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Carlisle, Pa., August 20, 1901.

Lt. J. B. Ettinger,
Manager Carlisle Indian Band,
Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Ettinger:- Mr. Shongo writes and asks the balance of his pay to the close of his time. You might pay him for the full month of August, deducting, of course, the eight dollars already paid him, and I would close out with Sundown and Kennedy also. I enclose check for $200.00, $50.00 more than you requested, thinking you may need a little more, and what you do not use you can turn back.

It is too bad about Myron Moses. My judgment is that Myron had better remain at his home, which is only thirty miles from Buffalo, at least for the present. However, I do not make this obligatory. He has not divulged his future purposes to me.

I am entirely satisfied with the success of the Band, and believe the Exposition Management must also be. The possibility of an engagement at Olean has passed. Mr. Brock, who tried to arrange for it, writes me this morning of the collapse of his plans. The Park people of Harrisburg have asked for the Band the 5th or 6th of September and I write them favorably. Loring arrived, but Dr. Divin states one lung is already tuberculous, but advises that we keep him here for a time.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 20, 1901.

Mrs. Mary N. Agnew, Hill Crest, Palisades, New York.

Hon. Albert K. Smiley, Lake Mohonk, New York.

Mrs. Joseph Laroeque, Ridgefield, Conn.

Dr. Merrill E. Gates, Mt. Washington House,
Bethlehem, New Hampshire.

Hon. Jos. K. McGammon, 14th St. & N. Y. Ave.,
Washington, D. C.

Members of the Board of Trustees:-

Dear Friends:-

The former consent was lost in the mails between Ridge-
field, Conn. and Palisades, New York. A two weeks' search has
failed to locate it and it becomes necessary to execute a duplicate.
Accordingly I enclose a duplicate and send it first to Mrs. Agnew
at Palisades, who will forward it to Mr. Smiley at Lake Mohonk; he
will forward it to Mrs. Laroeque at Ridgefield, Conn., and she to
Dr. Gates, Mt. Washington House, Bethlehem, N. H., and he to Mr.
McCammon in Washington who will return it to me. Please let this
letter pass from one to another with the document. I have addressed
envelopes which make use of in transmitting.

The purchaser moved on the farm today and was to receive
his deed and complete the payment, but we cannot make a deed until
this paper is back and recorded in the County Clerk's office.

Hon. Albert K. Smiley,

Lake Mohonk, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Smiley:-

The Consent to Sale of farm document was lost
in the mail between Ridgefield, Conn. and Palisades, N. Y., and after
two weeks inquiry we are unable to locate it. It becomes necessary,
therefore, to send duplicate and I have started same which will
reach you in due time.

Please execute as promptly as you can and forward to the next
as instructed in the letter accompanying.

The purchaser moves onto the farm today and would have paid us
the balance in full if we had the deed ready.

Die. (H)

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Carlisle, Pa., August 21, 1901.

Charles Hamilton,
Burgess, Mich.

Dear Sir:-

I see that your letter of application to enter here is written by a boy whose name when here was Charles Skippegosh and who now signs himself as Charles Roberts, so that I am not entirely sure that Charles Hamilton, Charles Skippegosh and Charles Roberts are not the same, and I do not like to correspond with people who have so many names.

William M. Patterson, Jr.,
Sanborn, N. Y.

Dear William:-

I thank you for your very cordial invitation to be present at your annual picnic on the 29th of August. As it appears now I might accomplish it although I am extremely busy as I am here somewhat alone with the affairs of the School, but I assure you that if it is possible to be with you I shall be glad to be with your people at an affair like that.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa. August 21, 1901.

Dr. Merrill E. Gates,
Mount Washington House,
Bethlehem, N. H.

My dear Doctor:-

The papers giving consent of Board of Trustees to sell the farm was lost in the mails between Ridgefield, Conn. and Palisades, N. Y. Mrs. Larocque mailed it on Wednesday the 7th and it has not been heard from, the every effort has been made to find it. We have started duplicate and have sent it first to Mrs Agnew, who will send it to Mr. Smiley, who will send it to Mrs. Larocque, who will send it to you and you will send it to Judge McCarthy, who will return it to me.

I have addressed official envelopes with double quick delivery
stamps on them so that it might be hastened as much as possible.

I am sorry to trouble you again with the matter, but there
seems no other way.

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Randolph G. Hill,

Onondaga Castle, N. Y.

My dear Randolphs-

It will do if you report here by the 15th of
September. Your class will come in from the country about that time
and you should be here then.

In regard to the accepting of others who want to come here, I
have so much trouble with the New York Indians running away and not
keeping to work as they ought, that I do not feel greatly encouraged
to take any more. Two St. Regis boys left this morning, and you
yourself know that a great many of the Onondagas and Senecas run away
Our records show that many who run away from this School are New
York boys. We have more than we ought to have any how. If there
were one or two, or even three or four real good boys and girls who
would stick to school and could come here for five years without
bothering me and their home people about it and are in good health,
I should strain a point and receive them, but I am tired of dealing
with such shiftless material.

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Carlisle, Pa., August 22, 1901.

Comes. Skipppegosh,
Charlevoix, Mich.

Dear Sirs-

I have just had a letter from Mrs. Given urging me to let you come back to Carlisle. She thinks you will be manly and do all right. Accordingly I am very willing to take you back. I enclose a dozen consent blanks. Have the boys and girls who wish to come use these blanks and you return them to me signed by their parents and then I shall write you what to do.

Attend to this as quickly as you can, for it is but a short time till school begins.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 22, 1901.

Paul Teenah,
Troop "I", 8th Cavalry,
Camp Mackenzie,
Puerto Principe, Cuba.

Dear Paul :-

Your letter of six weeks ago has been in my drawer waiting
till I had a little time to do as I pleased and could take it up and
write you. This has been a very busy summer at the school, and I
have been kept quite close at my desk. We have had some excessively
hot days. Although you are in the tropics I doubt whether you could
beat our temperature for several days very badly, but with the heat
we have had plenty of rain and fruit and crops are looking well. Our
twelve grandchildren with their parents have been with us a good
part of the summer, and that has made it pass very pleasantly, not-
withstanding the close confinement. A new assistant superintendent
has been appointed and when he comes I hope to get away for a rest.

You probably know that we bought another farm last year, so that
for a time we have had the care of three. The purchaser of the Mid-
dlessex farm has just taken possession and relieved us of the care
of that one. The buildings on the new farm are old and we shall have
to replace some of them as soon as we can, so there is plenty of work
ahead. We are enlarging our store house now, and have two wings
to the dining hall well under way in addition to the regular repair-
ing and putting of things in order for the next year. Judging from
the number of applications that are coming in all the time we shall
have a very full school and I anticipate a very successful year.

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-2- Paul Tenah.

It does me good to get such a nice letter from you occasionally.
Miss Burgess has made use of your last in The Helper because that is
the best means we have of letting our friends know how Indians get
on when they strike out for themselves. For fear the paper may not
have reached you regularly I send the last five numbers by this mail.

We are having excellent reports from our band. You no doubt
know they are in Buffalo furnishing music for the Pan-American Expo-
sition. They complete their engagement of four weeks next Saturday
and will be with us again Monday.

With kind regards and best wishes from us all,

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

TELEGRAMS.

Aug. 22.

Nellie V. Robertson,

Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Your message. Will have two tickets at Gordon by 26th.

Pratt. Lt. Col.

W. U. Evening.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 23, 1901.

Wm. I. Buchanan, Director General,
Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, New York.

Dear Sir :-

As our band service ends Sunday I send you herewith bill
for same and request that check to cover be sent to me direct.

Trusting that the service has been satisfactory, I am

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 23, 1901.

Frank Beaver,

Winnebago, Nebr.

Dear Frank:-

Mr. Warner sent me your letter asking to return to Carlisle on account of football. I do not want a professional team in any sense. I want our team to be made of bona fide students of the school; not those that come for football especially and not of those who having graduated are held on to because of football, but just those who are regularly passing through the school or having passed the school are attending college. You were pretty well equipped for the duties of life and I feel assured that turning your attention to football rather than to more important things is not helpful to you and I regret to see you inclined to do that. Take my advice and let football go.

Dio. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 23, 1901.

Mr. G. S. Warner,
Springville, N.Y.

My dear Mr. Warner:-

I do not think it is well to let Frank Beaver come back to Carlisle just for football purposes and I wish you would not ask me to do that. He is through with Carlisle and let him go out into the world and take care of himself. I would not try to get Kelly Lay and Parker and Sorogge to come back. Let our team rest upon the merits of the actual students. Parker, Sorogge and Lay have all been brought here for football purposes and that is all they want to come for. We do not want them. You will find material here to your liking and can get on with what we have. I agreed to Martin Wheelock because Martin can return as a pupil and I would be willing to let him come back as an assistant to you. Things are gathering up for us. We received twelve students today making our numbers 987; another party is on the way from Utah which will bring us into the nineties and others in sight which will bring us considerable above the thousand mark before school opens in earnest, the 15th of September.

Sincerely yours,

Die. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 23, 1901.

Sister Catherine Buckley,
Supt. St. Mary's Boarding School,
Odanah, Wis.

Dear Friend:-

I take pleasure in sending the"Redman" to your address.
In regard to what you say about the admission of pupils for less
than five years, our term is fixed and five years is arbitrary unless
the student graduates sooner. We do not care to have students come
and graduate within a year. That leaves us too little opportunity
to impress upon them what we most desire, that is,the associations
and surroundings and activities of our best American life. I send
you a copy of our curriculum, also a book of pictures of the school
and a few application blanks for admission. Allow me to say that
if you can forward your pupils into the normal schools or the public
schools of the state of Wisconsin or good private schools where
Anglo-Saxons are educated, it is better then sending them to Car-
lisle for the reason that you save me sending them to just such
schools if they come here and I can go on and do that for students
who cannot be so helped at their homes or from their home schools.
Any young Indians anywhere that can get out into actual competition
with the brain and brawn of our own people find out what they are
worth themselves and what they must reach up to in order to compete
in the country are better off than they could be in any Indian school

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We cannot hope to perpetuate for ever an Indian system. When their affairs and our affairs can mix and conditions be equitable for both, the Indian question will be settled and not before. This is therefore the aim of Carlisle. With kind regards,

Fraternally yours,

Dio. (M)

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Carliole, Pa., Aug. 24, 1901.

Mr. Guy LeRoy Stevick,
Denver, Col.

My dear Guy:—

Enclosed is your bill for the section, Harrisburg to
Chicago. We got your letters on route and greatly pleased to hear
that everything was going off so nicely. Our last from you was
when you were between Chicago and Denver.

I have tried to see my way to break off and come to you
for the fishing trip but it can't be. There is too much to be done
daily. I shall have to stay until Mr. Allen comes and I fear that
then it will be too late for this year. Perhaps we had better be-
gin figuring early and have a good time next summer and take just
the proper time for it. We are all well; are having a great deal
of rain. Verdure never looked finer in the spring that it does
now. The ground is thoroughly soaked and the grass trees and
everything freshened up with new life. Richenda is off visiting
friends and Mrs. Pratt will go away on the second to Jamestown and
Buffalo. With love to you all,

Sincerely yours,

Dio. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 24, 1901.

Mrs. Lida B. Given,
Holton, Mass.
My dear Mrs. Given:-

Your earnest appeal in behalf of Charles Skippegosh who
has written to me as Charles Roberts and again as Charles Hamilton
in the most earnest manner, leads me to agree to receive him back.
He evidently wants to get away from his past very badly and I will
give him the opportunity.

While you are sweltering out there in Kansas we have
been having the most admirable rains. Never since we have been at
Carlisle has the verdure been so green everywhere and fresh at this
season of the year. It is more like April than August. The ground
is soaked and the corn has sprang up into great stocks and ears.

You will be interested to know that Mr. and Mrs. Odell
have been transferred to the Sauk & Fox Agency in Iowa and that I am
again looking for some one to fill the place. Mr. Odell favors
that he is equal to a more difficult undertaking and has applied
and been successful in getting it. It may be that he is the "soon
dog" of the Service. Nobody yet has been able to succeed in get-
ting the children of that agency in school. They have a new school
building but I think nineteen is the greatest number they have been
able to get into school at once.

The people are coming back and school opens a week from
Monday. Miss Carter, Miss Wood, Miss Stewart, Rose, Mrs. Canfield,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 24, 1901.

Mr. K. L. Butterfield,
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Dear Sir:-

We do not have any catalogues of the school just at present and will not be able to get them out for a couple of months yet.

DEM.

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Carliole, Pa., Aug. 24, 1901.

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

My dear Mr. Commissioner:-

In a personal way I invite your attention to the pur-
chase of tinware. Of course I am glad to get rid of my tinware
to the Department but the method of it is so evidently disadvan-
tageous that I think you ought to know it. We have an order from
Mr. Spooner dated August 21st. to send 2 dozen quart cups to the
Tulalip Agency for the training school at Marysville, Washington.
This comes in a special letter from Mr. Spooner. We packed and
shipped them by freight. You know the circumlocution of the freight
business and what is necessary in the way of bills of lading etc.
The distance from here to Marysville, Wash., is very considerable.
The box only weighs 34 pounds but the Department must pay for a
hundred pounds. From here to Chicago the freight is 67 cents. It
is probably more than twice that from Chicago to Tulalip which
would make the cost of transportation alone in the neighborhood of
two dollars. We invoice the cups to the Department at 65 cents
a dozen, that is, the original cost is $1.30 here, making the cups
and freight cost the government a probable $3.30. As tinplate is
shipped in close packages and at the lowest rates and the cups
can be made in Washington about as cheap as here, the probabilities
are that these two dozen cups could be bought at the Tulalip Agency
for a trifle more than we have to charge for them here, say at
$2.00, and I think $1.50. You can see that aside from the bother

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of Mr. Spooner writing us a letter and making up the waybills, the
delay in getting through and the chances of the loss of such a
small package, together with the cost of it, is a condition that
assumes a phase of ridiculousness as a business transaction. We
shipped to the school at Jicarilla Agency, N. Mex. 5 doz. cups;
to the De Pere School, S. D. 1 doz., the Ft. Peck school 1 dozen,
and the Agency 3 dozen; the Crow Creek School 1 dozen, Cheyenne
& Arapaho and Cantorment School, 4 dozen; Ft. Sill school 1 dozen,
Eastern Cherokee School, N. C. 1 dozen. There were also three cups
that we packed and shipped to the Flathead Agency and had to make
a separate bill of lading. These three cups cost 16-1/4 cents and
had to be looked out for en route with just as much care as though
they were worth thousands of dollars. There are small quantities
of coffee boilers, pails and pans shipped in the same way the first
cost of which is immaterial. There are many other little things
amounting to a very few dollars in all the estimates, which, if
called out in the Department before contracts were made and the
Agents and bonded superintendents on the grounds were authorized
to buy, it would save a tremendous lot of trouble, a great deal
of unnecessary expense and be far more satisfactory all around.

Yours truly,

Dio. (M)

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TELEGRAMS

J. B. Ettinger,
Manager Carlisle Indian Band,
Pan American Exposition,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 24, 1901.

Have asked Mr. Buchanan to give you $100. Apply to him.

(signature) Pratt, Lt. Col.

10.00 A. M. Postal

Aug. 24, 1901.

Buchanan, Director General,
Pan American Exposition,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Please pay Ettinger, Carlisle Band Manager $100 today and deduct
from bill sent you yesterday.

Pratt, Lt. Col. & Supt.

10. 05 A. M. Postal.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

Dr. Merrill E. Gates,
Mt. Washington House,
Bethlehem, N. H.

My dear Doctor:-

I just have an invitation to accompany the Senate Indian
Committee's sub committee to visit agencies and schools in the
West in company with the Commissioner and expect to leave Milwau-
kee on the 9th of September. I do not know how long they will be
away but if I am back for Mohonk, I would like to give a prepared
paper for that occasion. If you can see your way, put me on the
program for such an infliction. Mr. McCammon is at Grindstone Inn,
Winter Harbor, Maine, so that the document will go to Washington
and then reach him there. From the fact that Mrs. Agnew sent the
document to Mrs. La Roque instead of to Mr. Smiley who is just
above her at Mohonk as you know, I am afraid that the former doc-
ument was lost right there. My instructions were certainly as
plain as language could make them.

In regard to the government rate telegram, it is always
allright to send to me telegrams about matters relative to the
school at that rate. I pay all telegrams out of my charity fund
and have for 18 or 19 years, and I use the Govt. rate because we
do a wholesale business in that line.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

Hon. J. B. Quarles,
U. S. Senate,
Milwaukee, Wis.

Dear Senator:-

I am delighted that you will make me welcome as a member
of your sub committee on the trip and will gladly undertake all
my expenses. I need the outing badly and the work here is such
that I must have the pressure of something to necessitate my going
away. If I can be of any use to your committee I shall be doubly
pleased.

Won't you please outline so far as you can the route of
your committee so that I may arrange my affairs accordingly and
I will be in Milwaukee for your start on the 9th.

Very truly yours,

Dio. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

Mrs. Amelia Little,

Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

Dear Mrs. Little:-

I have thought over Pearl's matter and your wishes quite a good deal and have talked with those that know her and you and of the conditions and the sentiment seems to be that by all means Pearl should continue until the expiration of her time. I have no doubt she writes you in a discontented way and you are led to your action because of that but that ought not to prevail. What she needs is just what she is getting here at the school I am sure, and as she came here for a fixed time, if I deviated in one instance, I would have to do it in another. I do not see that I can make a break in the rules. I have talked with Mrs. Cook as you suggest and Mrs. Cook said that there was no such promise made that there should be a less period than five years. No Agent of Carlisle has a right to make such promises. There has been a term of five years only for Carlisle for the past 18 years. Under these circumstances I think it best to endorse your check back to you and keep Pearl here. Accordingly please find the check for $45.00 which you sent to cover Pearl's way home enclosed herewith.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

Henry Coulon,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Sir:-

Your boys came here June 29th, 1900. They came for five
years as all of our children do and are not entitled to return home
until the end of June 1905. I am therefore unable to comply with
your request. Both boys are well and doing fairly well.

Truly yours,

Dio, (H)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,

Hogansburg, N. Y.

My dear Bro. Kingsbury:-

I will send you the pictures in a very short time, 24 of them as per your last letter. The children here have no money but Bero says he wants two and will get the money, so I have ordered two more for him, making the number 26 with what you ordered.

In regard to the honey, I would be very glad to pay the express charges of a package to Carlisle. Don't you think it would be better for the Methodist preacher whose income compels him to live mostly on honey to keep it for himself and his good wife.

In regard to the muscollonge, if you pack it in ice so that it would keep, I would be delighted to pay the express charges of a good size fellow but it would have to be good size because now we live at the Teachers' Clup and there are about 50 of us.

I have a letter this morning from Senator Quarles of Wisconsin who is the Chairman of the Indian Committee of the United States Senate asking me to accompany a sub committee of which he is chairman and the Commissioner on a trip west among the Indians, starting from Milwaukee on the 9th of September. I think I shall do it as I have no doubt we shall get some tip-top fishing in Northwestern Wisconsin and Dakota where they are going.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

Mr. Peter Day,
Hogansburg, N. Y.

Dear Friend:-

Your daughter Lizzie will be allright in a little while.
She is like a good many children and seems quite a little down at
first but as soon as she gets over that, she will be contented and
all right. It will be impossible for me to send her home, as the
rules of the government do not permit of such changes.

Truly yours,

Dio. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

My dear Mr. Commissioner:-

Dr. Brumbaugh exceeded his authority by six in sending
children here and I had to write twice before I got him stopped from
sending. I enclose a copy of his letter just received which shows
a gratifying condition in regard to our Porto Rican attendance.

Very truly yours,

Dio. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 86, 1901.

Supt. Edgar A. Allen,

Quapaw Agency, O. T.

My dear Allen:-

I just have an invitation from Senator Quarles, Chairman of the Senate Indian Committee to accompany a sub committee of the Senate and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on a visit to the various agencies and schools, starting from Milwaukee on the 9th and feel it best to go. It is going to bother a little that you cannot be here in time to take hold but I think it best to go anyhow. The opportunity and the prestige will be worth something to Carlisle. It comes at the opening of school when everything is in a rush and loads up those who are here with extras. My object in writing you this letter is to let you know the situation so that if it were possible for you to hasten your reporting, you could do that; but I agree with your own and the department's view about it that you ought to close out those legal cases before you leave there and things here must get on the best they can.

In regard to your home, I think it best to use it in a temporary way until you come and then after you have settled on what you want even if you want the whole of it, we can adjust our matters to suit. It will need some overhauling and cleaning before you go in it but in very fair shape. If I go on this trip, I shall probably be away when you arrive for I doubt whether they can be back in five or six weeks.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

Dr. Theodore B. Noss,
Prin. Southwestern State Normal School,
California, Pa.

My dear Doctor:-

I thank you for your copy of the very excellent chapel hymnal. I have looked it through with care and can endorse it as being exceptionally good for a small collection. We need a large number of hymns and songs and have found the Epworth Hymnal Nos. 1 & 3, bound together, quite satisfactory. I had ordered 300 of these to replace those worn out and destroyed during the past few years or I should have given yours serious consideration. We may want a few anyhow for society or choir purposes. I like it.

Bro. (M)

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Carliole, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

Honorable Joe, K. Mccammon,
Grindstone Inn,
Winter Harbor, Me.

My dear Friend:-

I find that Mrs. Agnew instead of complying with my letter and sending the paper to Mr. Smiley in the envelope which was enclosed with the general letter, sent it to Mrs. La Roque and Mrs. La Roque without deviating from the order sent it to Dr. Gates and Dr. Gates advises me this morning that he has sent it to Washington so that it will reach you in due course via Washington.

Please forward it to Mr. Smiley at Lake Mokonk instead of returning it here and ask him to send it to me. This blunder of Mrs. Agnew's together with the very positive information that the former letter was mailed all right to her by Mrs. La Roque leads me to fear that the former consent may finally be found to be with her. Certainly the instructions were as plain as they could possibly be made for her to send the document next to Mr. Smiley.

Truly yours,

Dio. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 26, 1901.

Mr. Jake View,

Shawnee, Okla.

My dear Mr. View:--

I have thought a great deal about Angelina. She has been
here quite a long time and I know your anxiety to have her with
you and all that but she needs school and restraint just now and
ought to finish her course here. The discipline of the school
is best for her. I have no doubt she writes you and tries to get
you to ask me to allow her to go home. I have been holding her
along, knowing that both you and she would be glad of it and it
seems to be best that I continue to do that and let us see if we
cannot get her more contented. She wants to go out this winter and
attend school among white people and I think that is best for her
and I will find just the place where she will have careful womanly
training under some good housemother. I think she had better stay
here and continue at least another year, and I will so arrange it.

Truly yours,

Die. (M)

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