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THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., June 6th, 1896.

Alexander E. Opensaw,
c/o R. N. Muschert,
Penn's Valley, Pa.

Dear Friend :-

Your letter of the 6th inst. making request to visit Washington, has been received.

If as you say, it is agreeable to your employer for you to make
a short visit, there is no objection, as you are well able to take
care of yourself. I hope, however, that you will very carefully con-
sider your employer's interests and not absent yourself longer than
is necessary; as while he may consent to your absence, it may be at
the cost of some inconvenience to himself. Therefore make your visit
brief, and while I do not know your business, I suggest that you be
careful not to undertake anything but strictly the visiting of your
friends.

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In reply to

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Miss Emily Peake,

Leech Lake, Minn.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter of June 1st to hand. I was glad to hear from you and to find from your letter that you are successful and satisfied. As I read your letter I feel thankful that some years ago I had a hand in bringing you east, because I feel it has made you what you are.

In regard to the children, I think you have decided rightly, although I would have been glad to see you here, but if bringing a party here gives the opportunity of visiting Carlisle to your Superintendent, I think it will be an advantage to him as well as to us to make his acquaintance. If a party should come from your school, I hope there will be some good girls among them who can follow your example.

I wish to say one word in regard to Chippewas generally, viz: that with the exception of a few of the older ones from White Earth, they seem to be more restless and unsteady than most other Indians. I would therefore recommend that in making up the party you avoid sending those who are at all over age or who are of a restless and unsettled disposition so far as you can.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Ares Reid,

Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter of June 6th in which you speak of wanting to go home instead of returning to the school when your time is out. I have not kept track of the time myself, and so I do not know when your period will expire; furthermore, it is a matter that does not rest with me to determine unless you should be liberated before Captain's return. I will not therefore give you any reply to that beyond telling you that I think Captain's decision would be for you to redeem your reputation where you lost it. You certainly have a better opportunity here than anywhere else.

I am glad to read in your letter what you once said to me personally, that you have resolved never to touch liquor again. I am sure if your present difficulties have led you to form such a resolution and you adhere to it throughout life, the experience you are having will prove the best possible thing that could happen to you. Therefore do not allow yourself to be discouraged, but look hopefully at the future. In a year or two you can thoroughly regain that which for the time has been lost. So far as the school and its officials are concerned, we do not desire punishment but reformation.

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., June 8th, 1896.

Miss Emily L. Tuckerman,
C/O Mrs. E. R. Richardson,
Pepperell, Mass.

Dear Madam :-

Your letter of the 4th inst. with list of books enclosed
comes to me for attention, Capt. Pratt being in the West.

I have submitted the list to the School Principal to make se-
lections, and he selects as follows, viz:-

Manual of Greek and Roman Antiquity. - Bojesen.

Davies' Elements of Algebra.

Mechanical Drawing.

Treatise on The Structure of the English Language. - Greene.

Arithmetic for Primary Grades.

Classical Manual. - Baird.

Colburn's Algebra.

Guyot's "Earth and Man".

If you can send these they will be greatly appreciated. In
regard to the others, he says they are not books that would be ser-
viceable in this school.

Thanking you for your kindness, I am

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 9th, 1896.

Rev. C. W. Humphreys,
Lancaster, S. Car.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 3rd inst. to Capt. Pratt comes to me
for attention owing to his absence in the west. I note what you say
about your prospect of working among the Catawba Indians, and your
request for an Indian teacher to commence the work. You say it is
to be taken up from the first; therefore from what I know of such en-
terprises in other places and what we can rightly expect from Indians
even educated ones, I would very strongly recommend you to put the
enterprise in the hands of a white teacher having the same qualifica-
tions you desire in an Indian teacher. We have educated Indians who
make excellent helpers and are in demand to fill teachers' positions
in established Indian schools, and give satisfaction in many ways.

Yet as the result of many years experience I would advise you not to
depend on an Indian for the commencing and founding of your work.

They have not the resources in this that white teachers have. I say
this with the most friendly feeling to the Indians and to your work.

I would also suggest to you the desirability of your putting
a number of your young people in this school, if they are suitable
ones, who could take the course of training here given and they be

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In reply to:

Mr. W. H. Peffer, P.M.,

Carlisle, Pa.

My Dear Sir :-

Your letter in regard to Mrs. Sproutt indicates a very sad
condition in her case. Like yourself we are surprised, because she
looked the picture of health. From the wording of your former letter
I felt very doubtful of the outcome, and it now seems there is little
prospect for her.

It is not likely there will be any attempt to fill the position
as the time is so close when the teachers scatter for vacation, and
the duties will be light and can be handled in other ways for a time.
Mr. Kensler who looks after the financial business of the club tells
me there are $12.00 due Mrs. Sproutt still in his hands. This I can
send to you for her if it is desired. Shall I do so ?

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Curlisle, Pa., June 9th, 1906.

Mrs. M. Sperling,

Vincennes, Ind.

Dear Madam :-

Your letter to Capt. Pratt in regard to Frank Jones comes to me for attention as Capt. Pratt is now in the West.

Frank is a member of the next graduating class of the school; on June 2nd he went to spend the summer months working for Mr. Edward D. Cooper at Newtown, Pa. We do not know anything yet as to what his plans may be after he has graduated. I doubt if he has any, but that will naturally come when the time is nearer.

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF
MID AN SCHOOL

Carlisle, Pa., June 6th, 1890.

Mary Out Foot,
a/o Mrs. Chas. Norsbythe,
Dowlingtown, Pa.

Dear friend :-

I have your letter asking for permission to come in and
spend a day at the school before the pupils go West.

As I add your letter and see how well you can make yourself
understood in writing, I do not see the need of your coming in to say
anything you wish to your friends. It would be like spending a good
deal of your money for a very little pleasure. It is pleasant to say
"Yes!" to many of the requests that pupils make, but when it comes
to spending that which it takes you a month to earn perhaps for only
one day's pleasure, I do not think it a right expense to be incurred.
So while I am glad to hear that you have a good place and like it, I
think you had better not make the visit.

Your friend,

Aust. Agent, in charge.

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In reply to:

Mr. Oliver Parker,
1095 Germantown Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Our supply of articles you enumerate in your letter of June 8th are purchased at an annual letting in New York, where supplies for the whole Indian service are purchased, usually in the month of May each year. The contracts for this year are already settled.

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In reply to:

Mr. E. H. Lehman,
Salem Church P. O.,
Cumberland Co., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Your note of the 8th inst. to hand in regard to the Jersey cow you have for sale. In reply I have to say that we are not at the present time needing to buy any cows and probably will not during this year.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., June 11th, 1996.

Mrs. Harriett F. Abbott,
110 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dear Madam :-

Your letter of the 8th inst. with checks enclosed amount-
ing to $15.00 on account of Frances Johnson, comes to hand in the ab-
sence of Captain Pratt and is therefore acknowledged by me. I regret
to say that Frances is in failing health but enjoys herself in a
quiet way and is quite contented.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 11th, 1896.

Prof. Joseph H. Barton,
Normal School,
Shippensburg, Pa.

My Dear Sir :--

I have yours of June 10th inst. in regard to the use of
the Indian band at your Commencement. In regard to this I can only
say that if we had a band it would probably be at your service; but
we have not. It is completely broken up and scattered for the summer
and some of the principal players will not again be in it. We
therefore have no band to talk about.

If you find difficulty in getting music, allow me to state
that there is in Carlisle a very good orchestra managed by Mr. Edward
Harkness which could probably be had, although I know nothing of
their terms. Mr. Harkness is an employee of this school and if I can
do anything for you in regard to them, I shall be pleased to do so.

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In reply to:

Mrs. Mary Miller,
C/o Mrs. Sabila S. Cope,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Friend Mary :-

A letter comes today in regard to your sister Lily's co-
ing home. I am told you had a talk with Captain about this matter
and Captain has marked her on the list to stay.

I would like to have you write to your mother about it. At any
rate I will not make any change in the arrangement Captain has made
until he has come back, and you can tell your mother this. Do so
and oblige,

Your friend,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., June 12th, 1896.

Miss Louisa King,

W. DePere, Wis.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter of May 30th in regard to your sisters coming home this summer. I am sorry I cannot give you any encouragement, for the reason that Captain Pratt went over all the names before he went away and decided whether they should go home or not. Your sisters are young yet and while it would be pleasant for you to see them, yet the expense of going home for vacation is too great. Tickets now cost much more than they did a year or two ago, and we are doing as little traveling as possible.

Both of your sisters are in the country for the summer, Celinda near Philadelphia and Ophelia at Benderville on the Gettysburg road.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 13th, 1876.

Rev. Charles H. Cook,
Sacaton,
Pinal Co.,
Arizona.

Dear Mr. Cook :

Enclosed herewith I forward you bill of lading for a box
of lamps shipped to you as per arrangement with Captain Pratt. On
inquiry we found that express charges would come to about $0.00
whereas the freight rate is but $3.75 per 100 lbs.

We therefore ship them early hoping they may reach you in good
condition by the time you desire them. Contents are four small Roch-
ester lamps, two large, one student and one Yale and a few chimneys
and wicks.

I hope you will receive them in good order and find them useful

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 13th, 1896.

Mr. Charles T. Cornman, Agt.,
Phil. & Reading H.R.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter of the 11th transmitting rates to the
various points and note that your second class rate to Harlem, Mont,
is $54.50 while the first class rate is $57.80. Is the second class
rate as quoted quite correct ?

I would also state that the question asked in my letter in
regard to whether tickets could be used in June and paid for in July
has not been answered in your letter.

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Carlstine, Pa., June 15th, 1898.

Rev. D. B. Floyd,
Newville, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 13th inst. comes to hand in the absence
of Capt. Pratt. I cannot give you a definite answer to the question
you raise, but will keep your letter for attention as soon as he re-
turns. Meanwhile, would be glad to have the young lady make her per-
sonal application by letter in her own hand-writing.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 15th, 1896

Mr. C. Gorman,

Montclair, N. J.

Dear Sirs:

In the absence of Capt. Pratt, your letter of June 1st
making inquiries, comes to me for attention.

You are correct in your supposition that Indians in their trib-
lal relations are not voters. If however, they live separate from
their tribes and are self-supporting, they are entitled to vote.
Also if they have taken up land under the provisions of the Dawes
Bill, a synopsis of which I enclose herewith. Outside of these con-
ditions they are not voters unless by state law as is the case in
Michigan where all the Indians were made citizens about the year 1836

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUBSINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa., June 15th, 1896.

Miss Efficie Spencer,
C/O Samuel A. Johnson,
Hurtsville, Pa.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter of the 14th in which you speak of John-
son's writing to you for some money on account of his broken thumb.
He has broken his thumb, but boys who play baseball are liable to get
hurt. His thumb is mending very rapidly, and you need not send him
any money on that account. Johnson is not feeling good just now be-
cause he wants badly to go home and Captain has refused him. I sus-
pect if he could get a few dollars he would attempt to run away. I
shall not therefore give him any money unless I find he has none at
all and needs a little for something.

Do not think you have all the potato bugs in Bucks County. We
have plenty of them at Carlisle.

Your friend,

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., June 16th, 1896.

John Quincy Adams,
C/O Mr. Rich,
Edgewood, Pa.

Dear friend :

Your letter of May 18th went across the continent to Capt Pratt as you requested it should do. It has come back to me, and I have also consulted with Mr. Spray in regard to your case. Everyone seems to think you are doing well and that your journey home would very likely upset your plans for the future beside being an unnecessary expense to the Government for your fare going and returning.

We all therefore counsel you to settle yourself down to your summer's work and come into school in the fall and continue your studies during the winter, as it seems you have been in the country quite a good deal.

Your friend,

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Miss Elizabeth E. Forster,
1205 N. 2nd St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Madam :-

Your application came to hand some weeks ago in the absence of Capt. Pratt. There seemed nothing to do with it until his return. I therefore hold it here and write you only to inform you just what the situation is. I expect Captain back in about two weeks from this time, and will bring it to his attention at once.

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In reply to

Carliole, Pa., June 16th, 1996.

Jesse Kinjockety,
C/o Wm. Anchors,
Titusville, N. J.

Dear Jesse :-

I have your letter in regard to buying a bicycle. Now I know very well that a bicycle is what most boys want to have; but as I examine your money account I see you have about $23.00 here and $7.00 or thereabouts due you from the country, making in all about $50.00. Now, while a bicycle is a very good thing to have, I do not think it quite right for a boy to spend all his money for a bicycle.

I would therefore like to know what sort of a bicycle you expect to buy. The money you have will hardly buy a new one and second hand ones are often unsatisfactory. Tell me just what you expect to buy for one.

Your friend,

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 19th, 1906.

Mrs. Emille W. Turner,
Westerville, Ohio.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of the 17th inst. in regard to a
position in the Indian service I have to say that almost all such
positions are now filled through the Civil Service Bureau.

The right way to proceed is to make application to the Bureau
in Washington for blanks on which to make your regular application,
giving particulars as to your qualifications, etc., which if satis-
factory will bring you notice of time and place where examinations
will be held. Being placed on the list of successful candidates, you
are liable to be assigned to duty at any point in the country where
a teacher's services are required in the Indian service.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Carlisle, Pa., June 20th, 1996.

Mr. D. A. Weist,

Treverton, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Replying in the absence of Capt. Pratt to your letter of
June 18th in regard to some Indian music, etc. I have to say that it
is now vacation time at this school and we are not in a position to
meet any calls of this kind.

I submitted your letter to the young man to whom I suppose you
allude, Mr. Wheelock, the band master, and he says that aside from
himself there is no one now at the school who is capable of giving
you what you wish; and his other duties at this season of the year
prevent him making any such engagements as you wish. The case might
be different late in the fall,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., June 20th, 1896.

Louise F. Austin,
Sec. Woman's Educational Union,
86 Delaware Ave.,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Dear Madam :-

Your letter of the 17th inst. to Capt. Pratt comes to me
for attention as he is away from home!

Miss Mary Cheyney of whom you speak was an employee at this
school for about three months in the year 1890. She was a young lady
of intelligence, pleasing in manner and appearance. Her services as
dining room matron were satisfactory and terminated by her own wish
because the duties were not congenial. So far as I know anything of
her I do not see why she should not but the position for which she
now applies; although as you see, her stay here was hardly long
enough for us to get thoroughly acquainted.

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Joseph Black Bear,

C/O Mr. Jos. H. Beck,

Penn's Manor, Pa.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter about a suit for yourself made from the uniform cloth. In regard to this I have to say that as long as you are a pupil of this school you will be supplied with all the uniforms you need made from such cloth. When you graduate you will be supplied with a good suit of citizen's clothing from this or some other cloth; but outside of that the uniform cloth will not be made up into citizens' suits.

While I approve of your desire to save all you can from your earnings, you can see that if this were done for you, it might be done for fifty others. I therefore advise you to stick to your uniform and save your money.

Your friend,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 22nd, 1896.

Miss Luzena Choteau,
303 E. Indiana St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Friend Luzena :-

I have your letter asking for an introduction to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. I enclose herewith a letter you can use for that purpose. Not knowing what your special business with him is I cannot of course make it anything but general, stating who you are and what we know of you as a Carlisle graduate.

I hope it may serve your purpose.

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Carlisle, pa., June 22nd, 1996.

Hon. D. M. Browning,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :-

This will introduce to you Miss Luzena Choteau, a graduate of the Carlisle School who has for some time been employed as a clerk in the office of The Chicago Inter Ocean, and is now a delegate to the Christian Endeavor Convention in Washington.

Miss Choteau has been successful in making her own way and is highly esteemed by the faculty of the Carlisle School. She asked me for a letter of introduction to you which I give without knowing at all her special object in seeking an interview with you.

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In reply to:

Edward C. Haviland,
Box 87, Rye,
West Chester Co.,
New York.

Dear Sir :-

Complying with the request in your letter of June 14th I
send you herewith a list of names of those who have been thought suit
able to receive the literature you propose sending them.

I enclose also a list of Indian Training Schools which is cor-
rect as to the schools and post-offices, but not in every case as to
the name of the Superintendent, as there are liable to be changes at
any time. Enclose also a copy of the last annual report.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, pa., June 22nd, 1896.

Mayflower Mills,

Ft. Wayne, Ind.

Gentlemen :-

Replying to your inquiry of the 19th inst. I have to say
that the supply of flour advertised for is intended to be enough with
our own product to last us for a year and is usually delivered at
the school when and in such quantities as may be called for, con-
tract to expire June 30th, 1897.

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In reply to:

Miss Julia Long,
M. E. Hospital,
S. Broad St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Friend Julia :-

I have your letter of the 21st asking for a ticket to Carlisle. I had once before asked Miss Ely about your ticket and she said she thought you had one, but as that does not seem to be the case, you will find another herewith.

I am glad to know that you are well enough to travel and if you will tell us what train you will be on, you will be met at the train.

Your friend,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

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In re: 10.

Carlisle, Pa., June 22nd, 1996.

Marcellus Behazun,

Fort Sill, Okla. Ky.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter about the money due you has been received.
The money was sent you April 18th and a letter written to you since
telling of this. Both letters were sent to Fort Sill where you write
from, and you should have received them. The money has been sent
and there is nothing here now to your credit. If it has not reached
you, that is something we cannot control and know nothing about.
Miss Luckenbach's statement herewith will show you just how your ac-
count stands.

Your friend,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Capt. H. B. Scott,
7th Cavalry,
Fort Sill, Okla. Ky.

Sir :-

One of the Apache young men under your care, Marcellus Penazun, has written several times in regard to some money due him from a former employer in Pennsylvania. On the 18th of April a draft for $25.00, the balance still due him was sent to him, addressed to Fort Sill; but he seems never to have received, neither does he mention a letter written from here May 26th giving information in regard to the former letter. I therefore send this to you asking that the letter be delivered to him, as well as to inform you of the previous sending of the $25.00, which letter should be at the Fort Sill Post Office if not returned by them to the Dead Letter Office or delivered to someone else, and thus failed to reach the proper person.

Please set the matter right, and oblige

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa., June 23rd, 1936.

Mrs. Lora Spalds,
211 C. St., N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam :-

Your letter in regard to an unpaid board bill contracted
by Johnson Adams when he was in Washington, has been received. In
reply I would say that Johnson Adams was called to Washington in re-
sponse to a request from Mr. J. Bottineau whose address you give,
to help him in some matters he had in hand, the arrangement being
that Mr. Bottineau was to pay his expenses while there; and while
Johnson Adams is still a member of this school and can be reached ,
it seems to me that Mr. Bottineau is the man to be looked to in the
first place, as he is responsible for Adams' being in Washington at
the time.

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In re: reply to:

Mr. J. H. Johnston,
Emporium, Pa.

Dear Sir :--

Yours of the 22nd inst. to Capt. Pratt comes to hand in
his absence, and will await his return before any definite reply is
given. As the time you speak of is so far ahead I do not imagine
this will make any particular difference to you, but I will say that
the probabilities are rather against a favorable answer to your let-
ter, as such trips are undertaken only rarely.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 23rd, 1906.

Mr. Thos. R. Rostram,
New Bedford, Mass.

Dear Sir :-

Replying in the absence of Capt. Pratt to your letter of
the 20th inst. relative to an Adams Chart, I have to say that I sub-
mitted your letter to the Principal of the Educational Department
and he said he thought the chart would be very valuable for some of
our higher classes. We therefore thoughtfully accept your proposal to
donate it to the school.

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT, ETC.

Carlisle, Pa., June 24th, 1896.

Mrs. A.R.H. Abbott,
110 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of yesterday in regard to Frances
Johnson, I am sorry to say that I cannot give you at all a hopeful
view of her condition. There is no question but that she has con-
sumption and is gradually growing weaker in spite of all the care we
can give her. She has, of course, the constant supervision of our
school physician and receives such diet and out-door air and rides
etc. as we can give her, but the Doctor tells me today that he does
not expect her to recover. I have just been to see her, sitting very
comfortably by the fire, cheerful and contented.

There has been a discussion at times as to what was best to do
with her; whether a change to her own locality would benefit her or
not, but there seemed no place suitable there, and everyone seemed to
think it better for her to stay where she is. I think Frances under-
stands her situation. She has a very nice disposition and is liked
by all those about her. You may rely upon her being as well cared
for as our circumstances will admit of.

Very respectfully yours,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

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Carlstie, Pa., June 24th, 1896.

Miss Jessie Robertson,
N/O Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Friend :

I have received the cards of invitation to your graduating ex-
c(s)ules and can assure you that I am very proud of your career and
c success. I am afraid however that my duties will not allow of my
being present. I would like very much if someone from here could be
there, but just now cannot say.

Whether we are there or not, you may feel assured that all here
are
highly gratified that you have reached the end with such honor to
yourself and of course to Carlisle.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
IN LAW SCHOOL
OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carliole, Pa., June 24th, 1896.

Col. Thomas H. Jones, Supt.
Indian School,
Santa Fe, N. Mex.

Dear Sirs:

In behalf of the faculty of this school I thank you for
the invitation to your closing exercises, and congratulate you on
the very interesting programme you have arranged for the occasion.

Capt. Pratt is still in the West but out of range, so that
probably this letter is the only acknowledgment we can give you.

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Sgt. A. M. McEwan, Supt.,
Indian School,
Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Dear Sirs:

Your invitation to the closing exercises of the Albuquerque School on June 23rd and 24th, comes to hand duly. Of course time and distance prevent anyone from being present, but none the less we congratulate you on the progress your well arranged programme indicates and hope that your great day may be in every way successful and the future of Albuquerque prosperous.

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., June 34th, 1896.

Mr. Herbert H. Johnson,

Shawnee, Okla. To.

Dear friend Herbert :-

Your letter of the 19th has been received. It is true I
had not heard anything of you for years, but expected that instead of
being in the Indian School Service you would be raising fine stock
on that Kansas farm. I will admit that with a university education
and your experience you ought to be capable of filling a better posi-
tion than the one you now occupy. From what I know of the Shawnee
School I imagine you are pleasantly located, and that is a great
thing in the Indian Service, as there are so many out-of-the-way
places.

If I am at Lawrence and meet you there, we will talk over your
affairs more particularly.

Please remember me kindly to your father.

Very truly yours,

Appnt. Dept.

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., June 24th, 1996.

M lattice P. Home,
/o/ Mrs. H. H. Robinson,
Mr. Helly, New Jersey.

Dear Friends

I have your letter duly to hand. In it you speak of several things; first of your prospective change from Mrs. Robinson's; also of your school period being out, and of your wish to go to Indian Territory to visit your friends.

I find from Miss May that it is not likely you will be changed for the reason that Mrs. Robinson says she is learning your ways and that you are learning to cook well and she likes you; so that matter seems satisfactory. As to your time being out, when I brought you to Carlisle I told you plainly that five years was the term, I think you were then reading in the Fourth Reader and I may have said you ought to get through it in three years. If you had graduated in three years, you know that would have completed the term. That you failed to do so of course, does not meat with me. I find from Miss Chaffner that your staying over another year is by your own action; that you agreed to stay and go to the country and so are placed us you are. On the list Captain Pratt has left me of those whose time is up, I find your name, but you are marked to stay. I suppose on that account,

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Your feelings are in this matter, but I also know the cost of trav-
aling and how unlikely it is that you would return to school and com-
plete your course. If you stick to it and graduate, in all probabil-
ity you will be taken care of for life; I mean that you will be able
to get a good paying position and so make your own living. I there-
fore strongly recommend you to settle down for the summer and come
back in the fall and push your studies all you can until you reach
the graduating point.

Very truly your friend,

Asst. Supt. in Charge.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25th, 1896.

Mr. E. G. Koutzahn,
Box 916,
Dayton, Ohio.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your card just to hand, I have to say that
about the only Indians left with us during vacation who can talk well
have just started for the Northfield Convention. It is not likely
there will be anyone from this school at the Washington Convention,
nor have we anything it would be worth while to send to Canton.
The Helpers you ask for will be sent today.

Thanking you for your interest and suggestions, I am

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 27th, 1896.

Mrs. L. B. Given,
#12 West Fourth St.,
S. Bethlehem, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Given :--

We have been hearing of you at different times, sometimes more hopefully than at other times, but your last word seemed to indicate that it would be a long time before you could either move Jim or leave him.

The end of the month and the end of the fiscal year is close upon us, and before we get very far into July, by some means or other we ought to have your name on the pay roll as the closing of the year will not allow of one month carrying over to another. Is there a probability that you will be able during the first ten days of July to be here for that purpose? I hope that if the weather settles, it will help Jim. It has been so very damp.

This morning I received the college paper which gives me the right understanding of the Class Cup which has been committed to Jim's keeping, and which I could not before understand. We often think of you, and you as well as Jim have the sympathy of all in your present trouble.

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in order to take charge of the Girls' Quarters during the absence of
Miss Campbell and Miss Shaffner. Miss Quinn will then take her
place at the Small Boys' Quarters.

With kind regards to you and Jim,

Very truly yours,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa., June 29th, 1936.

Mayflower Mills,

Port Wayne, Ind.

Gentlemen: 2-

Replying to request in your letter of the 27th inst. I have to say that the successful bidder on the flour was U. G. Barnitz a local miller, his bid being $1.57 per 100 lbs. delivered, quality same as furnished by him last year which has been satisfactory, grade being designated by him as XX Family Flour.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 29th, 1896.

Supt. H. D. Arkwright,
Indian School,
Toma, Wis.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 17th inst. to Capt. Pratt comes to hand
in his absence and in his stead I thank you for the kindly expres-
sions in your letter towards Carlisle.

If at any time you should be able to accomplish the transfer of
desirable students from Toma to Carlisle you may count on our cooper-
ation. Capt. Pratt has been absent from the school about 2 1/2
months. I expect him back a little before the middle of July when
your letter will be brought to his attention.

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Dr. W. N. Hailman,
Supt. Indian Schools,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

The telegram sent you on the 23rd was not on my own account, but for Mrs. Young, wife of Agent Young of Pima Agency, who was at Carlisle and contemplated a visit to Washington to see you on some special business. She has since gone to her home in Kentucky.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2nd, 1896.

Miss H. M. Abbott,

Dear Madam :-

I hereby thankfully acknowledge receipt of your check for
$20.00 from Mrs. Abbott on account of Frances Johnson.

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Carlicle, Pa., July 2nd, 1896.

Jno. W. Frank,

Belling Springs, Pa.

Dear Sir :

Two or three years ago you made application here for work
as baler. Are you still looking for such a job ? If so, let us know
or make a call at your earliest convenience.

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Carliole, Pa., July 1st, 1896.

To The Adjutant,

10th U. S. Cavalry,
Fort Custer, Montana.

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. G. O.,
August 23rd, and Letter of Instructions from the Honorable Secretary
of the Interior, dated September 6th, 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

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

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., July 1st, 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, 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.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

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

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Carlsisle, Pa. July 22d, 1936.

Mr. J. A. Pratt,
548 Buckhout St.,
New York.

Dear Sirs:

Your letter to Capt. Pratt comes to hand in his absence.

I send you as requested such statistics and reports as I hope will
serve your purposes.

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Chester Smith,
C/O Mr. H. Satterthwaite,
Falsington, Pa.

Friend Chester :-

I have your letter in which you ask to be released from
your place and go home. Last Spring you know you had a chance to de-
cide and concluded to stay. If, like Amos and George you had decided
to visit at home, that would have been all right, as they have now
gone. I cannot release you now just because you express a wish to go
home. Your bargain is made for this summer.

As to your health I shall be very sorry if anything is going
wrong with you and will ask Mr. Spray who will visit you shortly to
be very careful in his report of your case to tell just how you are
and how you are getting on.

Here we are right in the thick of harvest. About one day more
will see all the wheat cut, but the wheat is very poor.

I expect Captain Pratt will be at home in about a week from
today. All are well at the school.

Your friend,

Asst. Supt. in charge.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 6th, 1896.

Mrs. Anna Senache,

Shawnee City P. O., Ind. Ky.

Dear Madam :-

Your request for Fred's things to be sent you has been re-
ceived. As to money, he had none; as to his few belongings, they
were mostly clothing which had been issued to him here. There is
nothing of value to be sent unless it could be done at some time
when someone is going to your station.

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In reply to:

G. Murray Klepper,

Catawissa, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of June 30th in regard to an entertainment sometime in the future, comes to hand in the absence of Capt. Pratt. I expect him home in about a week. Your letter will then be brought to his attention. Meanwhile this will explain the delay in answering your questions.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., July 7th, 1896.

Mr. Thomas Rodman,
New Bedford, Mass.

Dear Sir :

We are today in receipt of the Adams Chart which you have
been kind enough to send us and an examination of it shows it to be
a work of great value and interest. We are very much obliged to you
for remembering our school in connection with it. As a very slight
acknowledgment I mail you today one of our illustrated souvenir books
which may prove of some interest to you.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7th 1896

Miss Mattie Horn,

Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Madam :-

I have your letter making application for a position at
this school if there should be any vacancy, and have to say that
there is no position now vacant, but would suggest that sometime in
a week or two you renew your application to Capt. Pratt stating def-
initely what you would like and what you can do.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., July 9th, 1896.

Supt. W. A. Mills,

Whites Institute,

Wabash, Ind.

Dear Sir :-

John Iron Whip arrived in good shape on Friday evening, the 3rd inst. I should have written you stating this before, but it slipped my mind for a day or two. John seems now to be feeling all right and says he will do what is right in the future, and has gone to work to work out the value of his ticket.

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Carlstie, Pa., July 9th, 1896.

Lydia Smith,
J. C. Parry,
Wyncote, Pa.

Dear Friend :-

A letter comes from your father to Capt. Pratt asking for a loan of $100.00 from you for one year, stating that he needs the money, and so on. This morning a Treasury draft for $302.00 was received for you. I would like you to write at once to Capt. Pratt who will be here in a few days, stating whether you wish to make this loan to your father or not. Of course you know his circumstances much better than we do and can judge whether it is necessary for you to do as he desires.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 10th, 1896.

Mr. J. H. Fagin,
Everett House,
Martinsburg, W. Va.

Dear Sir : -

I have yours in regard to the plastering that may be required on the new building. As the building has not been begun, the plastering is a long way off. When the time comes it will be awarded as usual by propositions by the different plasterers, and your opportunities will come with the others.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Perry Tsamaya,

Laguna, N. Mex.

Dear Friend :-

By the notice I forward you herewith you will see that you
have been appointed as Shoe and Harness Maker for the Fort Peck, Mont-
tana boarding school at a salary of $480. per year. When you receive
this it will be necessary for you, either to accept or decline it. If
you accept, you will have to reach Fort Peck at your own expense.
If you had remained here, we could have sent you there instead of to
Laguna, but now it is your own matter. Consult with Mr. Robert Mar-
mon in regard to this and decide at once, and notify the Commissioner
If you are not able to pay your fare, of course that settles it.

If you decide to go I think you can do the work required and
you are recommended for the place by this school. Mr. Marmon will
advise you rightly.

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July 11th 1896.

Mr. G. D. School.

Department of Agriculture,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Sirs:

Your letter meets me upon my return from
the west this morning.

We shall be glad to have you visit the School
on any day that may be convenient for you, and this
being vacation time for the school-room work there
is no choice in the week days. Many of the students
are away on fairs under our Outing System, but the
industrial work of the school goes on and this and
the buildings will be of interest to you. If you
will call at my office upon your arrival I shall
be glad to give you a guide about the grounds.

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 13th 1896.

My dear Dr. Jackson:-

Yours of June 24th from Unalaska is just received and I
hasten to say that I will arrange that such number of tickets, not
exceeding ten, that you may call for will be delivered to you by
Mr. Nadeau, the General Agent of the Northern Pacific Road at Seattle.
These will be in addition to the number Edward may bring. My expect-
ation is that his party will be small, because of his not being able
to get girls. Five very nice young men, 16 to 18 years, met me at
different points on my way back to tell me of their desire to come
to Carlisle. I referred them all to Edward and he knows who they
all are. Edward met us at Loring and came as far as Ketchikan. He
told me that Mr. Duncan was decidedly against any of them going
away, but the Indians were very much inclined to go against Mr.
Duncan's wishes now.

I regret exceedingly that I was not able to take the trip
further north with you. We arrived home last Saturday morning,
having left the Park four days before. I should have enjoyed very
much extending the trip, but taking all in all I did the right and
proper thing in returning. Nana and I are full of the delightful
memories of our trip, and feel so glad to have been with you on

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Frank Terry,

Supt. Indian School,

Crow Agency, Montana.

My dear Sir:-

We had a royal trip through the Park and found the fishing
in Yellowstone Lake and at other points all that we anticipated. We
left there last Monday evening and arrived home Saturday. I urge
that you and Mrs. Terry make the trip while you are in that region,
do not allow yourself to think it is near and you can go any time
nor stand on the order of your going. Everyone, and especially
Americans, are the bigger for having taken it.

With kindest regards from myself and daughter for you and Mrs.

Terry,

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Miss Luzena Chouteau,

% The Inter-Ocean,

Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Luzna:-

Nana and I return home last Saturday after our long trip.
We had a delightful but hurried trip to Alaska and a week in Yellow-
stone Park on our way home which we greatly enjoyed.

I am now very busy with the different affairs of the School
held for my attention, but I want to write and thank you for the
good account of our nurse girls which you wrote for the Inter-
Ocean for June 29th. You have presented the matter well and it
will help the cause. I am glad that you are working upward and wish
you all success in your efforts.

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14th 1896.

Rev. Alex. McMillan,
St. John's Rectory,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Mr. McMillan:—

Your kind note of the 13th comes to me this morning. There
are twenty-six of your Episcopal boys and girls to go to the
picnic to-morrow, but only nine have the money to pay their railroad
fare. The pupils tell me that they were told if they did not have
the money their fare was to be paid, and as this was the understand-
ing also of their teachers we were forming plans somewhat along that
line. If, however, we are mistaken will you kindly advise me at
once. Miss Hill will go with the party.

Mrs. Pratt and I thank you for your cordial invitation. It
would be delightful to spend a day with you in the Grove, but we
are unable to be away tomorrow. I have just returned home from my
long absence and find the work crowding upon me.

N.

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Miss Marion Worthington,

111 South 2nd Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Marion:-

It grieves me sore that I feel I cannot in justice to
others give you something to do. The fact is we have graduate girls
who are capable of performing any work we may require and who are
dependent upon us for employment during vacation: Nellie Robertson,
Cynthia Webster, Alice Parker, Louisa Geesdorf and others absorb,
and more than absorb, the places we have to fill at this time. You
know what a time for idleness it is for us in vacation here and we
have had already a very exceptional class of advanced and grown
girls come in from the west this year, who fill many niches.

Nana wrote you how our sympathy has been with you in all you
bereavement in the loss of your dear, good Mother. We shall
always feel closely interested in you, and hope you will look to
Carlisle as an old friend. We shall help you when and in whatever
way we can.

Faithfully your friend,

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N.

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Hon. J. H. Southard,
Toledo, Ohio.

Dear Sirs:-

I left home on the 24th of April last for a trip among the
Indians in the west, passing out through the southwest, going as
far as Alaska, and returning by the northwest. I visited many
Agencies and Schools and gained much information in regard to them,
and if you were on the Indian Committee I should trouble you with a
very long letter.

Your kindly note of the 16th of May comes before me only since
my return. I passed through Toledo on Friday last but was enroute
home and in such haste because my Assistant Superintendent was
required to go west on Saturday by the Department to be absent about
three weeks, else I should have stopped to see you and other friends
and relatives in Toledo. I write now to say that I sincerely hope
that you and Mrs. Southard and the children will start from home in
time to pay us a visit at Carlisle of sufficient length to get
acquainted and for you to learn what we are doing here. I am sure
as a legislator, irrespective of other reasons, the importance of
the interests will more than warrant your doing so, and it will

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President Julius D. Dreher,

Roanoke College,

Salem, Virginia.

My dear Doctor:-

On my return last Saturday from a trip which began the
24th of April and extended as far as Alaska, I found your valued
note of the second of June, and I am exceedingly sorry that no notice
was taken of it by the person in charge of my correspondence. I
should have been greatly pleased to have been at your Commencement
this year and heard the young Choctaw and witnessed the other
interesting ceremonies, but at the time I was in Alaska. Better
luck next time.

Come and see me when you can. In the meantime I shall make
a desperate effort to run down and see you between times. Let me
know when something is going on which will be of special interest.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF A PERMANENT OFFICER

Miss Grace E. Matthews,

Box 618, Newton Center, Massachusetts.

Dear Miss Matthews:-

I have just returned from a long trip in the west and
find your letter of June 18th.

We have always been very grateful for the interest of your
Society, and especially for the material help you have given us. We
are glad to retain the first, and thank you for your kind words of
sympathy in our efforts, and while we shall miss your regular
donation, we appreciate the circumstances which have caused the
omission.

We are growing as a School and look forward this next year to
the accomplishment of more work than in any year of the past. From
recent visits to different agencies I feel more keenly than ever the
necessity for vastly greater and immediate efforts to civilize the
Indians. If they are to be saved at all our methods of treatment
must be radically changed and at once. I am more and more
convinced that the solution lies along the Carlisle idea, which is
to get them individually out among us into our healthy, industrial
atmosphere.

Thanking you for your kind note, I am,
Yours faithfully,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa., July 16th 1895.

Mr. W. P. Campbell,

Supt. Wind River Boarding School,
Shoshone Agency, Wyoming.

My dear Campbell:-

Nana and I have just returned from our long trip taking
in the southwest, Alaska and the northwest. It was on my mind to
drop in upon you at Wind River, but Mr. Standing was desired by the
Superintendent of Indian Schools to be at Hankell and St. Paul for
the conventions and I hastened home to push matters. We are about
to put up a new laundry across the road from the Girls' Quarters
extending towards the creek along the trolley line, a one story
building and all the work to be in one room. This room will be
120x 48 feet. We are also going to add another story to the stables
so as to have double shop room. This means of course that we are
busy about the head of the establishment.

We begin the new fiscal year with 709 pupils, but I would
like to increase it to 850. There was something from you about
pupils before I went away, I cannot recall just what, and Mr.
Standing wrote me about it. My answer to him was to let you send
or bring the pupils here. Now, what is the outlook? Can you give

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us ten or more and can you send or bring them in? Please let me
hear from you just what you want and where, in the way of transporta-
tion and can you manage the incidentals, or shall I send you some-
thing to help out?

I sent in about fifty pupils as the result of my trip and
anticipate as many more to come in in small parties between this
and the first of September.

Allow me to congratulate you on your Indian Guide, which I have
just received and read. I am glad to see that Mrs. Campbell, Irene
and the boys are with you.

You will be pained to hear of the sudden death of Miss
Hamilton at Minneapolis on Thursday of last week. Diabetes was the
cause. When she left the School the week before no one anticipated
her condition, nor did she. Speaking to Miss Luckenbach just before
she left of the death of Mrs. Worthington she wondered who would be
the next, and said she thought perhaps her mother as she was very
frail.

All goes well with us here in a general way. Just now I regard
civil service as my worst enemy.

All join in sending love to you and yours,

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N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., July 16th 1896.

James A. Youmans,

Bears Hill P. O., Alberta, Canada.

Dear Sir:-

Your letter of the 8th is before me. I send you by this
mail a quantity of printed matter which will cover much of the
information you wish.

The Savings System is quite fully explained in my various
reports, it being one of the prominent features of the School through
all the years, and it is spoken of in other papers.

We at first took pupils for periods of three years but soon
increased the term to five years. We paid the transportation to
and from their homes for pupils at the beginning and end of these
terms. But now the Government to assume somewhat different methods.
Indian children should be educated and they enter school with the
understanding that they are to stay and finish the school course
unless there are very good reasons for breaks upon that. Our course
is only one years above the grammar grade of the public schools, as
you will see by the pamphlet giving the scheme of grading.

You will imbibe the Carlisle aim from the different things you
read; viz: that the Indians shall become a worthy part of our body
they
politic, that shall not remain as Indians, separate and apart from

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us, but that all education should be along lines to fit them to go out and make their way with the other people of the country. We therefore urge our pupils to stay east and solve their own individual problem among the whites, but there are many influences to draw them back home and as we have stood almost alone in our ideas most of the pupils have gone back to the reservations, but there they generally do credit to their training. We have eight of our former pupils as trained nurses doing well in our eastern cities, and other former pupils out making their way in various occupations away from their tribes.

We shall have two of our graduates as teachers here next year, both however, having taken a course of training in normal schools. We have employed post graduates as clerks, cooks, seamstresses and teachers and at other duties and have found them very satisfactory, always, however, not expecting more of them than we ought.

In regard to the rewards and punishments and amusements, we do have an regular code, but follow the usual course pursued in any school. Human nature is about the same the world over, as you know. When punishment is necessary each case is decided individually. We appoint a court martial of pupils and officers of the school and each case is tried and them submitted to me for approval, revisal or disapproval. We have only the regular legal holidays.

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the girls and small boys. The pupils are permitted to attend the
church services of their choice in the town in the morning. We have
a preaching service in our School chapel Sunday afternoon, and in
the evening a prayer meeting, both of which are attended by all
pupils. Then the Young Men's Christian Association have a meeting
in their rooms in the early part of the afternoon conducted by the
pupils, and the different circles of King's Daughters hold meetings
at the same time in other rooms. As this is a Government school we
are undenominational.

The Outing System you will find explained by my reports and
articles and the papers used.

I enclose price list of our principal photographs.

If there is anything further you wish to know command me.

N.

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A.

Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 17th 1895.

Col. J. Roe Young, U. S. Indian Agent,

7 Fifth Avenue Hotel,

Louisville, Kentucky.

My dear Colonel:-

I find on my return that no steps have been taken to
return Daniel Enos to his home. My School Physician reports that
Daniel gives a history of hemorrhages from the lungs and a cough,
and by examination here we find that he is physically delicate with
tubercular deposits at the bottom of both lungs and he is being
treated now for a pain in his side. My Doctor advises, however, that
he be retained at the School for a while and given a chance. This
agrees with your views and you know with mine. Personally you under
stand I am not skittish about such cases and I believe generally
that proper care and attention at the School is quite as productive
of good results as returning home. My Physician feel that your
Physician did not give as much care to the examination of Daniel
as he should have done.

Daughter and I returned home last Saturday, and while of course
our trip was in many ways enjoyable I must say it was so prolonged
that I grew weary of it and it did not benefit me as much as I

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anticipated. On my return I feel very much like the old Scotchman
that "east or west, hame's best."

Mrs. Pratt tells me of her very pleasant visit with Mrs. Young
and of her admiration for Mrs. Young's noble bearing under her great
sorrow.

If you come further east do not pass us by.

I am a little curious to know what you think of the political
situation. It seemed mixed everywhere where I was in the northwest
and is mixed here. Democracy, as well as republicanism, is surely
divided. Both the platform and candidates at Chicago seemed to me
queer.

Hoping you are all well and with kindest regards to Mrs. Young
from us all,

(Dictated)
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Carlisle, Pa., July 17th 1896.

Gormully & Jeffery M'fg., Co.,

222 N. Franklin Street,
Chicago, Illinois.

Gentlemen:-

I enclose to you a letter from your Agent at Portland, Oregon, Mr. Fred T. Merrill, which explains itself. When I came through Chicago I was under such a pressure to get home at once that it was impracticable for me to stop and make the call upon you I had intended.

While I would like one of your No. 17 machines of this year I find that I can get other equally first class makes delivered here for $70.00. That of course makes me desire to get yours, if I should get one from you, at the same price. These are of course confidential rates and I can assure you are for machines that have stood higher in this section and are equally well known with yours all over the country. I of course do not wish to press the matter but simply to submit the case to you and I will wait a reasonable time to hear from you, and should I not hear I will take it that your decision is not favorable.

(Dictated)
N.

Yours truly,

Capt, 10th Cav'y., U.S.A., Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 20th 1896.

W. P. Campbell,

Shoshone Agency, Wyoming.

My dear Campbell:-

Ben tells me of your want of a tailor. We really have no one who has sufficient skill for your purposes excepting James Flannery. James, you know, has been, next to Dennison, the main stay of our band. He came here because of trouble at Chemawa. I have endeavored to bolster him up and pull him through and get him into shape, but in spite of all my efforts he seems to trend only downwards. Three times I have discharged him and as many times taken him back on promises and pressure from outside, principally the Catholic priest. Just now he is in the hospital with genorrhea, rheumatism. I called on the Doctor for a report and he submits the enclosed. Notwithstanding all that has transpired I am willing to give James another chance here and it may be the turning point. Or if you think you want him you may have him. He could be very useful to you in a musical way, besides his ability as a tailor. He would probably be ready by the time your school opened. I have said nothing to him nor anyone else about it.

(Dictated)
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

J. R. Madder, Supt.,

East Hanover, Lebanon Co., Pa.

My dear Sir:-

Your letter of the 6th favorably endorsed by General Gobin
was received here the 8th and held for my return from the west. As
a matter of fact we have no band in vacation, the members are scatter-
ed throughout the country on farms to gain a knowledge of farming
and to earn spending money and it is not at all practicable for us
to get them together either for our own or any other purpose. It is
therefore impossible for me to meet your wishes, for which I am very
sorry. Were the members here at the School and in practice I would
very cheerfully send them.

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J. M. Reed, Sec. Fire Dept.,

Newville, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

I have to acknowledge your kind invitation to the Civic
and Firemen's Parade to be held in Newville, Thursday, August 6th.

Our school is so scattered and the school organizations so broken
up at that time that it will be quite impossible for us to partici-
pate in anyway, otherwise I should be glad to send over the band or
our fire company or both.

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A.,

Supt.

(Dictated)
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Dr. Alice M. Seabrook,

M. E. Hospital, Broad & Wolfe Streets,
Philadelphia.

Dear Dr. Seabrook:-

I have your two letters of May in regard to Julia and have seen Julia a number of times since my return a week ago. Julia seems to be in pretty good shape now and I should think might soon return to her duties. I am glad you had the operation performed, which certainly was very successful.

Nana and I had a grand trip. The only drawback was that there was too much of it. The travel became very tiresome to me at the last and I did not feel that I got the good out of my absence that I would have if I had taken in less distance and stopped off more.

(Dictated)
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George T. Nicholson, G. P. A.,

Monadnac Building,

Chicago, Illinois.

My dear Mr. Nicholson:-

I returned home one week ago. My stay of a week in Pasedena was exceedingly pleasant, rendered much so by meeting your Father and Mother several times. My whole trip, while somewhat restful, was not as beneficial as I had hoped it would be,-- I think more because I undertook too much and that it is not well sometimes to attempt to combine business with pleasure. I am very grateful to you for your personal and official favors.

Mr. Standing gave me your correspondence with Mr. Sargent in regard to Agent Young. You took exactly the right position about it. The trouble doubtless was that Mr. Young has relations with the Superintendent (probably Division) of the S. P. Road stationed at Tucson, and he desired that I should have the children come via the S. P. Road, but I told him my arrangements had already been made and as I believed would be quite as comfortable and I saw no reasons for changing. He understood fully the party would travel on one ticket and I understood that Mrs. Young and Miss Gracey, who

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Mr. H. Phillips,

Box 135, Tacoma, Washington.

My dear Mr. Phillips:-

Your frank expose of the character of the pupils sent to
us is received. I very much rather know the worst, and thank you
for sending the information.

Dr. Newberne was to have been back here last week for his
return ticket but he did not report and I have nothing from him.

My daughter and I wish to be remembered to your wife and the
workers at the school.

(Dictated) N.

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Dear Guy:-

I find on my return the enclosed letter from Mr. Eckels, which states the case just as you have it. As you are a silver man and Mr. Eckels is not I feel your chances will wane, should there be an attorney needed.

How unsettled we are everywhere! It seems to me as bad as it was in '60.

Nana and I were very sorry indeed to give you the go-by. When we returned to Mammoth Hot Springs after our bout through the Park, I received a telegram from Mr. Standing that he would have to leave not later than Saturday evening, the 11th, to be absent three weeks in obedience to the Superintendent of Indian Schools, and we made a direct shoot for home. It is not unlikely I shall see you this fall, as I contemplate another western tour either alone or with Mrs. Pratt. Whether if I go before the trouting season ends I cannot say. We have a deal of building to look out for this fall and I find things go more to my satisfaction when I am here to look out for them.

I must leave to Nana's superior descriptive powers the details of our trip and to her and Mrs. Pratt the home affairs.

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M. C. Gruve, Sec., etc.,
Lancaster, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

I shall be very much pleased to receive and show the
Directors of Lancaster County all they care to take in of our
Institution.

(Dictated) N.

Yours very truly,

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A.,

Supt.

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Estella T. S. Bear,

Medicine Root, Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

Dear Estella:—

I am glad to receive your letter of the 8th and to know
that you are well and happy.

I send you one of the little illustrated books of the
School which will show you how Carlisle looks now.

I have just returned from a long western trip and have seen
many Indians. I did not have the time to stop in Dakota.

Many of the girls and boys are now out in the country for the
summer, so that our number here is small. We shall build a new
laundry this summer and make additions to the shops. So that we are
full of work.

Remember me to all the old Carlisle pupils, and believe me,

Your friend,

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., July 21st 1896.

Rev. G. Murray Klepper,
Catawissa, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

If your entertainments could take place in mid winter or soon after we could meet them very well. My general answer has been that we could go for $50.00 per night and our expenses.

I have been extremely busy since I returned home on the 11th from a three months absence. This will explain delay in answering your letter.

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J. K. Little, Attorney,

Arapahoe, O. T.

My dear Sir:-

It would seem with so much silver in the air there ought
to be little difficulty in getting the medal for Little Wolf, about
which you write me in yours of June 4th. But my knowledge of the
conditions forbids me to have substantial hope that it could be
done at present. I suggest that you say to my friend Little Wolf
that he wait until after the next election, when if the silver
party gets in it will seem as if they would in duty bound give all
the Indians silver medals, and if the other party goes, in there will
surely be a descriminative issue of a limited number of medals and we
may be able to manipulate the situation and secure one. At least
I would be willing to try.

Please remember me to Richard Davis, and I am,

(Dictated)
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John C. Mason,

Jamestown, N. Y.

My dear John:-

The specs did not reach me in time for my western trip,
and were held here for my return, and are only just this minute come
to me. I must owe you a lot, I do not know how much, for my own
and your aunt's bill. Please take out of the enclosed check the
outmost farthing of my indebtedness and return me the balance.

Nana and I had a great trip, but it was altogether too prolonged
to give me the best results.

Tell Levant that my fishing was about limited to a repetition
of my former experience in the Park. I caught some large trout and
a large number. Our catch one way in four hours was 117 trout,
weighing 157 1/2 pounds.

With love to you all,

(Dictated)
N.

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Mr. J. W. Hendren,

Taylorsville, N. C.

Dear Mr. Hendren:-

I was very sorry upon my return to hear of your illness.

I trust you are much improved and enjoying the vacation.

So much work has been held for my attention that my time is
crowded and I can write but a note.

I would like to hear from you.

With greetings to you and Mrs. Hendren from us all, I am,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 22nd 1896.

Mr. Seagraves,

Occidental Hotel,

Seattle, Washington.

My dear Mr. Seagraves:-

When in Alaska I promised a young Quaker teacher, who has a hard school badly supplied at Kake Village somewhere in the vicinity of Fort Wrangle, that I would send her some school books and lamps. I have had these packed in an old trunk and the railroad company has been kind enough to check it through to Seattle on the ticket of a passenger going to Tacoma, and I send the check to you hoping that you may be able to get the trunk to Fort Wrangle free in something of the same way. If you cannot do that please send it by freight collect to Miss Anna Hunnicutt, Kake Village, via Fort Wrangle, Alaska, and you will do a material favor to a worthy cause. Will you in either case drop a line to Miss Hunnicutt to advise her what route to expect the trunk, using the address as above.

Daughter and I had generally a pleasant trip home, stopping seven days in the Park. Caught no end of trout and took in the sights generally. We were with Mr. Kimberly and his family of the Northern

Mr. Seagraves, page 2.

Pacific Road through the Park end as far as St. Paul.

I trust you are all well.

Yours sincerely,

(Distated)
N.

I enclosure.

Carlisle, Pa., July 22nd 1996.

Katherine C. Armstrong,

Rogersville, Tennessee,

Dear Madam:-

Replying to your letter of the 14th instant I send you
by this mail some printed material which will give you the information
in regard to this School which you desire. If there are any
special question you care to ask I shall be glad to answer them.

Yours truly,

Capt. 10thavy., U.S. A.,

Supt.

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Miss Anna Hunnicutt,

Kake Village, via Fort Wrangle, Alaska.

Dear Miss Hunnicutt:-

Your letter of the 6th is received and I have packed
4 dozen First Readers and the 8 lamps in an old trunk and checked it
through to Seattle as baggage. I have sent the check to Mr. Seagraves
the Proprietor of the Occidental Hotel there, and requested him to
see if he could not get it to you at Fort Wrangle as baggage from
Seattle, so that there would be no cost for transportation. I have
asked him to advise you of that fact. I send a copy of this letter
both to Juneau and Kake Village via Fort Wrangle.

(Dictated) N.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 27th 1896.

Rev. H. R. Wile,

Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Mr. Wile:-

I enclose herewith my check for $145.00 covering 23 Sunday services. Please sign receipt herewith and return by messenger.

In order to have the receipt in one I send you the amount for the 29 Sundays and will ask you to kindly hand the amount for one Sunday to Dr. Norcross, in accordance with your note.

Trust you will have a pleasant vacation.

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Cairo, Pa., July 28, 1918

Mrs. S. G. Andrew, Pres.,
Trebeins, Ohio.

Dear Madam:-

Replying to your letter of the 24th I send you by this
mail a package of printed matter which will give you the information
you wish. Should there be anything further you wish to know, I
shall be glad to answer any questions.

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To the Proprietor of the Doubling Gap House,
Doubling Gap, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

One of your predecessors several years ago offered me
special rates if I should bring a party to your House. Now several
of my faculty and some of the young people of Carlisle are wishing
to make the trip to Doubling Gap on their wheels and would be glad
if you can renew the offer of the low rates. There will probably
be from six to twelve in the party. They had thought to ride up
Saturday afternoon and return to Carlisle early Monday morning. Will
you please advise me what rates you would make.

Capt. 10th Cav'y., U.S.A.,

Supt.

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In reply to

Albert Nasn,
Thurston, Nebraska.

Dear Albert:—

Thanks for your good letter of the 33rd and the general information it contains. I am very glad to see that you travel with your eyes open. Your observation and mine made of the western country quite agree. We saw some fine crops in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

We have had a great abundance of rain here and everything is as fresh and green as can be and I do not think we have had a better outlook for corn in the seventeen years of Carlisle than we have this year.

I will give orders that tickets reading to Carlisle be placed with the railroad agent at Pender as soon as I know just what you will want.

Give my kind regards to your father.

(Dictated)
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