Mar. 3, 1900.

George Paisano,
Laguna, New 'ex.

Dear George :-

Am glad to know that you got through your long railroad
journey comfortably, and are at last at home, where I hope you
will make a good record for yourself and make use of all you have
gained at Carlisle.

Take your check to Mr. Marmon and he will advise you what is
best to do. Perhaps he can cash it for you, but if he cannot he
will tell you the safest way to send it to Albuquerque to be cashed
at the bank. You ought to have no trouble about it.

With kind regards,

 faithfully your friend,

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NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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March 3, 1900.

Mrs. L. W. Daniel,
802 Eleventh St. N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mrs. Daniel ! -

I have met your wishes as best I could
and do not see that it is proper for me to do more.
The determination of what ought to be done in regard
to Irene's support is not in my hands, nor ought I
take any part in it. It seems to me more a ques-
tion for judicial determination. You must, and I
trust will cheerfully excuse me from pressing the
Commissioner.

When Dr. Daniel was here I favored him in every
way and made his home as comfortable as I could. He
left you and Irene here and I let you remain a long
time. I have stood by your situation beyond what I
think is judiciously proper, but I believed it right
and did it cheerfully. I cannot bring myself to
tell the Commissioner that he ought to do what you
ask, and you must please excuse me.

I expect to be at the Indian Office on Tuesday
about nine o'clock.

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March 3, 1900.

Mrs. Christine Pallado,
130 Winnebago St.,
Oshkosh, Wis.

Dear Madam,

Since receiving your second letter in regard to your son
Willie Pallado, I have called him to my office and find from him
that he came here with your consent, although he had not seen you
for about a year before he came to Carlisle. We make it a point in
accepting pupils that they shall have parental or guardians' con-
sent, and do not knowingly receive any without. Willie has a
certain kind of work in view that he wished to fit himself for,
and I have made arrangements that he enter the department here
where he can learn something in that line. He is doing well, is
well and ambitious, and I cannot allow him to go home until his
five years are completed. It would be entirely against his inter-
ests and not especially beneficial to you.

I am sorry for your disappointment, but trust you will accept
this reply as final, and be satisfied that I am doing what is best
for your son.

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March 3, 1900.

Mrs. George Paquette,
Pierraville,
Province of Quebec,
Canada.

Dear Madam :-

Your daughter, Blanche Newell, has been writing to her
father in New York. She informs me that she wrote you some months
ago, but not hearing from you and not knowing your late address,
she was unable to reach you. All pupils write at least one letter
every month, and as many times beside as they wish.

Blanche is well and getting on nicely.

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March 3, 1900.

Mrs. J. F. Appleby,
6500 Monroe Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of February 29th making inquiry
in regard to Joseph Schiltz, I have to advise you that nothing has
been heard of him here since he ran away early in January. He was
not in any trouble, so far as I can learn, and I know of no cause
for his action, but attributed it to influences from home. In gen-
eral Joseph's conduct was very satisfactory. He is a capable boy
and was getting on reasonably well,

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March 3, 1908.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of February 29th making inquiry
in regard to Joseph Schildt, I have to advise you that nothing has
been heard of him here since he ran away early in January. He was
not in any trouble, so far as I can learn, and I know of no cause
for his action, but attributed it to influences from home. In gen-
eral Joseph's conduct was very satisfactory. He is a capable boy
and was getting on reasonably well,

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Mar. 3, 1900.

Rev. John W. Sarnborn,
Franklinville, N.Y.

My dear Sir :)

Mr. Edwin P. Brightbill, a lawyer in Carlisle, writes me, urging that I get you here to give us your illustrated Indian lecture, and tells of his great appreciation of it after hearing you twice. He says also that you will come for only your traveling expenses. If this is true and you agree to come to us any time before the end of March we shall be glad to have you. If you can spare the time, why not come down to our commendment the 13th, 14th and 15th of March, and give us your lecture on Friday, the 16th? If you cannot come then, any time after that and before the end of the month, suiting your own convenience, we shall be glad to have you. Let me know the point of departure and I can send you transportation at lower rates than you can probably get.

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Mar. 5, 1900.

Mrs. Bosa Bourassa Brown,
Sagging,
Aramac Co., Mich.

My Dear Home !-

I do congratulate you and give to you and your husband my very best wishes. I have had quite a good deal of information about your husband both while he was at Maskell and at Santa Fe, and all I have heard was so good that I cannot but believe you have waddled wisely; and in saying this I want to add that it would take an excellent man in every way to meet my idea of what my schooldaughter Rose should have.

I regret not a little that you are to be absent from our company, for I had counted on having you say something to our great audience. I wish even now you may recant and come. If you find that you can and will telegraph me I will see that a ticket from Chicago goes to you in time. We shall have an extraordinary delegation of people from Washington. Have just been informed by telephone from there that a larger number from the Senate than we have ever had have definitely settled to come with their families, and quite a number of others are considering it. We shall have also an unusual number from the House, and I am anxious to have some of my best products on hand to say a word, and expected you to represent the female side of the house very largely. However, I must be satisfied with whatever happens.

Faithfully your friend,
R.L. Hart

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Mar. 5, 1900.

Mrs. Bess Bourassa Brown,
Sagging,  
Aramac Co., Mich.

My Dear Rose I-

I do congratulate you and give to you and your husband my very best wishes. I have had quite a good deal of information about your husband both while he was at Marshall and at Santa Fe, and will I have heard was so good that I cannot but believe you have waddled wisely; and in saying this I want to add that it would take an excellent man in every way to meet my idea of what my schooldaughter Rose should have.

I regret not a little that you are to be absent from our commencement, for I had counted on having you say something to our great audience. I wish even now you may recent and come. If you find that you can and will telegraph me I will see that a ticket from Chicago goes to you in time. We shall have an extraordinary delegation of people from Washington. Have just been informed by telephone from there that a larger number from the Senate than we have ever had have definitely settled to come with their families, and quite a number of others are considering it. We shall have also an unusual number from the House, and I am anxious to have some of my best products on hand to say a word, and expected you to represent the female side of the house very largely. However, I must be gathered with whatever happens.

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March 5, 1900.

Miss Emily B. Cook,
Indian Office,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Miss Cook :-

I telegraphed you this morning as follows:
"Seventy-five cents reserved seats. Fifty cents general admission." I intended that "First come, first served" should be the plan, and people could cross off the seats they desired and have the number and row put on the tag in the regular way. This seems fair, unless you have some better method.
I congratulate Miss Cummins on her great success.
Perhaps the Interior Department might be invited by somebody in the same way.

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Mar. 5, 1906.

Dr. C. G. Wainwright,
Agency Physician,
San Francisco, Cal.

My dear Doctor :-

You may, if you will, see that Ignacio Costo is provided
with the best substitute for a leg that you can arrange for from
Menzo Spring, San Francisco, and when supplied let bill for same
some to me and I will send check to cover promptly. Mr. Spring's
letter is herewith returned.

Inasmuch as he offers to let us have it at the army rate
there is no need of delaying for order from General Sternberg,
which I could secure.

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March 5th 1900.

Mrs. H. Hudders,

502 Walnut Street,
Allentown.

Dear Madam:-

I have your letter of the 3rd, and enclose herewith one of our Commencement invitations which will give you the order of exercises for the occasion next week. We shall of course be glad to welcome any members of your Association, and I can secure for you through special arrangement I have with the railroad at this time the round trip ticket Allentown and Carlisle for one half the regular rate, that is for $3.22 via the Reading Railroad, Allentown to Carlisle and return.

I am expecting so many guests for the Commencement that I cannot offer you accommodations here at the School, but can secure board and lodging for you in Carlisle in boarding houses or hotels at from one to two dollars a day.

Please advise me at once if you wish the railroad tickets, and rooms and board engaged, and for how many, that I may make the arrangements for you. I will send you the admission tickets for our exercises, as soon also as I know the number you wish.

Wednesday and Thursday will be the best days of the Commencement exercises.

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March 8th 1900.

Mrs. Mary E. Copp Wilbur,
1719 Fifteenth Street,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Wilbur:-

I have your letter of the 2nd. The number of Congressional
visitors that will be with us this year will tax our resources
for entertainment, and while I can send you round trip ticket
for one half the regular rate, that is for $4.29, I am not able
to offer you hospitality here at the school. I can secure you
lodging and board at boarding house or hotel in Carlisle for
from one to two dollars per day. Please advise me at once if
you desire railroad tickets and board and lodging secured, and
for how many, and I will arrange for you.

Our party for the entertainment in Washington March 16th
will not reach your city in time for your morning meeting on
Thursday.

M.

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March 6, 1900.

Miss Jean M. Wallis,
236 S. 13th St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Miss Wallis :-

Replying to your letter of March 1st, asking that a so-
loist may accompany the Indian girl who is to speak before your
society March 29th, I shall be very glad to grant your request.
I have placed the matter in the hands of my singing teacher, who
will make selection for you. The girls can go together in the
evening, remaining over night, and return the next morning.
The balance due on fare for both will be ten cents, each ticket
costing fifty-five cents.

Trusting this may be satisfactory to you,

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March 7, 1900.

Mrs. E. DeMotte Case,
422 Main St.,
Attica, Ind.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of the 28th ult., we have a
number of pupils from Unalaska who came here about two years ago.
I have called one of them to my office and told her of your re-
quest, and she will be quite willing to write you anything about
the Jesse Lee Home that she can when she is addressed.

There are several others on our rolls, who at present are
attending school in the country, and are living in families. I
give their names and addresses below, and you can write to them
if you wish.

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Polly Tutikoff, C/o Mrs. R. P. Stahle, Emigsville, Pa.
Sosipatra Suvaroff, C/o Mrs. J. I. Kelly, Roslyn, Pa.
Catharine Dyaknoff, C/o Miss Deborah Pennell, Wawa, Pa.
Irene Suvaroff, C/o Mrs. M. A. Garvin, Lock Box 262,
Gettysburg, Pa.
Eudocia Sedick, Indian School, Carlisle.

March 7, 1900.

Miss Luzena Chouteau,
Office of Auditor, War Dept.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Luzena :-

The Longfellow meeting is to be a very distinguished af-
fair, and it is not practicable for me to ask for extra tickets
for you. I have already asked for quite a number, but as it is ex-
pected to get people together who have great influence and means
to give, it would be detrimental to the cause to secure many tick-
ets for people who cannot do that. I have secured a ticket for
Frank Lafleshe, of the Indian Office, and several others for high-
er officials, but cannot add to the number; so you see you are
highly honored in receiving a ticket for yourself.

About tickets to the band concert in Rifle's Armory, there
will be no free tickets at all. I do not even give free tickets
to the Commissioner and his wife. Nearly all the Indian Office
people have purchased tickets. We have to make expenses. Mind
you, it takes money to transport sixty people to Washington and
back and pay their expenses while there, and I have no money to
pay for it except what comes out of Washington.

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P.S. - Tickets are on sale at the music store of J.T.Ellis
& Co., 937 Penna. Ave.

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March 7, 1900.

Mrs. Mary N. Agnew,
3 East Ninth Street,
New York City.

My dear Friend :-

Was in Washington yesterday. It looks as
though we were going to have nearly a hundred peo-
ple from the Senate and House; so you see I will
need to get my forces together to impress.

Please wire me on receipt of this how many
tickets you want. I have the usual rate - round
trip ticket for the fare one way.

Am glad to know just where you are and that
you are not to be so nomadic in your New York liv-
ing, for a while at least. With love to the girls
one and all and the largest share for yourself
from all of us,

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March 7, 1900.

Dr. James A. Mac Alister,
Pres. Drexel Institute,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

Miss Peake is quite a little equipped in
stenographic ability already. What she wants is to
perfect herself, and I am sure she could enter one
of your advanced classes.

We want you here at commencement and if you
will come I can send you round trip tickets at the
cost of fare one way. I bunch all our business at
this time and settle direct with the railroad com-
pany so as to get this special rate.

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March 7, 1900.

Gen. J. F. Royd,
Supt. C.V.R.R.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

Dear General :-

On Wednesday the 14th inst. we shall have probably two
carloads of people from Washington for our Commencement. They
leave Washington at 7:50 in the morning, reaching Carlisle at 12:25
and there will be quite a little party from Philadelphia on the
same train, possibly a carload.

I shall be glad if you will arrange to give the usual deliv-
ery of these people on our Indian school siding, and so save our
getting them up from the Junction, and the time here.

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Feb, 15, 1900.

Major C. R. A. Scobey,
U.S. Indian Agent,
Fort Peck Agency,
Poplar, Mont.

My dear Major :-

Wesson Murdeck, one of your boys from Wolf Point, has had the courage to stick to Carlisle until he graduated. He leaves with the class of 1900, which graduates March 15th. He wishes to return to his home at Wolf Point for the present at least. Accordingly I shall ticket him for that place and start him on Monday, March 19th.

I can say for Wesson that he is one of the steadiest and most faithful of students. During the past five years he has in out-of-school hours been constantly connected with our warehouse as assistant to the storekeeper, and has gained many qualities there which would be useful at the agency or in a store, and I can thoroughly endorse him.

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March 8, 1900.

Mr. O. L. Pruden,
604 Massachusetts Ave.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :—

Our band, gleelub, and violinist are to
furnish the music for the Longfellow memorial gath-
ering in the Lafayette Opera House Friday afternoon,
the sixteenth. Our young people are of course anx-
ious to see the White House, and I have wondered
whether the President would not be willing to have
them come Saturday forenoon at any time convenient
to him, and perhaps meet them and allow them to play
briefly and then have the privilege of seeing some
portions of the White House.

If you will, please say for me to the President
that it will be a very great honor to us and a boon
to the young Indians. There will be about sixty.

Kindly advise me,

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Mr. Geo. T. Nicholson, G.P.A. & T.M.,
A.T. & S.P. R.R.,
77 Jackson St.,
Chicago, Ill.

March 8, 1900.

My dear Sir :-

My first principal teacher here more than twenty years ago was a Miss C. M. Semple, one of the loveliest and most helpful employes I have had. She has been in bad health for years at her home "Glenwood", Fort Worth, Texas. Though advanced in years she is able to travel and come to us now, and I want her here at our commencement badly enough to pay myself whatever I have to pay for getting her here.

I wish you would send her transportation "Fort Worth to Chicago" and charge me just as little for it as you possibly can and I will remit. I am hopeful she may be able to stay with us and be of some value to us as an influence in the school, and if so I will keep her here.

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March 8, 1900.

The Ladies' Protestant Guild Bureau,
1502 Cherry St.,
Phila., Pa.

Mesdames :-

I enclose you blank applications as in a former case,
and shall be glad to hear at once from the parties you name in
your letter of yesterday. Mr. Bellows was for a long time a steward on a steamer and has cooked some. Mrs. Bellows' experience is as housekeeper. They will end their service here on the 21st inst.

I have a number of applications and wish to arrange the mat-
ter as promptly as possible that we may not be inconvenienced at
the time they leave us.

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March 8, 1900.

Rev. L. M. Lawrence,
Iroquois,
Erie Co., N. Y.

Y. de Sir :-

I send you four tickets "Elimira to Gettysburg Junction and return" mentioned in your of March 2nd. These will cost $3.69 each. If not used, please return to me promptly so that I can have them redeemed.

In this connection, I have given Isaac Seneca six tickets for relatives of his who want to come, and two to Fred Hare for relatives. They will send these direct to the persons wanting them.

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March 8, 1900.

Mr. Chas. R. Flint,
4 E. 36th St.,
New York.

Dear Sir :

I send you herewith the Indian designs as requested for the ornamentation of your yacht. The art instructor, Miss Forster, has taken considerable pains in having these designs executed and the pupils have been greatly interested. If you feel that the efforts warrant it, a contribution to the Art Department of the school in addition to the prize of Ten Dollars offered, would be greatly appreciated.

Nine pupils have entered into the competition. You will find the drawings of each one fastened together and signed.

Hoping you will find them satisfactory, I am

Yours very truly,

E.E.F. (P)

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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March 8, 1900.

Gen. J. F. Boyd,
Supt. G.V. R.N.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear General :-

I see that I failed to ask you for the
return of the Washington party to Harrisburg, which
will be on the six o'clock train Thursday evening,
the 15th. Will you please arrange it?

I suppose the cars will be Pennsylvania. Have
no idea what the heating system will be. I shall
have to depend on the railroad for that. We want
the party to take the cars from our siding in Gar-
rison Lane.

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March 8, 1900.

Miss Clara Dohne,
1849 W. North Ave.,
Baltimore, Md.

Dear Friend :-

We have decided the prize bible which you
offer should this year be awarded to Wesson Kur-
dock, a young man of the Assiniboine tribe in
Montana, a member of this year's graduating class.

Accept my thanks for your continued interest
in the pupils of this school. I have directed
that the Commencement number of The Red Man be
sent you.

Our commencement takes place next week, to
which I enclose invitation.

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March 9, 1900.

My dear Dr. MacAlister :

I enclose our Commencement invitation which will give you the dates and program. I trust you will be able to come, and in time to hear Dr. Stryker's lecture on Lincoln Tuesday evening. I heard him at General Lawton's funeral in Washington last month, and know we shall have a masterly erudition.

If you desire I can send you a railroad ticket. We shall be glad to entertain you here at the school.

Dr. James Mac Alister,
President Drexel Institute,
Philadelphia.

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March 9, 1900.

Miss E. Luzena Chouteau,
1719 13th St., N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Luzena :-

It has already been arranged that the newspaper men in Washington generally be invited to the Lafayette Opera House meeting with the full understanding that if they feel impressed by the quality of our music they will give some account of it to their papers. Mr. P. H. Warner, who has the longfellow matter in hand has promised me he would see to this and as he is a man of great influence in Washington and knows newspaper people well he is the best possible person to undertake it.

I have no fears that our Washington concert will be anything but a grand success. I am putting a statement of it in our "Indian Helper", and mailing it with that article marked in blue to two thousand people in the Interior Department alone. The ev-ering concert will be thoroughly advertised at the Longfellow meet-ing where two thousand of the best people of Washington will be gathered. A day or two ago I wrote you about the matter of fur-nishing you extra tickets, and you will, I am sure, understand. Would be very glad to have you undertake the sale of tickets. I expect to put a little advertisement in the Washington papers and will probably get some editorial notice a day or two in advance. There will be some posters next week.

You have not responded to the commencement invitation sent you. I have roundtrip tickets at $3.95 each. The party from Washington will leave at 7:50 Wednesday morning and returning reach Washington at 10:45 Thursday evening.

Faithfully yours,

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March 9 1900.

Rev. E. M. Lawrence,
Iroquois,
Erie Co.,
New York.

My dear Sir :-

As we are so very full now it will be better for Fran-
cis White to wait until we are making up another party when he can
be reexamined and admitted if all right. His previous examination
seems to have been lost track of.

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March 9, 1900.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Doctor :-

I send you herewith seven roundtrip tickets, "Washington to Gettysburg Junction" as follows:-

2 for the Misses Chester.

2 " Mrs. Gordon and her mother.

2 " yourself and one of the ladies of your family.

1 " Mrs. Wilson Paxton.

I do hope Lt. Jarvis and Mr. Brown and their wives will come. If you see General Eaton tell him if he will notify me that he and Mrs. Eaton are coming I will send him tickets direct. Colonel Alexander can get tickets for himself and wife from Mr. Sherman, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. I will send direct to the Indian Office for Commissioner and Mrs. Jones and the people I have invited from there.

The price of the tickets is $3.95 each. As explained to you, my finances are in such a condition as to compel me to charge for all outside the Indian Office and Congress; yet, if there is any case in which you think I ought not to charge, I should be governed entirely by your judgment.

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March 9, 1900.

Mr. R. H. Pulweiler,
Local Editor, "Daily News",
Columbia, Pa.

My dear Sir:

I fear our band is engaged for the 16th and beyond. The only chance for you to get in an evening would be Monday next. Tuesday they play in Harliburg at the opening of the Chamber of Commerce building; tomorrow night here; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for our commencement, and Friday and Saturday in Washington. The week beginning the 19th is booked for Philadelphia, but the arrangements are not satisfactory and I am encouraging to cancel them so that there may be a week there in which we could make a date with you. Just now, Monday night next is the only available night, and to you it would be $100 and our expenses. I have a half mate over Pennsylvania lines, so that we could come to you very cheaply. There are forty-five pieces in the band.

If you had a train after the entertainment so that the boys could get home the same night there would be nothing extra for entertainments but the best I find we can do is to leave here at 5:45 P.M., arriving at Columbia at 6:10. Remain there over night and return as soon as possible the next morning. This would entail an expense to you for lodging and one meal.

Yours truly,

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Major 10th Cavalry, Supl.

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March 10, 1900.

Miss E. A. Prall,
Murray Hill Hotel,
New York.

My dear Friend :-

I am almost hours de combat this morning,
but must send you a line to thank you for your con-
tinued valuable interest. While the check is most
acceptable, I want to say that your presence would
be still more so.

We have had an unusual experience this year.
Congress has given us a large appropriation and actu-
ally there has not been the slightest indication of
opposition to us; not only that, but I am promised
an exceptionally large party from there at our com-
mencement. Six senators with their wives and in some
cases daughters are coming up certainly, and as many
more probably, while I am told the number from the
House will be between fifty and seventy-five, so that
We shall have an extraordinary time. Our graduating
class numbers thirty-six, the largest in our history.
Taking all and all, we are on a splendid footing this
year.

I cannot express to you, my good friend, the

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gratitude I feel for your cordial and valuable help
through the more than twenty years of my effort in
educating the Indians, and assure you it would be
a source of great pleasure and pride to me to be
able to show you to what dimensions we have grown,
and to have you witness the great public interest
in it all.

With kindest regards to your sister and your-
self in which Mrs. Pratt joins most cordially,

Faithfully yours,

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March 10th 1900.

My dear Gov. Brady:-

I am still hoping that you will come to Carlisle for
our Commencement next week, although I have no definite word
from you. We expect to have the most interesting time in our
history, and it would add great pleasure to us all to have you
with us. Please wire me on receipt of this that you will come
and I will send you transportation at once.

N.

Gov. John G. Brady,

Kebitt House,

Washington, D. C.

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March 10, 1900.

Herbert Johnston,
Editorial Department, "The Times",
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Herbert-

I send you herewith three tickets "Harrisburg to Carlsbad" as per your letter. While here you can ask Miss Ely and she will give you tickets back to Harrisburg. The round trip cost is fifty five cents, twenty-eight cents each way. If you leave Phila. on the morning train you will strike the Washington party in Harrisburg or the cars they will be in. Perhaps one car from Phila. will be a special, and will be switched over to our siding in the lane. From there it is only a few miles,

 faithfully yours,

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March 10, 1900.

My dear Mr. Sherman :—

The enclosed is the first print made on our press from the plate I have had made of you. Our ladies here all pronounce it a beauty, and I thought I would send you a copy at once with that very delightful information, and say that if you want a whole lot of them they will cost you nothing except the paper on which they are printed. If you should desire to have anything printed in connection with them, we can do that.

Have just sent Mr. Devendorf fifty-one tickets. There will be two special coaches on the train leaving Washington Wednesday morning. The railroad people have advised me that if there are more than can be accommodated in these two coaches some will have to go into the other cars on the train because they cannot put more than two extra coaches on that train.

Why can't you come up Tuesday, leaving Washington at 10:50 A.M. and be here at 4:30 P.M. with Dr. Stryker?

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March 10, 1900.

Treasurer,
Army and Navy Club,
16 W. 31st St.,
New York.

Dear Sir :

Enclosed find my check for $5.00 covering
my dues for the year ending March 1st, 1901.

Please return bill receipted.

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March 10th 1900.

Mrs. Jacob J. Jamison,

31 Cross Street,

Hudson, Col. Co., N. Y.

My dear Mrs. Jamison:-

you

A ticket was ordered for from New York as you desired,
but when the tickets arrived yesterday, through some mistakes,
one for you was sent to someone else. I have however written at
once to Mr. J. R. Wood, G. P. A., of the Penna. Railroad, to
send you by mail from his office a ticket from New York City to
Carlisle. It will reach you in time for our Commencement beginning
on Wednesday and you can use it at once and pay for it when you
reach here.

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March 10th 1900.

My dear Mr. Warner:--

Mrs. Pratt is going down with me to be
at the Longfellow gathering, and I will be very
greatly obliged to you if you will reserve for
us a couple of good seats.

I am still hoping that you and Mrs. Warner
will be in the party from Washington coming up
Wednesday morning for our Commencement and
returning Thursday evening, via the Pennsylvania
Line. If you wish tickets, I have a special
rate of $3.95 for the round trip, and can
arrange that you be supplied with the tickets
if you will telegraph me on receipt of this.

Mr. B. H. Warner,

916 F Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

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March 12, 1900.

John P. Williamson,
Yankton Agency, S. Dak.

Y'are dear friend :-

Miss Gertrude Simmons brought a party of your Yankton
students about three years ago, among them an Emma St. Pierre and
Henry St.Pierre. Emma was sent home last July on the recommenda-
tion of my school physician because of tubercular trouble. Henry
is still here. Miss Simmons has a letter from her mother in which
she is informed of the great dissatisfaction of Mr. and Mrs. St.
Pierre on account of their boy being here. He is in the country
where he was visited recently by my cutting agent who reported him
contented and happy and apparently in good health, though when he
came my school physician noted there was slight lung trouble.
Miss Simmons urges that under all the circumstances and because of
the daughter's possible passing away soon and a cousin who came in
the same party having already died, that I send the boy home.

This is very unusual and foreign to our regulations, but un-
der the circumstances I have concluded to send him home as soon as
he can be brought in from the country. The reports I have of him
indicate that the boy is in better health now than when he came,
and there is no need for his returning home so far as his health
is concerned.

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March 12, 1900.

Mr. T. C. Campbell, Supt.
Indian School,
Fort Shaw, Mont.

My dear Sir :-

Mr. Goings whom you sent in to join our band accompanied the band to Harrisburg to give a concert Friday night last. After the concert was over he took two of the boys, formerly Fort Shaw musicians, left the party and was away all night. His coming to us at such a late hour making it impossible for me to find out just how amenable he is to discipline and his skylarking at the very first opportunity leads me to fear that his presence in the band will not be at all satisfactory. From your former letters he is very useful to you, and as I have the gravest appraisals that he will be a detriment to us I think best to send him back to you at once.

You can readily understand that the opportunities for license
the band boys will have on their tour are so great as to make it
imperative we have only those who will be most careful in their
conduct throughout.

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March 12, 1900.

Mr H. Ralph Dart,
Harpersfield,
Del. Co., New York.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of March 8th stating that about
six weeks ago you wrote enclosing fifty cents for subscription to
"The Red Man", and asked information in regard to securing a po-
sition as teacher in the Carlisle school, I have to advise you
that no letter has been received from you. I have searched my
files and, and as it cannot be found and our correspondence is very
carefully looked after, I suppose it was lost before reaching us.

In regard to employment at this school, all teachers' position
are filled by appointment from the Civil Service lists. When we
need a teacher, I notify the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and
he calls upon the Civil Service Commission in Washington for names
from the eligible list, and selection is made from these.

If you care to follow up the matter, write to the Chairman
the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C. stating your wish
and he will send you blanks and information as to how to proceed.

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March 12, 1900.

Miss Lillie Seonka,
Pajuate,
Laguna, New Mexico.

Dear Friend :-

I am very sorry to hear that your parents want Harry and
Howice to come home. They have been here less than three years,
and it is therefore impracticable for me to send them home. Both
are well and getting on nicely and seem perfectly happy and con-
tented. It would be a great injury to them to break into their
schooling. You can explain all this to your father and mother and
tell them that I think just as much of Howice and Harry as ever,
and will do the very best I can for them, as I have always done.
We must think of their interests rather than of ourselves.

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March 12, 1900.

Mrs. Lizzie Washington,
Cherokee,
Jackson Co., N. Car.

Dear Friend :-

I enclose a money order for Ten Dollars which your son Joseph wishes me to send you from his own account. He is not entitled to go home until he has been here five years, but is anxious to help you and says perhaps in the summer he can send you more. Joseph is a good boy and is getting on nicely.

You must take this money order to the postoffice, and they will give you Ten dollars for it; or if you are near the school and will take it to Mr. Spray he may be able to cash it for you.

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March 12, 1900.

Mr. R. H. Pulweiler,
Columbia, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

To go to Columbia via Lancaster would cost $1.85 each,
making the cost of transportation for the band a little over $100.
This in addition to our entertainment would make the cost to you
over $200. There is no train leaving Lancaster that would connect
and get the boys back to Carlisle the same evening. The last
train from there leaves at 10:40 and does not get to Harrisburg
until 11:45, which is too late for a connecting train over the
C.V.R.R.

There are several days next week under negotiation, just what
days they are I cannot say until we hear from our agent.

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., March 11th 1900.

Miss C. M. Semple,

Glenwood,

Ft. Worth,

Texas.

Ticket Ft. Worth to Chicago sent you by General Passenger Agent Atchison and Topeka Road or will be delivered to you on your application by local agent that road Ft. Worth. Wire me your starting and ticket Chicago to Carlisle will be with depot agent Penna. Line Chicago. Take sleeping car through my expense. Come at once.

Pratt, Major.

Sent via Western Union 9 P. M.

Night message.

TELEGRAM.

March 12.

Mr. Devendorf, Clerk, House Committee, will have three additional tickets for you at train Wednesday morning.

Pratt, Major.

Postal. 2:55 P.M.

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March 12, 1900.

Mr. Edgar C. Snyder, Clerk,
Committee on Indian Affairs,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Snyder :-

I have yours of the 10th naming

• Senator Foster, wife and daughter,

" McCumber, wife and two lady friends,

" Quarles and wife,

" Rawlins,

" Shoup, wife and two daughters,

" Thurston and wife,
Miss Brockway of Boston,

Mr. and Mrs. Purman, and Mrs. Thomas,

Mr. E.G. Dunnell of the New York Times, and
yourself and wife.

If by tomorrow, Tuesday noon, you can make a
more definite list than this please do so, and then
send me a telegram from Baltimore stating the addi-
tions and the losses if any, so that I may make as-
to rooms
signments here before the party reaches Carlisle.

Mr. Devendorf will do the same from his end, and
that will give me the list of those I will have to
take care of, and will be of great help to me in set-
tling things immediately on their arrival.

Hope this magnificent weather may continue.

With kind regards,

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March 13, 1900.

Miss Emily S. Cook,
Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Cook :-

Can't Willis and two or three of the messengers boys about the office act as ushers for us at the Armory? If they would I would rather pay them than people outside. Mr. Evans says it will cost two dollars apiece to get ushers, and we ought to have three. If Willis and two others can act for us, I think we can get along, and if we need more during the rush will use a band boy or two.

Quite a number of posters were sent to 937 Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday evening and should be there this morning. Will you please find out for me whether they have been received?

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March 13, 1900.

Mrs. A. Livingston,
717 Eighth St. N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Madam :-

I do not consider it vitally important that you come to Carlisle to show our people how to use your system. Mrs. DeLoss is pretty well acquainted with it and Mrs. Canfield thinks she understands it pretty well; so that you can send the dozen sets when ever you like, and I will get authority immediately I know you will send them and will pay you. Then later when it suits your convenience you can drop in on us here and see how well our people are working it out.

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March 10, 1900.

Mr. Frank Seneca,
Irving, New York.

My dear Mr. Seneca :-

It will be impossible for me to let Betha go home
again this summer. The example would be very bad for all the rest
of our students, and I cannot say "Yes" to one and not to another.

Yours very truly,

Major 10th Cavarly, Supt.

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March 10, 1900

Mr. J. M. Bradford,
Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Bradford :-

I think the fact that we are to furnish the music for
the Longfellow gathering in the Lafayette Opera House in the after
noon and give our entertainment in the evening, is fairly well
known and understood. What I hope from the afternoon effort is
that our music will be so good as to induce those who have other
members in the family to take it up and encourage quite a good
many to be present at the evening performance. I am sending out
two thousand of this week's Indian Helper with an expose of our
evening performance to people in the Interior Department. These
with the advertisement we shall get at the opera house in the af-
ternoon and what we shall put in the Washington papers in the way
of a notice I think will give us a full house. The Armory holds
easily eight hundred, but a thousand can be packed into it.

If Harry will come up at some time when we are not cumbered
with a crowd and give us a chalk talk I shall be very glad to take
care of him and pay his way, but I think I told you this. My fi-
nances at present are in such condition that I cannot undertake
more than I already have on my hands. He could not begin to see
the school as well at this time as he could later when we are by
ourselves. Yet he can come up at commencement and I will arrange
a ticket for him if you think best.

Sincerely yours,

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March 10, 1900.

Joseph W. Bricker,
13 N. Third St.,
Steelton, Pa.

Dear Sir :--

Replying to your letter of the 9th inst. I have to advise you that the information you have is about correct. We have had all through this year about 160 Catholic pupils, coming to us as Catholics. These I turned over to the care of their own church just as I turn over the Methodist, Episcopal, and Presbyterian pupils to their churches. Last week the Catholic priest held continuous formal services of some sort for the purpose of instructing those under his care in their church duties, etc. at which Bishop Shanley, of North Dakota officiated. About forty-four were taken into the church, as the newspapers advised. The services were valuable and instructive to the young people, and I am sure they have been revived and encouraged in their church life.

A few weeks before we had a similar experience with the Presbyterian element. I anticipate the Methodist, Episcopalians, and others will follow.

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March 10, 1900.

Miss Ellen Collins,
41 W. Eleventh Street,
New York.

My dear Friend : -

I am suffering from rheumatism and a chest
trouble and being almost disabled, use my secretary
to thank you for your very kind letter. I read it
to our students at morning prayers recently, and
thank you for the inspiration in it. I told the chil-
dren about the Juvenile Asylum, something of its ca-
reer being familiar to me through Dr. Agnew.

Sorry you cannot be with us during our com-
mencement period.

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March 10, 1900.

Mr. J. W. Sowers,
State College,
Center Co., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

There is a prospect that our present dairyman, who has
been with us five years, will not remain much longer, and my farm-
or tells me that you have been recommended as a dairman by Mr. Hay
ward. The salary of this position is $30.00 per month with a free
house and a ration for the dairyman, a ration for his wife, and
rations for the Indian boys who are under his care in the house,
which is arranged to accommodate them. These boys are assistant
milkers.

Would be glad to hear from you as to your age, experience,
members of your family and their ages, and such other information
as you may choose to give me in order to determine, provided a
change is made.

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March 10, 1900.

Mrs. Sam B. Davis,
Warm Springs, Ore.

My dear Florence :-

I most heartily congratulate you and Mr. Davis on the consummation of your union and sincerely wish that your way through life may be full of happiness and prosperity. I should be glad to get your pictures. The complete exoneration of Mr. Davis, evidence of which you send me, is the subject of the widest gratification to us all.

I saw the Commissioner a few days ago and he told me he was planning to give Mr. Davis a bonded school.

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March 10, 1900.

Mr. Levant Mason,
Jamestown, N. Y.

Dear Levant :-

We are in the midst of commencement preparations and have promise of an unusual time. More members of the House and Senate are expected than we have ever had before. Wish you could be with us.

I am bothered unusually by rheumatism in my left leg and by the old chest trouble of two years ago, both on me at once, still I hope to hang on until after commencement. Congratulate you and Eun on getting even with Laura and me. Glad to hear that you have both improved in health.

We hope to be with you May 9th and make something of a visit.

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March 10, 1900.

To His Excellency,
The Governor of
Laguna, N. Mexico.

My dear Governor :-

Annie Norton is of age and takes care of her own affairs
She is an employe of this school, not a pupil any longer. I have
handed her your letter and she can make such answer as she desires

Yours truly,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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March 10, 1900.

Mr. H. L. Masta,
P. O. Box 452,
Pine Hill, N.Y.

My dear Sir :-

In reply to your letter of the 8th inst. I am sorry to
have to inform you that the pleasant faced young Indian woman you
ask admission for to this school is barred by two rules ; one is
that she is over twenty-one; the other is that she belongs to Can-
ada. It is therefore impossible for me to accept of her as a stu-
dent.

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March 10, 1900.

My dear "iss Cook :-

I was not disappointed in the action of the Ladies)
Indian Association. I did not expect more. They are always
willing to see us, but cannot help us, even when we come to their
very door and would illustrate what they claim to plead, the
rights and ability of the Indian.

You are a master in the campaign, and we appreciate your ef-
forts very greatly. I will send you today fifty copies of an
advertising notice we are now printing in the Helpers.

Thank you for the reminder about Dr. and Mrs. Barrows. I had
them in mind, but we could not get their Washington address, and
so the invitation was sent to their old Boston address. I had a
card from Mrs. Barrows, and Nana wrote her yesterday. I hope they
will come.

I am suffering again with rheumatism, and find it some effort
to be up and about.

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