are so sorry that you and Mrs. Champney cannot come down for our Commencement. When is the busy time to end, so we can have a visit from you? We are much interested in the success of Marie and Frere. What a happy meeting you will have in Paris. Mrs. Pratt and I may call upon you there. I am completely run down with the burden here, and feel that I must run away for a rest. The only way to get that, I fear, is to leave the States and put the Ocean between myself and the Indians. We have long desired to take the foreign trip, and, although my plans are not at all certain, we have been looking a little toward the other side.

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Chas. H. Dickson,
1201 U Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Dickson:

I have left the matter of who should come from the Indian Office entirely to the Commissioner, stating that I would provide for six, not counting the Commissioner, Asst. Commissioner, and Capt. of Schools, if any of them come. You had better speak to him about it. It seems the best way.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 25th, 1898.

Capt. Henry Romaine,

"Strathmore", 11th and K Streets,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Romaine:

I shall be glad to send round trip tickets which will cost you the fare one way, $5.90 each, and we may be able to entertain you on the grounds. If at all practicable, I will do it. Our promises are out pretty heavy, but still we have great capacity. If I cannot take care of you here, I will see that you have comfortable quarters in town, which is connected with the school by trooly running every half hour.

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Article, Inc., on January 23rd, 1876.

To: A. D. T. M. Nee, S.

No.: Hospital, St. John's & Wolf

Palladium, Pa.

My Brother Dearest:

I am going to let you know, my dearest one, that I am so happy that you have chosen to take my advice and live with me. Your close association of Carlito from the very beginning has made me feel that your visits to the Indian country, the general scope of your studies, your knowledge of the language, and the fact that your sentiments are with me, cause me to say that I will trust the whole matter to you, and not attempt to give you sentiments, beyond saying that these young people should feel that they owe a duty to the government to become independent citizens, and demonstrate their ability to be such by moving out and joining in our civilized life as a very part of it; that the country needs visible evidence of what the Indian may become by such a course, and their own people need a like demonstration. Therefore, some of them, at least, should resist the temptations that are offered to get them back to the tribes. With these views, and your elaboration of any features of the work that you see fit, I can safely trust you to make a presentation speech more in accord with my work and ideas than any one that has yet had charge of it.

Sincerely yours,

(Dictated) Dec.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 23rd, 1898.

Hon. Knute Nelson,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Senator:

I have been watching the Washington paper and
the proceedings of Congress to see if you had returned. I now
see by the Record that you are back. I write to express my
excitement and joy at your return.

the invitation for yourself and Mrs. Nelson, and to say that the
train on which the Congressional party will leave Washington
at 7:30, Baltimore and Potomac Station, Wednesday morning,
March 2nd, arriving at Carlisle in time for dinner, and will
leave here at 1 o'clock Thursday evening, reaching Washington
at 10:35. There is regular connection now, so that a special
from Baltimore will not be necessary, but there will be Carlisle
care both ways, and I need not say how glad we shall be to take
the best care of you we can here at the school. I will see
you have the tickets in good time. The secretary has promised
to come up, and I think if you had the time and could drop in
and tell him that you were coming it would help stimulate him to
come. I am aware that there is a great deal of under activity on
account of the great matters that are pending in our international
complications, but I am hopeful that these will take such shape as
will relieve us of anxiety.

I am, dear Senator, as ever,

Cordially and faithfully yours,

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Fanny Eagleshorn and Elizabeth Flanders,
Sheriff of Cumberland County,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Girls:

While I am more sorry than I can tell for the
trouble you are in, it does not seem right for me to interfere
with the execution of the law in your cases. You committed one
of the greatest of crimes in trying to burn down the building
which was the home of yourselves and 275 of your schoolmates.
You not only tried once, but you tried twice to do it. The full
punishment for such an offense is twelve years in the penitentiary
and $2,000 fine each. We all think the Judge was very lenient
to you in fixing a year and six months in the penitentiary, and
it seems best not only for the influence upon yourselves, but for
the sake of others who might be led to attempt to do the same
thing, that you suffer the full penalty which the Judge has fixed.
We feel very bad about it, because we had hoped to do you a great
deal of good and send you home after a while in good shape. You
claim that you were home-sick, but neither of you came to me, nor
did you talk to Miss Shaffner about it, and while neither of us
could have permitted you to go home, it would seem as though if
you had been really home-sick you would have spoken to one or
the other of us about it.

(Dictated) Mc

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., February 19th, 1930.

My dear General Drum:-

It has long been my desire, as you know,
to have you come to Carlisle, and see what I am doing here. (Can't
you come to us now for our Commencement, the 2nd and 3rd of March.)
It would give Mrs. Pratt and me much pleasure to have you as our
guest, and I am sure the school would interest you. A party
of Congressmen, Senators and officials will leave for Carlisle
on the 7:55 train Wednesday morning, the 2nd, and reach Carlisle
in time for dinner at 12:00. The afternoon will be spent in
witnessing our physical culture and industrial features, and the
evening is given up to a general meeting of music and speeches.
Thursday morning is occupied with the inspection of the schools,
and in the afternoon we have our Commencement exercises,
and the party for Washington will leave here at 6 o'clock resuming
the city at 10:55 that night. It will be my pleasure to make the
trip as comfortable and pleasant for you as possible, and I have
special railroad arrangements by which I can send you transportation.
I will be pleased to have you bring any of your family
you are to.

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Dr. J.A. Lippincott,

M.E. Hospital, So. Broad & Wolfe Sts.,
Philadelphia.

My dear Doctor:

I will send you two tickets so that you will have them Saturday, and if you should not need the two you can return the other. The rate is $3.70 for the round trip, but they are only good for the week; Monday to Saturday. If you remained over, and did not wish the return portion, we could have that redeemed at the same rate.

The salary of the Superintendent of Schools is only $8000. There is a tremendous and almost irreconcilable fight on between the East and the West. Those in the East do not seeing to please the West, and, so far as I can see, the West means simple to perpetuate the Indian to the end of time. As soon as the policy of this Administration is announced, if it is for a continuance and a building up of a western scheme, I shall leave the service, and shall leave it for just that reason.

My feeling about it is that there is not sufficient prospect of your getting the place so warrant a hope for it, and that it would be better for you to just simply give up anticipating it.

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Mrs. Josephine Woodward,
Editorial Dept. "Commercial Tribune,"
Cincinnati, Ohio.

My dear Mrs. Woodward:

I send you some photographs, my annual report, etc., all of which is a good deal more than you will care to read, but from which you can make up something for your paper.

I am sorry that the pressure upon me is so great that I cannot write you a full letter, but this will have to do, and if you find it impracticable to make up what you want from this, and omit anything until you can come to us, it will be all right. What I wanted was to have you say something from personal observation.

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Carlisle, Pa., February 24th, 1996.

Managing Editor,
"Evening Post",
New York City.

Dear Sir:

A friend sends me the enclosed. I wish to say that Dr. Gilbert has never been in any sense, whatever, a candidate for mine for the position of Superintendent of Indian Schools. I do not know him, and have not, directly or indirectly, in any way, whatsoever, advocated or ask others to advocate his appointment; and, further, that I am not, directly or indirectly, an endorser of any of those who have applied to the executives of our Government for the position of Superintendent of Indian Schools. Your statements, therefore, in so far as the above applies, are absolutely untrue.

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Eustace E. Merrick,

Ft. Bill, Okl. Ty.

My dear Eustace:

I send you herewith the certificate you ask for.
We have had several matrons of the school since you left, and it
is not possible for me to secure for you a matron's certificate.
You could write that to the Department, and they might waive
such a certificate in your case.

In regard to the patterns you ask for, our styles are not
strictly military not strictly civilian, they are only for the
school, and, therefore, unless you should become a tailor in an
Indian school, they would not serve your purpose. Should you re-
ceive an appointment, you can write me again and I will have our
tailor cut you out a quantity of patterns as you wish.

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Miss Annie R. Dawson,
Fort Berthold, N.D.

My dear Annie:

I am willing to undertake a party from Fort Berthold provided there are as many girls as boys; none under 12 nor over 18 years of age; in good health and of good character, and having parents written consent. If you make a party of not less than eight, or more than ten, I would pay your expenses coming and returning. I send you consent blanks and descriptive statements, by which you will see it will be necessary to have the children examined by the agency physician, and they would have to be transferred through the Indian Agent. We are quite full now, and it would be better if you did not come until after the first of July, but if conditions are better for making the party up now, I shall not object to receiving them, and arranging for you at any time.

I am glad to hear from you, dear Annie, and to know of your continued success, of which I have heard through others from time to time.

Mrs. Pratt joins me in kindest remembrances and best wishes.

Faithfully your friend,

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Rev. James A. O'Conner,

142 West 21st Street,
New York.

My dear Friend:

My last bound copy of the "Converted Catholic
the 12th. Please send me the 13th and 14th, and also credit me
with another year's subscription, and the balance of the enclosed
$10. may go to your mission debt.

I read the "Converted Catholic" promptly on its arrival, and
always with the greatest of interest, feeling that the great Mas-
ter is with you in the performance of a most solemn and important
duty in a crisis of the World's history.

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Miss B.H. Cummins,

1138 Eighth St., N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Miss Cummins:

As I wrote you the other day, we shall be glad to welcome you at Commencement time, and I will send you ticket, and one for your friend of Baltimore of whom you speak, which will cost her about $3.90 In regard to Miss Gaither, I will leave the matter of those coming from the Indian Office entirely in the hands of the Commissioner, and he will have to decide in her case. I have written him that you advised me that you had his consent to come, and as you are an employe of Carlisle you need not be included in the six he will designate to come.

We will be glad to look over the typewriter arrangement of which you speak.

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Hon. W.A. Jones,

1314 N Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

I hope you understand that we intend
to furnish railroad tickets and entertainment for all coming
from the Office, which will the official heads, and any six others
you might designate. This would not bar more than six of the
heads of divisions or clerks coming if you thought best. Mr. Dick-
son wrote me about a couple, Miss Gaither being one, who were
very anxious to come, and I advised him that the matter was en-
tirely in your hands. Miss Cummins advises me she has your
permission to come, and having been an employee here, she need
not be included as one of the six, unless you desire it. I will
send her a ticket direct. I shall be glad if you can find time
to let me know just who are coming a day or two in advance. It
will help me in making my provision here.

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Col. H.B. Freeman,

Acting Indian Agent,

Osage Agency, Pawhuska, O'.

Dear Colonel:

It is not practicable for us to let students return home during the school year, which begins the 1st of September and ends the 30th of June. We have been under a regulation of the Indian Office for about fifteen years, which provides that all students who enter during the school year shall continue until the end of it, without reference to the expiration of their five years' term. Eddie Albert is not entitled to return home until the end of June '99, but even at that time the decision, according to a rule made at the same time, is to rest with him. He is supposed to be able to judge what is best for himself at the end of five years, and the Department gave an order that the determination of continuance, after the five years' term, should rest with the pupil.

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Miss Ina C. Emery,

18 Iowa Circle,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mias Emerys

We shall be glad to welcome you to our Commencement, and I will send you a ticket in good time. The train will leave the Balt. & Potomac Station at 7:55 Wednesday morning.

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

Philadelphia, Penna.

Dear Sirs

In addition to the tickets heretofore ordered, will you please deliver to Mr. George Vaux, as many round trip tickets as he may call for, probably 12, Philadelphia to Gettysburg Junction, and let him pay you for them at our rate and omit them from the bill to me. Mr. Vaux will call upon Mr. Pyle, your chief clerk, for them. He telephones me from Philadelphia tonight that he has a party of ladies from England, who very much desire to be at our Commencement Wednesday and Thursday next.

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Dr. Alice M. Seabrook,

M.E. Hospital,

Philadelphia.

My dear Miss Seabrook:

I enclose you two tickets for yourself and Mrs. Edwards. The one for Mrs. Edwards will cost $3.70. That for yourself we shall make a contribution on account of "auld lang syne".

Advise me of train on which you will arrive at the Junction, and I will have you met.

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J.R. Wood, G.F.A.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:

So that we will not make an error in charging for tickets,
please have the rates for the different points sent to me, or ad-
vertise me if last year's rates are the correct ones.

Our plan has been to send the tickets and let the patrons
pay for them on arrival at Carlisle.

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Mr. Wm. G. Spottswood,

Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Spottswood:

I send you herewith two tickets, Washington to Carlisle and return to Washington. These you can pay me for not on arrival here, $3.90 each. You are limited to the train. You can come up Monday and return Saturday on any train you may wish.

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Carlisle Pe., February 25th, 1898.

Rev. Geo. E. Spining,

South Orange, N.J.

My dear Doctor!

If I read the route right, you have to go to New York in order to get on the Penn's lines. I, therefore, send you tickets for yourself and Mrs. Spining, New York to Gettysburg Junction and return. Please wire me in advance on what train you will arrive, so that I may have you met at the Junction, which you will remember is close to the school.

I sent invitation to your friend, Mr. Huston, but have not yet received his response. When it arrives I will take care of him. I can furnish him round trip ticket from Philadelphia at the cost of the fare one way, $3.70.

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Hon. Jos. K. McCaonnon,
1420 F Street,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Judge McCammon:

I send you three tickets for yourself and
two members of your family. I have put you on the list for a
five to eight minute's talk on Wednesday evening. Take your own
line of thought. Remember the trains leave Washington at 7:50
Wednesday morning.

Please advise me beforehand who the members of your family
are, so that I may make lodging provision.

Faithfully yours,

(Dictated) Mo

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Dr. J.A. Lippincott,
M.E. Hospital, So. Broad and Wolfe Sts.,
Philadelphia, Penn'a.

My dear Doctor:

I send you two tickets for yourself and Mrs.
Lippincott, and should you not use both, one can be returned
when you reach here, and we can get credit for it.

I also send you the editorial page of the "Red Man",
from which you will see pretty well the stand I take.

Advise me on what train you will arrive, and conveyance
will meet you at the Junction.

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Rev. Sherman Coolidge,
Hotel St. Nicholas,

4 Washington Place,

New York City.

My dear Coolidge:

Enclosed find round trip ticket, New York to
Gettysburg Junction and return to New York. I suggest you
come over Tuesday in the morning, if you can. That will give you
time to get acquainted.

Advise me the train you will be on, and I will have you
met at the Junction.

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Hon. W.N. Ashman,

Orphans' Court,
Philadelphia, Penn'a.

My dear Judge Ashman!

I send you two round trip tickets for yourself and Mrs. Ashman, the cost of which will be $3.70 each, and you can pay for them when you reach Carlisle.

I am delighted that you and Mrs. Ashman can be with us. Notify me of the train on which you will arrive, and I will have you met.

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Carlisle, Pa ., february 25th, 1898.

Dr. L. Webster Fox,

1304 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Doctor:

I have yours saying that you will not be with us,
but that Mrs. Fox will come. I send you two tickets anyhow, hop-
ing that at the last moment you will find yourself able to be on
hand. If you do not come, the one can be returned to me.

Let me know the train on which Mrs. Fox will arrive at the
Junction, which is our school station, and a conveyance will meet
her there, and we shall be pleased to entertain her on the school
grounds, unless she has other arrangements.

Faithfully yours,

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W.C. Hoag,

Salamanca, N.Y.

My dear Sir:

I send you 4 round trip tickets, Elmira to Gettysburg Junction and return to Elmira, the cost of which will be the fare one way. This can be paid to me on arrival here. Please wire me on what train your party will arrive, and they will be met at Gettysburg Junction, and also how many men and how many women.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 8th, 1898.

Rev. Geo. C. Henry, President, etc.,
Shippensburg, Pa.

My dear Sir:

I found it best years ago to confine myself quite exclusively to my work, and in any public appearances, that I make them in connection with my work. I regret to say that just now I am not in the best of health and am contemplating an absence to begin soon and last for some time, probably a trip to Europe. I am, therefore, compelled in spite of your urgency to say that it is not practicable for me to obligate myself for anything on the days you name.

Thanking you for the consideration of your invitation, I am,

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Carlisle, Pa., April 11, 1898.

Frank Terry, Sup't & Ag't,

Puyallup Consolidated Agency,

Tacoma, Washington.

Dear Sir: - I sent for John Parker, and he very frankly told me all the circumstances. He says he loves the girl. They were engaged to be married. They went to the summer school, as stated, and to Salt Lake City, in company with other Indian employees from Fort Hall, a man and his wife. They put up at a private house in Salt Lake. They were together constantly, and their rooms were convenient to each other. They were engaged but not married. John says his passion overcame him, he went to her room for a while, and she came to his room, and this was their only intimacy. It was on the date named. He says he knew the condition she was in two months after that, - soon after he came here. It has made his life miserable. He is willing to do anything possible to meet the situation. He is really one of the very best young men we have here. He is a large, strong and manly fellow, with a most pleasing face, except that it has in it that element of distress that these facts give cause for. He is anxious to improve his education, so that he and his may fare better through life. He made two grades this

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year, and is in our No. 9. It is possible for him to get through
in less than three years. I accepted of him as a special favor
to his agent, who wrote me of his being quite over age, but rec-
ommended him most highly for his industry and integrity. At my
suggestion John will start to-morrow via the Canadian Pacific R. R.
for Tacoma to go at once to Skokomish and marry the girl. If it
can be arranged and is all right, he would return here and finish,
and I am willing he do that. It may be a way will open for him
there. I believe in him so thoroughly I advance him the money to
go on. He is to return it to me. He will report to you on his
arrival.

This seems all that can be done to right the matter.

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April 12, 1898.

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

My Dear Mrs. White:

Thank you for your very appreciative expressions about the band. It was a pleasant trip for the boys, and such trips are always an important element in spurring them to do their best. They all speak highly of their experience.

Very sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., April 12, 1898.

Miss Alice Fletcher,

214 First St., S. E.,
Washington, D. C.

My Dear Miss Fletcher:

I have yours about Jeannette. Am glad she
is to have such a pleasant outing. Thank you for all your kind
expressions.

I am glad to know we are likely to have you and Miss Cook
with us before long, to fix up the Omaha exhibit. We shall be
delighted.

With kind regards to Miss Gay and Frank, in which Mrs. Pratt
joins, I am

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Levi Levering,

Fort Hall Indian School,

Blackfoot, Idaho.

My Dear Levi:

I have yours of the 4th, with its enclosed ten dollars for the suit, which is all right.

Sincerely your friend,

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Amos Hamilton,

Hominy, Okla.

My Dear Amos:

Our books show that on the 25th of September, 1893, you loaned Henry Oldeagle ten dollars, as you state. Of course we have no means of knowing whether he paid you or not. This is all we know about it. Henry left Carlisle in June, '95, and had $2.42 to his credit, which was paid him. There is no way by which we can help you to recover the money; nor is there any way by which the agent can help you to recover. It is simply a matter of principle on Henry's part.

Your letter to Agent Clapp is herewith returned.

Your friend,

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Rev. Jesse R. Akers,
Reedsville, Pa.

Dear Bro. Akers:

The possibilities of an eruption make it impossi-
ble for me to decide to-day whether I can go on Thursday to Martins-
burg or not. If possible, I will be there. If there is war, or a
continuation of the present uncertainty, there will be a doubt
about it. Shall I address Bro. Lloyd at Martinsburg? I think the
chances are that I will go.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., April 12th 1898.

Honorable W. A. Jones,

My dear Mr. Commissioner:-

I have been thinking for some days of running down to Washington to consult about several matters, but have delayed thinking it just as well under all the circumstances of excitement to stay right here.

I fear the latitude you propose to give me of making practically all purchases for the School, will ultimately work more to the injury than the benefit of Carlisle. It is true that many things that are satisfactory for western schools are not satisfactory to Carlisle, and it is also true that there is economy in many local purchases, besides the added satisfaction in the fact that we get promptly just what we need. But the course you propose, while carried out with entire satisfaction during your administration, will immediately and most unanimously re-act when the change comes, particularly if the change should be back to the former party management. However, I want to do what you think best and of course prefer to do that which seems to me best for the School. I will go over to New York as you suggest after the lettings and run over things there, and will be only too glad to get all I can from the Department under Department contracts.

There are several difficulties confronting me just now. One of

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very material importance is the securing of pupils for next year.

I learn that there is the usual direct influence against children coming to Carlisle, and that in doing this there is to be a strong building up of Phoenix, Arizona. Let me say that it is a great mistake to send Indians from, say Perris to Phoenix, There are quite three to four times as many children among the Pimas, Maricopas and Apaches and others of Arizona as would fill the contemplated total of Phoenix after it is enlarged. The Arizona Indians are probably the lowest morally of any we have. Therefore to send Indians of other tribes that are higher in character and intelligence than the Arizona Indians to Phoenix is a farce so far as Arizona helping the other Indians. The real result will be to do them harm instead of good.
I understand there is a large class ready to leave Perris, practically all wanting to come here, and that arrangements are being made to send them to Phoenix. Far better to erect new school in California in some other locality than Perris, say in the neighborhood of Pasadena and Los Angeles, make it a large school and from that farm them out.
The White people of Arizona, like the Indians, are not of a class calculated to lift up the Indians, and the methods of the Phoenix Outing, which is intended to be of the Carlisle kind, are such as to produce very different results, because of the influences in the homes and surroundings and the general absorption of what the children earn by the parents which is directly against the encouragement of the young people.

Another difficulty is the fact that no change has been made at the head of our department at the Indian Office. I have exercised what has appeared to me to be unusual patience in obedience to your suggestions, as I know you have also, in waiting for the change. The

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methods in the Indian School Service under his supervision are calculated to prolong our distresses from the Indians many years and to make their final assimilation unnecessarily difficult, to say nothing of the added and continued expense. Every influence is along the lines of tribalizing and Indianizing the situation. The Indian summer schools, which are lauded so much, are directly in these interests. I advocated in the start, and have continued to advocate and have directed my own employees to associate with the teachers of the country and attend the best summer schools for special training. I find that the new atmosphere and new ideas through their dispersing and attending our different summer schools and meeting the teachers who are engaged in the schools of the country keeps up their own spirit and equipment far better and has a strong tendency to bring the Indian school system into relations with and to pave the way for its absorption into the general school system of the country: whereas the summer schools for Indian teachers and school employees of the Service are calculated and do solidify the system as a separate and peculiar system out of sympathy with the other system. I would break up at once Dr. Hailman's system of summer schools and would direct that the month given to teachers for summer school purposes should be used in attending the state or neighboring summer schools convenient or remote to their localities as suited them best. It would be well, too, that every superintendent be required to report at the beginning of the new school year in the fall just what school each teacher or employee had attended and the course of training taken in one consolidated form, accompanied by the certificate of attendance in each case in order to secure their pay for that time.

I want very much to have an absence of several months and to get

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out of the country, and have thought of a trip through Ireland and
Scotland and over to Norway, but do not feel that I can go until the
national difficulties are settled.

If it comes in your way,
I wish you would say to the Secretary that I have just about
200 young men under my care here, who are trained to make excellent
soldiers, and should the emergency demand and I not be needed elsewhere
I would like to enlist them and lead them. I could guarantee that
they would be equal to any of our militia.

Very sincerely yours,

(Dictated)
N.

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Dear Della and Lizzie:-

The box of arbutus reached me yesterday and I thank you
for sending me the sweet flowers. They show me you are enjoying the
woods, and I am glad for that. Nature is very beautiful now, and
this splendid sunshine will do us all good.

With remembrances for Miss Edge,

Your friend,

N.

Miss Della Cornelius and Miss Lizzie Hill,

Miss Elizabeth D. Edge,

Downington, Pa.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 13th, 1898.

Mr. Zenos J. Gray, Esq.,
Harrisburg, Penna.

Dear Sir:

Captain Pratt being suddenly called away last night, directed me to reply to your letter of the 12th inst. relative to Indian Band as follows; viz:-that he will agree to let you have the band of Forty (40) members as specified for the thirty concerts between Sept. 15th and Nov. 1st for a compensation of one hundred ($100.00) for each concert; the matinée to be as you propose $25.00 for each. He also makes this further proviso, that any amount this tour may net you in excess of two thousand ($2000.00) dollars shall be subject to equal division between you and himself, and he is willing to rely on you for a just statement on this head. The other conditions mentioned in your letter are deemed satisfactory, the payments being increased in the same ratio that the whole amount is increased.

Captain Pratt will probably be absent some four or five days, but if the conditions as stated herein are accepted by you, please notify me and I will wire him at once.

A.J.S. (Mc)

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Carlisle, Pa., April 19th, 1898.

Miss M. Eliz. Mellor,

Unalaska, Alaska.

My dear Miss Mellor:

I had your letter of March 1st some time ago,
but my time has been greatly occupied, and I have kept putting off
the writing of an answer until a more convenient season. Last week
I was called to the bedside of my dying mother. She passed away
on the 15th and was buried Sunday. She was nearly 82. Mrs. Pratt
and I returned last night.

I managed to get quite a picture of your work and of your
special occasions from what you write and what you send, and I assure
you my interest is intensely aroused, and especially so since we are
in such relations with each other.

We find the little Alaskans so very bright that it is a real
pleasure to have them with us. I am sorry to say that the small-
est one of the last arrivals is drooping, and we fear may go into
consumption. Your particular children seem to be just as happy
as can be and in excellent health.

You know, of course, that we are anticipating War with Spain.
The Senate and House were at odds over two words in regard to
whether they should declare that Cuba"is free" or "ought to be
free". Our latest news is that a little after midnight they were
still in session. This settled the President will doubtless
at once call for volunteers. The regular Army is pretty much all

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on the move today for our southeast coast. My regiment, the 10th
Cavalry, is on its way from Montana. I have offered to at once
start with from 200 to 250 young Indians should they be called for.
Mrs. Pratt and I had planned a trip to Europe, and had gone so far
as to get rates and lines of travel, but now it seems important that
I stay here and be ready for emergencies, so that I doubt whether
you will see us in Alaska this year anyhow.

Mrs. Pratt and my daughters, and those whom you met here,
are greatly pleased to read of you and to see the skill with which
you meet the entertainment features of your work. All join with me
in sending their kindest regards.

Faithfully yours,

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Mr. Paul Cook,

W. L. E. Gurley,

Troy, N.Y.

My dear Paul:

I returned last night from Ohio where I was called to the last illness and to perform the sad rights of burying my mother. Fortunately I was with her two days before she died, and it was some comfort to her and to me. She was almost 82. I find your kind letter of the 15th with its enclosed $20, for which I am very grateful, and especially am I grateful for your continued interest. We need a growing contingency of interested friends. The disposition to side track our ideas and to hold the Indian to Indianism is very great in this country. Whether it will ever be overcome I sometimes doubt. When it is overcome the Indian problem is solved.

I have not been about much for several years. I have stayed close by the work and when I did go away I almost always went in the interest of the work. This has come to have a bad influence upon me. I am not in good health, and had been hoping that the War with Spain would afford a means for me to escape from office work, at least for a time. The prospect of a scrap seems good this morning.

Wish you could visit us. If things go well, plan to be with us in the fall. October would be a good month. I will not only be glad to show you the school, but will go to Gettysburg which is a Mecca now for patriotism, and a royal Mecca it is.

Faithfully and cordially yours,

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Miss C.M. Semple,
Mt. Hope Farm,
Ft. Worth, Texas.

My dear Miss Semple:

It has been a dream of mine for some years to have you come back to Carlisle in some way, and I have wondered whether you could not undertake for me what is now becoming a very important need here, and that is to bring up the individual record of those students who have been here and left us. It would be correspondence with many of those whom you had under your care at one time, and correspondence with others to find out the record they are making. You may remember that I arranged a large record book for that special purpose at the beginning of the school, but that part of the record has been almost entirely neglected and a good deal could be done that would gain for us valuable information. I have no doubt circular letters could be arranged that would lessen the work and yet secure for us what we desire. What you say about your desire to return leads me to think that you may care to undertake this work, which could be very flexible in its nature, and I could, of course, afford to pay you for it, though I fear not a very material salary, still, one that you might care to have. I would be inclined to leave that for the circumstances. The department is calling on us for information along this line to be used in connection with the general reports, and I shall have to get it

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Carlisle, Pa., April 20th, 1898.

Capt. Chas. L. Cooper,
Indian Agent,
Santa Fe, N.Mex.

My dear Cooper:

I have not been in Washington for some time, but I
have advised the Adjutant General that I was ready to move at once
with 200 to 250 young Indians to any point to perform any service,
and would guarantee as good results as could be had from volunteers
or militia, and that I would undertake to raise a thousand within
two weeks. Corbin informed me that notes had been made of it, and
if occasion required it would be brought up and we would give it the
best endorsement he could. I have also written privately to my Brother
the Commissioner, to the same effect, and stated that while I need
it would be just right for me to ask it, I was ready at the reasonable
and to join my regiment at any time, and that I thought the affairs
at Carlisle could be looked after very well in my absence by my
Asst. Superintendent. To this I have no reply. Corbin adds to
his letter that there will be no need, and indicates that there will
be no War. However, that was several weeks ago, and he may have
changed his mind since. I wrote him on the 8th of March. I really
have not any more news than you, because all I get comes from the
daily papers, but I am thinking of going to Washington within a day
or two, and will be glad to make the inquiries you desire and to
inform you of the result.

As I see it, the United States' purpose will be accomplished

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when we wrench Cuba from Spain, and it looks as if that would be
a very short job, and unless Congress enlarges the Regular Army, or
they need us for extra command of volunteers, I cannot see why you
and I are not doing as much service as we could possibly do for the
Government, just where we are. Under the withdrawal of troops,
there will come the added license along the frontier, and trained
military men, with long experience such as you have, are certainly
more to be relied upon under such circumstances than civilian ap-
pointments. I do not fear any Indian uprising, but the disturbing
elements, both white and Indian, will take some advantages, and
these conditions are certainly to be well considered in any
changes.

I was glad to see you receive the appointment you desired,
and shall hope to cooperate always with you in so far as my lines
and yours run together. I wrote Nordstrom soon after his appoint-
ment, and for some reason or other he did not design reply. I have
spoken to the Commissioner about you several times, and I shall use
the fact you give me of your long service with the regiment.

About the files I hear absolutely nothing, but certainly
something must come if there is any real service to be done.
There are quite a number above us who are unfit for the field,
and who might on that account be forced to retire. The last time I
was in Washington, some three weeks ago, I saw nearly everybody
about the Army Headquarters, but could not hear of anything. The
statements about Sumner and Hunt being forced out, were pronounced
absolutely false. I will let you know if I hear anything further.

Very truly yours,

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Henry Horse Looking,
Rosebud Agency, S. Dak.

My dear Henry:

I do not know what else I could write you than what
I have written. If I had business of the kind you have written
to attend to, there is no man in Washington into whose hands I
would place it quicker than Mr. Belt, both because I know him to
be one of the most honorable men, and I doubt if there is any well post
ed a man on Indian matters as he in the country. He has the confi-
dence and respect of all of the Department officials, and of the
Indian Committees of Congress, all of which would be most valuable
to you in an attorney. I have sent your letters to Mr. Belt, and
ed
suggest that he write you himself.

Faithfully your friend,

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Hon. W.A. Jones,

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

My mother died Friday night at 9 o'clock,
and was buried near Delta, Ohio, on Sunday. She was aged 8-1/2 years,
and had been somewhat of an invalid for several years. As I tele-
graphed you, I reached home Monday, and am now ready for any summons.

I wish it distinctly understood that the effect of Carlisle
training upon our boys is to make them entirely loyal to the United
States Government, and that those of them who are old enough and
and strong enough are ready to enlist and fight for the Government
as any young people in the land. I have gone over the lines very
carefully, and find about 180 come strictly within the lines of wage,
heighth, physical and other equipment, and I can, I am sure, amam-
mons a whole regiment, of those who have been here, in very short
order should the needs of the hour demand it, and I am, myself, as-
tirely ready to fill the place of commanding officer of the Lancer
or greater number, or to return to duty with my regiment. I
hope you will mention this to the Secretary, and I think that we will
far as I ought to go in the matter. I do not feel, under all the
circumstances, that I should ask to be relieved and rejoin my reg-
ment, nor ought I to ask for the other duty. I can say, however,
that in my judgment the affairs of the school can rest very well with
the schoolmaster in the keeping of my Asst. Superintendent during my
absence, limited as I believe the scrap with Spain will be.

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Hon, W.A. Jones,

I am aware of the fact that it may be said it is none of my
business to speak outside of my own ballwick, but having had perhaps
the longest and most varied experience in Indian matters of any one
in the Service, I feel inclined to say this much in regard to reports
about the disturbance among the Cheyennes and some other Indians. I
have known the Cheyennes for 31 years. There were more Cheyennes
among the prisoners under my care in Florida than any other tribe,
and they were picked out as the worst of the Cheyennes at the time.
I learned to know the so-called worse ones there, and I say to you,
confidentially, that did the occasion favor it, I would unhesitatingly
take charge of the Cheyenne Agency, and would enlist for the
purpose of maintaining discipline throughout the Agency, and to protect
public property at Ft Rene, the very men that are now said to
be creating trouble, and would guarantee that the soldiers at
El Rene and the Darlington police never took better care of the public
interests committed to their care than would these same announced
discontents, and did the Government want a test of the kind,
I would unhesitatingly go to these same Cheyennes, and would enlist
as many of them as would be accepted by the United States Government,
and take them into any conflict in Cuba or elsewhere to sustain the
authority and protect the honor of the United States.

You will be doubtless credited a good deal with alarm from
different parts of the country. In my judgment, in almost, if
not every, case the real bottom reason for such alarm will be some
scheme not in the interests of the Indians themselves.

I enclose a letter from Capt. Cooper of my regiment, now
acting Indian Agent at Santa Fe, N.M. If you have any informa

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Mr. R.V. Belt,

1314 Tenth Street N. W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Friend:

Some time ago I received a letter which I enclose
to you. I also send you a copy of my answer. I now have an ad-
ditional letter which I enclose and a copy of my answer.

I do not know what figure Ralph and Henry cut at Rosebud..
They were amon g my first pupils here, and used to be good strong
characters, and have, so far as I know, behaved themselves since
they went home. I suggest that you write them yourself.

Faithfully yours,

(Dictated) Mc

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Jennie Tall Chief,

Irving College,

Mechanicsburg, Pa.

My dear Jennie:

I knew you have been at Carlisle a long time, but
when I think about it all and read your nice letter, and see how well
you are placed, and also realize that you have already accepted the
conditions of the Outing by going away and thus saying that you would
not go home this year, I feel very greatly constrained to say that
your first choice was the wise one and that your later appeal is a be-
trayal of your want of solid judgment, and that when you think
over it yourself you will regret...

You can, I am sure, Jennie,
that in these times of excitement when War is talked about that the
conditions at your home will be ever so much worse than they ordi-
narily are, and if under ordinary circumstances there is a reason why
you should not go home there is much greater reason, under these extra
ordinary circumstances, why you should not go.

I feel assured that
your own greatest good is to keep on continuing just where you are
under kindly auspices where you can earn money and at the same time
associate with nice people, and build up and strengthen yourself
in the lines which are most helpful for your future.

Faithfully your friend,

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A.G. Spalding & Bros.,

Chicopee Falls, Mass.

Gentlemen:

I enclose my check for $75., covering your bill of April
15th. I have just had the wheel set up and have used it but
very little. So far I like it. I desired the largest size saddles.
With my weight and breadth I need it. Could I not return the one
sent, and have the one I want?

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Pettibone Bros. Manf. Co.,
626 Main Street,
Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gentlemen:

I send you my check for $1.00, for which please send me
two packages of Japanese Kio-Vapor.

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Miss Anna M. Sayre,

Laguna, New Mexico.

My dear Miss Sayre:

I was very glad on my return to the school
to find your kindly letter about Emma. I should be pleased to hear
from you from time to time in regard to her and any others of our
Carlisle students who may come in your way.

I have just written to my friend, Dr. Thompson, the head of
our Presbyterian work, thanking him for sending Dr. Lukens to take
place
Mr. Bereavitz, and trust it may help to relieve you entirely of him.
From what I saw of him and his wife, I feel sure our Presbyterian
work was not benefited by such representatives. The natives are
more cleanly, and the principles that he tries to plant are exceedingly hurtful.

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Rev. Dr. Chas. L. Thompson,

Presbyterian Building,

154 Fifth Ave., New York.

My dear Doctor:

A letter from Miss Sayre at Laguna notifies me that
you have made a change in the missionary there. I have been on the
eve of writing you several times in regard to Bereavitz, the Turk
or whatever he is. Letters have come to me from my returned students,
and from people interested in the Lagunas, against him, and I am sure
that you cannot make a mistake by removing him entirely from that
place. I question very much the wisdom of employing him at all in
the home mission field.

Very truly yours,

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Mr. Guy LeRoy Stevick,

Ernest and Cramer Building,
Denver, Colo.

My dear Guy:

We returned from Ohio Monday. Mother was buried in the old family burying ground, not far from where she died. It has fallen to the lot of few women to have greater trials than my mother had, but she was a regular old warrior and met every issue with uniform courage. Her possibilities for usefulness and even satisfaction in this world had gone some years ago, so that the end was a real blessing.

We all congratulate you heartily on the sale of the coal lands,
and the great relief it will bring to you.

Mrs. Pratt and I were planning an extended absence, probably in Europe, but the clouds of War have warned me to remain at my post. Whether the scrap will soon be over is a problem. If it should pass by quickly, I shall certainly leave the school for some months. I have enjoyed no experiences away from the school more than those in Colorado, but this time I think it best to go into a new field. I anticipate that the future will give us more trips to Colorado, and I shall continue to look forward to them always.

I think that before the week is over War will be declared.
I have offered to head 200 to 250 young Indians and start at once
for any field of duty, and have also said that I could raise a

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Edward Marsden,

Lane Theological Seminary,
Cincinnati, Ohio.

My dear Edward:

I have your invitation to be present at the gradu-
ating exercises of your class, and assure you that it would give me
the greatest possible pleasure to accept, but my duties here, under
all the circumstances, have grown so important that I do not think
it best to leave them except under orders. Indeed, I am not without
expectation that I may be ordered to join my regiment, which is now
on its way from Montana to Chicamaugua. I have also offered to
gather a command of 200 to 1000 Indians for the War, should the ser-
vices of such be needed.

I congratulate you most heartily, my dear Edward, on your
persistency and the success which it has brought to you. You have
become a noted man while still a student. You have a vast multitude
of friends who are proud of you, and of whom you have great reason
to be proud, and there is certainly a future of usefulness for
you, such as very few of any race meet so soon after their school
life. May the good Father still guide and bless and use you.

Cordially and faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., April 21st, 1898.

Hon. Thomas B. Kennedy,

President C.V. R.R.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Friend:

I cannot express my gratitude to you for your kindness in sending me to Harrisburg Tuesday evening of last week. It enabled me to reach my mother's bedside while she was still able to recognize me, which would not have been the case had I been compelled to take a later train. She died Friday night at 9 o'clock. I shall always remember with utmost gratitude your prompt and generous courtesy in this matter. Please send bill to me for service, and I will remit.

It affords all at Carlisle great pleasure to know you are likely to be candidate for Governor of this great state, and I can assure you of our unanimous support.

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W.E. Parker,
Treasurer, Library Bureau,

112 North Broad St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sirs

I enclose my check for $68.65, covering your bill of
April 13th less deduction for Oak Index Case as per your letter.
The case was shipped to you today. Please receipt and return bill.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 22nd, 1898.

Wm. T. Brown,
Lamb Manufacturing Co.,
Chicopee Falls, Mass.

Dear Sir;

There is something wrong with my wheel. When I put a little strain on it going up hill, it screeches badly about the middle cogs. I have had my blacksmith, who is very skillful in such matters, take it apart, and he says he can find nothing. I am a little inclined to think that it is due to contact between rod and the surrounding tube. It sounds very like it, and only comes when I put force on the pedal to drive up an incline. I dislike to send it all the way back, and wait for your suggestion.

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Capt. C.L. Cooper,

Acting Indian Agent,

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My dear Captain:

I have just had a talk over the long distance phone with Mr. Jones, the Commissioner. He says he wrote me today which I will get in the morning, saying that you would not be relieved unless you asked it. He said, "I have an impression that you think Capt. Cooper a good man", and I told him most emphatically that I did. He said, "Well, I have talked the matter over with the Secretary, and it has been determined that those Army Officers, who are satisfactory, will not be relieved unless they urgently ask it themselves, and you may say to Capt. Cooper that this is the decision of the Secretary." He also advises that the impression is the War will all be on water, and that we land fellows will not have much to do, and that my scheme to enlist Indians will not probably materialize, so that I, too, can settle down to something definite.

I had intended to go to Washington tomorrow morning to see the Commissioner, but concluded before I did I would see if he was in Washington, and this is the result. I may see you sometime this summer, if I take a western trip. My intention is to take a good trip in the West or go across the water.

I have another piece of news for you, as you probably are not yet much posted. There is a Presbyterian missionary at Laguna,

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a Turk, I think, or something of that sort, who has been a good
deal of bother. I have been doing something to get him relieved.
He had quite a tilt with Nordstrom, and has been rather successful
in his attempts to prejudice the Indians against sending their chil-
dren away to school. I am informed by the Presbyterian management in
New York that he is to be relieved. I have advised that they do not
use him anywhere in the home missionary field.

Thinking it might be of sufficient value to you, I telegraphed
the Commissioner's decision.

Very truly yours,

Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 23rd, 1898.

Charles E. Dagenett,
Arkansas City,
Kansas.

My dear Charlie:

I have your letter and have felt that way myself, and have been to the War Department and the Indian Office both about it, and am told that the present desire is that I stay here. My plan has been to enlist either a battalion or a regiment of Indians and try and lead them, depending mostly upon my former students, and I have said I could do as much with them as the best volunteers or militia. The Bill has been fixed so that I might do it, but the disposition of the Department is not in favor of it.

There is nothing to prevent your enlisting individually, but you will have to go to some recruiting station; but, Charlie, it is going to be a short scrap, and if I were you I would not give up a good position and go in at once with the first, but wait and see if there is a second call and there seems greater emergency. We will fix up a crowd of some kind and go on horse-back. My son, Mason, is very anxious to go, too, but I have about persuaded him to stay.

It is just as well that we, who have responsible duties, do not move hastily. If the matter was settled in a few weeks, which I think it will be, we would be at a very great disadvantage if it is going to continue for a year or two, we will have a chance to take hold and I will be glad to do anything I can to help

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Carlisle, Pa., April 26th, 1893.

Gen. Russell A. Alger,

Secretary of War,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Generals:

Some time ago I read a little account of you written by Frank Carpenter, and used it in talking to our Indian boys and girls as an encouragement for them to struggle along. My printer than asked if the beginning class of young boys in the Printing Office might not set it up and make a little booklet of it entirely in their own way. This I consented to and the enclosed is the result. They have printed enough to furnish most of our 850 boys and girls with a copy. I thought this incident would interest you.

I wrote Gen. Corbin early in March that we have 200 to 250 young Indian men, well trained in the school of the soldier and company who could move immediately after being armed and equipped, and if it was thought advisable, I can assemble a thousand or more like them, who have passed under my care and returned to their homes. I can understand, of course, that there might be an outcry by Spain alleging the use of savages, but these would all be civilized English-speaking Indians and would average as intelligent as the volunteers now called out. It would be an admirable way to give the Indians an opportunity to show their loyalty, and would, I am sure, be invaluable in its effecting influence on the tribes, besides giving our own people better conceptions of the Indians.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 27th, 1898.

Mrs. Eunis Mason,
% L.L. Mason,

Jamestown, N.Y.

Dear Eunis:

Minnie Paul has been unable to attend school for about a month, and her health is not promising. I question whether I had not better let her return home. I wish you would see Mrs. Opdyke and tell her the situation. The boy is not promising in health either, and I am inclined to let him go too, if we send Minnie. Minnie, I think, is trending towards consumption.

I have been somewhat under the weather since returning from mother's funeral, and am bothered with an ugly cold. Otherwise, we are quite well, and full of interest in the War news. I have several times offered to raise a command of young Indians, but so far have met no favorable response. I very much doubt whether it will be necessary, or that I shall be disturbed here, although I have several times signified my willingness to go either to my regiment or with Indians.

Trusting you are all well, with love to Levant and all

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George Vaux, Jr.,

My dear Sir:

Has anything new come up about the Pottstown matter?
Are we likely to get the back interest? or can we crowd in any way
to insure our claim?

I suppose all of you, like the rest of us, are deeply inter-
ested in the War news. Perhaps again it. I have suggested that I
would lead a command of Indians, but so far have had no satisfactory
response. I am hopeful that it will be a short scrap, and that we
will back up insurgent leaders with arms and supplies, so that they
can double their numbers, and then stand behind them on the land
side with an Army in order that they may fight Blanco from that side,
and keep supplies from reaching him from the other side. In which
case his surrender I think would take place early, and if he could
be compelled to surrender to the insurgents, the humiliation of Spain
would be complete, and the reaction throughout the contending parties
there would promptly accomplish something for the old Government, and
be an improvement there. The independence of Cuba guaranteed, I
do not see that we have any other reason to quarrel, and the War
ought to come to an end. If our Regular Army had had the power of
increasing itself, which has just now been granted, it would be in
shape to invade Cuba at once. The introduction of new soldiers

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A.G. Spalding Bros.,
Chicopee Falls, Mass.

Gentlemen:

The #3 Christy Saddle was received yesterday, and I
shipped you by express, prepaid, the one sent with the wheel.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., April 27th, 1893.

William H. Rau,

1324 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Rau:

After making me the duplicate set of prints, you may
please send all the negatives you took to me together with your bill
for everything.

I find I have such a large number of the picture book on hand,
that I will defer making any plates at present unless a few for some
special purpose. Should I need to have any, I shall give you a
chance again to tell me what you will do it for. The price you
name is higher than I have been paying.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., April 29th, 1898.

Mrs. Lydia A. Corbett,

Kunich, Ithaca.

My dear Lydia!

I have had several letters giving me the sad news of
the death of Levi Jones. My heart is deeply touched. I think of the
old mother, whose loving patient waiting was so wonderfully demon-
strated here at Carlisle, now parting with the last of her children,
laying them all away, and the husband too, as I understand, because of
the same dread disease consumption. Levi and I got to be quite
friends and we corresponded. I know from his stirring character
how much he will be missed.

Thank you for the message to Miss Barr, which I have commu-
nicated. I am sorry to hear that you still have some trouble, but
wise care of yourself and your native air may give you full recovery
and long life. I devoutly hope that it may be so.

We have notice of the checks that are to be sent here, but
yours is not among them. They have not yet arrived, only the notice
that they will come, and we were required to take the signatures
of the pupils and return to the Auditor first.

Give my warm regards to your good Paul, and all the other
Carlisle boys and girls, good or bad. How my heart goes out to
you all in your far away home, and how I wish so much that all of
your people could emerge from their condition into the very best of
civilized life and a full equality with my own people.

I am, my dear Lydia, as ever

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Carlisle, Pa., April 29th, 1893.

David McFarland,

Lapwai, Idaho.

Dear David:

Your letter of April 20th to Mr. Standing in regard to
the harness is handed to me. I understand you purchased the trimmings
for the harness, and want us to send you $10, that being probably
the amount you paid. I send you the $10 and if I do not have the
proper understanding of it, you can explain to me by subsequent
letter.

We are all well here and full of the excitements of the War
in Cuba. I have offered to raise a thousand to twelve hundred
young Indians, who have been educated at Carlisle, for service
whenever they want Indian command, but am not encouraged that they
will accept of such a command. If they should make up their mind that they want a regiment of Indians you and Corbett and the other boys may expect to hear from me quick.

All goes nicely at the school. We have 456 boys and girls
in the country and 401 present at the school. Bishop Talbot of the
Episcopal Church, who was formerly Bishop of Wyoming and Idaho, is now
Bishop of Pennsylvania, and was on the ground today, and we were
talking about quite a number of the Idaho people whom we knew and of
the good Nez Perce Indians, and he and I fully agreed that they were
among the best of all our Indian tribes.

You will be interested to know that the boys have just closed

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their fall schedule which gives them a battle with Cornell at Ithaca
N.Y., one with Williams at Albany, N.Y., as well as with Harvard,
Yale, Penn., Ill., and some of the smaller fry in this vicinity. We
have a new coach, one of the best men on last year's Yale team, who
will push our boys further to the front than they have ever been.

Remember me to Corbett and all my friends there, and with love
always,

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., April 23th, 1898.

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

Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:

Mr. Gross of the North Western has just been here, and we have gone over the experiences of last year and talked of rates for this year. You will remember our conversation the last time I saw you in regard to last year's business, and the feeling you had because it went to the Reading. Mr. Gross assured me that the Reading asked him for rates to certain points, which he gave, and that had the Penna. asked him for rates, he would have named same. Mr. Gross invited my attention to the fact that the 71 passengers coming to Carlisle last year from points on his line, and for which he named me a special rate, were all sent in over Penna. lines, and when I stated to him my own preference for the Penna. lines for the reason of its many kindnesses to us, to say nothing of its directness, Mr. Gross was emphatic in his recognition of that and said that from preference he would always ticket by Penna. lines on East bound business rather than by mongrel routes. This is the situation. I should be glad when I ask you for bids for our outgoing pupils toward the end of June to have you consult with Mr. Gross, feeling assured that you saved and he can help us to the satisfaction of dollars if you operate together on this business, and for all incoming business I shall, as I always do, give Mr. Gross a chance to bid, and you have from what I have said above, his disposition in the matter.

Very truly yours,

(Dictated) Mc

Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 30th, 1898.

To the Adjutant,

10th U.S. Cavalry,
Chickamauga Park,
Chickamauga, Tenn.

Sir:

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this
School under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June
27th per S.O. No. 194, Headquarters of the Army A.S.O., August 23rd,
and letter of Instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the
Interior, dated September 6th, all 1878.

Me

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Carlisle, Pa., May 3rd, 1898.

John W. Parker,
Union City,

Washington,

My dear John:

I am very glad, indeed, to know that all has been accom-
plished and that you are so kindly received, and that the outlook
for you is so pleasant. It was the right and manly thing to do,
and that always brings the highest satisfaction. About your return
to Carlisle, I, of course, leave it entirely in your hands, but you
are a good deal of a man now and you have a pretty fair education.
You have responsibilities in life that you cannot set aside, and my
judgment and advise about it would be that your time for action has
come and time for school has passed, and that you set yourself about
to read and improve your time and associate with intelligent people
all you can in connection with your daily work and duties, and so
gain a general education which will more and more fit you for the du-
ties of life. When I started in life my education was not near so
good as yours, but I have been an incessant reader and I have asso-
ciated with intelligent people all I could, and these two have fixed
matters for me. The taking of a good daily newspaper, such as the
best published in Seattle or Tacoma, and reading the news of the day out
of work hours is great education. Good books of travel, such as can be
had from some circulating library, or can be borrowed from some one
who has a library, and persistently reading them, and reading aloud,
too, now that you have those who will be glad to listen to you while

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they perhaps are knitting or sewing, would be broadening and educational, and make your life pass pleasantly and profitably, I am sure.

If you could do it systematically, you could very largely overcome the difficulty in your education. Writing letters, endeavoring to express yourself to friends at a distance, being careful always to have your language choose and proper, the description of the daily affairs that interest you, little incidents, etc., would all constitute what is called education, and every attempt on these lines enlarges the powers and scope of mind and understanding. I have given orders that the Helper and Red Man be sent you free, because you were in the printing office.

My warmest regard and congratulations to you, and my constant
interest in your welfare.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 3rd, 1898.

Gen. John Eaton,

The Concord,

Washington, D.C.

My dear General:

I wrote you several days ago, but a point or two had not been worked out about it, and I held the letter. I now find that our Outing will have interfered so much with the force in the printing office, as in all of our shops, that it would be impossible for us to take up a job and complete it before some time in the fall or winter. We find it of the greatest importance to give our boys and girls Outing privileges every year. It enables them to earn money; it widens their experience, and it builds up their health, and in every way we are encouraged to keep it up and enlarge it. We find it necessary in order to satisfy them to cut ourselves down to the very lowest numbers here at the school. Some of the printer boys have gone already to the country, and more are to go later. If we did set up your paper again, we could not electrotype it here. We should have to send it to the city for that. It, therefore, seems as though it was quite impracticable for us to undertake it now. I would suggest that you take it to some of the newspaper or printing offices, where they have electrotype facilities, and where they can set it up by type setting machines or linotype, and can do the work rapidly and well. Miss Burgess informs me that she was not at all satisfied with the job she did, because of the condition of our type,

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in being old and quite defaced. This would be avoided in a linotype.
If you got it electroplated on blocks, we could do the printing for
you at any time, and would be glad to do that for the mere cost of it.

I was also delighted with Mr. Devins report of our Commencement.
I called on him in New York just as he was going South to pass the
Black Man.

The crisis that is upon us makes it impracticable for me to
leave home at this time, so I am struggling along, although I feel
more and more the necessity to get away and take a long absence from
my work here. I would not at all object to a campaign in Cuba, for
I believe it would be a real advantage to me. I have suggested to
the Adjutant General, the Sec. of War and the Com. of Indian Affairs
that I have at least two big companies of young Indian men, well
drilled in military way here, who are entirely capable of moving at
once as soon as they have guns placed in their hands, and filling
well as much space as any of our irregular troops, and that I could
summon a thousand more like them within a few days, all English
speaking and well trained in the school of the soldier and company,
and who would be glad to follow my leadership anywhere, and that while
I did not ask it, I submitted that I was the party to lead them in
case such a command was called. There is where I stand. I would like
to see a good big army back of old Gomez, and Blanco walk out of his
Palace in Havanna and give Gomez his sword.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Eaton and all, I am, my dear
General, as ever

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406

Carliella, Pa., May 3rd, 1896.

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

My dear George:

The season for visiting Gettysburg could not be better. Every inducement of nature is at its best, and I shall be only too happy at any time to have an excuse for getting out of my office for the trip. Come up at your convenience, in as great numbers as you can, and we will be with you.

The present conditions ought to improve the iron business.
I have no doubt it will, and enable our Pettstown people to pull
themselves together. The loss of the interest is becoming a material
matter to some of my students, for which I am sorry.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 4th, 1898.

W.C. Dreher,

Kirch Str. 28<sup>1</sup>, Berlin, Germany.

My dear Sirs:

I sent you some contrast and other photographs a few days
age, which are the best we have covering those points. Our contrast
pictures are old. Lately our students have come to us from western
schools and class in the part of civilization. I have recently had
Mr. Rau of Philadelphia take a full set of views of the school, and send
you fourteen of them, some of which may serve your purpose. The total
cost for photographs is $10.15.

I also send you my last report, and accounts of our Commencement
exercises in the New York Observer and in our own school paper.

Trusting in all this you may find the added material you want,

I am,

Very truly yours,

Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt.

(Dicated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 4th, 1898.

President Julius H. Dreher,
Reanoke College,
Salem, Va.

My dear Doctor :

Your brother in Berlin has solicited me for quite a collection of photographs for an illustrated article he wished to give to a Berlin magazine, and directs me to send the bill to you. I have sent him $10.15 worth of photographs. Fortunately, Mr. Kau, the official photographer of the Penna. R.R., has just taken a complete set for us, and he will have quite a number that are entirely new. He said that you would reimburse me.

What glorious news we had yesterday. I suppose your boys, like mine, are boiling over for a chance to help the Government. I have proposed to enlist anywhere from 200 to 1200 young Indians, but so far have had no favorable response.

It seems to me the fight ought to be short. A week or 10 days ought to do for Cuba, even less with a man like Dewey to lead.

(matured) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 4th, 1898.

Levant L. Mason,
Jamestown, N.Y.

My dear Levant:

I had a latter yesterday from Mrs. Jamerson, wife of
the President of the Senate of New York, who is an aunt of Minnie
Paul and her brother, expressing concern for them, and I have written
to her their condition. I am also waiting the news from Mrs. Op-
dyke.

What glorious news we had yesterday about Deasy. Of course,
we cannot tell what the plan of operations is, but if the same
were considered good tactics and was pursued, I am sure that Cuba
would be cured in a week.

We are all well, and I am, so far as I know, booked to stay
here.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 4th, 1898.

George Kirochume,
% Mr. Crowley,

Bagdad, Calif.

My dear George:

I got your letter and was very glad to hear from
you, and that you are so well employed, and am also glad to hear
that others of the Lagunas are equally favored. I think it speaks well
for the whole Indian race, when a great railroad company will use
Indians in preference to other people for taking care of their road.
When I went to California some years ago, as we passed over the region
where you are now, the superintendent of the railroad was on the
train with us, and called our attention to several parties of Indians
who were taking care of the track, and wanted us to see how faithfully
they worked. They remained at their work until the engine was very
near to them and then stepped aside, and immediately the train was
passed they began work again, and he said that Indians were the best
helps they had, better even than the Chinese, who have had such a
great reputation as railroad track men.

I also congratulate you from having changed from single to
married life, and trust that you may be supremely happy in that estate
always. We are getting on nicely here at the school. We have a very
large number out, more than 100 above any previous year, and our girls
and boys are making a good record.
Of course, there has been some excitement about War, and most
of our boys would go if the Government would open the way, but as yet
there seems no chance.

With kindest regards to you, I am.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 4th, 1898.

Hon. James S. Sherman,

Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs,
House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Sherman:

I am told that the Indian Bill hangs fire
in conference, and that the $45,000 for the Indian Congress at Omaha
is one of the points of difference.

I do not want to antagonize Senator Pettigrew, but I feel like
giving you my personal opinion and observation.

That scheme would bring together a lot of old coffee-cooler
chiefs from different tribes, who cannot understand each other, and
who have nothing in common, and are quite incapable of comprehending
or utilizing such an opportunity, and whose exit from time will be a
blessing to their own people. It is one of the most ridiculous
schemes that could be invented for spending public money. The Govern-
ment has been for years trying to minimize the influence of these same
persons, and to advance the influence of other and more progressive
elements among the Indians. What is proposed is a direct contribution
to the non-progressive elements and an encouragement to Indianism,
directly at War with all our school and civilizing influences. The
conversion and utilization of the service of old Indians who would be
brought there is an impossibility. I have had a lot to do with just
such old fellows, and do hope you will succeed in keeping that item
out of the Bill.

Yours truly,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, is., May 4th, 1998.

Miss Annie Lorillard,
Indian School,
Phoenix, Ariz.

My dear Annie:

I was delighted to get a joint letter from you, Stya
and Alice, and although I have little time and not much to say, I
haveaten at once to reply.

While this excitement of War is going on it is not possible
for Mrs. Pratt and I to go away from Carlisle very far. We did plan
to take quite a trip and be away from the school several months, but
that is all over, and we have settled down to stay here unless I
should be ordered to join my Company. I remember Phoenix very well,
and cause you all there enjoying the hot weather, as you must be.
Nuna and I went there in June when it was hotter than it is now probab-
ly, but I envy you the delightful winters you have.

Carlisle has almost 500 pupils in the country. Tomorrow
there will be 530 out, a very much greater number than we have ever
had before. We are all very well; have really had the best winter
in our experience. Our boys are anxious to go to the War, but
there is no chance for them yet.

The "Helper" gives you all the news, so that I hesitate to
write, fearing that I will repeat. Be assured, my dear girls, of the
warmest love from both Mamma Pratt and Papa Pratt.

Always your friend,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., may 5th, 1898.

Hon. Redfield Proctor,

U.S. Senate,

Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator:

I have placed before the War Department and before my superiors in the Interior Department the suggestion that Indian men from many tribes, educated in Indian schools, who speak English, and who have been trained in military way somewhat at such schools, and who are not citizens of the United States, are anxious to show their gratitude for what the Government has done for them, and their loyalty, by enlisting. I have many appeals from my returned students and others. Your special interest in getting Indians in the Army is the reason for my writing to you. You will remember that after the orders were issued to organize Indian companies, you did me the honor to send for me and talk with me about it, and that I opposed the plan of tribal companies, and that I urged, first, the Indians be taken into the regular companies as individuals. Second, that if companies were organized of Indians, such companies should be made up from as many different tribes as possible, and that in any case they should be sent as far from their homes as practicable. The exact opposite was the policy adopted. The companies were made up of young men from the same tribes; there was no special effort to get English speaking young Indians, and the companies were held close to home and allowed to have quite a number of their women. Every one of these features was calculated to produce the failure that occured.

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It may be that in some of your conversations with the Secretary of War or the President this matter may come up. The Secretary of War advises me that the subject of an Indian regiment is being considered. I write this to you so that if you should have the opportunity to give an opinion you might know, at least, my views.

I would say now, as I did to you at the time the companies were being formed, by far the best way would be to recognize the Indian as a man, and take him into the regular companies, and if the door is open for that a full proportion of young Indians, who have been trained in the schools and can speak English, and who are somewhat familiar with military duties and movements, would enlist. That I can guarantee. I would undertake cheerfully to find them for that purpose. This I consider by all means the best plan. The second best plan in my judgment would be to form Indian companies, being careful to make up each company from as many different tribes as possible, and take only those who can speak English, and only letting one such company go into each regular regiment. In the first place the Indians will be individually in line with the regular soldiers and will, therefore, at once, as I know from experience, fill to the full the duties required of them as soldiers. In the second place, being made up of many tribes and placed in a regular regiment, and detailed for duties without respect to their being Indians, as it ought to be, and as it can be because they speak English and have the intelligence necessary, they will have the next best opportunity to at once fill the bill as proper soldiers. Under all the circumstances and experiences of the past, I doubt if either of these plans will be accepted, and the indications the Secretary gave that a regiment

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of Indians was being considered points to what, if anything, will
probably be done. I say in regard to that I would then make up the
companies just as I suggested for companies to go into the regular ser-
vice, that is, English speaking young men and being careful to dis-
tribute the tribes well in every company. There are young Indians,
who have gone through our schools and been officers of our cadet corps
here, who would make good lieutenants, but I would favor if possible
having white men as Captains and perhaps some as Lieutenants also,
and the ranking officers should be from regular Army. You will re-
member that I said to you at the time that if the Indians were going
to be made into regiments, I would like to undertake a regiment. I
say that now. I realize, of course, that there may be some subarass-
ment in a possible reflection that might be made upon the Government
in using its so-called savages, but you will note that I do not pro-
pose to use any such. It is not necessary. There are plenty of
educated young Indians, who in point of intelligence would compare
very favorably with our volunteers and regular Army men, and are not
to be classed as savages.

I am, dear Senator,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 7th, 1938.

Capt. Chas. L. Cooper,
Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My dear Cooper:

I found out at once on receipt of your letter that the Secretary had gone over to New York and would be there several days. After my last letter to you, I had a letter from the Commissioner telling me directly that the Secretary had authorized him to say that you would not be relieved. Your relief, therefore, I take it is only temporary, and I have an idea that when you have mastered the tropps, and that responsibility is off your hands, you will be allowed to go back to your detail. However, this is only an idea of nine. It was not a matter that I thought best to write about, and it would be no use in my going down to Washington with both the Secretary and Commissioner away. Rest assured I will do all I can to get you back to the detail and as soon as I can. Unfortunately, my Asst. Supt. is away on a leave, and my principal teacher also, which makes it a little more difficult for me to go away, but were the Secretary at home I would run down for a day anyhow.

I do not believe the War will be long, and the boys will come marching home perhaps before many of them will get outside of their own states. News this morning, said to be official from Dewey, is that he accomplished the destruction of the Spanish fleet and the capture of Manila with a loss of 6 wounded, and that 300 Spanish were killed and 400 wounded. If this is true it will be so humiliat-

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Carlisle, Pa., May 7th, 1898.

Dr. A.M. Seabrook,

M.E. Hospital, So. Broad and Wolfe Streets,
Philadelphia, Penna.

My dear Miss Seabrook:

I was glad to know from your note, enclosing
letter to Mrs. Fryinger, the Doctor's condition. We are all so
anxious that he should recover, and take up his duties here again,
and from what you say I judge the conditions are favorable for that.

The letter did not reach me until Monday morning and I imme-
diately took it in myself to Mrs. Fryinger. I understand that she
has since gone to Philadelphia. Please give my love to the Doctor.
Tell him to hold on strong, and that we are all praying for his re-
covery.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 7th, 1898.

Miss Lydia L. Hunt,
Supt. Indian School,
San Carlos, Ariz.

My dear Miss Hunt:

Thanks for your letter of the 1st. I had begun
to wonder why we did not hear from you. I am told that I am not to
go away from here. I have the misfortune the have countered myself
with too great obligations. I have suggested to both the Interior
and War Departments that I can raise a regiment of Indians, made
up of those who have been here, and who are really capable of making
good soldiers, but so far my suggestion has not borne fruit.

I can see how along the border, where there is a deal of
Spain remaining, both on our side and in Mexico, there must be the
greatest vigilance. We are at War with the most tricky people in
this world, and Americans everywhere must be on guard constantly
whether outside the country or inside.

About the N.E.A., I anticipate that there will be no great
interest in anything but the (War until that is over. The N.E.A.
is very much disposed to think that it runs the country, and its as-
sembling in Washington is significant of that disposition.

In regard to Dr. Hailman. He holds on by sheer cheek. His
resignation was asked for, and he declined to give it, and has filed
no end of endorsements to be kept. No one just satisfactory to the
Department has appeared with sufficiently voluminous endorsements,

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and so they have let it go on and on, and matters are at cross purposes
everywhere in consequence.

We were very much pleased with Supervisor Conser here. He is a
bright little fellow and his heart is in the right place.

Glad to hear such good news of our boys. I wonder that they
all don't go to the bad, and that there is any stamia and good in
them is simple gain. Specially am I pleased to hear what you say
of Ids Whiteface and Amelia. I congratulate you on having joined
the rank of wheelers. I have just invested in a Spalding chainless,
and like it very much, but with a view to the possibilities of service,
I have also just bought an saddle horse, and George has just gone to
Mechanicsburg to bring it home. This, however, is more of a
lady's horse. I anticipate buying another larger and stronger for
myself, and using this one as an inducement to get company when I
go riding.

The news that we have just received this morning, if true,
is most glorious. We expect to have the contents of the official
Government dispatch this afternoon, but the New York World sends word
that Dewey's victory in the destruction of the Spanish Fleet and the
capture of Manila cost us only 6 wounded men, while the Spaniards
lost 300 killed and 400 wounded. Now if Sampson can give us another
victory on that same line, Spain will be in such a fix as to compel
her to yield almost immediately, and the War will come to an end, I
think.

We have had unusually good health here this winter, notwithstanding our much larger number than ever before. I let two of our Apache boys go home, Mark Hopkins and Donald McIntosh, and they are

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probably there by this time. Both are good fellows, one not in very
good health. Neither specially strong characters. Both claim they
will come back in the fall. When you come East, cannot you bring us
a party and so cover your expenses; some of your largest and best.
Do not fail to come see us at Carlisle, and if you can, make us a good
visit. What can I do for you?

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 7th, 1898.

Harbert S. Brown,
Editor Charities Review,
105 E. 22nd Street, New York City.

My dear Sirs

Ever since the receipt of yours of April 9th, I have been trying to run through the "Charities Review". My time is so taken up with the duties of the school that it does not seem possible for me to add an additional element of tax. My general feeling about it is that public charities are too professional. We show our greatest charity to those who need charity by providing a way for them to help themselves. The finding a place for a boy or girl, man or woman, where they can earn their own living, is the need of the hour. The erection of great buildings, and the endowment of them/ where the indigent are congregated, breaks down their courage of self help. I find no great trouble in providing homes for 600 young Indians, where they can earn good wages. Many of them come from the lowest of our tribes. Too much of our charity is used to make a name for those who have the genius to devise and scheme and collect funds to build up monumental charity. institutions.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 9th, 1898.

Chihauhau,

Ft. Sill, O.J.

My dear Friend:

I have your goodletter by the hand of your daughter dated April 25th, and am very glad, indeed, to hear from you, and especially am I pleased with what you say about the general contentment of your people, and that you contradict the bad reports that have been made about you and your people being the war path. I knew it was a mistake, and immediately I saw it in the papers, I wrote the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that it was not true and that your people were peaceable and the report was sent out to serve some white man's or white men's purpose. I hope you will keep right on in your peaceable ways, and give the lie to everything of that sort. Your people have been used long enough for the purpose of scaring the United States. It is time all that sort of thing were ended. Indeed, it should have been ended years ago.

We are all so glad that our good Ramona is doing well. We are very well here at Carlisle, and the Apaches, especially, are doing well.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 9th, 1898.

Edward Little,
Rosebud Agency,
S. Dak.

My dear Edward:

Replying to your letter of the 4th, I scarcely know
what to say, because I can hardly understand what you mean. About
a lawyer for your people, that is something for your people to determine
for themselves. I cannot tell whether they need a lawyer or not.
Some of the boys asked me to recommend somebody, and I did. About the
dance, those things have to be settled there. Of course, you know
I think it will be a great deal better when the Indians abandon all
that sort of thing and go to work seriously, and take care of them-
selves, get out of the dance and all their Indian conditions and
become honest self supporting, English speaking men and women, and
good citizens of the United States. You have heard me talk enough
to know what I think about it. What concerns me about you Sioux peo-
ple, is that you go on from year to year as though you expected the
Government would take care of you forever and keep your country free
from white people and so enable you to live the same life always.
Whereas, it must close some time, and your people must take care of them
ourselves. They can never respect themselves properly until they do
take care of themselves, according to my notion.

Your friend

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 9th, 1898.

Horace G. Brown,

Principal State Normal School
Worcester, Mass.

My dear Sirs

There is nothing I know of on Indian Education or on
the Indian of today generally that I would feel like recommending.
My own views have only been put out in my reports and addresses here
and there. I enclose you my last report and other productions of
mine which will, I think, give you fully my views. The whole matter
is drifting. The most pernicious thing is the system of reservations
and annuities, and this has become so indurated in our public policy
that it seems almost impossible to disturb it, and as a result the
Indians are made more and more a burden. If the necessity of labor
and looking out for No. 1 were upon them, as it used to be in the old
days, and as it is upon each one of us, there would be I think short
work with the Indian problem. They would rise to the occasion and
seek for a living, which would give them health and character.

Feeding them on reservations and caring for them as we do make them
success in civilizing them very, very slow, and almost an impossibility.
I have been working for them more than 30 years, and very
often I ask myself 'Is it worth while?'. I find no difficulty in
communicating and learning them to speak English, making them useful in
our industries, and even giving them the courage to go out among our
people and live among us, but unfortunately the Bureau and Agency con-
trol can offer larger money inducements, and much that I do that would

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otherwise result in going on to perfection is overthrown. Bright
young Indians are hired to go back and help their people. This is the
missionary cry always.

You could get the reports of the Indian Office by asking
your member of Congress, or writing direct to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs.

Regretting that I cannot give you something that is more sat-
defactory, both to yourself and to me, I am,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 10th, 1898.

Hon. Hugh R. Belknap,

House of Representatives,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir.

I have your letter of the 4th, forwarded from the Indian Office by the Honorable Commissioner on the 7th with instructions to correspond with you direct in relation to a game between our football team and the Chicago Athletic Association team.

I regret being compelled to say that it seems impracticable. We have arranged a game for each week of the season beginning with October 1st, as follows:

Oct. 1 State College Nov. 5 Dickinson College
Oct. 8 Cornell University, Nov. 12 University of Pennsylvania
Oct. 15 Williams College, Nov. 19 Illinois University
Oct. 22 Yale University, Nov. 24 Ohio State University
Oct. 29 Harvard University

and with the last game we intend to close the season.

Outside of this list, we have been compelled to decline propositions to play with the following institutions: Bucknell University, Ohio Wesleyan, U.S. Naval Academy, College of P. & S., Brown University, Purdue University, Dartmouth College, Oberlin College, Southern Athletic Club, Princeton University, Puffalo University, University of Michigan, Duquesne Country Athletic Club, University of Maryland, Massachusetts Athletic Club, Knickerbocker Athletic Club, Northwestern University, Franklin and Marshall College, Ohio Medical University, Washington and Jefferson University, Western University of Pennsylvania, Washington and Lee University, Gallandet College,

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University of West Va., Cincinnati University, and quite a number of minor institutions and athletic clubs.

We have found it quite impracticable and hurtful to play more than one game a week, and have in all cases, as you can see, arranged our games for Saturday except Thanksgiving Day. We are anxious to maintain our standing with the colleges and universities, and not let ourselves get into what is called the "professional football" class, and wherever we play with a team outside of a college or university, we lay ourselves liable to that imputation and subject to be crossed from the list of college and university teams having these regulations. It has been through the interest in us of such colleges and universities, and their willingness to play with us, that we have reached our present place, and to go against them now would be fatal to us. There is a strong growing sentiment among college authorities against playing with athletic clubs.

While entertaining the kindliest feeling, and a strong wish to oblige the Chicago Athletic Club, who have appealed to us for a game for several years past, and whose members have been most courteous to our team on its visits to Chicago, it still seems best not to vacate our position. Athletic clubs usually have teams of men who, having team proficiency on college teams, are more mature than we ought to let our boys struggle with.

(Dated) Mc

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C O P Y T E L E G R A M .

Carlisle, Pa., May 5th, 1898.

Robt. C. C. Boy,

47 North Ninth Street,

Philadelphia.

Can you ship me a tonce one garrison

Flag? Wire answer and price.

Robt. Pratt, Capt.

Postal 8:45 p.m.

C O P Y T E L E G R A M .

Carlisle, Pa., May 7th, 1898.

Capt. Chas. L. Cooper,

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Secretary has been away several days. Not

back yet. Commissioner in Chicago. Will attend to it soon as possi-
ble.

Pratt, Capt.

"W.U." 8:40 A.M.

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Calais, Pa., May 14th, 1898.

Dr. Edward K. Willard,

Baldwin Locomotive Works,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear brothers:

I thank you for your years of the 11th and your views.
My information about the Canadian Indians is limited to their offi-
cial reports, which I doubt, like ours, put only the best phase;
also the few things I have read and the speeches of Bishop Whipple,
and a few other extreme missionary enthusiasts, whose rose colored
views I have always accepted. Some years ago I had invitation
from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Northwestern Territo-
tory to visit him and take a trip of several weeks among
their agencies. This, I was never able to do. I want to put what
you say in an editorial for the next "Red Man", and unless I have
objections from you, I will do so, of course without using your name.

You will, perhaps, be a little interested to know that I find
myself in a very embarrassing position on account of the War. My regi-
ment is atTEMPE today enroute to Cuba to serve under General
Wheeler, the great Confederate cavalry leader, against whom I served
during the War, and fought with oftener than with any other commander.

I have signified to the Department my readiness to go to my
regiment; also a desire to be allowed to raise a regiment of Indians,
provided Indians are to be enlisted, and that if need be I am ready

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To go at once with at least two full companies from among my students here, already fully trained, and who are all eager to show their loyalty and gratitude to the Government for what it has done for them. So far I meet no encouragement. The Secretary of War wrote me that a regiment of Indians was under consideration. After projecting this school, and having been its superintendent always, I feel that I must stand by it, and as I have about 850 young people on my hands, it may be they think these duties as much as I ought to undertake.

You can really understand how small I feel when I see people who are junior to me in rank, and who have had no such experiences as I have, nor rendered any such service, being promoted to higher rank, even to Brigadier General. I am in the military service more than 35 years, and still a Captain. I reckon it will come out all right somehow, and I see no way but to stay here and patiently wait.

(Dietze Co.) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., May 12th, 1898.

Mr. Wm. H. Todd,
Box North Haven, Conn.

My dear Sirs

I acknowledge most gratefully the contribution to our
school from the Congregational Sunday School at North Haven, for-
warded by you, under date of May 16th, and enclose you receipt herewith.

Our school has never been in healthier condition than at this
season of the year, and we never had as many pupils.

(Dictated) Mc

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., May 18th, 1898.

Rev. J.A. Lippincott,

M.E. Hospital, South Broad Stree,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Broad Street 5:47 today. Asks you to meet him at station.

Capt. Pratt will arrive

Standing.

"Portal"

Govt. Capt. Acct. 2:00 P.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 31st, 1890.

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

Sir:

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of the
School under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June
27th per S.O. No. 198, Headquarters of the Army A.G.O., August
23rd, and letter of Instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the
Interior, dated September 6th, all 1879.

My address for the next month is as follows.

Capt. 10th Cavalry., Supt.

Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., May 30th, 1898.

W.H. Horstmann & Co.,

5th and Cherry Streets,
Philadelphia.

Gentlemen:

I return to you the pair of leggins express prepaid. I
want a pair of different make if I can find them, and these are not
quite large enough for me.

(Dictated) Mc

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Capt. Stouch

Army officers are getting quite scarce in the Indian Service now. I found it difficult to hold myself back, but have felt that under all the circumstances I should not ask to be relieved from duty here, but simply placed myself in the way of being NEEXXEXEXX willing to be. I was informed at the War Department the other day that it was considered more important for me to remain here. I have suggested that if an Indian command of any kind was contemplated, I wanted to be considered in connection with it, but the matter has been under advisement and it has been concluded not to have any special Indian command for the present at least.

It looks to me as if the War ought to close in short order if we met with any considerable success in Poto Rico and Cuba.

I am not without hope of seeing you and Mrs. Stouch some time during the summer. I do want to get away, and have a breath of wild western life and air.

Mrs. Pratt joins me in love to Mrs. Stouch.

(Dietated Mc)

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Carlisle, Pa., June 4th, 1898.

Gen. J.T. Hatch,

Castle Hotel,
West 103rd Street,
New York City.

My dear General:

I have been away from home for more than two weeks
and your letter has waited my return.

It appears that our baseball team will disperse on the 15th
of this month, under our country or "Cuting" system, and that be-
tween this and that date they have as many games arranged as it is
possible for them to undertake. It, therefore, seems entirely im-
practicable for us to arrive at an favorable conclusion about a
game in Chicago.

In this connection, we have had quite a good deal of corres-
pondence with the Chicago Athletic Club in regard to foot-ball, and
it has seemed impracticable for us to undertake it. The decision
in this case becomes more difficult on that account, and because
our football boys have been so handsomely treated by the Chicggo
Club.

I remember Mr. Kicking Bird's son. Kicking Bird used to
visit my house frequently and brought his wives and this boy.
Some years afterwards, when the boy was about 12 years old, I was
out there after children and saw the boy and his mother, and wanted
her to let me bring him East, but she was unwilling. On his father's

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account, I took the boy to the trader's store and gave him a new
suit of clothes. In making the changes, I found two old dirty
packs of cards in his Indian clothing. I have not heard of the
boy since. If living, he is a well grown man.

I wish very much, General, that you could come down and
make us a visit. Mrs. Pratt joins me in a most cordial invitation.
In talks I have had among the old people of the town about the of-
ficers formerly stationed at this place, your name has been mention-
ed several times. The Hendersons, Johnson Moore, the Biddles,
Watts, and many others are still here or well represented.

Mrs Pratt and I would be delighted to have you for our
guest if you could come. We are pretty much in vacation now, and
the school will not be together again until the 1st of September
If you could come to us some time in the latter part of September
or October, we could give you a very pleasant visit, and we could
run over the field of Gettysburg, which would be interesting, I am
sure. We would welcome any members of your family also.

Mrs Pratt joins me in kindest remembrances.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 6th, 1898.

Dr. O.J. West,

Ft. Lapwai, Idaho.

My dear Doctor:

Hurrah! for Mac. If it is perfectly convenient for
you to work out anything in the musician line, all right. If not,
we have abundance of encouragement from all the other schools, so
that we shall not be wanting in numbers. One or at the utmost two
would be all I would care for from the Nez Perces. If Corbett
Lawyer returns, as now seems possible, we would not care for any
more Nez Perces, except they come as regular pupils. I wish you
would be entirely certain of Corbett's health before letting him
return. I would not want any new pupils to come in that were over
20. David MacFarland talks of returning to take part in this par-
ticular affair.

(Dictated) Mc

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Mrs. J.H. Babbitt,
Warner, Cal.

My dear Mrs. Babbitt:

I have years of the 30th ult, and in reply would say that I know from such observation that the Washington people are postured to an almost unendurable point to take people into office by members of Congress and by Government officials, as well as by the people themselves, who are within the charmed Civil Service circle, and in self defense the Commissioner was compelled to issue a circular notifying those in the Service that they must not make these appeals, and that they would injure their reuse by doing so.

I shall see the Commissioner the latter part of this week, and if I can get an opportunity will speak about your case. He has indicated his willingness to listen to me in any such matters, notwithstanding the orders against it.

Very truly yours,

(Dictated) Mc

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Miss Lydia L. Hunt,

Dept. Indian Schools
San Carlos, Ariz.

My dear Miss Hunt:

It will be surely all right to bring your disciplinarian with you, and should you have pupils enough, I will gladly count him an assistant teacher. I do hope you may get some girls.

About the rates East. Mr. Nicholson has been making me exceptional rates where we could use his lines, and I must consult him first. I have asked him for a prompt reply, and I will write you as soon as I hear from him. The So. Pac. people have been not only stiff in their rates, but negligent in informing me promptly of what they would do.

I have quite a party to bring from Perlis, Cal., and asked Mr. Goodman for a rate. It took him nearly a month to answer, and his answer then only came when he found that I had made arrangements with the Atlantic and Pacific.

There is a desperate strain to build up Phoenix, which is a mistake. I was told the other day by one of the highest officials of the Government that Dr. Hailman, himself, had indicated a desire for the superintendency of Phoenix. The present superintendent of Phoenix is one of the men who circulated the appeals to have everybody memorialize the Secretary in favor of Hailman's retention,; hence the enlargement and activity. Confidentially, Dr. Hailman is

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making a desperate effort to get the superintendency of some city school. He has three or four on his strong. Mrs. Pratt and I have been appealed to, to know if we could endorse him, by a friend who is on the Board of Education of the City of Tokyo where he is making one of his approaches.

About Mark Hopkins, I think it best to leave him to take his own course. There is not much outlook in him. If you bring him, it will be all right. If the Agent arbitrarily sends him, I shall not object.

Dr. Brown and I are in correspondence about a party. There will be quite a number from there of both boys and girls. Mrs. Brown is to bring a lot of girls.

About arguments, I hardly know. It seems to me the railroad ought to be the best argument you could use now. That will bring white people among them, and what they need is to become thoroughly accustomed with white people's ways. The people they will meet will be from the East largely, and if they become friends of the white people here, they are all the better able to cope with them there.

We were most unfortunate in the first and really only party we have had from San Carlos. They were mostly grown and an extremely bad lot to begin with. Quite a number of them were taken out of the guard house. All the girls sent except one, and she a married woman with her husband, were reported to me by the agent as being vile, so you see we did not have the right material to begin on to make a proper showing, and unfortunately those went from the Agency to Albuquerque and Genoa turned out bad in health. I am glad to say that our health conditions here are about as good among the Pimas

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and other Arizona Indians now as they are among Indians from any
quarter, are for good health the school cannot be excelled in its ex-
periences of the last two years.

I have no doubt you will get your leave to attend the N. E. A.
and the summer school at Chautauqua if you want. A letter that
I had a few days ago from you forwarded to me in New York said
the 10th of July, but a latter I find on my return here this morning,
dated May 24th, says the 10th of June is the date you have asked to
close your school. I will, therefore, say that when you are ready
to come, if railroad arrangements are not complete from here, and
you have what you consider a low rate from there, it will be all
right for you to use the route you have, though I have asked Mr.
Nicholson to advise me by wire. He will have my letter tomorrow.

I think your letter to the Commissioner was just exactly
right, and he will help you if as can. The difficulty will be in
his finding a place for you at a salary large enough. Your salary
is large in comparison with other places; made so because of the
locality.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlsbad, Pa., June 7th, 1996.

Capt. Charles L. Cooper,

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My dear Cooper:

I saw the Secretary the other day and spoke to him about you. You were not relieved by any desire from the Interior Department, but the matter came purely from the War Department.

When I went to the War Department, there was such a crowd of volunteer officers and congressmen, and everybody was in such a rush that I did not see my way to make any inquiries. I managed to get a dozen words with General Corbin and a few words with the Asst. Secretary, and that was the best I could do without long waiting. I spoke to the Secretary of Interior of your desire to return to the Service, and he said that was a matter that must now depend on the future. He said they were compelled to nominate somebody to fill the office, and, so far as he knew, it would have to remain so during the term of such nominee.

I think it more than likely that you are right about somebody working it. There is a Catholic influence in the Departments which sustains those officers who have a trend that way, and works against those officers who are not of that sort. That influence was greatly disappointed about not having complete control of the Interior Department and Indian Bureau, and is using its power on all occasions in the sub departments. I find myself frequently face to

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face with it. Now that all is excitement and there is a need of
Army officers with their commands, it serves its own purposes well
in keeping those whom it wants to keep, and getting out those it
wants to get out.

We have one file in Hunt who was retired on the 31st ult.,
and Col. Perry asked to be retired on the 31st on account of thirty
years' service. If complied with, it makes me second on the list.

If anything comes up that will be news to you, I will write.
Meantime, keep me advised where you are, and what you are up to.

Faithfully yours,

(Dictated) Mc

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Hon. W.A. Jones.

Visit the several schools and make selections.

I can arrange thirty concerts for the late fall for our band at $100 a piece and their expenses. This will give me $3000 which we need for new instruments, music and equipment. Unless you wish me to do so, I shall not officially bring this matter up, but will carry it out; but if you do not agree with me that it is un- necessary, and think I had better submit it for consideration, I will do that.

I wrote Mr. Veita today and gave him your message, advising him to write to you personally. Inasmuch as a new man has been appointed Agent at Santa Fe, I am glad to have Veita go there, because he will be thoroughly loyal to the training schools, and especially to Carlisle.

Miss Hunt of San Carlos informs me that she has written to you herself. If a new person is sent to San Carlos, I hope we may have one that will not antagonize the distant schools.

We take our annual picnic to Pine Grove on Friday next. I wish you might come up and go with us. You would see one of the finest picnic grounds in the country, as well as some of the most picturesque scenery to be found anywhere.

(Dated) Na

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Carllisle, Pa., June 7th, 1898.

Miss Estelle Hell,
The Arlington,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Miss Hell:

Allow me to tender my congratulations on your appointment as Superintendent of Indian Schools announced by the Philadelphia papers this morning.

On principle I did not think it best for me to take any position of opposition or otherwise to anybody.

I trust you will visit Carlisle as often as you can, and make yourself perfectly at home here always. Be assured that I shall value your official suggestions and criticisms, and can assure you that socially you will find no warmer welcome anywhere.

(Distributed) Ms

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Carlisle, Pa., June 9th, 1898.

Miss Kate Cannon,
Supt. Indian School,
Ponce Agency, O.T.

My dear Miss Cannon:

Thank you for the invitation to your Commencement Exercises, but I have been absent from the school so much within the last three weeks, and find so much to do in connection with sending children home, and closing our affairs for the fiscal year, that it would be impossible for me to think of it.

I congratulate you on the very neat invitation.

(Dictated) Mo

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Reuben Demarest,

716 - 157 th Street,
New York.

My dear Reuben:

In the summer time I send all of my boys and girls
whom I can spare out into the country, and we have just about 550 out
now, so that our school is so small it does not seem worth while
for me to think of any entertainments. But I want you to come
some time when the school is back after the 1st of September, and
hope I can arrange it.

I shall be glad to hear from you at any time. I hope you
are getting along nicely and improving your talent.

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated) Me

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Hon. W.A. Jones,

1314 N Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

Lizzie Hill made application on the 11th of April for position of assistant matron in some western school.
She is the girl who made the embroidery I sent to Mrs. Jones.

Lizzie is an exceptionally good girl and especially qualified for such duties as she seeks. I should be glad if she could receive an appointment at some good school where she will be under one of the best matrons in the Service, feeling sure that she will develope ability to fill an independent position soon. She writes me in anxiety about her appointment, hence this note.

(Dictated) Mc

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Elmer B. Simon,
Normal School,
Indiana, Penna.

My dear Elmer:

I was very glad, indeed, to get your letter of the
8th of May, and intended answering promptly, but the Commissioner
desired me to go over to New York to help in the selection of goods,
and I have been away from home practically three weeks.

I have heard from you through the Professor from time to
time, and must say that it has always been one of the most pleasing
and most encouraging things coming to me that you were getting on
so well. I trust you will not allow anything to interfere with
thoroughness in this matter.

I believe the future has in store for you very great possibilities and probabilities. I hope you will write me occasionally, not so often as to burden you, but when you can with convenience, and I have it in my mind that at our next Commencement you should be with us. You have only friends at Carlisle.

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated) Mc

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President George W. Atherton,
State College, Penn'a.

My dear Doctor:

I have been compelled to be in New York more than
two weeks at the annual purchase of supplies for the Indian Service,
and am so loaded up with duties just now in connection with the chos-
ing of the fiscal year and the beginning of the new year, that it
seems quite impracticable for me to be away, else I should be de-
lighted to be with you at your Exercises next week.

However, Mrs. Pratt and I are planning to send our baby,
on the kind invitation of your daughter.

With greetings to Mrs. Atherton and the family,

(Dictated) Mc

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Fred P. Hall,
"The Journal",
Jamestown, N.Y.

My dear Fred:

Please advise me the lowest rate you feel able to
make on the plates, and also what you would charge us for printing
four or five thousand books. The plates would be about 5 x 7 ",
and there would be not far from 60. I think it would be desirable
to print so that the pictures would come on both sides of the page,
in order to reduce the postage in sending, and I should have an expla-
nation with each picture, something like my former souvenir, copy
of which I mail to you today.

The pictures are not all as good as the one I sent you, but
they average exceptionally good.

Sincerely yours,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., June 11th, 1898.

Miss Lydia L. Hunt,

Supt. Indian School,

San Carlos, Arz.

My dear Miss Hunt:

If the So. Pacific will give you the same rate
to Washington for your party you mention they are extending to you,
you can buy the tickets and take subvouchers in your own name, as
we do for all such business, and it will be all right. If their
rate for the children should be over this, I should be compelled,
on account of a rate named to me by Mr. Nicholson, to ask that the
party come by way of Albuquerque and Chicago.

It will be all right to take tourist car berths, but put
two in a berth. I wish you would telegraph me when you start,
and the number you are to bring. I enclose you blank transfer
rolls and consent blanks, as well as a sub voucher book.

We had our annual picnic at Pine Grove yesterday, and a
more perfect time and day we never had. The country is just as just
simply at its best. The day was exceptionally pleasant, neither
too cold nor too hot.

Since my last letter, Hailman has been removed and Miss
Battelle Reel, superintendent for schools of Wyoming has been nom-
inated and confirmed. This will make a change in the tenor of
influence towards Carlisle throughout the Service, I am sure.

A personal note from the Commissioner this morning informs

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me that he has your letter, and that he will do the best for you he
can, that he expects you are to be in Washington soon, and he
will leave the consummation of the matter until then, so that your
early coming to Washington will be an advantage.

Our teachers are all expecting to go to the different
summer schools throughout the country, and are to be detailed for
that purpose, so as to get their salaries the same as under the
former regulations.

(Dictated) Mc

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