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Carlisle, Pa., November 3rd 1896.

Mr. Andrew Freedman,
President New York Baseball Club,
New York.

My dear Mr. Freedman:-

I have held your letter of October 31st about Jacob
Jamison under advisement for several days, and have most reluctantly
arrived at a conclusion adverse to your offer. Jacob is just now
getting his education. He is in just that state where direction in
the wrong way will have the greatest effect. I feel that the
associations he would be under, notwithstanding the care which you
no doubt do and would take, would be most harmful to him. I feel
also that the high salary you offer would be the means of great
injury to him. "Easy come, easy go," is an old proverb, and the
$150.00 a month would be so much more than is necessary for him that
he would undoubtedly be led into loose ideas, and when his baseball
days are over he would be practically spoiled for the hard tussle
with life that he must eventually make. From what I have seen of him
I feel that your estimate of his possibilities in the line you
propose is probably correct.

We are negotiating with State College to rearrange so that we
may accept of the proposition of the game with Brown in New York on
Thanksgiving Day. I want the boys to have fund enough to get two
or three trainers for next year who will come from different colleges
for the little competition and jealousy among the trainers would

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Mr. John R. Spears,
Editorial Department, "The Sun,"

New York.

My dear Mr. Spears:-

First let me thank you for your full article about
Carlisle. We have all enjoyed reading it. I have just received
notification of the 100 copies I asked you to send. You strike out
in quite a new line, and make a much more readable article by it.
You erred in placing my work in Florida as among the Apaches. My
prisoners were Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes and Arapahoes from the
Indian Territory, and were sent to Florida about eleven years before
the Geronimo Apaches.

Now about football: the only date Yale is willing to give us is
the 14th and on that date we have a binding contract to play the
University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, which cannot be set aside.
Next Saturday our boys make a fight with Pennsylvania University at
Philadelphia, which they are anticipating will be much the hardest
of any they have yet played, and when that is over they will have
played with Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Pennsylvania, all the "Big
Four," between October 14th and the 7th of November, less than four
weeks, and the record will show they substituted less than half as
much as their opponents. To repeat the battle with Yale the follow-
ing week would be too great a tax upon them, and yet the boys are

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ready for it.

We have thought over the coaching matter, and concluded that Lincoln's maxim not to "swap horses when crossing a stream," is the best course for us to pursue, however much we would like to make a change. We have both Mr. McCormick and Mr. Hickok to train for next Saturday's game with Pennsylvania, and that being in our own state and among people where we are best known, we feel greater anxiety about it than we did even about the game in New York with Yale, and both our trainers will be true to us as against Pennsylvania. Mr. McCormick is especially a great inspiration to our boys and we cannot bring ourselves to in any way go against his judgment. I hope "the gang" of the Sun will not be swerved from their good feeling for us by these matters. When the boys came back from Boston almost the first thing they told me was that they believed the Boston Herald was going to be as good a friend to them as the New York Sun.

What we want in New York is a game on Thanksgiving Day and that Brown has offered to us and we are endeavoring to rearrange our schedule so as to meet this, and I have no doubt we shall be able to do so, and that will wind up our season. This will give the boys from the 14th to the 26th without any big game, and we shall hope to show that we have learned something from the battles fought this campaign. The boys want to be able to hire at least two coaches next year, and if they get this game they can do it.

I note that the full article about Carlisle, for which Mr.

Thompson's brother-in-law got the material for the Journal, did not appear in that paper last Sunday, but that the football feature of the School with the reproduced photographs of the muscular development, was quite fully presented.

(dictated) N.

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Miss Susie Farwell,
Elliot Hospital,
Manchester, N. H.

Dear Susie:

I am sorry you have been disturbed in your course, but I believe your decision to send your mother $20.00 is the best thing you could do. I enclose you check for this amount, which you can endorse to your Mother. Write your Mother cheerfully of your wonderful opportunities, and of your ambitions. You could do little if you went home. I know that from recent observation and past experience, and you can do much for both your mother and yourself if you remain faithful to the advantages you now have. I have great faith in your ability, Susie, and look forward to the time when you will have the full knowledge of your chosen profession and win your way by it. All families have to be separated sooner or later, and the different members "work out their salvation" where they best can. This applies to the Indians as well as the Whites, and they should learn the sacrifice of separation. Do not allow yourself to grow discontented because of the letters from home, but work on bravely as ever knowing that you are just where you should be.

I am happy in having the good reports about you, and we all join in sending you our good wishes.

N. Your friend, and school father,

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Carlisle, Pa., November 4, 1896.

Rev. James Lefevre,

Middle Bush, N. J.

My dear Doctor:-

I have had your letter in my hands under advisement thinking
it over to myself for several days. I am not in favor of helping Indians
in the way you propose, because my experience shows that it is always hurt-
ful and many times does permanent harm. What a man needs is to have the
kind of help that enables him to help himself. I had never asked Alex what
he proposed to do but knowing him to be a thoughtful, common sense young man
I concluded to send for him and read your letter to him. I did so, making
no comments. He, without any influence from me, or so far as I know from
anyone else, replied that his purposes are in entirely different lines and,
as I think, in far better lines. He says that it has been his ambition to
get a thorough education in Agriculture and kindred employments. He desires
to take a course in an agricultural college. He also declares that it is
his intention to educate himself; that is, he proposes to earn his way
through his school or college. When he graduates, at the end of February,
he plans to go to his agency where he can have a place at an exceptional sal-
ary where he can work until time for school to open in the Fall, then to re-
turn East and enter some State agricultural college, hoping that he may
secure some position as janitor or something of that sort which will enable
him to make his money hold out longer.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 4th 1896.

Allen S. Williams, Chairman,

Commercial Travelers' Day & Press Committees,
Madison Square Garden, New York City.

Dear Sirs:

In reply to your letter of yesterday I send you by this
mail a package of printed matter which will quite fully inform you
in regard to this School and its motives, which is the largest
Government Indian School in the country, there being 31 other
Government Indian schools scattered throughout the United States,
which have grown out of the plan originated by me here, though the
methods pursued are not now the same. For fuller information in
regard to the other schools I would refer you to the Report of the
Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, which you can obtain by
writing to the Indian Office requesting the same.

Referring to your inquiry as to the schools being entirely
supported by the Government, I have to say that so far as Carlisle
is concerned, the Government has been generous in supplying
but
our needs, especially of late years, we have had much help from
friends, and many of our improvements, such as the establishment
originally of our industries, our gymnasium, electric lighting, etc.
etc., was made possible by the generous donation of those
interested in the progress of the work.

Should you wish to make further inquiry I shall be glad to
respond.
Yours truly,
R.H. Poach
Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt
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Henry C. Roman Nose,
Watonga, O. T.

My dear Friend:-

Your letter of October 19th came to me some days ago, and I have been waiting to reply to hear from the Chiefs you say went to Washington and would probably come to Carlisle. They have not come here and I have heard nothing from them.

I am grieved to hear of your sorrow in the death of your little daughter.

We should like to have you come and see us at Carlisle, and hope sometime you will feel rich enough to do so. We have our Commencement exercises in February, and I should be very much pleased if you and any of my other Florida friends could come on at the latter part of that month and see our great time. We always have many friends with us from all over the country and have an interesting occasion.

I have not heard from Mrs. Caruthers for a long, long time, and I do not know now whether she is alive or where she is. Dr. Caruthers died some time ago and Mrs. Caruthers left their home in Tarrytown.

I am always glad to hear from you, and trust you will write me from time to time and tell me how you are.

With good wishes for you and your family, I am,
Faithfully your friend,

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 5th 1896.

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

My dear Doctor:-

The football team has an invitation to play with the North Western University Thanksgiving Day, but that will be impossible as they play Brown University on Manhattan Field in New York on that day. They also have an invitation to play the Athletic Club of Chicago on any date, preferably the 14th, they say, but their dates are all chuck full for this year. They play the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Saturday and the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati a week later, then they rest up for two weeks for their games with Brown and West Point, the latter on the 28th. Next year they hope to have the means to employ more coaching help and to get a little nearer the top.

You are entirely right in your conclusions. I have said over and over again that if the Indians could kick themselves into civilization through football, let them do it. We will make up their next year with a whoop and hurrah and will knock the socks off of everything in the Northwest.

(Dictated)
N.

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Jose Paisona,

Cubero, N. M.

My dear Friend:-

Your letter in regard to John Uyyn comes to me this
morning. George Seacrahnah wrote me sometime before his return
asking that he might bring John back with him and offering to pay
his railroad fare if I would consent to his return. John was a good
pupil while here, and so I said he might return. He is here now,
having come in with George.

Your friend,

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

N.

I send you the harness by freight today addressed to Laguna.

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To the Editor of the Boston Herald,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Sir:-

Someone sends me a marked copy of your issue of November 3rd with the editorial on our football team, and for this high appreciation of our Indian boys I wish to most heartily thank you. When they first began playing the game about six years ago I soon grew to dislike the roughness of it and when one of the boys had his leg broken I stopped it entirely for a couple of years. Three years ago they appealed earnestly for another chance with it. We talked it all over in common and I agreed they should play so long as they played in a perfectly gentlemanly way and evaded all anger, retaliation or violence. So far as I know they have not in the slightest degree varied from their promise. In their games with teams where unnecessary violence was resorted to and where they were seriously laid off by their opponents taking advantage of the mêlee and injuring them they have not retaliated, but have quietly dropped from their list of future opponents such schools and teams.

Our team has undertaken this year a series of games that perhaps no other team in the country would undertake, i. e., to play each one of the four great teams, - Princeton, Yale, Harvard and University of Pennsylvania, - and within a period of four weeks. They began with Princeton on the 14th of October and Saturday next, the 7th,

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Editor Boston Herald, page 2.

they close with "the Big Four" in the game with Pennsylvania. They put in no substitutes at Harvard and only one at each of the games with Yale and Princeton. After their game with Pennsylvania next Saturday they still have dates with the University of Cincinnati at Cincinnati, Brown University on Manhattan Field on Thanksgiving Day and West Point on the 28th.

The ambition of the boys for next year is to have money enough from their games to employ two or three special coaches during the next season and raise their record still higher. Such commendation as yours gives greatest inspiration to this purpose.

In closing I may add, if you will permit me, that the greatest purpose of the Carlisle School is to afford the Indian equal chances on every field and with all races to demonstrate his American manhood and possibilities. This proven we may reasonably hope that the fair-dealing spirit of our free country will knock off the shackles of bureau, agency and tribal control, abolish purely Indian schools, and make the man an individual and a citizen.

Very truly yours,

(Dictated)
N.

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Below Cozad,

K Iowa, Comanche and Wichita Agency,
Anadarko, O. T.

Dear Below:-

I am pleased to hear through your letter of the 10th that
you have work and are happy in it. I trust you will stick to it,
for temptation comes when we are idle.

All goes well with us here at Carlisle. We are enlarging the
shops by adding a second story to the old building, and have
put up a new laundry, both of which are nearing completion, and our
industries will be well equipped for their work.

We are very much interested in football just now. Our team
has played the three big teams, Princeton, Yale and Harvard and
next Saturday plays the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,
besides having other less important games scheduled. The boys are
making a good record for fine playing and gentlemanly conduct. The
papers have written a great deal about the games and it has done much
good for the Indian cause, besides bringing the boys into contact
with the young men of the best colleges and Universities of the
land.

You have all the news from the Helper, and I cannot add to
that.

With best wishes for you, I am,

Your friend,

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 13th 1896.

J. Gerome Otis,

The Mail and Express,
203 Broadway, New York.

My dear Sir:-

Your letter of the 9th came while I was absent from
home for a few days. I thank you for your interest and good wishes.

The yell you suggest is good, but we already have one, which is:

"Hello! Helle! Who are we? (Repeated three times), Indiana -CARLISLE."

The boys usually enter the game with it. I do not know why they did not at New York. They say they gave it at the close, but in the uproar then it was probably not generally noticed. They intend to give it particular emphasis in their game on Thanksgiving Day.

Our colors are Red and Old Gold, like the enclosed samples. We shall feel honored to have you wear them, and are grateful for the kindly notices in the press.

N.

I am suffering from an operation to my nose and must therefore
use my typewriter to write you.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 14th 1896.

D. Healy,

Headquarters Post Wood No. 294, G. A. R.,

Hoosick Falls, N. Y.

Dear Sirs-

Your letter of the 6th was held for my attention upon my
return from a short absence from home. In reply to your inquiry,
I have to advise you that I am not the Captain Pratt about whom you
ask. I was a volunteer from Indiana.

Yours very truly,

N.

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COPY TELEGRAMS.

Carlisle, Pa., November 16th 1896.

Dr. Gleason,

41 So. 19th Street,
Philadelphia.

Am handling case. Doing well. Will come down in morning.

(Signed)

Mr. George Vaux, Sr.,

1715 Arch Street,
Philadelphia.

Case settled satisfactorily. Am much better. Be there tomorrow noon.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

Sent via Postal 1.45 P. M.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., November 21st 1896.

H. A. Walker,

Wanamaker & Brown,

Oak Hull, Philadelphia.

Letter received. I have no doubt the substitute coats will be satisfactory. Send them.

Pratt, Capt.

via Postal 9.15 A. M.

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

Carlisle, Pa., November 23rd 1896.

C. E. Patterson, Athletic Editor,
The Illustrated American,

401 E. 23rd Street, New York.

My dear Mr. Patterson:-

I sent you a photograph of our football team today. There
will be no charge, I am glad always to give you any material we
have.

Hope you noted our Saturday's game with State College. Penna.
scored only 27 points against the same team the week before. Our
boys made it 48. The 5 made by State College was quite unexpected
to them and us, being a kick from the field.

Our team is in fine shape for the Brown Thanksgiving Day game
on Manhattan Field. We have had Mr. Brooks for three days last week
and he is to be here today and tomorrow, and is teaching the boys
how to handle the ball better behind the line and how to kick. Of
course this is all confidential to you. We have not been in as good
training this year as we ought to have been, since our team would
surely have been closer to the top. Next year we shall handle things
better.

What a help it has been to us east and west; I am flooded with
complimentary notices and appreciation. Nothing we have ever done
has so much awakened the attention of the country to the possibilities
of the Indian.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 24th 1896.

Mr. John R. Spears,

Editorial Rooms, "The Sun,"

New York.

My dear Mr. Spears:-

I have been, in a way, laid up for repairs for sometime, and have not felt in the mood to do much writing and have done only that which was forced upon me. Now that I am getting into shape again I come upon your letter of the 8th, to which some reply was sent by Mr. Thompson.

Our boys are going to New York in good shape. We have had Mr. Brooke, the great kicker of Pennsylvania, here last week and this for a few days, and our boys have made splendid improvement in some lines. Their score of 48 to 5 with State College at Harrisburg Saturday, nearly doubled the score of Pennsylvania against the same team. We have every confidence that next year our boys will not be classed as below all the big teams.

I am very sorry to feel that after my absence it is not best to go to New York to see the game, but my son and daughter and daughter-in-law will go and represent the family. I feel that I can safely trust the boys in the hands of the public. They have great confidence in "Pap" Corbin, who is to be umpire.

The boys have worked up the preliminary yells and kicks you suggested.
(Dictated)
N.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 24th 1396.

Col. J. Roe Young,

Pima Agency, Sacaton, Arizona.

My dear Colonel:-

I have been in the Doctor's hands undergoing an operation
to straighten the septum of my nose and have been neglecting pretty
nearly all writing in consequence. I am getting into shape now and
feel that I shall soon have a first class nasal organ.

In regard to your scheme: I have for years been opposed to such
movements. Hampton Institute does a deal of that every year and
with profit to itself. But it is a misrepresentation and it helps
to sustain misrepresentation to such an extent that I cannot bring
myself to engage in it. At long intervals, for the purpose of
accomplishing some special object I have done a little of it. But
less and less all the time.

Of course I do not know the things that will bear in your case
as well as you do, but it seems high time to me that Indian Agents
should continue from year to year through usefulness and good
behavior, and I can see no real reasons why you should be disturbed.
Do not be in a hurry to pack up and leave, go along quietly as though
you expected to stay there forever.

With kindest remembrances to Mrs. Young, Mrs. Cook and Miss
Gracey, and all your good help I met, I am,

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Dr. R. E. L. Newberne,
Puyallup Agency, Tacoma,
Washington.

Dear Doctor:-

The Alaskan party did not materialize, but there is some
correspondence about it yet and it is possible that four boys may
present themselves to you from Metlakatla en route to Carlisle. If
they do please give them lunch to last them across the continent. The
order for their tickets is already at Tacoma.

In regard to the other matter. It was a "land slide" but whic
ever way it went it meant change. I think the present administra
tion employes stand a much better chance in McKinley than they would
have with Bryan. But as many worthy Republicans under Civil Service
who ought to have been retained, have been put out, I very much
fear the spirit of retaliation will follow and many good Democrats
under Civil Service will have to go. I have recently myself been a
victim, but the intention of the temporary head of the Indian Office
was over-ruled by the Secretary, so I am still at Carlisle.

You ask me for suggestion. I would say, do your work just as
well and carefully as you can and keep very quiet. That this will
be effective I cannot of course say, but if it is not, nothing will
be.

With kind regards to Mr. Phillips and all your good workers,

I am,
(Dictated) N.

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Dr. Sheldon Jackson,

General Agent for Education in Alaska,
Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.

My dear Doctor:-

Flora seems to have hit the bull's eye and it hurt.

On the way back from Alaska a traveling man who frequented
Juneau vented his antipathy to the Indians and every effort made for
their betterment, basing his argument on one of the girls you took
to Mr. Moody's school who had returned and become a prostitute in
Juneau. I am not sure but the girl herself was on the boat. He
was especially abusive of you. I did not know of it until afterward.
Nana had a tilt with him and I think convinced him that he did not
know what he was talking about. I afterwards had a chance and asked
him if he knew how many prostitutes there were in Juneau. He said
about forty or fifty I asked him if he knew whether they were Indian
or white. He said that they were white. I asked him if he did not
think it a little unfair to condemn the whole Indian race because of
one mixed blood who had gone astray and not condemn the Anglo-Saxon
race when there were so many. He seemed to see the point. I have
felt inclined to use this incident and answer the Juneau Mining
Record. However, I think such things usually kill themselves best.

(Dictated)
N.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 23rd 1996.

Mr. Charles H. Sheldon,

883 7th Avenue,

New York.

My dear Sir:-

I have delayed several days answering yours of the 16th
in order to give the matter some thought. We have had so much extra
work to do in the way of building and have been limited in the
quality of employes to such an extent through Civil Service
blunders, that we are in very bad shape for a performance such as I
would want to give if I came to New York, and I feel that it is
at least best for us to put off attempting such a thing until after
the first of March. Whether or not I can do it then is just now to
my mind problematical.

Thanking you for your kindness in suggesting the entertainment
and the offer of your hall, and assuring you that it would be just
the place, and hoping that at no distant day we may avail ourselves
of your kind offer, I am,

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

(Dictated)
N.

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Dr. Edward C. Mann,

68 West 131st Street,
New York.

My dear Doctor:-

Your letter of sometime ago has remained unanswered because I have been in Philadelphia undergoing an operation on my nose and have been little inclined for correspondence. I am getting into shape again and yesterday began to think seriously of answering it. I this morning have your second letter/ I should be very glad indeed to meet you and your son, but have concluded that I would not go to New York. It is quite a disappointment. But I have been away for the best part of two weeks, and you know how it is when every day brings a good load for that particular day, and if the load is doubled or quadrupled, etc., it is hard to catch up, though I must say I have good helpers who take care of very much for me in my absence. My son, daughter-in-law and daughter are going over to witness the game and will be in the grand stand in section M, Row 5 somewheres between 1 and 9. I shall be very happy to have you meet them.

Now, my dear Doctor, in regard to your proposition, allow me to say that what you propose to do is the very farthest possible from my idea of what ought to be done for the Indians. The fact that we have been attempting to accomplish something all the years along

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just such lines is the real cause for all our failure. I would
break up the system of schools among the Indians and every method
tending in any way to segregate them separate and apart from the
other people of the country. I would establish every educational
institution and effort as remote from the tribal conditions as
possible and from such centers I would do just what I have been
doing at Carlisle all the years, and that is, to send them out into
individual competition in schools and industries just as rapidly as
possible. The school can be and is made the most potent factor to
tribalize the Indian. I am not in favor of even Carlisle
schools except in the most tentative forms.

I would like first rate to have a good talk with you and I
would rather have it right here on my own ground where I can
illustrate it with particular demonstrations. Can't you come over
and spend a few days with me sometime soon? Mrs. Pratt and I would
be most happy to have you as our guest. Carlisle to be understood
must be seen.

(Distated)
N.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., November 25, 1896.

Jacob Reeds Sons,

918 Chestnut Street,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen:-

I enclose my check for $170.00 covering your bill herewith for seventeen suits which please receipt and return.

(Dictated)

M.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., November 25, 1897.

Mr. H. A. Walker,

% Wanamaker & Brown,

Oak Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

I enclose herewith my check for $170.00 covering seventeen over-
coats. Please send me receipted bill.

(Dictated)

M.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., November 25, 199.

Charles H. Casper,
Co. H. 1st Regiment,
Camp McIntire,
Leadville, Col.

Dear Charles:-

In reply to your letter stating that you wish to come here
to school I have to say that we are now full,

(Dictated)

M.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., November 25, 1996.

Gen. John Eaton,

The Concord,

Washington, D. C.

My dear General:—

I was summoned to Washington by the Secretary and had a
prolonged interview during part of which Commissioner Browning and Doctor
Hailman were present. The conclusion of it was a letter from the Secretary
to the Commissioner declining to act on the recommendation of the
Acting Commissioner so that that matter is settled.

The boys had a great time at Cincinnati, were most highly entertained
and probably no incident ever contributed more to enlighten the people on the
Indian in that great city. You and I probably do not differ upon the football
business but it is doing wonders for us in the way of notoriety and so
I hope will lead to wider consideration for work and ideas.

(Dictated)

M.

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In reply to:

Messrs. Pine & Boyd,
13th and Walnut Streets,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen:-

Will you please put into each of the enclosed rims a pair of
reading lenses same as my last pair from Dr. Fox.

Also please see that the rims are in good repair.

(Dictated)

M.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., November 25, 1898.

Eugene Tahkahpeur,

Conway, Mass.

My dear Eugene:-

Since my return from Philadelphia, where I went to have my
nose operated on, I have been enjoying your rich Massachusetts apples. It
may be there are just as good ones raised elsewhere but I do not believe
there are any better ones. Mrs. Pratt thinks yours are better than some
very fine ones that came to us from New York. I thank you, my dear Eugene,
most heartily for your splendid gift.

I hope we shall see you here in February at our commencement.

(Dictated)

M.

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BLEED THROUGH

In reply to:

Messrs. Bannerman & Co.,
113 E. Adams Street,
Chicago, Ill.

Gentlemen:-

There have been no cards or circulars received from Mr. Tinker
and a reference to correspondence shows that he uses a plain paper (not
headed). The article is termed "disinfectant" and not "Phenyle".

Captain 10th Cavalry, U.S.A.,
Superintendent.

A.J.S.

M.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 4th 1896.

Phineas Hubbard,

39 Temple Place,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir:-

I have known Robert MacFadden intimately for about twelve years, but have no personal knowledge of his ability as a minister. I have corresponded with him somewhat frequently for years. While in Dickinson and Amherst Colleges he served me often as stenographer and reporter and was my chief stenographer and typewriter when, as Chairman of the Sioux Commission, I was negotiating with the Sioux Indians for the cession of one-half their reservation. He is a clean, most energetic, and, in the lines in which I have tried him, remarkably capable man. He has addressed the School a number of times, always most acceptably. In the Y. M. C. A. work he was always a leader. From what I know of him I have anticipated a successful and exceptional career in his chosen profession.

(Dictated)
N.

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Miss Estaiene M. Depeltquestaugue,

Orchard Lake, Michigan.

Dear Miss Depeltquestaugue:-

I send you copies of our little souvenir and the New
England Magazine, the latter containing an article about the School,
and also our last Red Man and several of the Helper, which I trust
will give you the information you desire. I am glad that you are
interested.

Thanking you for your commendation, I am,

(Dictated)

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Mr. T. P. Rynder,

Editor Erie Echo,

Erie, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

I have tried to see some way by which I could help William. There is none except I do it personally and I have so many drafts upon me that it is not possible for me to do this.

It would not do at all to send him south as teacher. He is perfectly capable of working out his own salvation. He was one of our best farm boys and any farmer needing help would give him employment as soon as he knew what he is worth. He ought not to go back to the Territory as he proposes, he ought not to go south among the Negroes, but he ought to work his way out and away from his past, notwithstanding his present ordeal. It would be better for him, a great deal better, that he do not return to Carlisle, and better for us, though I do not withdraw my offer to take care of him until he is able to work again, should he come back here. I am not able to get a ticket cheaper for him, than he is able to get for himself.

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Miss Luzena Chotena,

Bratton & Stratton Business College,
Washington St. & Wabash Avenue.
Chicago, Illinois.

My dear Luzena:-

I am glad to get a letter from you again and to know how
you are getting on in the business college.

The football team has an invitation to Chicago under very
distinguished auspices, and the 19th is the date fixed upon. We
have made some conditions that may make it impossible for the parties
to arrange, but if they come to our terms you will be able to see
the boys play one of their best games.

Things are going well with us at the School. While you are
having stomas, we are having delightful sunshine and really the
most ideal winter weather.

We are just moving into the new shops today, and the laundry
moved into its new quarters yesterday. These are very fine additions
to our facilities.

I trust you will be able to come to us again at Commencement.

With love in which Mrs. Pratt and Nana joins, I am,

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated)

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Carlsle, Pa., December 4th 1996.

My dear Doctor:-

I am in pretty good shape now and would be glad to have a
visit from you at any time. Hope you will plan to stay several days.
Shall be glad to place your books in the reference library of the
School, and we shall all be pleased to hear your lecture. We can
give you an audience of 700, most of whom are thoughtful and have
intelligence enough to appreciate your subject.

What you say of the game with Brown is corroborated by the
boys. They purposely kicked the ball to Hudson, who was our half-
back and called the plays, knowing that if they knocked him out, we
would be as seriously disabled as by the loss of any man on the team.
The only substitute we had to put in was the half back of the
second team, and not familiar with the numbers and methods of the
first team. It looks as though they had information.

I have given the subject of football more thought this year
than in all the previous years, and am becoming convinced that good
honest, fair, straight football is almost an impossibility.

(Dictated)
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Henry C. Roman Nose, Cheyenne Chief,

Watonga, O. T.

My dear Friend:-

I have your letter asking my help to get your party to Washington. I do not feel at liberty to attempt to use any influence in that direction just now. It may be that next year I shall feel differently about it. I want your party to be sure to come to Carlisle when you do come east, and stay long enough to learn all about us. I wish you might come to us the last of February, when our commencement exercises take place. You should be here as early as the 23rd of February and stay several days. You would probably meet some of your old friends, those whom you met in Florida. I should be glad to have you bring a large party. We have plenty of room and could take care of you nicely.

Please remember me to all my old Cheyenne friends, and believe
me always,

Your friend,

(Dictated)
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Mrs. Josephine Miles Woodward,

The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune,

Cincinnati, Ohio.

My dear Mrs. Woodward:-

I intended to answer your cordial letter immediately on
its receipt, but I have been under treatment in Philadelphia in the
hands of the doctor part of the time, and have not been able to do
much writing.

I was delighted to get your appreciative letter and more than
pleased to know how well the boys were received in Cincinnati. One
of them told me put all the good treatment they had received at all
their other contests together and it would not equal that which they
received in Cincinnati. Now that shows the appreciative character
of the Indians, doesn't it? Anglo-Saxon discernment could not do it
up better.

We should all be delighted to have you come here and write us
up. Why can't it be arranged for you to be present at our Commence-
ment, which is a pretty big affair and comes the last week in
February? Do you think a note from me to your editor would help? If
so, I shall take the greatest pleasure in writing it.

With greetings from Mrs. Pratt and myself,

(Dictated)
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Carlisle, Pa., December 5th 1996.

Chauncey Y. Kobe,

Indian School,

Fort Shaw, Montana.

My dear Chauncey:-

Your good letter of the 19th of November has waited thus long for answer because I have not been well. Now I am feeling better.

I am so glad to hear of your pleasant situation and the pleasure you take in your work. It is great comfort to me to look out over the country and know that scattered about in various places of usefulness are my Carlisle sons and daughters, fighting the battle of life bravely, and the letters that come to me telling me of their work bring me much pleasure. I trust the winter will broaden out into fullest life and opportunities for you. You have a rare chance for good influence with your 157 boys.

We have moved into the enlarged shop buildings this week and into the fine new laundry, and our industries are now in good quarters. You see we have grown even in the short time you have been absent from us, and we shall hope that you can come and visit your alma mater soon.

Mrs. Pratt and Nana join me in cordial greeting to you, Ben Caswell and any others you may see who know us.

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa., December 5th 1896.

Miss Leila Cornelius,
60 North 38th Street,
Philadelphia.

Dear Leila:-

I am very glad to hear that you are now so happy. Mis-
understandings easily arise, and one has to guard against them, as
I am sure you will now do.

If Mr. and Mrs. Collins are willing for you to make the
visit with Mrs. Harvey at Christmas time, I am, but your going will
of course be subject to Mrs. Collins's approval.

I am pleased also to hear of your progress at Drexel, and feel
confident you will make a success of your studies there.

With love, in which Mrs. Pratt and Nana joins, I am,

Faithfully your friend and school father,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., December 6th 1996.

Alice Leeds,

Albuquerque, N. M.

Dear Alice:-

You can send me the money for the copy of Stiya and the
Helper, whenever it is convenient for you.

While it would be very nice to have you back in Carlisle, I feel very happy that you are independent enough to go out and make your way, and are able to fill the responsible position you now have in that you are able to take care of the house when Mrs. Wroth is away. School days can not last always, and sooner and later we all have to battle with the world.

Miss Hamilton died this summer, very suddenly, just after she had started out on her vacation. We miss her this year very much.

Please remember me to Julia, Barbara, Stiya and any other of
the Carlisle pupils you may see, and with best wishes for you
always, I am,

N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 7th 1896.

My dear Guy:-

I went in to see Mr. Beltzhoover on receipt of your letter, and he told me of his telegram and letter to Mr. Eckels, and his request of Mr. Eckels that if possible to aid your cause by his going to Washington he advise him and he would gladly go. Mr. Eckels did not respond at once and Mr. Beltzhoover intended to go down as I telegraphed you, but before the time for starting came he received a letter from Mr. Eckels stating that it would be unnecessary for Mr. Beltzhoover to make the trip to Washington as the matter, he thought, was as fully and favorably before him as it seemed possible for it to be, but that if Mr. Beltzhoover happened to be in Washington by this week Wednesday he would be glad to see him. Mr. Beltzhoover concluded that this was favorable and that nothing would be done until after Wednesday and that Mr. Eckels was probably extremely busy with his report, the meeting of Congress, etc., and it would be better to delay his visit. He expects now to go to Washington on Wednesday, this is somewhat contingent, however, on a case pending before the court which meets tomorrow.

In talking the matter over with Mr. Beltzhoover very plainly and frankly, we considered the pros and cons with reference to your and his differences on what Mr. Eckels would probably deem the greatest question of the hour. Mr. Eckels is ambitious to succeed himself and by what we can learn is somewhat in hopes that he may be able to do that.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 8th 1896.

Mamie Bluejacket,

Vinita, Indian Territory.

Dear Mamie:—

I was pleased to hear through your letter that you are planning to go on with your education and that you look back to Carlisle with such loving memories. I trust you will go on to higher and letter things all through your life.

Things have gone on about as usual since you left. The new laundry is now complete and the work is now moved there. It is a very interesting and busy place. The additions to the shops are also finished and the work is going on there. The gymnastics are now held in the gymnasium, though much play is out of door yet because the weather is generally mild.

Mrs. Margaret Bottoms, the National President of the Kings' Daughters, will visit us this week and the girls expect to hold some interesting meetings.

You have the school news from the Helper and I cannot add to that.

Remember me to all the Carlisle pupils and tell them that we shall follow them with our interest.

Your friend,

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 8th 1936,

Stiya Kowacura,
Indian School,
Albuquerque, N. M.

Dear Stiya:-

Your good letter came while I was away from home, and
since my return I have been so very busy that I have had to delay
until now to write you. I was very glad to hear from you, and to
know that you are having such a happy time. Nana and I often speak
of our visit in Albuquerque when we met you and Julia, Alice and
Barbara. It makes me happy to think of the independent stand you
girls have taken, and that you are working your way and making such
good names for yourselves and your Indian brothers and sisters.

You must have had a pleasant time in the mountains.

Nana and I had a delightful trip, going as far north as Alaska,
and returning home by the Yellowstone Park. I have been very
much occupied since my return. We have built a fine new laundry and
put a second story on both the shop buildings, so that our industries
are now well housed. The laundry is especially a fine building, and
all the work is in one room.

I shall always be glad to hear from you. Please remember me to
Mr. and Mrs. McCowan and the girls, and believe me,

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa., December 9th 1898.

Lawrie Tatum,

Stringdale, Iowa.

My dear friend:-

I have sent Rev. David Street, Monticello, our plates for the enclosed pictures, and the picture of Tom Torline when he came and a little later, which appears in the New England Magazine I sent you. If there are other pictures in the souvenir book sent you, all the plates of which we have, that you wish and will designate I will ship them at once.

I think your paper will do good, and I shall want a number to distribute.

I am glad to know that in your advanced years you are so comfortably situated. I know of so many who have been in the Indian service who are not thus blessed.

Trusting we may see you and Mrs. Tatum at Carlisle sometime soon, I am,

(Disted)

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 10th 1896.

Mrs. Emma Brinton,
1414 Fourteenth Street,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam:-

A letter just received from Miss Carrie Harrison advises that you would be willing to come to Carlisle and give our School one or two stereopticon lectures on European countries, the results of your own experiences, if we would take care of your expenses and entertainment. I write at once to say that we shall be delighted to have the lectures on the terms named. We have an excellent instrument with calcium light. I will do this in addition. Our room is large enough to accommodate quite a number of outside people and we may pick up a few dollars for you by publishing it in town and allowing those who may come to pay a small entrance fee. If you have any notices of your lectures, the ones you will give here, please send them to me that I may use in the papers.

Next week is named as the time that would suit you best. This serves us very well, and Wednesday or Thursday are our best evenings though we can shift matters and use other evenings.

You will be the guest of Mrs. Pratt and myself. Get your own ticket, and advise me of the train on which you will arrive.

(Disted)

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In reply to:

In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 10th, 1896.

Abram R. Vail,
Quakertown,
New Jersey.

Esteemed Friend:-

I have your letter of the 4th giving your views on what you are pleased to term "non-essentials" and "evils" in the high schools of today, referring to ball games, both foot and base.

I appreciate your frankness, thank you for the criticism, and have given full thought to your views. There are two sides of course. I note that you do not charge that Carlisle is different from your Friend's schools in these matters, and that you admit that such games are quite universal, that only Kansas legislates against them.

Yours is the first material criticism received though I have had twenty-five or more letters, some from distinguished people, even distinguished "Friends", applauding the success of our Indian boys in their football games. If the favorable and unfavorable comments received are to guide in forming a judgment the pressure in favor of allowing these games is all on one side. While there are some features in playing in some teams that ought to be done away with, I am compelled from experience and observation to generally favor both football and baseball. You urge brutality and allege killing and

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wounding. The most serious hurt we have had was a broken leg, but one of
our boys slid off a load of hay and broke his leg. Others have been
seriously disabled by being kicked by horses and cows while out on farms
attending to their regular farm duties. One of our boys, being driven
home from church by a lady, was run over by the cars, the lady killed and
the boy nearly so. Another returning from the country was run over by a
train and killed. We cannot on this account consistently condemn hauling
hay, milking cows, taking care of horses, going to church, etc. From
experience and careful observation I feel safe in saying that the overstrain-
ing and exertion you speak of are in proportion no greater nor less dangerous
than that boys are subject to while performing legitimate farm work. The
harvest and hay field and other heavy work is quite as objectionable on that
account. Our experience is that the straining of farm work, like the
straining of football, develops men and makes them physically able to carry
burdens and quick and accurate in determining what to do. When I was
a boy games fully as dangerous were indulged in and I have observed all
through life there is apparently no diminution to this outlet for the extra
energy of youth. The strains and dangers I was subject to on the ball
field, in skating, swimming, running, jumping, etc., etc., helped greatly
in preparing me for what I have had to contend with as a man. Physical
struggle, like mental struggle, needs to be intense and severe in order to
reach the highest results.

You have been a patron of our outing system since June 1881. You have
had young Indians under your care from the Apache, Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow and

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other tribes. Besides several others I count six boys and girls whom
you have had in your family, who came to us practically from the camp
condition, some of them entirely camp Indians. Besides using them
to help run your farm and household affairs you have sent them to school
winters and their services out of school hours have paid you for doing this.
The great practical benefits these young people derived from your using them
to carry on your farm and housework and from their daily association with
you and your family, can never be estimated. We have had over three thousand
like outings with scarcely an exception to the most beneficial results. This
feature of our School has grown so that these young people earn for themselves
above $20,000.00 every Summer, and the numbers placed out average above 500
each year.
You have read my reports and know that I have detailed this
valuable feature of our work to the Government year after year and have
tried to get the Department to utilize this opening door for the Indians
and to increase the number and require other schools to pursue these methods.
Most of these young people pass to and from such homes through the great city
of Philadelphia, and yet this part of our work has not, in the whole seventeen
years of our history, attracted the attention and comment that this Fall's
football campaign has!
Now it seems to me quite proper management and
administration to let the football boys go on with their contest and attract
attention to themselves, their race and the School by their prowess, in the
hope that this will lead to a fuller consideration of the real, solid work
of the School which you and so many others who know about it approve fully.
If this Indian man, who has been condemned on all hands through all the
centuries, as a lazy, worthless fellow, has not freed himself by such magnifi-

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cent demonstrations, as he has made here, of his power and willingness to work, through all the years of the School by what he has done on the farm, in the shop and in the household, it may be that in his successful contentions on the football field in the presence of so many thousands of critics and unbelievers he may secure such appreciation of his conduct and abilities there as to lead the public and the Government to healthier thought and arrangements for him on these practical lines.

There is another feature in it, personal to myself. I have considerable elation and reward in seeing my boys shake up and even overcome the trained college athletes with all their centuries of development and intelligence backing them. It confirms that after all "the contact of peoples is the best of all education." We are now and have been for some time under reactionary influences and principles in educating Indian youth. What is being done is calculated to relegate education to the tribe and to deny the privileges of contact, competitions and experiences in civilization. The educational system for the Indians is being so directed as to more and more close the doors out from the reservations and minimize the civilized and civilizing opportunities to Indian youth. Consequently there is the greater need for promoting and encouraging these special efforts which you condemn. The country has been dosed to the full with Buffalo Bill Show exhibitions and public parades of Indian savagery are highly endorsed and facilitated. These low contacts of the Indian with intemperance, gambling, &c., need to have a strong counter influence and Indians be led to aspire to exhibitions of their powers along the lines accepted as best for the development of our own race.

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I am keeping my hand on the throttle, and watching carefully the ongoing of this train. So long as I believe as I do now that it is doing good to the cause and will probably lead to deeper public thought as to what is best and right for the Indians I shall accelerate it. If I discover that the contrary result is likely to result I will stop it. In the meantime I think we had better have work a plenty, study a plenty, civilized experiences a plenty and play a plenty. As others among our hundreds of farmer friends and helpers may think along your lines and want to know why, I think it best to print your letter and mine.

Sincerely your friend,

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Antonio Apache,

Phillips Exeter Academy,
Exeter, New Hampshire.

Dear Antonio:-

I require your receipt for the $23.65 sent you to cover
your expenses to Mohonk, that I may use it as a voucher in my
accounts. I returned your itemized account for you to receipt and
return to me for this purpose, but I have not received it. Will you
please now make out the statement of your expenses, covering the
$23.65, and send it to me receipted at once.

The football team goes to Chicago to play with the Wisconsin
University in the Coliseum on the 19th. They go at the invitation
of the Press Club of Chicago, which is making all the arrangements
for the game, and promises a royal reception. The boys are keeping
in practice, and hope to redeem themselves for their last game.

Trusting that all goes well with you, I am,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., December 11th 1896.

Miss Florence Ben-Oliel,
✓ Rev. Dr. Weber,
Sunbury, Pa.

My dear Miss Ben-Oliel:-

Yours of yesterday is received.

Christmas week is filled with Church and Sunday School entertainments, and the time between this and then is occupied by the people in getting ready for these and in tying Christmas greens and so on, so that we cannot count much on church help for anything next week or Christmas week. I understood when I met you in Harrisburg that you were coming back to Harrisburg sometime in January, and Mr. Kramer has a note from Miss Hench this morning giving the same information. If, therefore, seems to us best in every respect to use one of the evenings available at that time. That will give us much more time to canvas and January will certainly give us a much larger attendance from the town, all of which is desirable. I think, then, we had better say January and you had better fix the date or about the date. If you have several dates open it might be well for us to know which they are, and we will endeavor to steer clear of any other entertainments in the town. The Indian School we can command.

With kindest regards from us all,

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In reply to:

Sheetz & Co.,
Lancaster, Pa.

Gentlemen:-

I send in today's mail the two shirts made for me by you sometime ago. The sleeves are fully two inches too short, and the collar, although it measures 17 outside, is fully one size too large. The collar had better be made for 16 1/2. Then the shirt bosom stands out from the body, does not lay snug against the breast, as I would like. Please have these alterations made and return. You can send the shirts back just as well by mail, without their being ironed.

(Dictated)
N.

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In reply to:

W. M. Miles, Baggage Agent,
Mifflintown, Juniata Co., Pa.

Dear Sir:-

I require a receipt for my accounts for the $1.00 sent
you to cover the amount you paid for the supper of the two Indian
boys you held up. Please sign the enclosed and return to me in
envelope herewith.

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In reply to

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., December 12th 1996.

R. Clement Stanford,
Box 234, Phoenix, Arizona.

Dear Sirs:-

I enclose to you copies of my answer to the continued
allegation that the Apache Kid was a pupil of this school, which
has appeared in so large a number of our daily papers east and west,
specially at the time the story had such circulation sometime ago.

(Disted)
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Carlisle, Pa., December 12th 1896.

Mrs. E. B. Drinton,
1414 Fourteenth Street,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam:-

Hours of yesterday received. What you propose is entirely
acceptable to us. I shall have you met at the station in Carlisle,
when I know on just what train you will arrive.

You have neglected to give me the size of your slides. This is
important as we might find a difficulty which ought to be provided
against. I will make such use as I can of the matter, and trust that
we may have some patronage from the town, though I can feel no
confidence as to numbers because everybody at this time is busy
with Christmas matters. However, you will have an appreciative
audience anyhow.

(Dictated)
N.

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., December 14th 1896.

J. A. Fleming,
Press Club,

Chicago, Illinois.

Your favorable letter to Mr. Thompson suggests sending along
our Indian band, 25 pieces, Leader Wheelock, to play Saturday night.
Their excellent rendering of classical music will further advertise
cause of Indian education sufficient to warrent expense from our
share of proceeds. If you favor answer promptly.

Sent via Postal 10.40 a.m. Pratt, Capt.

4 M.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Mr. J. A. Fleming,
Press Club,

Chicago, Illinois.

Band goes. No satisfactory hotel accommodations offered.
Cincinnati University entertained team Gibson House. Want good
hotel and special rates. About 45 people. Advise. Manager Thompson
approves you mail me 17 good seats. Shall I arrange party to return
11.30 P. M. Sunday?

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

via Postal 2.55 P. M.

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In reply to:

Edwin Bells,

1213 South G Street,

Tacoma, Washington.

My dear Sirs:-

I do not think anybody has succeeded in getting any information from Mr. McKinley as to the details of his policy in regard to the Indians. As usual the Mohonkites will wait upon him and tell him just what to do. I was present at the Conference when they passed a resolution designating the crowd to go. But I know your long service is so well known to many that if you desire to return to the Indian service you certainly will be offered opportunity, and you can depend upon me to forward your wishes in every way I can. When the time indicate just what you think I can do.

(Dictated)
N.

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In reply to:

Mrs. Isabel C. Barrows,

✓ "The Christian Register,"

Boston, Mass.

My dear Mrs. Barrows:-

I have yours of the 12th with the application for your Armenians. For years it has not been excellent places we have wanted for our Indians, but Indians for our excellent places. I have constantly represented this at Washington, but the Department seems to be afraid of going to pieces itself if it helps on this line of work, consequently I am thwarted continually. I hope the incoming administration will change and give the Indians a chance to fill these places, which really are far more civilizing and Americanizing in their results than the best of schools west of the Mississippi and the best of the schools east of the Mississippi which do not use this system. I hope you will fill Dr. Barrows with every sentiment along this line you can. Do you know I would like to help him get up an Indian speech. I believe we could strike the commonsense of the American people on the line that would tell.

We all send you cordial greetings.

(Dictated)
N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 14th 1996.

Miss Florence E. Ben-Oliel,

Rev. Dr. Weber,
Suntbury, Pa.

My dear Miss Ben-Oliel:-

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings are most desirable for your meeting here. Wednesday is the prayer-meeting night in town, and Friday is our special society night, Saturday is my lecture night, which I am loth to give up, but if neither Monday, Tuesday or Thursday are convenient to you, we will give up Friday or Saturday night.

Let me know the exact date.

(Dictated)
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Edward Marsden,
Lane Seminary,
Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dear Edward:-

Our football team is going to play a great game in the Coliseum in Chicago next Saturday night, the 19th, and I have concluded to send the band along. Thinking you might care to join the party to see the game and have the experience, I write to say that if you will be with the boys at the hotel I will name hereafter on Saturday morning and will help them with their band music, we will take care of your expenses. Wire me your answer please on receipt of this.

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In reply to:

Mr. E. A. Ford, G. P. & T. A.,
P. R. R.,
Pittsburg, Pa.

My dear Sirs:-

Forty-four (44) of my Indian boys, comprising the band and football team, will leave here Thursday morning for Chicago via the Pittsburg and Niagara Express, reaching Pittsburg at 7 P. M. They will want tickets Pittsburg to Chicago and return to Pittsburg only, and will also want sleeping car accommodations to Chicago, 28 berths. Returning they will leave Chicago at 11.30 P. M. Sunday and will want the same number of sleeping car berths through to Harrisburg. Please make these arrangements for me at the best rate you can and advise me promptly that I may understand all is satisfactory. One ticket will do for the party.

(Dictated)
N.

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In reply to:

Mr. Lester Bishop,
Versailles, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Bishop:-

I told Cora that if her sister came here without expense
or knowledge to me, that I would not turn her away. This is the best
I can do, and I am quite unable to help in the matter of transporta-
tion. A little added to the $5.00 sent by Cora would get her sister
to Carlisle and it seems to me that sum might be managed somehow.

Yours sincerely,

(Dictated)
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COPY OF TELEGRAMS.

Carlisle, Pa., December 14, 1896.

Charles Green,

Chadwick Castle, N. Y.

Via Syracuse-

Can you come to Carlisle today to go to
Chicago with Indian Band, one week. Bring clarinet. Your expenses
refunded. Good pay. Telegraph train.

R. H. Pratt, Capt. and Supt.

Special delivery.

Gasper Peters,

Santora, N. Y.

Can you come to Carlisle today to go to Chicago with
Indian Band. One week. Bring clarinet. Your expenses refunded. Good pay.
Telegraph train.

R. H. Pratt, Capt. and Supt.

"Western Union"

11.05 A. M.

COPY OF TELEGRAM.

December 15, 1896.

J. R. Wood, C. P. A.,

Please have one ticket Syracuse, N. Y., to Carlisle,
delivered to Charles Green. Wanted as soon as possible. Send bill and I
will remit.

R. H. Pratt,

Capt.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 16th 1896.

Lawrie Tatum,

Springdale, Iowa.

Dear Friends:-

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in re: p. 101

Carlisle, Pa., December 17, 1897.

Mr. A. G. Thompson,
Disciplinarian,
Palmer House, Chicago, Ill.

My dear Mr. Thompson:-

Since you left I find that the Washington boys, Jim Arquette and the others, stated their intention to go home. Jim told Joe Blodgett and Baptiste Marengo. I have called up Joe and Baptiste and find Baptiste thinks they would go if they had money, but as they have none thinks they will not go. It is as well you have them under observation. Morrison said to one of the boys yesterday that that was his last day at this school.

What a glorious day you are having for your trip. The Philadelphia Record states that Mr. McKinley will be at the game and that after the game will have a reception given him by the Press Association.

(Dictated)

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COPY OF TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 18, 1896.

Edward Marsden,

Care Mr. Crofts,

1548 West Adams St.

Chicago, Ill.

Wired you at Lane Seminary boys stop at Palmer House.

R. H. Pratt.

W. G. 10:52 A. M.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., December 18th 1896.

Edward Marsden,

Lane Seminary,

Cincinnati, Ohio.

Boys at Palmer House, Chicago, with cornet and uniform.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

sent via W. G. 8. 55 A. M.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., December 17th 1896.

F. Van Dusen, C. A. G. P. A., P. R. R.,

Pittsburg, Pa.

42 tickets Pittsburg Chicago and return required for
Indian party today. W. G. Thompson, in charge, will pay.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

Sent via Junction 8. 40 A. M.

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COPY OF TELEGRAM.

379

Carlisle, Pa., December 19th 1896.

Capt. Remus Pierce,
Indian Football Team,
Palmer House,
Chicago, Illinois.

Tell the boys one and all to play the strongest, cleanest game
he can from start to finish, and then the score will take care of
itself.

(Signed) Capt. Pratt.

via Postal 8.40 A. M.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Manager Thompson,
Indian Football Team,
Palmer House,
Chicago, Illinois.

Am anxious to know your officials and that Coach King and all
coaching has been driven from the field and side lines,

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.

via Postal 8.40 A. M.

COPY TELEGRAM.

E. D. Harrington,
Philadelphia.

Your message. Absent from home yesterday. No, football
team does not play again this year.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.
Sent C. O. D. via W. U. 8.45 A. M.

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In reply to

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Mr. C. E. Patterson,
Athletic Editor, Illustrated American,
401 E 23rd Street, New York.

My dear Sir:-

I sent you a few days ago two photographs of our team for your Harvard friends, and instructed that they go at the cost price to us.

You will be most welcome here at any time that suits your convenience. Indeed it has been suggested by our athletic boys, who heard you in Brooklyn, to get you to come down and talk to us, for which they would be willing to pay a limited price. I shall be most happy to have you remain long enough to look into our athletic and other affairs, and furnish you every facility possible to enable you to secure what you wish.

We were greatly disappointed by the results Thanksgiving Day. Our team was knocked out in the first play by the injury to Frank Hudson, who gave the signals. Otherwise I doubt from what I know and what the boys say, if the other team could have scored. It was not over-playing, but it was that accident more than anything else. The substitute was a man who played for the second team and he had been using different signals and was much weaker than Frank in every way. We need greatly an athletic field and better equipments, which must come from outside sources. I therefore concluded to let the

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In re: request to:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., December 19th 1990.

Captain George LeRoy Brown,
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Tennessee.

My dear Brown:-

I have intended for several weeks to write you with my
own hand, but have found matters so pressing and my hand so un-
certain that I have at last come to think it best to use Nana's
shorthand.

I have had cumulative difficulties to deal with all through
this administration and were it to continue a year longer as it has
been I should certainly leave the Indian service. In the hope that
day will dawn and brighter, wider opportunities come through Mr.
been
McKinley, I have led to hold on, though recently I flatly disobeys
an order of the Assistant Commissioner in the hope that I would be
relieved. I cannot consistently, so long as I have the health and
energy in me to carry the work, lay it down of my own motion, because
I suggested and built it. But if through any chance I should be
forcibly relieved I should be only too glad for the change.

I was very glad to get your Thanksgiving letter, because I
hold in most grateful remembrance our long friendship and your
loyalty to my views.

We are enjoying unusual good health here at Carlisle and this
winter we are having our youngest daughter, Richenda, at home. She

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attends the Preparatory School of Dickinson College, and daughter
Nona is with me in my office. This, with Mason's nearness with his
family and their frequent visits, makes our home life very pleasant.
Mason has four children and Marion has four and strange to say that
while Mrs. Pratt and I have a son and three daughters, their families
are made up in the same way. The son is the second in Mason's
family and the youngest in Marion's. We are expecting a visit from
Marion and her boy at our Commencement time in February. Now I want
to urge that you and Mrs. Brown, with such of the children as you
can bring, come and be with us on that occasion. I would like to
gather about me this year as many as I can of those who were here at
the inception of the work. Miss Semple is still living and it is
possible I may be able to get her here. Miss Hyde and Mrs. Platt
may also come. Our Commencement is always the last week in February.

We all join in cordial and unlimited loving messages to you
and yours.

(Dictated)
M.

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Allen S. Williams,
109 West 94th Street,
New York.

My dear Sir:-

I have given considerable thought to your project and the
more I think about it the more uncertain I am in regard to the
feasibility of it. The fact of the matter is that there are two
diametrically opposite influences at work: the home school demanding
every influence and expenditure to the tribe, and the remote school
demanding that the tribe shall cease and that every influence and
expenditure shall be towards useful citizenship. The influences
toward the tribe have been growing stronger constantly for the last
six years, principally because of the demands of western congressmen
claiming the expenditure of public monies for Indians shall be in
the vicinity of the tribes. I am hoping that Mr. McKinley will
reverse this and that the real interests to the country at large may
overcome these influences. I would suggest that you let your
project rest for a time and bring it up later. If your exposition
were a great demonstration along the lines of the Carlisle School
I should be with you heartily, but there are eastern schools, notably
Hampton, which is working in the interests of home schools, and I
could not join in a demonstration which would include Hampton,
unless Hampton should change her methods.

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Allen S. Williams, page 3.

I think it entirely practicable to give a his school demonstra-
tion and also to have some blanket Indians, but I have the same
prejudice against the appearance of blanket Indians in connection
with the schools that I had in the demonstration made by the Govern-
ment at Chicago. No educated Indian tribes as trites, say I. If
they are going to remain compacted together as tribes they are not
entitled to education at the expense of the Government, for it is
on-American.

(Dioötated)
N.

Yours truly,

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Carlstie, Pa., December 19th 1896.

Rev. N. Tamura,

Sugamo, Tokyo, Japan.

My dear Friends:-

I have sent my check for $5.00 to your American Treasurer, Miss Coulson, to help the Memorial Library for Mrs. True. I am sorry that my own circumstances make it necessary to limit the amount to this. There are such innumerable wants everywhere that I have not the heart to press others about it.

We all send the most cordial greetings of the season, especially Mrs. Pratt and myself to you and dear Mrs. Tamura and the little ones.

(Dioötated)
N.

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387

In reply to:

Edward C. Haviland,
Rye, New York.

My dear Sir:-

I handed your letter of November 22nd to one of my ladies to make out a list of the names you wished. She mislaid it and has just returned it to me. I regret the delay, and am very glad now to enclose such a list as I think you would care to have.

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

Carlisle, Pa., December 21, 1896.

G. W. Leitch,

Mechanicsburg, Pa.

My dear Sirs:-

It will serve us best to have your lecture Tuesday (tonight)
evening. Advice what train you will be on and a conveyance will meet
you at Gettysburg Junction. I will take care of your entertainment.

Your circular indicates you have your own stereopticon. We have gas, and the sheet will be up unless you have other arrangements.

COPY OF TELEGRAMS.

Carlisle, Pa., December 19, 1896.

W. G. Thompson,

Manager Indian Foot Ball Team,
Palmer House, Chicago, Ill.

Arrange that score be phoned me immediately game closes.

R. H. Pratt.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 21st 1996.

Miss Annie Lockwood,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.

My dear Annie:-

Under the circumstances I believe you did what was best in
going to Albuquerque. Mr. and Mrs. McCowan will, I know, help you
and with Julia, Barbara, Stiya and the other old friends about you,
I am sure you will feel happier. The future will take care of
itself, and ways will open for you.

We are having weather almost as mild as that you have in New
Mexico. There has been snow all around us, which last Thursday
blockaded the trains east and west, but we have had only a little
flurry of it and can scarcely realize that it is mid-winter. We are
busy now making preparations for Christmas. There will be Christmas
trees at the different quarters, and you will remember the excitement
we always have at such times. During Christmas week the Susans
will hold a public meeting and the Standards and Invincibles will
have a public debate, and there will be other entertainments.

With loving wishes for a merry Christmas from us all to you,
the girls, Mr. and Mrs. McCowan and all at Albuquerque, I am

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390

In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 21st 1896.

John F. Brown,
Siletz Indian Agency,
Lincoln Co., Oregon.

Dear John:-

I am glad to hear from you, and know that you are improving in health. I trust you will get well and strong, and as you realize the degradation on the reservation that you will work your way out into better conditions. If you want to make a man of yourself you should get away from the Indians. You have knowledge sufficient to work your way anywhere.

We are busy now with our Christmas preparations. The Standards and Invincibles will give an entertainment on one of the evenings during the holiday week, and the Susans will also hold a public meeting then. There will be other entertainments also.

We have our work in the new shop buildings now, and the new laundry is also occupied with work. You have the news from the Helper.

I shall always be interested in your welfare, and hope you will write me occasionally.

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., December 21st 1895.

E. R. Booth,

Principal of The Technical School,
Cincinnati, Ohio.

My dear Sir:-

I send you by this mail a package of printed matter which
will inform you more fully about the School. We make only an annual
report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and do not issue a
catalog.

I am glad to get the catalog of your School, which I have long
wanted to visit.

(Dictated)
( N. 

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In reply to:

To

The Editor of "The Pathfinder,"

Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:-

I want to thank you personally for giving such prominence
and kindly comment on the editorial page of your excellent paper for
December 19th to the little Carlisle incident. It will certainly
do very much to help Carlisle and the Indian cause.

Yours fraternally,

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

(Dictated)
N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 22nd 1896.

Captain Constant Williams, Acting Indian Agent,
K. Defiance, Arizona.

Dear Captain:

On November 24th I wrote you asking if you would kindly have your trader send me two Navajo blankets on approbation. As I have heard nothing from you or the trader in response, I have sent elsewhere for the blankets, and write now to cancel the order with your trader.

N.

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Mrs. Robert Marmon,
Laguna, New Mexico.

Please have your Trader send me at once by express 2
best Navajo blankets you can select to cost not more than $20.00
each and I will remit.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt,

Sent via W. U. 8,43 A. M.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., December 15th 1896.

Miss Fanny A. McCauley,
150 Wilson Street,
Baltimore.

Our dearest sympathies are with you and your bereaved Mother.
Mrs. Pratt and I will be at Union Station at 12.20 and come to your
house to attend funeral.

R. H. Pratt.

Sent via Postal 8.45 A. M.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 24th 1896.

Mr. A. G. Spalding, President,
147 Warburg Ave.,
Chicago.

My dear Sir:-

Replying to your letter of the 21st of December in
reference to a game between our team and the Chicago Athletic
Association team, I am sorry to feel that it does not seem best to
let the team play any more this year. The boys, as you probably
know, have been taxed severely, perhaps as no team ever was taxed
before, not only playing with the "big four" but with Brown, Dickin-
son, Duquesne and other strong teams at short intervals throughout
the whole football season this fall. I have already given the
Captain a leave of absence for a fortnight and he has gone home.
Other members of the team have been given like privileges and the
whole football spirit has been dropped for this year.

(Dated)

N.

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In reply to:

Mrs. George Paukette,
Bombay, New York.

My dear Mrs. Paukette:-

The very handsome basket reached me safely, and I thank
you for it. Mrs. Pratt and I have put it to use at once, and besides
its convenience it is very ornamental to our room.

Your little daughter is getting on very nicely.

Wishing you a merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, I am,

Your friend,

N.

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In reply to:

Michael Delisle,
Schenectady, New York.

Dear Sir:-

The package with two horses came yesterday, and I have given one to Miss Bourasse, as you desire. I thank you for the present and your good wishes, and trust you too will have a Merry Christmas.

Your friend,

N.

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BLURRED TEXT

In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 29th 1896.

Clarence Three Stars,
Kyle, South Dakota.

My dear Clarence:-

Your letter was both a surprise and not a surprise. I
have wondered that you should have the skill and wisdom to so
conduct yourself as to be continued so long in the Government
service. I know very well Capt. Clapp's inimical views and actions
towards Carlisle. You are only another victim, but, my boy, I have
an idea that you will realize, and in a little while, that you are far
better off as an independent man than as a Government employe, though
your long and faithful service and your success in filling difficult
places has unquestionably done a world of good for you as a builder,
 builder, if it has not been profitable to you otherwise. The same
that all white employes at Pine Ridge, and most all throughout the
Indian service, have been thrown out several times over during the
twelve years you have been employed and that you have been able to
hold your own and maintain your self respect and hold the respect
and confidence of the very numerous agents and other superiors over
you, stands greatly to your credit and stamps you a person of unusual
qualities, so that I have no fears but what in the wider field which
you are now compelled to enter you will meet with far greater success

Things have been bothering me quite a little here at Carlisle,
but I am hopeful that there will be a change in the near future.

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Clarence Three Stars, page 2.

We have had a very pleasant Christmas, with snow upon the
ground to give the true wintry aspect. The School is full, and work
moves along as usual. We have a nice new laundry building, and
have added a second story to the shops, so that our industries are
now well equipped.

I trust you will write me from time to time and let me know
how you are getting along.

(Dictated)
N.

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402

In reply to:

General John Eaton,

"The Concord,"

Washington, D. C.

My dear General:-

I am in very great need of fatherly and wise counsel and I know of no one to whom I could turn more than to you, and upon whose judgment I could more confidently rely. I wish it might suit your convenience to come up here for a day or two and just you and I look the situation over and plan a little bit. Miss Chester, who is in Carlisle for a rest, has expressed a very strong wish that you could see us just as we are. Can't you and Mrs. Eaton come up quietly within a very few days and as guests at our home give me full chance to tell you what is in my mind and to show you the situation? I believe you can do me and the Indian School cause a very great service. I will gladly take care of all your and Mrs. Eaton's expenses in coming. We are having no school this week, but that need not interfere if it suits you as well or better to come now.

(Dictated)
N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 31st 1898.

Mrs. Lottie Herrick Laver,
Delta, Ohio.

Dear Cousin Lottie:--

I enclose herewith my check for $35.00 covering Mother's keep for January 1897.

Wishing you all a very happy New Year, I am,

Your cousin,

N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 31st 1896.

Col. R. G. Marmon,

Laguna, New Mexico.

My dear Colonel:-

I enclose my check for $25.00 for the two blankets and
for your trouble I am very greatly obliged. Please say to Marie
that she has excellent taste and has suited me exactly, and that
Mrs. Pratt is greatly pleased with her Christmas present. She will
herself write Marie. The blankets came only this morning so I did
not get them in time for Christmas, but they will serve just as
well for New Year's.

(Dictated)
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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., December 30th 1896.

T. Parsons,
Lock Haven, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

Replying to your letter of the 22nd, I would suggest that you write to the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C., and ask him for a copy of his last annual report. That will give you the reports of the superintendents of the various Indian schools. I know of no special book on Indian education, though there are innumerable books written about the Indians. I also send you a package of printed matter, which will inform you especially in regard to this School.

N.

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In reply to:

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

Carlstota, Pa., January 1st 1897.

Mr. Chas. C. Caddy,
Spalding Factory,
Chicopee Falls, Mass.

My dear Sir:-

Mr. Weld of your Philadelphia house advises that he has sent my wheels to you and that you wish to put in '97 buts and that it will take a little time. Of course I should be glad to have them made perfect, though sorry to miss the use of my wheel this winter bicycling weather. Please favor me with the earliest return possible of the wheels consistent with a good job, and you will oblige,

(Diated)
N.

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa., January 4th 1997.

A. H. Heinemann, Supervisor, etc.,
6915 Stewart Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.

My dear Sir:-

I thank you for your letter commending our football
exploits. The closing game was undertaken with a good deal of
reluctance and only in compliance with the great urgency of our
friends in and out of the Press Club in Chicago. The echoes of
it seem to last. I have a letter this morning from a gentleman in
Chicago telling of his presence with his family at the game and of
their great enthusiasm and appreciation of the playing of our boys.
I understand very well that there are many who do not consider it
a useful part of the curriculum of our School. But if it attracts
attention and commendation for the Indian school work, I think it
has its place and after all the duty rests upon us to demonstrate
that the Indians have the capacity to meet the issues of our
civilized life.

(Dictated)
N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., January 4th 1897.

Rev. John Menual,

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

My dear Doctor:-

I was deprived of part of my salary for two years and got
into such a condition that it has been necessary for me to check
my outgoing expenses until I could get into better shape. However,
I enclose a small contribution as an evidence of my interest and
goodwill.

With best wishes,

(Diated)
N.

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In reply to:

This certifies that this School was favored with an afternoon's entertainment by the Edison Projectoscope under the direction of Mr. Young, and that the marvelously wonderful moving pictures presented excited the greatest interest and enthusiasm among the faculty and students, and it was unanimously voted to be one of the very best and most interesting entertainments ever brought before the School.

(Dictated) N.

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My dear Antonio:-

I hope you noted with satisfaction the grand success of our boys in Chicago. The newspaper notices were excellent, and I have had many letters, and the boys are challenged by the best teams in the west, all of which has worked, as I hoped when they undertook the game, great things for the Indian cause in that region.

I hope your health has been restored and that you are getting on as well in all respects as you anticipated.

(Dictated)
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General John Eaton,

Presbyterian Board of Home Missions,
156 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

My dear General:-

What I wanted to talk to you about was whether or not it
would be wise to approach Mr. McKinley with my views and make
suggestions to him now or later. There is no great hurry about it
and perhaps after you return to Washington I will run down and
stay a few days and talk it over with you there, though I feel that
the best place would be here at Carlisle.

(Dictated)
N.

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In reply to:

Miss M. Francis Winter,
Emmetsburg, Pa.

My dear Miss Winter:-

I shall be at home on Wednesday. I really know very little about the running of the trains on the Philadelphia and reading Railroad, but you can certainly find out from the railroad office in Gettysburg as you come through.

I very much doubt if your visit will bring any practical results to you. The Civil Service Commission have it all their own way now and I never was more helpless in my life than I am at this writing. However, I have no objection to listening to your story and giving you such poor advice as I am able.

(Dictated)
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF SUPPLEMENTENT.

W. H. Rice,
1714 Chicago Avenue,
Evanston, Illinois.

My dear Sir:-

Your letter of December 28th is before me. During the
seventeen years' existence of this School we have had so many pupils
that it has been impossible to keep up with all, and to know the
exact future of all. I do know, however, the history of the majority
of my pupils, and can assure you that your resentment of that
common accusation, that the pupils relapse into their old condition,
is quite right. The large majority of the pupils are doing well,
indeed the percentage of those who are doing well is not smaller
than that of any school or college that I know of. If the history
of the graduates of our public schools and our colleges was followed
we would find many with the best of surroundings who have failed
while it is remarkable in our policy with the Indians that any do
well. We pauperize the Indians by our parentalism of them and use
those methods which but encourage the undoing of all our school work
by sending them back to their homes after they have had a few years
in school. The Indian deserves a chance and we should give him
that, but after that he should be made to feel that he must take
his place in the activities of the country. We assimilate hundreds
of thousands of emigrants every year, why cannot we assimilate

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To reply to:

Maggie Beaulieu Darco,
Beaulieu, Minnesota.

Dear Maggie:-

Your letter with its good wishes for this happy season reached me several days ago, but I have had to lay it aside until now to answer. I was very glad to hear from you after your long silence, and to know that Carlisle has such a warm place in your affections.

I have given your Helper subscription to Miss Burgess, and you will now receive the little paper regularly, and will have the school news from it.

Sarah Williams is here and took part in a debate given by the girls' society in the chapel last week.

Wishing you a very happy new year, I am,

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