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Carlisle, Pa., June 20th, 1898.

Mr. Dennison Wheelock,
% Supt. Indian School,
Phoenix, Arz.

My dear Den:

Your full and interesting letter of the 16th from
Cheyenne is just received. I have a letter from Supt. Taylor,
saying that he can make additions to the party, and would like
to come himself.

I enclose you a copy of letter received from Disston Manf.
Co., of Williamsport. The other people have not yet responded. I
am rather inclined to give Mr. Conn the job at once, but will
wait a few days longer. I hope you got my letter enclosing copy
of Mr. Conn's.

A telegram from Supt. Breen of Ft. Lewis this morning
advises that Mrs. Breen leaves Durango with six girls and one
boy, so I judge the band boys are left for your coming.

Be sure to keep me informed of your points ahead, so that

I may know about where you are in case there should be special
necessity for communicating either by mail or telegraph.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 21st, 1898.

W.G. Thompson,

85 Washington Avenue,
Albany, N.Y.

My dear Mr. Thompson!

Thanks for your letter. We have been plow-
ing the field; had to use six horses, and the earth comes up in im-
mense clods. Now the boys are breaking the clods with mallets,
and we have a three ton roller on which takes six horses to pull,
and altogether it seems one of the most tremendous jobs I have
struck. If we had not got on to Mr. Wike, I doubt very much if
our sodding would have amounted to anything. He knows his busi-
ness, but it is going to cost us quite a little money. We are
in for it. I see no way but to go ahead and accumulate a debt
against the future.

A note from the Commissioner this morning tells me that
Miss Reed is on duty, and inviting me to come to Washington. I
shall probably go down this evening.

Buffalo Bill's general manager, Maj. Burke, came specially
yesterday to offer us the freedom of Buffalo's Show.

That is right, just have as good a time as you can, and come
task all the better equipped for work.

Give my regards to Mrs. Thompson.

(Dated) Mo

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Mr. Walker,

Wanamaker & Brown,
Philadelphia Pa.

My dear Mr. Walker!

Mrs. Pratt has been insisting that a half dozen old shirts of mine are worth new bosoms and neck bands. I accordingly send them to you by express today. Please make the said repairs and bill to me.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 23rd, 1898.

Supt. H.B. Peairs,
Haskell Institute,
Lawrence, Kans.

Dear Mr. Peairs:

Confidentially, Chester Cornelius is not your man. He is not honorable in money matters. He obtained both goods and loans of money under false pretenses while here and at Eastman Business College to an amount of several hundred dollars. This was years ago. Pressure has been brought to bear and he has paid part, but not all.

I really do not know of anyone in the Service to recommend to you. I tried at one time to get a Mr. Herbert Johnson, of Lawrence, here as Asst. Disciplinarian, because my Mr. Thompson had met him at summer school, and thought he had the qualities that would make a good assistant, but, notwithstanding the statements of the Commissioner at that time, that I could have anybody I wanted, the Superintendent of Schools prevented my getting him. Mr. Thompson stated that Mr. Johnson had a military training and bearing. The chances are you will have to make your man. If Johnson has the proper qualities, it is a simple matter for him to equip himself. Last year I sent my Mr. Thompson to Chautauqua, where he took a course in Calisthenics and Gymnastics. The results were admirable.

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John C. Mason,

Jamestown, N.Y.

My dear John:

Your invitation to the reunion of the Alumni Association at the Mont House is just a "leestle" late. I see it was mailed at Jamestown on the 22nd of June; I received it on the 23rd, and I am to reply so Mr. Wilborg before the 20th. Now, how is all this to be accomplished? John, you ought to understand these matters better.

I am real sorry I cannot be with you on this occasion. I do hope to get up there and spend a little time on the Lake this year, and believe I shall with Laura and Chen.

Love to you all,

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Capt. C.L. Cooper,

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My dear Cooper:

I wrote you a line yesterday from the War Department after making the discovery that all of the field officers ordered before Boards so far are ordered against their will. I did not say in my letter, which I found out was the case, that they are having some difficulty in getting the Boards to operate. The movements of troops have several times broken in on their arrangements, and I was present at quite a protest from the Surgeon General about Col. Carter, who has the matter in charge, against the detailing of medical men without consulting him. However, it seemed finally that the ruffled waters were smoothed over. I think I gave you all the information that could be had. After seeing Carter, I went to talk to a friend of mine, who occupies one of the highest places in the Department, and he told me that he had no doubt that matters would work out and these people be retired, that that was the intention of the Department and the intention of the Secretary and the President. I did not look the matter up there, but as I worked it out afterwards it seemed to me that I would go to the 8th Cavalry in place of Davis, and you seem fixed to the 3rd Cavalry in place of Loud, unless, as you say, Warner should be promoted, which would send you to the 5th too. That would be jolly.

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Gimble Bros.,
9th & Market Streets,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen:

On June 16th I sent Mrs. Pratt's wheel to you for overhauling. I checked it to Br oad St. Station, and sent you check.

I trust you have gotten the wheel and will give it your best attention. I wrote you fully at the time.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25th, 1898.

Mr. James Doyle,
"Baltimore American",
Baltimore, Md.

My dear Sir:

Yours of the 21st was sent to me in Washington. In the meantime I returned home, and it was returned to me here.

Carlisle will take no part in the Indian School Convention at Colorado Springs. I find it more profitable to have my teachers take special courses at different summer schools throughout the East.

My idea is that eventually there should be no Indian Schools, and the best way to build against that is to keep my teachers in touch with the general school systems of the country which brothers. The Indian School Convention system narrows and dwarfs, and gets the Indian School people out of touch with the other educational forces.

I write you this confidentially, and have went your letter to the Superintendent of Indian Schools at Washington, who will no doubt send you circular and program. I am not in possession of them.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 27th, 1898.

His Excellency,

Daniel H. Hastings,

Governor of the Commonwealth,
Harrasburg, Pennsylvania.

My dear Governor:

Capt. Charles L. Cooper of my regiment, the 10th
United States Cavalry, writes me asking that I intercede with you
in behalf of his son, 1st Sergeant Harry L. Cooper, Co. "C", 1st
Regiment, Penna. Volunteer Infantry, Chickamaugua, Tenn., advising
me that Harry informs him there are two vacancies for 2nd Lieut. in
his regiment, that Harry has been in the National Guard for ten
years, has always been a non-commissioned officer, is now the rank-
ing 1st Sergeant in the regiment, is a magnificent shot, and belongs
to the State Rifle Team of four men, the best shots in the State
Militia, and is in every way qualified for the position.

From my knowledge of Harry as a lad at a frontier station,
when Cooper and I were serving together, and from my knowledge of
his father and mother, who are both, as I remember, Philadelphians,
I should say that the father does not over estimate the son, and that
Harry must have in him the qualities for a good commissioned officer.

You will know best what to do, and if it turns in doing that
you make Harry a lieutenant, I shall be glad.

With greatest respect,

(Dioptated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29th, 1896.

Mr. W. Grant Thompson,

85 Washington Avenue.

Albany, New York.

My dear Mr. Thompson:

I have given instructions that a book similar
to the one prepared for Prof. Bakeless be arranged for you.

There is a prospect of quite an addition to the school
without our stirring out. Perris wants to send us another fine
lot, this time girls, and there are eleven boys to come from
Ft. Lewis, aside from several from each of the different schools
that Dennison is visiting. Altogether the outlook is that we
will have as many students as we can handle and no effort on our
part to get them, except Den's for the Band.

At our letting we get flour for only one cent higher per hun'd
pounds than we did last year. Beef will cost us $.50 a hundred
more and coal 4-1/2 cents a ton more, and so on. This was a
good deal better than I expected.

Part of the boys are off for Northfield this morning,
and the rest go tomorrow. The waiter boys for the Ocean resort
go tomorrow.

Frank Green ran away with Buffalo Bill's Show, and was
killed by a freight train, whether one of Buffalo Bill's trains or
not, we do not know. I suppose taking all in all, it was a prov-
idential matter. We were going to send him home. Of course,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 29th, 1898.

Hon. W. E. Cody,

McKeesport, Penn'a.

My dear Colonel:

I am sorry to have to tell you that one of my boys, Frank Green, from Oneida, Wis., somehow got away with your outfit and was killed by a freight train at a place called Mexico, about thirty miles west of Newport. Whether one of your cars or not I have not yet found out, nor have I got any particulars. His body came back to us Saturday and was buried on Sunday. He was badly cut to pieces. He was a bad fellow and had run away from the school seven or eight times, was a skilled thief and a general demoralizing influence. I had him on the home list to start home this morning, but he did not know that. I only know that he went off with your outfit by the statement of a boy who had run away with him before. This boy was with him at the show at night, and they were together after your impediments had been taken over to the railroad. Frank was trying to persuade the other boy to go with him, but the other boy finally determined not to go and came out to the school. Frank did not appear here any more.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30th, 1898.

Miss Estelle Reel,

Superintendent Indian Schools,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Miss Reel:

I have your kind letter to go to the Colorado
Springs Convention.

My judgment about it is that I had better not go this year,
but leave you to make up your mind about these conventions from
your own experience and the people who take so much interest in
them.

There is additional reason why I should not be absent, in
the fact that our fiscal year closes the 30th of June and I must
get off my responsibility papers by the 20th of July, and, while of
course it would be possible to trust my very excellent employees to
manage all, I feel better when here to look after things directly
until we get through.

Your urgent invitation is a gratification to me, and it
would be a delight to take Mrs. Pratt and one of my daughters to
Colorado Springs, and have the great pleasure of seeing our daugh-
ter in Denver and our five grandchildren.

I judge that your plan will be to study the situation,
and not to formulate or endorse plans, in or out of operation,
until you have fully considered. That being the case, I will
present my views and any suggestions or plans I may have, if

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you will permit, later.

My teachers are all going to different summer schools in
the East, which I know from experience will be of the greatest
benefit to them and to our school, and incidentally advance the
general cause of Indian school work before the public.

My great desire will be to aid you in every way I can,
and make your administration of the school affairs the most val-
uable of any in the history of Indian education, and I believe
this can be easily done.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7, 1898.

Mr. W. G. Thompson,
85 Washington Ave.,
Albany, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Thompson :

Yours of the 1st was duly received. I found the Lacrosse
sticks were in the express office and have got them out, leaving
the settlement for them with Mr. Orimiere of Hogansburg for you
to attend to. I wrote to Mr. Lorimiere explaining the delay, say-
ing that you would be back in a few days and would settle for
them.

Our athletic field gets along very slowly though I have nearly
thirty men at work, fourteen of them aside from our own forces.
It seems to me important that we get the grass on, although it
takes a great amount of water. It has been very dry, and every
thing seems to be against us. Mr. Wike thinks he can make the
grass live and I think we had better get through with it all now.

There is no special news. Den is doing well in gathering up
band boys. The loss at Santiago make me a Major. I am very sor-
ry to get my long delayed promotion in that way. However, such
is the fate of war.

With kind regards to Mrs. Thompson, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., July 8th 1898.

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

My dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 7th enclosing ticket, form
4500-1, #11, 582, for which I am greatly obliged, and enclose
herewith my check for $7.63 covering the same.

Yours truly,

N.

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

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Carlisle, Pa., July 5, 1898.

Rev. Dr. Jas. M. King,
Gen. Secy. etc.
1 Madison Ave., N.Y.

My dear Doctor :-

I have been so very busy with the home going of our pupils and the closing out of the year's business as we always have to do at the end of June and the opening of the new fiscal year, that I have not found time to answer your letter in regard to Catholic influence on Indian education. I fear now that I can not give you any data which I could vouch for that would be of material benefit to you. Mr. Linton, M. C. of Michigan made the most direct attack on this and had more points of a general nature than I know of elsewhere. I enclose you his speeches.

While I feel morally sure of a great many things, I am not so positive and personally cognizant as to give absolute testimony. They are the shrewdest people in the world to conceal their tracks. What I would personally be able to give you would be of so extremely personal a nature as to at once indicate the authorship and this would be very bad for me. I had a long, bitter fight and things have quieted down some. I am waiting but have not ceased watching. I send you a lot of documentary evidence. Were I out of the service and not compelled to carry things along somehow, and as free to speak out in meeting as you know I never hesitate to dowhen I feel that I ought to, I could give you a great deal of personal matter; but just now I

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7, 1898.

Albert Nash,
Beacon by the Sea,
Pt. Pleasant, N. J.

Dear Albert :-

I have your letter of the 5th. There are two influences which will bear upon the boys of your party, of which I have some apprehension. One is, that the people will make too free with you and that you boys will not have the wisdom to be as modest and retiring in your conduct as you should be, and after the novelty wears off you will get to be something of a nuisance. People will say that you are too forward and that you are above your business, etc. All of you will need to guard against this, and it will require a great deal of wisdom.

The other influence is that you speak so briefly of, the matter of tips. Of course it is expected that these will come to you, but the getting into a conniving habit to induce these things will be the danger. I have a fear that a boy like yourself, for instance, with your intelligence and adaptability will be more attractive than a boy who is perhaps equally as industrious and entitled to it, but who is more quiet and diffident, but because of his retiring disposition is not so likely to receive such favors. That boy would not appear to be so successful as you, and in a little while he would feel that he was not justly treated, and so an unpleasant discord might grow up among you. I regard the situation in which you are placed as one which will test all the honor and manhood there is in all of you to the utmost, and while I do count on great success for all of you, I still have as I stated at the beginning of my letter, great apprehensions.

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A. N.

In regard to the aprons, Mr. Standing is sending you a full
supply of work aprons, and we gave each of you three white aprons which
was the number specified by Mrs. Crawford. Until she advises to the
contrary, I shall think that number sufficient for all of you.

I have intended to write such a letter as this to Howard. He
knows and you yourselves know that what I say is true. You had better
get all the boys together and read this to them. I cannot help feeling
considerable anxiety, because I do want you all to be a complete suc-
cess so that your modesty and ability will induce other hotel managers
to ask for your services next year and hereafter. You will readily re-
alize that it will be a good chance for boys who are a little ailing.
I do not want to stop the farming, but only want to add to our indus-
trial facilities and receipts during vacations.

I must leave you to The Helper for the news. With kindest re-
gards to all the boys, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7, 1898.

Miss Daisy C. Allen,
C/o C. D. Blakeman,
Stratford, Conn.

Dear Miss Allen :-

The only method of getting into the Indian service is
by Civil Service examination before the Civil Service Commission
To do this you should correspond with the chairman of the Civil
Service Commission in Washington.

I am. not needing any teachers for the ensuing year, as
all the old teachers are to remain.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 8, 1898.

Mr. O. H. Bakeless,

Shamokin Dam, Pa.

My dear Professor :-

I had a letter from Thomas prior to yours in regard to
their shortage, and sent my check promptly, charging the amount
to the Y. M. C. A. account. I hope the boys will be benefitted
greatly. We get no good thing without paying for it.

With love to Mrs. Bakeless and John, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., July 8, 1898.

Miss Lydia L. Hunt,
Howard House,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Miss Hunt :-

I am told of some very nice photographs you have of wild
Indian scenes. I am getting up another souvenir of the school.
I have had some excellent photographs taken of the interiors of
shops, school-rooms, gymnasium, etc., and want to make improve-
ments in the book. A few contrasts would be in the line of this
idea. Could you loan me the photographs ?

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Carlisle, Pa., July 8, 1898.

Mr. Thomas Smith,
Lt. Berthold,
Elbowoods, N. D.

Dear Thomas : -

I have returned the students who were reported against
by our school physician. Oscar was not one of them. He reported
him as all right. Oscar doubtless seeing the others going back,
has written you discouragingly, but he will be all right in a
little while. Let him alone. He will feel better after school
begins in September.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 8, 1898.

Mr. Stansbury Hagar,
31 Nassau St., N. Y.

My dear Sir :-

I have referred your letter to my foot-ball manager, Mr. Thompson who will correspond with you about the matter of one of the Cherokees witnessing the next Carlisle-Pennsylvania game. This is a matter of detail to which he must attend. I have also ordered our school papers sent to you.

We should be pleased to have you stop off at Carlisle when it is convenient.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 8, 1898.

Mitchell A. Paul,
C/o Mr. J. S. Shaw,
Carversville, Pa.

Dear Mitchell;—

You had no right to ask your sister to send you money
to come home on. Your intention to run away is dishonorable and
you know it. Your action in this matter is very disappointing.

The $13.00 sent you by your sister is placed to your credit here for the present. I have advised her that later when you show by your conduct that you have given up all thought of running away and intend to be a man and carry out your obligations as you ought to, I will return the money to her, but that will not be for some time. In the meantime you will not be allowed to have it at all.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 7, 1898.

Mr. Fred A. Wilson,
C/o Hotel Wilson,
Detroit, Minn.

My dear friend :-

Den is in the west looking up band boys for the school,
and I will keep your letter for his return. My notion about it
is that we ought to depend upon actual school boys. We advertise
the band as such, and it ought to be such. This will bar you out
I will talk with Den and notify you of the result of our confer-
ence.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Mr. Jno. Clarke,

Tower, Minn.

My dear Mr. Clarke :-

It is quite impracticable to permit our students to go
home and visit at any period earlier than that for which they came
You can readily imagine that with 850 students these requests
would be very numerous, and if granted, a great number of the
students would be on the road all the time. The only way is to
hold students and parents to their agreement.

Your boy is well, is doing well, and is being educated
at government expense. The only sacrifice you and his friends
are called upon to make is to allow him the privilege of gaining
all he can. Your sacrifice seems very small in comparison to
your boy's interests. You can see how unwise it would be to dis-
turb him in these satisfactory and advantageous conditions.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Dr. G. M. Philips, Prin.,
State Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

Under the circumstances, the amount of Estaine's bill
may rest here with the expectation that hereafter she will reim-
burse us.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Mr. Geo. R. Westfall,
Cheyenne & Arapahoe Agency,
Oklahoma Ty.

My dear Doctor :-

I do want some real good Cheyennes and Arapahoes, and
have been expecting to hear from Mr. Viets that he would have a
party to send in. But, Doctor, I want real Indians, and I want
healthy ones over 12 and under 18, of good character. Somehow,
the Cheyennes and Arapahoes we receive now do not size up to the
originals in this particular. We cannot vary from our period of
five years. We are not badly off for students, having now about
200 more than our appropriation allows us to carry, but we are in
shape to make it 500, using our outing. We closed the year with
over 800 students after the home-goers were discharged.

I do want to keep my relations with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, but only on condition that I get good deserving, suitable students. We should have the best. If you have anything to offer in this line, I will make arrangements for their transfer promptly.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Mr. S. J. Brown,

Browns' Valley, Minn.

My dear Mr. Brown :-

I waited to learn the facts about Lillian before answer-
ing yours of June 30th, and so wrote to my visiting agent who is
on her rounds among the girls in their country homes. I have been
away from home for several days and on my return find a letter in
which she says under date of the 12th :" I have seen Lillian Brown
today. I have not visited a happier and seemingly well satisfied
girl than she. She said she had been homesick, but is all right
now and perfectly happy and satisfied, and doesn't think of going
home. She did n't seem to feel bad when I told Guy might go for
children. She has grown and is perfectly well ; sleeps in the
same room with her lovely country mother. She is doing well and
had better be left undisturbed."

Now, about Guy's going home for children; If there were
some sympathy with such a movement on the part of the agent and
school people up there, I would feel it might be a success; but I
have no intimation from them or either of them that such is the
case, and of late years we have almost always found obstructions.

Suppose you feel the ground a little and let me know. It would be
better on Guy's account and our arrangements for the summer, to
finish his obligation and go to Sisseton after he returns to school
say about Sept. 1st. If we are able to send him then and the
field is promising, I shall be very glad to do so.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Paul H. Hayne,
Poplar, Mont.

Dear Paul :-

I have your letter of the 7th. It is just such a letter
as I expected you to write about that time. It has come to that
point, Paul, that when boys and girls are so persistent about go-
ing home as you were, that I do not expect them back although I
should of course be very glad to have them here. I will simply
say this; "I am ready to make R.R. arrangements for your return
at any time. The matter is in your hands. You would not return
as a new scholar, but as an old one and take up the fight just
where you left off."

Hoping you are having a good time and that your outing
will be of great benefit to you, I am

Always faithfully your friend,

Capt. 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Emma Seawitsea,
Laguna, N. Mex.

Dear Emma :-

I had used the $7.82 you left here to help pay your bill
of $55.00 at the M. E. Hospital, but I realize you may be unable
to do anything for yourself and your necessities may be great.
I therefore send you the amount which was your balance when you
left the school. If this is not right, let me know. We all send
our love to you.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Mr. Guy S. Miller,

Versailles, N. Y.

My dear Sir :-

Your daughter came here first Nov. 13, 1895. She came
for five years. On account of yours and your wife's urgency I
sent her home May 6th, 1896. She was readmitted on your request
Sept. 3, 1896. On account of her health and your importunities
she was again sent home June 16, 1897. I had expected her to re-
main at home, but granted your appeal to permit her return, and
she was readmitted the second time, August 31, 1897.

She is taking just such treatment at school as is thought
best for her. We accept no pupils under any other conditions.
Her health was not good here at the school. It was good out , and
the tax of going to school was limited. She had all winter a wid-
er out-door range. Her outing last winter was especially bene-
ficial to her health and not seriously hurtful to her progress in
school.

You and your wife have persisted in keeping up a pesti-
ferous writing, annoying her, keeping her uncomfortable, and ac-
complishing no good purpose in any direction. Whatever you can
all
do for her at home, I am sure is being done for her here that
could or would be done for her were I to send her home. I shall
not permit her to go now, nor will it be worth your while to con-
tinue on the line you have been pursuing for some time past. Nei-
ther shall I pay any more attention to your letters. Your contin-
ued nonsense has placed you beyond the pale of patient forbearance
Yours very truly,

Dictated (P)

Capt. 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Mr. Dennison Wheelock,
White Earth, Minn.

Dear Dennison :-

It has been quite impossible to know where to address you
from anything you have written or telegraphed. It has been a
chance whether I could strike you by telegraph. Am just back from
Washington. While there, arranged transportation for Supt. Mead
to start today from Carson City with twelve.

I proposed to Mr. Conn $2000.00 and our old instruments
as you suggested, and on my return find he has accepted, saying
in his letter that he will forward most of the instruments within
three weeks, and the others as rapidly as he can get them. Some
of them are imported. If you are able to stop off on your way
east and see him, it would be well.

Everything is moving on nicely here. They can find no
place for Jim at present and he is urged to continue here and im-
prove himself with the view of a future appointment.

With kind regards to Louise, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898

Mr A Alexander,
6th Ave. & 19th St.,
New York.

Dear Sir :-

Jas 4. Bacaster & Co. advise me I may possibly hear of
leggings such as I want by writing to you. I want a long legging
that can simply be opened and closed around the leg quickly with
little steel springs. Please advise what you have in this line
and oblige,
slaged leatherpapier

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Mr. Wm. W. Jimeson,
Gowanda, New York.

Dear Mr. Jimeson :-

Your letter about your nice Elnora Jimeson has been re-
ceived. We have had no information that Elnora is sick. She
seems to be getting along very well in her country home. My vis-
iting agent will see her in the country, and will report to me
if things are not all right. As she is out for the summer, it
would not be wise to break the arrangements she has entered into,
even though you offer to pay her traveling expenses. Many others
write to ask that their children be allowed to go home for the
summer, and I am compelled almost invariably to refuse them when
I consider first the good of the children and the necessity of
their learning to fulfil an obligation they have taken upon them-
selves. So, much as I should like to grant your request, I feel
that it is best for Elnora to remain where she is until school be-
gins in the fall.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 14, 1898.

Mrs. Eliza Jameson,

Salamanca, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Jameson :

I have your letter dated July 13th, in regard to your
daughter, Geneva Belle. She was very anxious to go to the coun-
try; so we placed her in a very good comfortable home . She is
doing well, and seems happy and contented. Her address is
Principio, Cecil Co., Maryland, C/o H. C. Mc Dowell.

Both little girls have been doing nicely. Nora is here
at the school. Both are well taken care of.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 15, 1898.

Maj. Chas. L. Cooper,

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My dear Cooper :-

I was in the War Department Wednesday and found that some notices of promotions are delayed only by the want of exact information of the way the officers were killed at Santiago. Preliminary reports only had been received up to Wednesday. The full reports were expected every mail. Gen. Corbin advised me that Morris also had been retired. The want of data made it impossible to tell which vacancy would come to me, either Hamilton's or Force's. Your's of course will come on Col. Perry's; there seems no doubt of that, and I am exceedingly glad it gives you what you want. So far as I am concerned, I have no objections to the 10th or 9th Cavalry, for I anticipate I will be continued here but even should I be called back to the Cavalry, I have no objections to either of these regiments. The only uncomfortable feeling I have about it is that I am promoted in the place of an officer who was killed while I was not on the battlefield. I should much prefer to have had it come in the place of a retired officer.

I have just spent four days in Washington. Was at the War Department twice, but got no information until I found the chief clerk who had special charge of the promotions. He was very ready to give me all the news he could, but that was not much.

They were very uncomfortable from information that yellow

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Fever had broken out among the troops. The papers since announce
it is confined to the employes in the quartermaster's Department
see, 9th Infantry, has resigned his commission of one of
the immune regiments, and Watson of ours is appointed in his place

I hope you will get the colonelcy of the New Mexico reg-
iment, but also hope that nothing will be required from you.
There is a general belief that Spain will go to pieces soon,
though a prominent and well informed senator told me he thought
she would hang on for a year at least, and would compel us to do
all sorts of things before she would give up. Certainly we do not
want the end to come before we are in possession of Porto Rico.

The clerk referred to told me that they had gotten up a
new form of commission which is being printed to be issued to
cover appointments during the recess of the Senate, instead of
the mere letter notice which has been sent out heretofore, and
after Senate meets and confirms, the regular commission is to be
issued.

With kind regards to Mrs. Cooper, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Mrs. Z. T. Daniel,
Vernon,
Wilbarger Co., Texas.

My dear Mrs. Daniel :-

On receipt of your letter I shipped your goods, as shown by enclosed shipping bill. I had to get off immediately to Washington and was away four days, coming back Wednesday evening; so your goods were well under way before I returned. Your other goods are stored here, ready for your further orders. Mr. Kenuler had the boxes strapped and everything in good shape before sending

While in Washington I saw your friend, Judge Youngblood and told him of your migration. He had done all he could to meet your wishes in Washington, but it was simply impossible on account of the Civil Service rules.

Am glad to hear you had such a pleasant trip down, and your surroundings are working out so comfortably. Mrs. Pratt has torn up our house and we are going to have new floors, new bath-room, sleeping rooms, etc. much to her delight. She has been wanting a change for several years. Nana is at the seashore. Richenda is with some school friends in Pottsville. Mrs. Pratt and I have moved into the Teachers' Quarters. It is dreadfully hot here. The thermometer has been above 100 in the shade.

With love to Irene, I am my dear Mrs. Daniel,

Capt. 10th Cavalry.

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Mr. Kenuler's note enclosed will serve as your receipt for what remains in the store-house here.

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Bad Buffalo,
Wolf Point, Mont.

Dear Friend :-

While Ollie Nichols is not robust, he is capable of doing light work, and it seems this is the best place for him at the present where the doctor can watch him and care for him. He has a difficulty with his heart. Ollie himself desires to remain here and under all the circumstances it seems the best he should be allowed to do so.

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Cambridge, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Mr. H. L. Pehr,
Room 15, Security Bldg.,
York, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Since you were here we have entered into an arrangement
for new instruments for our band and are shipping the old ones
away, and I can see that it is quite impracticable for August
13th will see us in possession of the new instruments. I think
therefore you had better abandon the expectation of help from us.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Mr. Harry E. Heller, D.P.A.,
840 Hamilton St.,
Allentown, Pa.

My dear Mr. Heller :-

The enclosed communication explains itself. By it you will understand that on the 22nd of March, 1898, Mrs. Augustus C. Stouch, wife of Capt. Stouch Ind. Agt. at Crow Agency, Mont. who had brought in pupils from that point, purchased in Chicago a ticket via your lines to Crow Agency, Mont. and paid therefor $42.05. She took a sub-voucher receipt for the amount, the signature apparently being "J. B. Newton". A new regulation of the Auditor of the Treasury Dept. requires that all subvouchers shall be stamped with the official stamp of the railroad at the point where the ticket was purchased, giving date, etc. On June 8th I mailed to your ticket agent in the Union Depot Chicago, this receipt which so far as I can understand was given at that point. Evidently, it was received by your Mr. Burton, agent at that place from the note which you will observe. My clerk informs me that the receipt plainly showed it was given by the agent of the C.B.&Q. R.R. at Chicago, who sold Mrs. Stouch the ticket. That receipt was not returned to me nor was any attention paid to my request.

Will you not please take this up with your general passenger agent and see that at least the original receipt is returned to me?

Major Stouch has been appointed Asst. Commissary Gen.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Rev. John Tadgasong,
Oscoda, Mich.

My dear Friend :-

Nancy came back from the country last night, and I am sorry to say her condition seems to me to be critical, although she is bright and cheery, and exceedingly sensible. I think you had better have all the letters that have come to me from Mrs. Lippincott and Miss Shaffner, the girls' matron who is now visiting the girls in their country homes. I enclose also the report given me this morning by my Dr. Diven and the report of Dr. Adams who first examined and attended her.

It appears that in April last the family where she lived as well as this whole section of country was afflicted with the grippe and Nancy had a touch of it. Mrs. Lippincott's brother died with it and others of the family were more or less seriously ill. After it had passed there seemed to be some remaining difficulty and Mrs. Lippincott took Nancy to Dr. Adams whom she attends the most able physician in that section. You see what he says. It is only within a week or so that her case took on such alarming symptoms.

I have talked with Nancy and she is very anxious to go home. The doctor thinks it probable she can travel by Monday or Tuesday, especially if there is a moderation of the excessive heat we are now having. This seems to be the hardest of it. We have

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Mr. J. T.

had no rain for a long time and everything is about dried up, our
thermometer running near 100 in the shade.

If it is practicable, I will start Nancy from here on
Tuesday next via the Maakinaok line and she ought to arrive in
Oscoda at 5:38 Thursday. My nurse will take charge of her through
to her home; but if you prefer to come for her, yourself and
get this in time to telegraph me on Monday that you will do so,
I will not star her and you can come for her and I will pay your
expenses coming and returning.

Nancy has been one of our most promising girls and I usm
not tell how sorry we all are that she should come to this condi-
tion so unexpectedly. It seems to me it is a very rapid form of
consumption.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Mrs. D. B. Wawanosh,
Sarnia, Ont.

Dear Mrs. Wawanosh :-

I sincerely sympathize with you in the death of your son Wesley, though no doubt as you say it is better for him. The good Father knows what is best for all of us and in his own time lays His hand upon us. Sometimes I am heartsick over the physical condition of the Indians; such a large proportion of them are unhealthy. Their great enemy is consumption. We do all we can to overcome this dread foe, but he does get the better of us everywhere over the Indian field; I find no exception north, south, east or west; an unusual number of Indians die of this disease.

Am glad to have you tell me what you do about Abram Isaac. When our government is trying to help so much, there should be no d'eceit practiced upon it. Our numbers next year bid fair to reach a higher point than ever before, probably 900.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Miss Sara E. Smith,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Sara :-

There is little to say and nothing to do until I have
specifications from you as to the number, if any, you have. Glad
to know you are improving in health and gaining in weight. This
is the most important of all. It is indeed a pleasure to know
that so many of our Carlisle pupils from Oneida are doing well.
Oneida is the brightest spot in all our field.

Must leave you to The Helper for the news. With best
wishes,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Celinda K. Metoxen,

Oneida, Wis.

My dear Celinda :-

I am sorry to say that when in Washington a few days ago I ran over the list and found there are so many applying for positions in the Indian Service that many of those who are most competent to take up such work will be disappointed. I have foreseen this all along. It is not to be wondered at that with only a limited number of places and every boy and girl who has a little education applying for them, we should get to a point where finally many must be turned away simply because there is not enough room.

There is nothing to prevent your making application yourself. If you can do no better, come back to Carlisle and take one of our outing places. I will gladly do anything for you in that line and that is a place where I can help. It does not require the consent of the Commissioner, the Secretary or anybody else. With best wishes, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Benjamin Caswell,
Indian School,
Harlem, Mont.

Dear Benjamin :-

I suppose you are having your vacation now and I may not
strike you with a letter. I really have nothing special to write
except that things are going on nicely with us. We closed the
year with over eight hundred students when all home-goers were
off, and expect to have about 900 next year. I have been waiting
to hear that you had a nice party of students at Harlem ready for
transfer to Carlisle with some of you Carlslers to bring them in
You may tell Mr. Spray that I say this.

I certainly rejoice in your continued success and from
what I hear, I count you among the foremost of our Carlslers who
are struggling with the great problem in the west.

I am sorry to hear that any of the boys should go astray
but as you say, a cog will slip once in a while and sometimes
break entirely. Widow Bedott said, "We are all poor critters ,
and she was not far out of the way.

We are having a great foot-ball field arranged. It is
costing us several thousand dollars but it will be one of the fin-
est in the country when completed and covered with nice sod. There
will be a running track a quarter of a mile, twenty feet wide,
s straight of way of 220 yards. We shall have bleachers and all the
conveniences both for participants and spectators. I wish I had

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Carlisle, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Miss Edith Pattee,
Singer Glen,
Buckingham Co., Va.

Dear Miss Pattee :-

It so happens this year that not a single teacher, school, music or other, is to leave us. I have therefore no vacancies for which I could consider you.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 18, 1898.

Mr. Wm. B. Gray,
Co. G, 8th Regt.,
Pa. Vol. Inf.,
Camp Alger, Va.

Dear Mr. Gray :>

I am glad to get your letter of the 15th and to know
something of your impressions, surroundings and prospects.

I thoroughly enjoy the picture you give of your experi-
ences. Mrs. Pratt and I were in Washington several days last weak
and started to go down to Camp Alger one day. We got to the west
end of the bridge and found about two hundred soldiers many of
whom were under the influence of liquor. They rushed to the car,
overloading it and paying no attention to the ladies waiting. We
were satisfied the trip was impracticable at that time and returned
to the city. I did not find time thereafter to get out to see you
Heard of your practice march and its success through young Livings-
ton a newspaper reporter from Carlisle. Your anxiety to get into
the field I can readily understand. There was nothing in all the
war that bothered us boys as the long waiting. We were at it
four years, and there were many periods when we laid in camp months
at a time, you can see how tried we were.

The surrender at Santiago indicates the closing up of
the business. I should be glad to see you back at your old place.
However, there are some who think we must continue operations, and
that many of the troops will have to remain in service for some
time. If you do not get out of the country to Porto Rico, I should

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anticipate that your regiment would be among the first to be dis-
charged.

While the boys have done fairly well, they have not been
as satisfactory as I could wish. All goes well with us at the
school except that the extremely dry weather is killing our crops.
We shall be without potatoes and corn I fear unless we get rain
soon. Many of our garden vegetables are an entire failure.

We are following you with continued interest, and should
your wishes be fulfilled and you go to Porto Rico, we shall expect
to hear from Co. G and the 6th.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 16, 1898.

Col. Wm. F. Cody,
North Platte, Neb.

Dear Colonel :-

The slip I got from you giving your various addresses
has been mislaid, and I have had the music I was to send you with-
out being able to get it to you. I have finally forwarded it to
North Platte, Neb.

The boy who was killed, I find, left on your train but
got off west of Harrisburg. He was seen walking on the track near
where he was killed a short time after. A freight train passed and
he caught at the rear end of the next to the last car, and tried
to get on, but fell between the cars and the rear car passed over
him, literally cutting the body in two.

We all remember your visit with a great deal of pleasure
and all our people count it a great treat that you gave us both in
the show and your coming out to see us. Things seem to be getting
on all right down at Santiago. This morning we are notified of
the final surrender. I sincerely hope this may bring an end to
the scrap.

With respectful greeting to Mrs. Cody and your daughter
in which Mrs. Pratt joins, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., July 19, 1898.

Mrs. Helen M. Crawford,
"Beacon by the Sea",
Pt. Pleasant, N. J.

Dear Mrs. Crawford :-

It is just as well to retain the tickets if you keep them
in your safe. I have your full letter about the boys and think
it best you should know the contents of the letter I wrote Albert
Nash recently. You may show it to Howard, as Albert may not have
done so. We have had no complaints whatever from the boys; on the
contrary, all seem to be delighted with their duties and the place.

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91

Carlisle, Pa., July 19, 1898.

Dear Dennison :--

I enclose you a letter from Supt. Jacobsen which explains
itself. It seems quite unnecessary for you to go to Wittenberg.
Be your own judge.

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Carlisle, Pa. July 19, 1898.

Miss Wanady Parker,

Fort Sill, Okla. Ty.

Dear Wanady : -

I am so glad to hear you arrived home safely. What a
chance it is for an Indian girl or boy to learn to travel alone.

While you are at home I think you had better try to make up
a party of Comanches to bring back with you. If you can I will
fix the transportation for you when you are ready and inform me.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 19, 1898.

Mr. G. C. Shoff,
with The Babcock & Wilcox Co.,
642 Drexel Bldg.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

We are not going to do anything with our plant this year
more than to make slight repairs, postponing for another year the
plan of reorganizing our heating system.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 22, 1898.

Miss Libbie Archiquette,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Libbie :-

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Carlisle, Pa., July 22, 1898.

Dr. Geo. R. Westfall,
Cheyenne & Arapahoe Agency,
Darlington, O. T.

My dear Doctor :-

I write at once on receipt of yours of the 19th to say
just this : that I shall be very glad to receive a party from the
Cheyennesand Arapahoes, provided they are physically, morally, and
intellectually proper subjects. Somehow of late we have not received
at all the material from Darlington that we used to have, whether
the general conditions are deteriorating or whether we have been im-
posed upon, I do not pretend to say, but it seems one or the other.
Now bear in mind , please, that I would rather have no party at all
than to have those who are comparatively or hopelessly deficient
in any of the three lines named.

I should be very glad to see you again here at Carlisle,
and especially do I want to talk with you about the physical co n-
ditions and see what your agency experience is at this time.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 22, 1898.

Maj. Chas. L. Cooper,

Santa Fe, N. Mex.

My dear Cooper :-

Yours of the 18th has taken four days to get here, so that
mine of the 15th was not received by you until probably the 19th.

That tells you all I knew then and all I know now. The chief clerk
of the Division in charge of promotions intimated that they would
wait for special commissions to be printed; that they intended to
quit sending out letter notifications which have always been used
heretofore.

There have been two retirements since Perry, viz. Morris
and Fetchet. This will make you 28 on the list. I suppose from
what I have seen in some other cases, we may not be surprised if our
notifications are considerably delayed. Several Boards for examin-
ation for promotions have been organized and there will be some de-
lay in notifying the batch in order to get those to fill the vacan-
cies below you. As we are somewhat noncombatants, Swaggart being
in Kentucky on college duty, you in New Mexico and I here, we are
perhaps at this particular juncture not entitled to the fullest and
most speedy announcements.

It has been so hot here and hotter in Washington that I
have not been down for a week, though I ought to go again soon.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 22, 1898.

Mr. H. L. Bear,
Room 15, Security Bldg.,
York, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

The young man who would be able to lead and do something
for you if he had the instruments, Mr. Jas. Wheelock whom you met
here, has just gotten leave to take a place in the Dickinson orches-
tra for a tour of some sort during August which pays him especial-
ly well. It happens that your date as I told you before comes while
our instruments are in transit to us.

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Garlicle, Pa., July 25, 1898.

Nellena G. Orme,

Rising Sun, Md.

My Dear Nellie:

Yes, if you want, you may put the ducks in a
box and express them to me, when you get ready, and I will put them
down on the farm, and they may disport themselves on our stream
and increase. This, of course, if it is the desire of the people
you are with.

The sweet peas came all right, and for several days I had a
large bouquet on my desk, and Mrs. Pratt had one at the house.

I trust you will find it to your advantage to remain with Mr.
Reynolds this winter, and that they will find it to their advantage
to keep you. It is an experience that you need at your age, and sure
it is that you can not take it younger. And my judgment would be,
Nellie, that after you have taken it and done all the good you can
this year, that next year you might think of going back and doing
some good among your people. Still, we will talk about that when the
time draws nearer.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 25, 1898.

The Honorable,

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs,

Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

I think better of it and will not come
to Washington now. If Mr. Dortch really had my letter in his div-
ision asking for the $1770.00, for mechanics, etc., the blame can
not be on Mr. Slater. This letter left here the 6th. It should
have been, and I believe was, in the Indian Office on the 7th, as
it went with all the letters of that date at the same time with my
estimate, and the funds on the estimate were transmitted by Mr.
Slater on the 8th.

I enclose you copy of the extract from your letter of July 20.
I am about as old a man as the Assistant Secretary, who is said to
be the author of all this sort of thing. I have served the Gov-
ernment much longer than he has. I believe I have served it as
honestly, economically and faithfully. To hold my requests for
authority, and then give me much lectures, forces me to one con-
clusion.

I do not ask for authority not necessary for the conduct of
the school, and when I get authority, I do not use it all, if there
after the circumstances do not require it.

You will note that the $722.41 assumes to cover all the items

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asked for by my letters, omitting the $1770.00 on the letter Mr.
Dortch alleges only reached him on the 17th. Why in Mr. Dortch's
hands at all?

That the one authority should linger and then part be denied,
and that the $1770.00, so much needed for vacation uses, should be
unnoticed, bothered me. Thanks for your assurances.

Hon. W. A. Jones,
Comnr. Ind. Affrs.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 26, 1898.

W. Grant Thompson,
Trenton, N. J.

My dear Mr. Thompson:

There is little or nothing to write. Of
course things do not go on well when we are in such a lackadaisi-
al condition as we are now, but we are doing the best we can here,
and all of us, students included, will be heartily glad when vaca-
tion is over. I wrote you a line yesterday, and this, more to ac-
knowlege your two notes dated the 24.

Patrons do us and the pupils a great deal of injury by freely
giving the pupils money. There should be a decided spirit of
economy cultivated constantly. Impress this constantly upon the
people. I have no doubt that many of our runaways are caused by
freely giving money.

You may be interested to know that Mrs. Thompson is a con-
firmed croquet player, and sometimes she gets beat, though not
always.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 26, 1898.

Black Cayote,

Geary, Okla'

My Dear Friend:

I got your letter. Am glad to hear from you.

Am especially glad to know that you realize the change in the condition of things over what they were when we were boys, and sometimes not very friendly, to each other. It is very remarkable that the Cheyennes and Arapahoes have settled down and begun farming and are sending their children to school and learning to speak the English language, leaving their old life entirely, though it doesn't go on as fast as I think it ought to, nor as fast as I think would be best for you, yet the changes are certainly rapid. Your safety I am sure and the future of your children, hinges very largely on the quickness of your adapting yourselves entirely to the civilized life about you, and mixing with the other people of the country.

If you want your children to become truly citizens of the United States, you should give them the best opportunity to see the United States and its citizens. Those among you who hold back in these matters do a great wrong to your children and yourselves as well. So long as you are a separate people you will have trouble.

It is only when you become one people with us, and feel yourselves as much at home in one part of the United States as another, learn to take hold of all our industries and the advantages of our life that you will close out your difficulties.

I send you a bundle of papers and a magazine.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 27, 1898.

Gerry A. Willard,

Editor Herald,

Booneville, N. Y.

My Dear Mr. Willard:

Our good boy, Leander Gansworth, thinks he must have a little visit home, and will leave here on Saturday next, the 30th inst., for his home near Niagara Falls. He will write you himself, but says he would like two weeks' vacation before beginning. If your necessities demand it he would give up that. He accepts your offer. I trust that you and he will be mutually benefitted, and assure you if you learn to think as much of Leander as we do here, you will certainly be very loath to part with him.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 27, 1898.

Supt. A. H. Viets,

Indian School Convention,

Colorado Springs, Col.

My Dear Mr. Viets:

I have your letter of the 23 about pupils.

No letter came from you about them previous to this one. I should
be glad to undertake the party, and when pupils are forwarded from
schools because passed and ready for advancement, I can always
take them without hesitation. It is the straining to make up a
party on a rese rvation that hurts. Almost always, if not always,
we have trouble with the members of such parties on account of health
or conduct. I shall hope that Dr. Westfall can deliver all you
name.

I am delighted you go to Santa Fe. Later I want to write
you about a special matter in which I am sure we can co-operate.
It can wait until you get things in hand at your new station.

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Supt. H. B. Pears,
Haskell Institute,
Lawrence, Kan.
My Dear Mr. Pears:

Carlisle, Pa., July 27, 1898.

I have intended for some weeks to write you
about a paragraph in your letter of some time ago about a chorus of
voices to go Paris with the band. If you see your way, and can get
the co-operation of the other schools, undertake it, and I shall
co-operate with you, giving anything worthy I have. If you don't
do it I will.

My notion is that the chorus ought now to have the very best
instructor in the service, and in the winter of 1899 they ought to
be under the best instructor in the United States. It would be bet-
ter if they had that person this winter. There are excellent voi-
ces in our band, and for that reason, if the voices and the band
were together, it would lessen the expense when the party goes. I
can see my way to handle the whole matter, if it comes to me, and
we can do something toward a special appropriation for it.

Wheelock has just returned from his successful trip. The re-
sults indicate from 30. to 40. The instruments will be here in
three weeks. Mr. Wheelock stopped in Indiana to see Mr. Conn, the
manufacturer, and says they are to be as fine instruments as Mr.
Conn ever put out, and that means about as good as have ever been
made.

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 3, 1898.

George R. Westfall,
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency,
Oklahoma.

My Dear Doctor:

I have yours of the 29th of July. I have re-
read my letters to you and they do not seem to be unreasonably
exacting. I have been compelled to return five of one party of
eight received from Dakota recently on account of health. Yet they
all passed the agency physician's inspection. I am sure, of course
that you would guard against this. I received a party of twelve
young men from a Montana Agency, and it was perfectly evident that
they had simply dumped their incorrigibles onto me. There were only
two of them, that after investigation and trial, I felt could be
profitably worked upon. Children who have been in school, such as
those named by Mr. Viets, should be somewhat promising. The fol-
lowing is an extract from Viets' letter:

"I just saw your letter to Dr. Westfall, and hasten to write you. Until I saw this letter I thought I had written you at length soon after Mr. Wheelock's visit. As my letter-book is not here I do not know that I did write. I will presume that my memory is at fault and write again, embodying what I thought to write you before. The following sixteen names have finished the course and have been recommended for transfer to the training schools. They are: David

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Bushy, Leonard Stone Road, Ray Little Hand, Grover Cleveland,
(Little Hand,) Arthur Touching Cloud, Sam Bear Lariat, Tom Good Bear
Willie Bent, John Little Bear, Miamone Antelope, Nancy Tall Bird,
Martha Campbell, Nellie Morrison, May Whitt, Daisy Broken Cup, There
is another whose name I have forgotten. Besides these, the three
following _ought_ to go, but have not passed the grades:-- Forest
Matches, Martin Left Hand, Samson Lame Bull, - but I have not rec-
ommended them, because they have not reached the required grade.
From the number, Mr. Wheelock selected either Arthur Touching Cloud
or Leonard Stone Road, for your band. The other choice was one of
our employees, a Menomonee, Jerome Lookaround. The latter is at his
home in Wisconsin, and is sure to go to your school with the Wis-
cconsin delegation. Before leaving Darlington Dr. Westfall and Mr.
Cornelius assured me they would use their influence to get these
children into the training schools."

A few days ago I received a boy who came after much urgency
from the officials and the missionary, from N.York. He was able to
come alone. On examination when he arrived, he had fever, and the
doctor was suspicious of tuberculosis; kept him under advisement
for several days; the fever was constant and the case fully con-
firmed as a consumptive. I sent him back within a week after his
arrival. The boy stated he was sent here because they thought the
school could cure him. I endeavor to be patient under this sort of
thing, to get around to a true basis, but you can see how it is.

Very sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 3, 1898.

Miss Marion L. Reeder,

Rising Sun, Cecil Co.,
Maryland.

Dear Miss Reeder:

Your only way to get into the Indian Service
would be through a civil service examination by the U. S. Civil
Service Commission. In order to secure that you want to correspond
with the chairman of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington
D. C. He will give you all information. It so happens that we are
not needing any additional help for the ensuing year. All my em-
ployees are remaining in the service.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 3, 1898.

Mrs. Vista A. Ring,

Harlan, Montana,

My Dear Vista:

Mr. Spray advises that he has left it in your hands to try to work up a party for Carlisle, and says that there are 15 to 20 of his old pupils that ought to go away to school. Our regulations are that they shall be over 18 under 18 and in good health, an established by a careful examination by the agency physician, and of reasonably good character. There should be as many girls as boys. Mr. Spray says he has talked a great deal to the pupils and parents about it, but that the parents have been in the way all the time. I therefore have no great expectations, but shall be glad to hear from you at any time. Our school has improved since you were here, and I make no doubt that we can do much greater good for those who come.

With kindest regards from us all,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 4, 1898.

Martin F. Wheelock,
Seymour, Wis.

My Dear Martin:

We can not undertake any children under 12 years
of age. Nor must there be any in bad health, or of very bad con-
duct. But if we can have children between 12 and 18, in good health
and of good conduct, I should be glad to receive quite a party.
Why not combine all of your parties and come in together? Sarah
Smith, Caleb Sickles, and Libbie Archiquette, are all working to
get up a party. You ought all to leave so as to be here by the first
of September. I think the better way would be to confer with Mr.
Pierce, the superintendent of the school, and let it all be one
party. I can provide railroad transportation and for your expenses
better that way.

The boys are glad to know that you are going to join them again
Our football field is in tip-top condition. We have sodded the
whole of it, and the recent rains have brought the grass out in
good shape. No more rough ground and stones for your practice-
ground.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 4, 1898.

Miss Elizabeth Meller,
Unalaska, Alaska.

My Dear Miss Meller:

We shall be only too glad to welcome you to
Carlisle again, and especially shall we be delighted to have you
bring us an addition to our children.

Your ingenious programs are intensely interesting, and show
what you are eminently in place in your work in remote regions,
barren of printing presses and other facilities.

I am glad that with the exception of one of the little girls
that came last from Pt. Barrow, our Alaskans are all in good health.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 4, 1898.

Charles E. Dagenett,

Arkansas City, Kan.

Dear Charley:

I have not written you about the assistant disciplinarian's place, because I could not. Mr. Thompson, the disciplinarian, is away, and following a habit I have always observed in these matters, I want those who have immediate charge of these divisions to have a voice in selecting their helps. As you are going to have changes at Chilocco, and I am sure that Chilocco needs your services more than Carlisle does, I am hoping that it may work out that your relations and service there are satisfactory, and you will not want to change.

In regard to the party of children from Chilocco, I have nothing more from Supt. Taylor, and I am constantly to hear. Mr. Goodman, the new superintendent, who is to take charge the first of September, came up from Washington last night, and is our guest today. He seems like a nice, clever man.

I hope the band boys will be sent promptly, if no others.
We are expecting our instruments every day now, and every day will
valuable.

Truly your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 4, 1898.

Sarah L. Kennedy,

Box 368,
Gowanda, N. Y.

Dear Sarah!

I must heartily congratulate you and Bertha on your
improved health conditions. It is turning out better than I though
I am sure you will be all the better for it, more clear-headed,
I mean, and capable in your school-work.

I can not take children under 12 years of age, and I
must know absolutely before they start for Carlisle that they are
in good health and of good character. It is not sufficient for me
to know that such a boy or girl wants to come to Carlisle. I must
know just what they are. A few days ago a boy said to be over 12
tas sent here, from the Cornplanter reserve. The fever of consump-
tion was on him when he arrived, and he said he had been sent here
to get well. I had to return him to his home immediately.
I can not stand such expense and imposition, and if the New York
Indians wish to make use of Carlisle, they must treat me better.

I shall be ready to place the tickets for you and Bertha
whenever you advise me and tell me where you wish to start from.

With love to you both, as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 4, 1898,

Supt. H. B. Peairs,
Haskell Institute,
Lawrence, Kan.

My Dear Mr. Peairs:

I am glad you feel like undertaking a chorus,
and I write a letter to the Commissioner himself about it.

We are being pushed for a game of foot-ball at the Omaha Exposition with the University of Iowa, or the University of Nebraska. Capt. Mercer writes through the Indian Office that it would be a very profitable game. I wonder if it could be brought about,— whether your foot-ball team was not sufficiently advanced to enable you to tackle us, and share the proceeds? There is some doubt on account of the distance, about our being able to make a date, but we are working at it.

You ought to get a loose fund of some kind and fit yourself
up with a fine athletic field. You have such an admirable location
for it. The expense would be small to you compared to what it is
to us.

About the chorus, if it turns that parts are needed that we
can supply here, our people can go into training on the same lines,
and by a correspondence between the instructors I am sure we could
meet the issues and help out very well, with perhaps a final re-
hearsal before placing before an audience.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 4, 1898.

Dear Libbie:

I think you had all better come back together, --
Martin Wheelock, Caleb Sickles, yourself and Sarah, with such prop-
er pupils as you may have. The whole matter had better rest in
the hands of Supt. Peairs. They will have to be examined by the
doctor, and somebody has to vouch for them, and make up the record
of their transfer, and Supt. Peairs being the acting agent there,
is the proper party.

You can show this letter to Sarah, and I have written Martin
to the same effect. I told him the same thing practically.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 4, 1898.

Rev. M. F. Trippe,

Salamanca, N. Y.

My Dear Bro. Trippe:

I am glad and ready to receive a limited num-
ber of good pupils from New York; but I shall not want to receive
any more without knowing just what their condition of health is,
and have assurances as to their character. I will trust you in the
matter, and arrange to meet any limited number of obligations you
make.

In regard to Lavinia Van Armum, Lavinia is not a reliable
girl. She was more than careless of her associates, becoming alto-
gether too intimate with negroes of questionable repute. She is a
good worker, but I should be afraid that in a great city where
people treat their help as servants more than they do in the country,
Lavinia would be even more troublesome than she was under our out-
ing. Of course a great deal depends upon the character of the per-
sone she is placed with and the kind of treatment they accord to
her. We find excellent people willing to undertake students of
questionable character, who have ability in managing, and are fond
of trying to help such ones up.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 4, 1898.

Sarah Smith,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear sarah!

I think that you and Martin Wheelock and Caleb Sickles and Libbie Archiquette should join forces and all come back together. Remember that you must have parental consent in every case, and there should be the fullest satisfaction to Mr. Pierce with each transfer; that we should have none under twelve or over twenty among the new incoming students, and they should be in good health, with fairly good character.

Always your friend,

nict. (S)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 5, 1898.

Col. R. G. Marmon,

Laguna, N. M.

Dear Colonel:

I have yours with the enclosed $35.00, and have sent $34 to Dr. Fox and have Aggie and Edith credited with half a dollar each. The expenditure of that will be guided somewhat by Miss Shaffer. I have asked Dr. Fox to give me his professional opinion about Effie's eyes and when I get it I will send it to you. I have given instructions about the music. If Effie can manage it, it would be best, because she is more mature. However, my musical people are away, and the selection will have to be left to their judgment.

I am so sorry to hear about Emma, though it was not unexpected
There is a sad outcome to much of our work for these poor people.
When I hear from Dr. Fox I will write you again.

With kindest regards to Marie,

Yours sincerely,

(S)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 5, 1898.

Capt. W. A. Mercer,

Commandant Indian Congress,
Omaha, Nebraska.

Dear Captain:

Your letter to the Commissioner of July 20, was referred to me for such action as I should take. I am sorry to say that our schedule for the fall, is full, and very heavy. If the Exposition continued until the end of November, we could very easily, in the latter part of that month, arrange a date, as we go to Chicago on the 19th. It is impossible for us to undertake anything in October. There is a bare possibility that we might arrange early in September. But that, probably, would not be satisfactory to the Universities you named, nor would it be to us, for new men have to be trained this fall. My Mr. Thompson, who manages the foot-ball boys, is out visiting pupils in the country, now, and I referred the matter to him, to see what could be done about it in September. If anything seems possible, I will write you again.

I have had a thought about a meeting at Omaha with the Indian team from Haskell, so as to give them a benefit.

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 5, 1898.

Johnson E. Adams,
South Oneida, Wis.

My Dear Johnson:

I congratulate you heartily on your usefulness.
In this way you have become a master-builder. I hope you may con-
tinue until you not only build small barns and small dwelling-
houses, but until you are able to erect great barns and great dwel-
ling-houses, and even great public buildings. Continue to strive
for just this, and the future may fulfill your fondest hopes.

I was very glad to hear from you, Johnson, and hope you will
not be silent so long a time again. The school at Carlisle continues
to grow in numbers and in equipments, and considering all things,
we have wonderfully good health, so that in every way we feel that
we are filling our place better and better.

Faithfully your friend,

(s)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 5, 1896.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,
100 State St.,
Chicago.
My Dear Doctor:

Seward Mott is a married man and altogether too old for us to consider. On receipt of your letter I sent Mott's to Miss Hunt, who, you know, is the superintendent of the school at San Carlos, and she advises me that he is a good man and a great student; has been Captain of the Indian police for nearly two years, and is well thought of by everybody. He reads and studies by the hour. If he had no family, I should think of taking him, but he is doing pretty well, and is evidently something of a leader. You can do him much good by corresponding with him, and piling him full of your nations. I return his letter to you.

If Hall is a young man of 20 or not much more, and has the musical ability you indicate, I will consider him on account of the large band we are making up for the trip to Paris in 1900.

In regard to the trip to the Apache Agency with you and Dr Dudley, keep it cooking. I rather think I can make it. I would like to about December.

All goes well with us. We are in the midst of housekeeping for fall business. We are having one of the finestathletic fields in America made just back of the stable, above George's house, and field track a quarter of a mile, and all inside levelled off and fertilized. It has cost us money. We had to quarry down about seven feet in one place. But when we get it finished, it will be tip-top.

Give my love to Dr. and Mrs. Dudley, say to the Doctor I am really sorry to have not written him, but that I am just simply unable to do it at present, and so I beg you, my dear Doctor, to accept this present and my best wishes for your future. Ever yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 8, 1898.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,

Care Mrs. Florence A. Wells,
Wallingford, Conn.

My Dear Mrs. Cook:

I think it best that you follow your own intu-
tions about your western trip, and shall leave it entirely in your
hands, only requiring that you make your arrangements so that you will
be back at Carlisle and ready for school work Monday, the 19th of
September. You ought to be here by the 15th or 16th.

In regard to the Genoa people, it would be unwise for us to
undertake them unless with the full knowledge and consent of the
Genoa people, which is something that I would not think best to ask
just now. There is an excessive amount of feeling in regard to our
going into the districts of the different schools, and Genoa has
behaved very badly once or twice under its present management.
Finding that my agent last year was at Yankton and Sisseton, they
immediately sent over a most aggressive woman, who made many state-
ments and mis-statements, that drew away children who had arranged
to come to Carlisle. I wish above all things to preserve our dign-
ty, and to make our constant course in these matters above reproach,
so that unless it was a matter settled all around as being best, for
the payoffs, I would not think well of accepting any students who had
been at other training schools.

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I shall be especially glad if you can meet with material success at Major Clapp's agency, Pine Ridge. I think that would be the important point, and Rosebud next. Whatever you care to take in as contingent would be all right.

It would be almost as near for you to come this way as to go direct from where you are, and I think it would be better. Then we could come to a full understanding about all the points.

(S)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug., 10, 1898.

Major C. L. Cooper,

Santa Fe, N. M.

My Dear Cooper:

I have not been Washington for some time and don't know the stations of the troops, but if I belonged to the Fifth and the Fifth were going to Porto Rico, I should endeavor to be with them, from all I have heard about the island. It is charmingly salubrious and healthy even in the summer time. My regiment, the First, is on its way to Montauk, L. I., from Santiago. Miles telegraphs that he wants no more troops, and to-day assures us that Spain's acceptance of terms is in the President's hands; so that means unquestionably the ending of the war very soon.

I am quite satisfied with my assignment. I see that Viele is lieutenant-colonel of the First. You will surely be a colonel before you retire, and if I live to retirement I ought to be pretty close to it.

CMS

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 15, 1898.

Susie Henni,

Steelton, Pa.

My Dear Susie:

I agree with you that Uncle Sam has done his part by you, still it may not be best to do just what you want to do. I have several letters from New Mexico telling me that small-pox is quite prevalent through the villages, one from Mr. Marmon, telling me that that is the case at Laguna. I suggest that before you start for home, you write to Mr. Marmon, and ask if it is safe for you to come home. It will take only about a week to hear from him. Of course you are entitled to go, if you so decide.

Thank you, my dear Susie, for your congratulations. I appreciate them. I have carried the title of Captain for so long that it doesn't seem natural to be called Major. Indeed, almost everybody calls me Captain yet, and I suspect I will never entirely lose the title.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 15, 1898.

Miss Susie McDougall,
Indian School,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

My Dear Susie:

It refreshes the Major to get a letter from one of his pupils in whom he delights as much as I do in you. I thank you for the good wishes.

In regard to your niece, Tressie Ebert, I have no doubt she could come to Carlisle alone, and if it is all satisfactory to her parents, and she comes to stay five years until she graduates, I will send her ticket, Detroit to Carlisle, and she may come in by the opening of the school, the 15th of next month.

Alex does well. He is in the senior class, and he graduates next February, and we shall be most happy to see you here on that occasion. While I have not heard from you so often, I have heard about you from time to time, and have taken great satisfaction in your success.

All goes well with us at Carlisle. Next year will see us with more students than ever, and we think our work improves also.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 15, 1898.

Mrs. Lida E. Given,
Holton, Kan.

My Dear Mrs. Given:

I am so glad that you have reached your friends
in such good shape, and trust that your recovery may be rapid and
complete. Thank you for your congratulations. But I have carried
the title of Captain so long, it would seem just about as natural
to me to be called Corporal as to be called Major. However, every-
body is practicing, and doubtless after awhile it will get straight-
ened out.

I got the certificate from Dr. Seabrook, and at once wrote
the Department and asked that the month of July be given to you as
sick leave, and that your yearly leave be allowed to take effect
in August. The Department wrote back saying it was not considered
that you were entitled to sick leave with pay, but they granted you
50 days without pay, to take effect at such a time as I thought
best. I have written the second time, and fully and explicitly

explained the case, and renewed the request, and stated in addition
that it would be necessary for you to have a still greater leave,
for which I would use the month of September on their authority. I
have no doubt they will grant the sick leave for July, and that
your annual leave will take effect in August, and that you may have
a still further extension in September.

You must give yourself no uneasiness about matters here.
In some way I will take care of your duties, I fear, however, not
in such a way as to give such good results as though you were here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 16, 1898.

Vincent Nahtailsh,

Point Pleasant, N. J.

My Dear Vincent:

If you can be spared for a day before leaving Pt. Pleasant, it will be all right of course for you to visit Antonio, but I would make my visit to him short if I were you, for the reason that you should be here and take up your studies the first day of school. I receive such singular stories about Antonio, and so many doubts are thrown upon his being an Apache at all, that I think it well for you not to place too much credit in what he says. This, of course, is confidential between you and me.

Always your friend,

CMS

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 16, 1898.

Miss Lydia L. Hunt,
Sherman, N. Y.

My Dear Miss Hunt:

I have yours of the 14, and have telegraphed
the G. P. A. of the Atchison-Topeka to send me first-class limited
ticket San Carlos for you, to be used so that you may reach San
Carlos not later than the 26. If it were possible, I should have
liked to have you come this way, so that we might talk over matters
further, and understand better what to do. In view of the orders
against it, I dislike to seem anxious about the transfers, promotions
and changes of anybody in the Indian Service. The Commissioner prom-
ised me faithfully that he would give you a transfer, but he has
many questions to settle, and I feel that he has simply been unable
to accomplish his purpose. I think your returning to your duties at
San Carlos will be fruitful of more good-will on his part. If I
were you I would write him personally, and tell him that while you
are sorry, and feel as you do that it is prejudicial to your
health, and you are greatly disappointed at not receiving a transfer,
yet you suppose he finds it impossible, and therefore expects you
to return to your post, and that you accordingly intend to do that,
and that in the near future he may find it practicable to give you
a more congenial place, and let some other take San Carlos.

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I was particularly anxious to see you, because of the con-
dition of some of the students, particularly the girls. They are
not in bad health, but several of them have syphilitic marks, either
inherited or acquired, --- running sores. The doctor says there
is no danger but that they will be brought out all right, but still
there is an unfortunate physical degeneracy connected with it. I
had an idea you might gain points for the future that would be valua-
ble to you if you came this way. However, I can write you fully
about it.

Dr. Montezuma and his great friend, one of the most emi-
nent physicians of Chicago, wanted me to agree to go with them to
San Carlos at the holidays, and I have indicated that it might be
practicable for me to do that. I have never seen the San Carlos
Agency and would like to visit both that and Fort Apache.

Your expense for sleeping-car fare and meals will be repaid
You must take sub-voucher receipts for sleeping-car accommodations,
and you can simply keep a memorandum of your meals, and when you are
through, either make up a voucher and swear to it, or send me the
data and I can have it made out, send it to you, and you can swear
to it, and I will re-imburse you.

I am especially anxious to secure as fine a basket as
there is made. It would be a very unique present for the young
lady. I send pillow to you by express New York. I feel that in
appointing an agent outside of Arizona there are better things to
be anticipated than from one appointed from the territory, and
trust that your way may open up in good shape. I realize the peril
you are in constantly, and understand more than you have told me
the difficulties under which you labor, and whenever you think I
ought to tell the Commissioner some of the facts you have given me,
I will cheerfully do so. I expect to have a ticket here day after
to-morrow, and will send immediately to you at Sherman, unless I
have a telegram from you to the contrary.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 16, 1898.

Miss Elspeth L. Fisher,

201 Locust St.,
Detroit, Mich.

My Dear Miss Fisher:

I have been expecting to see the Commissioner for weeks, and to get in a word in your behalf, but you know how it is. It would be quite out of place for me to put pen to paper and write letters concerning the employees of other schools. I very much question whether the office really cut down your pay. I should be more inclined to think it was done by your superintendent; at least he must have consented to it.

Commissioner Jones has promised to visit us before long.
Mrs. Pratt has secured alterations in our house of a very material
character, and Mr. Jones and she rather over-ruled me in it, and
he has written me that he intends to come up when the house is com-
pleted, which will be in a couple of weeks. I can well understand
just how you feel, and have no doubt that your salary is well
earned. You can refer Miss Reel to me, if you have a chance at her.

We should be glad to have you run in on us at Carlisle
some time.

CMS

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 16, 1898.

Eugene Tah-ka-h-puer,

South Amherst, Mass.

My Dear Eugene:

I am glad to see the streak of loyalty and patriotism you have in you crop out, as it does in your letter, just received. Stand by the country and by the President,--- that is the idea. Yes, we are all glad the war is ended, and I think Spain will be glad for it, too, eventually.

In regard to your partnership, I don't think very much of that sort of thing, and I should be careful about entering into such relations, if I were you. Some young fellow will think he can use your money, and all your savings will soon go. Better begin on less yourself, and be independent. If you have the means, you would have no trouble, surely, in renting a farm. I think it would be quite practicable to get one somewhere in this neighborhood, if you want to come here, but as you are rather Yankee-ized now, wouldn't it be better to stay there where you know the people?

I am glad to hear what you say of the Hampton students. If that is the way they are acting, they ought to be attended to.

If you should enter into a partnership with the young man you speak of, be careful to keep your funds in your own hands. Indeed, you do not need much when you rent a farm.

With best wishes,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 19, 1898.

Miss Lydia L. Hunt,
Ripley, New York.

My Dear Miss Hunt:

I herewith send you ticket Chicago to Geronimo.
Take sub-voucher receipts for all sums of a dollar or over. Send
all to me together with your account, and I will make out an account
and send back to you for execution, or you can make out complete
and send here and I will send you check. Include your ticket Rip-
ley to Chicago, and I will try to get it through.

CMS

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 23, 1898.

Ralph C. Herrick,
Delta, Ohio.

You may please give the order as instructed in my
letter, and let the bill come to me, when the stone is completed
and set up, and I will send you check to cover. The reason I suspen
ded the order was that our man here offerd me the same stone for
$60, delivered in Delta, and I wanted to consider it. As I under-
stand you, the stone is to be placed in a bed of cement, and every-
thing finished in good shape, for $72. Unless you think I had
better close with my man here, you may give the order, and let the
work go on.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 25, 1898.

Rev. John Robinson,
Sisseton Agency,
South Dakota.

My dear Friend:

It brought up old times to see your well-known chirography. Thank you for the congratulations. I have carried the title of Captain so long that I doubt if I shall ever get rid of it. However, I welcome the change, and as I am less than 7 years from retirement, I like the promotion and the added emoluments.

I note what you say about your difficulties, and lay your letter away to talk over with the Commissioner, when he comes, as he has promised to do, to spend several days with me, and it may be it will do some good, though he has the hardest job of all of us, and is already beginning to show the effects of the daily hammering he gets, as he endeavors to equitably and humanely deal with the great problem he is appointed to supervise.

I have felt anxious for a long time for a change. As there is no very large disposition to open the door and push the Indians out, and compel them to scratch gravel with the rest of us, and as there is a very large disposition to absorb all that we do, and squelch it out, by hiring or forcing a return to the old conditions I have found myself beginning to lose interest, and willing to let those who insist on tribal and reservation and agency methods, have full sway, and quit the whole business. But I have not been able

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to do that. I can not leave that which I have builded up, so I
must simply quietly and persistently, as I can, continue the fight.

I often think of you and Mrs. Robinson, and have wondered
how you are, and a word from you, even though it teils of diffi-
culties and trials, is a pleasant relief.

So long as I have anything to do with it, I must contin-
ue to enlarge. So, though last year we carried an average of over
850 through the school year, I propose this year to make it about
900. I am exceedingly pressed just now. Mr. Standing is away, and
negotiations for coming students are constantly proceeding upon me.

At the suggestion of his father, I have let Guy Brown
go home, expecting that he will do something at making up a party
of students for Carlisle. Should it come your way, I should be
glad if you advised and assisted in any way that you feel you can,
and not interfere with your own work or ideas.

With cordial remembrances to Mrs. Robinson,

Fraternally yours,

CMS

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 25, 1898.

Prof. O. B. Super,
Ocean City, N. J.

My Dear Doctor:

I have yours enclosing Miss Bluejacket's, and have written her my regrets that we are unable to accept of her as a student for the reason that she belongs to the Cherokee tribe, although she is probably a Shawnee. They have been incorporated with the Cherokees, and are entitled to all the privileges of the Cherokees, which includes large school appropriations, entirely under Cherokee direction.

Thank you, my dear Doctor, for your kind thoughts. As I see the years wane, and my retirement from the Army approaching, I can not help but feel grateful for any promotion which means added emoluments, particularly after I am thrown out of active service, as I will be at 64.

Mrs. Pratt, Richenda and I contemplate spending a few days at the seashore, going down Saturday. Your mention of "skeeters" is rather discouraging. I know by experience something of what "skeeter" persecution on Jersey and the coast is, and for my part I would a little rather "stay at Hum."

Faithfully yours,

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Carliels, Pa., October 20th, 1898.

Rev. Shelden Jackson, D.O.,

General Agent for Education in Alaska,

Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C.

My dear Doctor:

I write Dr. Newell and suggest that he get the
little girl in the Perris School. That will be cheaper and she
will be near him for observation. He can hear from her fre-
quently, and during vacation it might be convenient for some one
in Los Angeles to have her. If, however, he cannot do that, and
will see that she reaches Carliels in the care of some one, I
will undertake her, though I am exceedingly loath to receive
any more under 12 years of age. I prefer them over 14 years.

Miss Meller is due here today with five pupils, and the
Halden boy I have arranged for as soon as he reaches Seattle. I
hope we shall see you up here before long and hear some account
of the summer. I expect to be in Washington as soon as the
Commissioner gets back and will see you then. With kind regards
to you all,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., October 20th, 1998

Hon. A.O. Wright,

Supervisor Indian Schools,
Madison, Wisconsin.

My dear Sir:

I have the letter from Gupt. Pierce telling me
about the children of drunken parents whom he would like to send
there, and your endorsement that it meets with your cordial
approval. Now the fact is that this is about the dimensions
of Mr. Pierce's efforts for Carlisle ever since he has had
anything to do with the Oneida School. He has blocked the way
of our getting children every time I have sent for them, except
he could send just such, and here I am with better opportunities
a thousand times than he has, and I find you, my superior officer
approve of sending to me these doubtful pupils. I think that
fully three-fourths of the children I have received for several
years have been of this class. Superintendents and officials
everywhere have seemed to vie with each other in unloading upon
me their incorrigibles and incompetents, and to absolutely close
the doors against their best pupils coming here.

My Mr. Wheelock, band master, is to take his leave shortly
and visit his home at Oneida, and I will give him instructions
and will accept such of those as he finds he can receive under
my instructions.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 24th, 1898.

H.W. Hughson,

Manager Brockway Entertainment Course,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir:

I shall be going away tomorrow morning at 8:30, so
you had better come out and see me this evening some time between
9 and 8 o'clock.

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Delos K. Lone Wolf,

Anadarko, O.T.

My dear Delos:

I am certainly obliged to you for your full letter.
It is one of the greatest rewards of my work that occasionally
I do hear from my old students, who have gone out and are strug-
gling with the affairs of life under very different circumstances
from what they would have been able to do had they not attended
the Carlisle School.

I thank you not only for the information about yourself
and your wife, but also of what you write me of others. To keep
in touch, and to have some information of our former students, is
a matter of real necessity, and you all do me a kindness when you
write about yourselves and the other students.

I am glad to know you are getting on so well. I trust you
will stand your ground clear through to the end. No man accom-
plishes much in this world, who does not stem the current. To float
with the stream is easy, and weak human nature is so prone to do
that. Those who would resist not only have to pull themselves for-
ward, but often have to drag others who would otherwise float.

Our boys returned last night from their annual fight with
Yale. The score was 5 to 18. The boys would welcome you back into
the team if it were possible for you to join it. I send you
the New York World account of the game.

About pupils from the Kiowas and Commanches, there are no

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Indians in the United States from whom I would rather receive pupils than from my old and long time friends, and it has been a sore subject with me that they have been led into other lines. There are none that I have desired more to help, and there are no children that I have been prouder of. If there are any suitable children, over 12 and under 18; in good health, mentally and physically; and who have parental consent, I shall be only too glad to furnish transportation, and I would be glad if it were practicable for you to escort them here. I would pay your expenses to come and return.

With kindest regards to your wife, and to all my old
friends and pupils, I am as ever

Faithfully your friend,

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William G. Spottswood,

Office of Adjutant General,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Spottswood:

I wish you would say to Colonel Ward that I am personally obliged to him for the discharge of Corporal Lamason, and I am certainly very greatly obliged to you for your interest in the matter. It has brought very great happiness to the wife and children and other members of Lamason's family.

When Company G went out I wanted some of the best citizens of the town to take a hand in preventing, or at least relieving from odium the married men who belonged to the company and did not enlist, but there was a very strong, unnecessary and unfortunate spirit of obloquy made to bear heavily on the Company, married or unmarried. At the same time the town was full of young men having no special family ties to hinder, who were anxious to enlist, and they had no difficulty in filling the Company up to nearly double its original number. It is so unfortunate, for the town has largely to look after the families of some of those who went away. One man with a good salary had to leave it and a wife and four children, and the pay he sends home is not nearly sufficient to support them. Corporal Lamason, as many of the others, had joined the Company when he was single and remained in it for years, and could not retire from it under the influence brought

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to bear. He is now here and will begin his work with me in a
day or two.

I can well imagine the unusual work thrown upon the Depart-
ment at this time. I was over at Camp Meade Saturday, and saw the
Commissary Officer, an old friend of mine, with a crowd of soldiers
around him to whom he paid money on account of furloughs. His descrip
tion of the unending stream he looked after, in addition to his
other duties, was very amusing.

Yours sincerely,

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Carlisle, Pa., October 24th, 1896.

Mrs. T.B. LeSieur,
Pocatello, Idaho.

Dear Mrs. LeSieur:

I wrote the Commissioner immediately on receiving your letter and send him your letter. (See copy of my letter to the Commissioner enclosed.) I had three letters from the Department about it, and this week have notice that you have been appointed position of seamstress at Lemhi Agency Borading School, Idaho, at $400 per annum. This seemed to be the nearest and the best place they had, and I trust it may be the stepping stone for you, and that you will remain firm on that until the way opens beyond.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 29th, 1898.

Capt. Fred W. Hyde,

Dept Commissary,

Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa.

Dear Captain:

I send you my check for $128.80, covering bill for
commissary supplies. Mrs. Pratt and I went down to Philadelphia
on Tuesday, and the bill had not reached us then, and I am only
just now home. I found your bill here and ordered a check drawn,
and between the time of drawing check and mailing it now, the
bill has disappeared absolutely, and I cannot find it high or
low.

If not too much trouble will you please have the sergeant
make me a duplicate and receipt it. Sorry to have delayed pay-
ment.

How are you improving in health?

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Carlisle, Pa., October 31st, 1898.

To the Adjutant General, U.S.A.,

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this
school under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June
27th per S.O. No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A.G.O., August
23rd, and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary
of the Interior dated September 6th, all 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

(Mc)

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H.A. Riddle, G.P.A.,

Chambersburg, Penna.

My dear Mr. Riddle:

I met the boys in Philadelphia. They got
through all right, and there is no need for any further action,
so far as we are concerned.

Thank you for all your many kindnesses to us, and general
disposition to help us.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 1st, 1898.

Thomas B. Kennedy,

President Cumberland Valley R.R.,
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

My dear Mr. Kennedy:

We have received all the sparks we shall
need, and the freight bill amounts to $50.60. I bring this ma-
ter to your attention in view of your reply to my letter of June
18th, in which you stated you would make us a contribution toward
the matter. Whatever you may do will be gratefully received.

(Dictated) Mo

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Mrs. Mary Miller Dodge,
Poplar, Montana.

My dear Friend:

It was very pleasant to get your letter and to know so much about you. What I have heard heretofore has been generally through your correspondents here at the school, but to hear from you direct in regard to yourself is far more satisfactory.

I am compelled, because of the burdens upon me and my condition, to use my secretary.

Should you remove to near Portland, I should undoubtedly have opportunities of seeing you, and shall be glad to look in upon you. Mrs. Pratt has never been in Portland, and we hope to take a trip in that direction before many years. What you say in the way of appreciation for what Carlisle has done for you is a great encouragement for us to continue. We get so many licks on the other side, and so many denunciations of our system and of our pupils, that when the pupils themselves do here and there stand up for Carlisle and for their training, and especially in their lives the value of it, it is a great help to the cause. You know, of course, what my constant thought and plea has been, that is that the Indians may have the same chance as other people, and be compelled to use that chance. When I was a boy my great anxiety was to get myself into some condition so that I could take care of myself and help my mother and possibly become the head of a family,

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and independent of others. By the course the Government pursues
toward the Indians that is reversed. The Indians are all taught to
look to the Government for help and support, and that their
greatest safety is in the tribe and on the reservation. No in-
fluences are brought to bear upon them to either force or even
persuade them to go out from the tribe as individual men. Any scheme
that looks to individuality, like Carlisle, is not sympathized with
by the Department, by the Indian management, by the Agents nor
by the missionaries, so that we practically stand alone, and are,
therefore, more dependent upon the success and the stamia our
students have when they go out from Carlisle. You have become an
individual. Your home was not in Montana, nor in Washington or
Oregon, but you are living now in Montana taking care of yourself,
and you propose to move to Oregon, and to make your home among civil
ized folks. Of course, there will be struggles, and what is it
that makes us anything in this world if it is not struggle. Your
letter, and other letters I get from pupils who are at work among the
Indians in the schools, on the reservations, show the almost insur-
mountable difficulties, and the impossibility of getting the Indian
to break away from his tribal conditions by any such methods.

You will be glad to know that Carlisle has almost 900 pupils
this year, which is more than we ever had before. Our surround-
ings are improving all the time, and except for the baneful influ-
ences of returning to reservation life, I might feel that our
work was a great success. So long as demands for return are
made, there is little or no hope for even Carlisle. We may get
a try, very few, such as you, to go out and become individuals,

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but the great mass return to the reservation, and there the old
Indians and the agency influences down them. I was glad to hear
what you tell me of your intentions, and trust that you will not
forget to write me now and then.

Miss Luckenbach reminds me that there is $3.18 still due
from you on your ticket to go to your new station. As there are
many demands upon me to help, I shall be glad if you will meet this.

With love from us all, and best wishes for you always

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Guy Le Roy Stevick, Atty.,

Ernest & Cranmer Building,

Denver, Colo.

Dear Guy:

Our football boys had practically closed a game with the Cincinnati University for Thanksgiving Day, but Cinn.attempted to force a change in the terms which ends the arrangement. They play Chicago Saturday the 19th, and we had expected that Thanksgiving week would be a broken week, anyhow. Games with other Institutions have been offered in New York and elsewhere, but before coming negotiations, remembering the many expressions received from your athletic men when I was cut there, I have talked it over with Mr. Thompson and we have thought it best to see whether it is worth while to come to Denver. You perhaps have noticed our scoring against Yale and Harvard. This week our boys play Dickinson, which has had unusual success this year with the smaller colleges, even thrashing Lafayette 12 to 6. The game is to be played on our new grounds here at the school, and will perhaps be the most important contest of the kind which has ever occurred in Carlisle. Our boys play Pennsylvania on the 12th. Suppose you see the football men of Denver and wire me fully. It is a long trip from Chicago to Denver and our boys would lose much of their practice, but it would unquestionably have very considerable influence on sentiment in favor of the Indians throughout your section. We should,

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of course, want to make as much money out of it as possible. Would
prefer to contest with an organized college team, but the gentlemen
of your Athletic Club I feel assured would give our boys fair treat-
ment. Please wire me fully, night message. We should know the
extent and accommodations of the grounds, and fully about finances.
Our athletic expenses this year have gotten away with our surplus,
and a good deal more, so that we are forced to make the best ar-
rangements we can. We have already a beautiful ground, and it is
yet to be greatly improved.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., November 1st, 1998.

Hon. W.A. Jones,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

I see that you are back in Washington,
and if you are to be there for a few days I would like to run down
and see you. I was glad you took hold of the Chippewa matter
yourself, and the result has proven the wisdom of it. The poor
Chippewas, like the Osages and many other tribes before them, are
going to be entirely ruined by their riches. Fifteen or twenty
years hence, when they come to get regular interest on their large
deposits in the treasury, they will pass away rapidly.

How singular it is that the contracts made with Indians
which ruin and destroy, were generally made by great humanitarians,
Bishop Whipple, Bishop Marty, et al.

We are not yet quite full, but I do not get proper students.
The home schools held on to them, and generally only allow me to have
the rubbish. I am stating the rule. There are a few exceptions.

This is just the time for your Carlisle visit.

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Eugene Mead,

Superintendent Indian School,
Carson, Nevada.

My dear Friend:

I am obliged to you for sending me John Micky's letter. Had John come to me and stated his case I would have known about it and rectified it at once, but nothing came to me until your letter.

As Mr. Wheelock went out and selected these young people, himself, he should, of course, give them fullest opportunity, but like most musicians, he is inclined to be arbitrary, and I have to hold him in check. I have given orders that John shall have full set opportunity.

I would be glad if you would advise me of any complaints the boys make here.

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Richard Davis,

Boggy, Washata Co.,
O.T.

My dear Richard:

It has been so long since I heard from you that your brief letter was especially welcome. I heard about your being at the Congress, but as I did not believe in making Indians a public spectacle in their old Indian dress, ways, dances, etc., I had no sympathy with the Omaha movement, and stayed away. Imprisoned on reservations, shut out from opportunities, held under conditions which practically forbid growth and development, made the constant tool of, then to get appropriations of money and transport them hundreds of miles, and keep them as a spectacle of degradation and try to impress the people of the country with their savagery, etc., is so foreign to my thought that I could not witness it, and regretted that any of my former students had anything to do with it. However, that is ended for this time, and you wish to know if I am going to show the real Indian dress part also at Paris. I say to you emphatically that nothing that I shall be connected with at Paris will show up the Indian dress, but on the contrary I shall be glad to do all I can to show up the civilized development.

If you come to Washington, I trust you will not fail to come to Carlisle. I especially want to see you, and am always glad to see any of my old friends from the Cheyenne Agency.

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Philips White,

Pine Ridge Agency,

S.D.

My dear Philips:

There is little to write you in addition to what I wrote you before. The "Helper" will be sent as you request. I hear little news of what goes on in Washington. My business is to conduct the Carlisle School, and that I am trying to do. Do the best you can where you are, and somehow and in some way things will work out all right. "It is a long lane that has no turn," said some one many years ago, so that when things do not go to suit us, and we cannot rearrange them, the only way is to continue right along and make the best of the situation until a change comes. We are always glad to hear from you here at Carlisle, for we remember you as one of our good boys.

Faithfully your friend,

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Rev. Dr. Geo. C. Lorimer,

Pastor Tremont Temple,

Boston, Mass.

My dear Sirs:

My telegram to you was occasioned by a suggestion
from one of my most valued employees, who seemed to know you and
your spirit, and thought it would be a good time for Carlisle to
have its first public meeting in Boston. I realize that probably
you do not agree with football, and possibly not with Carlisle,
which, of course, is all right; but nineteen years ago when I was
compelled by necessity to look upon the public for help, before Gov-
ernment took hold of our work, I essayed to go to Boston, and was
warned by my friends there, who were also the friends of Hampton, to
keep away, that Boston was the special field of the Hampton School,
so I did the best I could in New York and Philadelphia, and kept
out of Boston then and have ever since.

I wanted to come now, not because we needed financial aid,
but because we desired and thought it a good opportunity to put
out our Carlisle ideas. I have had many invitations from some
the most distinguished people of Boston, and have had always
many quiet and some very helpful friends there. However, the pres-
ent matter has passed, and some time we will take time
I note you say in your reply " no opening for you?"
and work it up.
I regard to that I have to say that when I get res-
ponse.
I will

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Levant L. Mason,

Jamestown, New York.

My dear Levant:

It is quite impossible for Laura and I to certainly determine that we will go away at a set time. Our plan is to make a trip of a month or six weeks to the Bermudas, where the roads are very fine, fishing good, and the temperature such as to induce absolute rest. There is only one steamer in every 10 days, so that the mails and daily papers, etc., are all pretty much pushed aside.

Our boys scored on Harvard, but it was a fight in the rain, witnessed by 6 or 8 thousand people who stood up under umbrellas and cheered for Carlisle. Next Saturday we fight Dickinson here on our own grounds, and the Saturday following Pennsylvania. Then on the 13th, we go to Chicago. Laura and I do not think of going to Chicago this year. The chances are that we shall be off on our trip. Wish you and Eunice could make up a party and come down now when the weather is so delightful, and our house in order, and conditions so favorable in every way for your visit. Talk to Charley and Fred, and see if you cannot make the run. I think I can arrange half rates from Cory for the party, if you want me to, but you should come before the 20th. Why not be here next Saturday to see the game of foot-ball. Miss Burgess advises that the day is not due until December, and that she will send notice about in advance. She thanks you for your interest. We need to keep the circulation and would like to increase it, but it seems about

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ADHESIVE STAINS

Carlisle, Pa., November 2nd, 1898.

Sister Mary Angela,
Mission House,
133 West 46th Street,
New York.

My dear Friend:

I must beg your pardon for using my secretary's
desk hand in replying to your valued note, which brings up such
pleasant memories of twenty-one and twenty-two years ago.

We do not encourage Indian drawing in the school as I did in
Florida. Our instruction is all in the line of our best American Art.
We have a regular teacher and secure some very excellent results,
amply showing the probabilities of Indian development. I would sug-
gest that you write to Rev. David Pendleton, who has for many years
been a faithful servant of the Episcopal Church at his Agency, Dar-
lington, O.T., or to Paul Zotom/ Anadarke, O.T. They were among the
best artists in Florida and could make the drawings themselves, or
secure for you native Indian drawings to any extent.

I should be very glad to have you visit us at Carlisle,
and feel, indeed, grateful for your long though silent sympathy and
prayers for Indian work.

I send you a New England Magazine with an article about us,
which you may not have seen, and also my two last reports.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 3rd, 1898.

William G. Spottswood,

Adjutant General's Office,

War Department, Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Spottswood:

Will you please send me the last list of
regular Army Officers with their post-office addresses, and call

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Carlisle, Pa., November 4th, 1898.

A.G. Spaulding & Bros.,
Chicopee Falls,
Mass.

Gentlemen:

Last Spring I contemplated a trip abroad with Mrs. Pratt and to get a chainless bicycle for each of us. Mrs. Pratt then decided she did not care for a new bicycle, but I got mine and have used it all summer. The War coming on'led me to postpone my trip.

We expect to leave for Bermuda about the 20th inst.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 5th, 1896.

Mrs. J.M. Flower

Virginia Hotel,
North Side, Chicago, Ill.

My dear Madam!

Hon. A.O. Wright, Supervisor of Indian Schools, advises me that you desire to see me at the time our football boys visit Chicago. I must inform you that it is not my intention to go with the boys to Chicago this time. The chances are that Mrs. Pratt and I will be in Bermuda, as I have had no respite from continuous work here for more than a year, and desire to take a little leave.

Our boys have usually put up at the Palmer House. Mr. Thompson, my disciplinarian, will be along, and would be glad to meet you and give any information you desire. As Mr. Wright advises me you are engaged in some literary work, I send you copy of my last report.

(Distated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., November 5th, 1898.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,

100 State Street,
Chicago,
IL

My dear Doctor:

I return Mrs. Ruiz's letter. I have written her quite
plenty about her two boys. It is far better for them to have the ex-
perience now. It is not money they are after, but training and educa-
tion, which will make them independent, self-reliant men.

I was away at the time your letter came, and have been so busy
that I did not give attention to your letter that I should, so that the
Chicago team got away from us. We should have been glad to have had
a visit from them, and given them a tour of our own field.

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Charles Kerime,

Laguna, New Mexico.

Dear Charles:

Your letter of the 20th of October duly received. I am always glad to hear from you. I know you remember Carlisle pleasantly and that you appreciate all that Carlisle has done for you and your people. It is very unfortunate that boys and girls cannot see the value of education until they have lost their opportunities, and such is too often the case, particularly with our Indians.

I remember you well as my little brother when I was in the old office by the Walnut tree. That was in the earlier days of the school, and of the students then in the school none are left, except a few who are helping me in the work; but I occasionally hear from the different ones like yourself, and it is one of the greatest pleasures that I have in my work. I am encouraged to keep on and help others because a few of those who were with me at the first are successful.

I am glad to tell you that we have an unusually good outlook this year. We now number 683 pupils, and the general health of the school is good, and the spirit of it likewise. I believe that all the students without exception are well and doing well.

Faithfully your friend,

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Chauncey Y. Robe,

Ft. Lewis, Colo.

My dear Chauncey:

Thanks for your good letter of October 19th. I appreciate what you say about the Indian feature at the Omaha Exposition and think you are just exactly right. When the children of Israel were in captivity you remember that their captors made them dance and sing for their amusement. That is all the Exposition amounted to which you visited in Omaha. It was simply a Wild West Show to attract the white people to the Exposition, nothing else but that. It was on a very, very low plain, and meant and was no end of harm to the Indians themselves and to the cause of their civilization. I took this ground against it when the matter was brought up at the Department, but the Omaha show and money making scheme on the part of a few white men was more in evidence than I was, so that my sanctions amounted to nothing. I understand since that the management of the Fair are very much down on me, because I do not stand in with their schemes.

I am delighted that you find yourself on your feet, and like your new surroundings so well. All goes well here, but I must leave you to the "Helper" for general news.

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R.M. Pile,

Chief Clerk,

General Passenger Agent's Office, Penna. R.R. Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Pile:

I shall have great pleasure in sending you a dozen
tickets for the football game in due time.

Very truly yours,

Major 1st Cav'y., Supt.

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Buffalo Meat,

Omega, O.T.

My dear Friend:

I got your letter and am always glad to hear from you.

Your son speaks English very well now. His living with white people during the summer has been a great help to him in this respect. There was nobody with whom he could talk except in English, and hearing that all the time while at work, at the table, and from everybody he met, he has learned to speak it very well.

He has made good progress in the school. This fall he went into No. 3. He started in No. 1.

What you say about all my old friends going back to the Indian road is not a matter of surprise to me. The Indian road out there is the biggest road, and the easiest to travel. People like generally to be in the big road and where the travel is easy. It takes a man of character, like yourself, to go against the general sentiment. I am glad to shake hands with you on your holding fast to the road you got when you were with me in Florida. After a while all your people will be on our road, or else there won't be any of them left. Those who persist in going on the Indian road will die out.

I did feel a little bit hurt that when you were so near me here in the East you did not come to see me.

Faithfully your friend,

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President A.S. Draper,

State University,
Champlain, Ill.

My dear Judge Draper:

Mrs. Pratt and I are thinking of a month or two's
absence in Bermuda, leaving November 20th, so I shall not be at the
Chicago game.

I am glad that things have seemed to arrange themselves
so amicably in this matter, and trust that the associations and
results may continue to be as satisfactory in the future as they
have been in the past.

You will be amused to know that the Chicago Athletic Club
has poured in upon me the biggest and most constant influences it
possibly could bring to bear in favor of a game with that Club. One
Chicago member of Congress came at me direct; another through the
Indian Office, and they have used General Merritt, General Hatch,
Colonel Clouds, and other of my military friends, and plenty of other
people in urgencies from time to time for a game with our boys, giving elaborate promises of financial results, so that you must give us
some credit for stalwart in standing by the agreement.

I trust you are all well. You got away from the N.E.A.
meeting in Washington before my arrival, for which I was sorry, as
I anticipated seeing you there and talking matters over.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 7th, 1898.

Miss Mary L. Lewia,

317 South 20th Street,
Philadelphia, Penna.

In reply to your letter as to methods of punishment, and the bearing of the rules upon what we do, I have to respectfully advise you that when I started this school I established a system of courts to be conducted in ordinary cases by the students themselves, in more severe cases adding employes, and in extreme cases sometimes making such courts entirely of employes. The method is to write out a statement of the offense committed by the student, alleging, for instance, theft, stating that John Smith did feloniously enter the room of Thomas Jones and force open the trunk of said Thomas Jones and stole therefrom certain articles on the blank date and to the prejudice of good order to school discipline. A court is then detailed of three, five or seven, perhaps, with a judge advocate or recorder. When the court assembles the order is read convening the court, the accused is then asked if he has any objection to any person named therein. If he has he states his objection. The objection is considered, and the member put off the court or continued, as the judgment of the court may be. After which, or if he makes no objection, the court is then sworn to well and truly try according to the evidence. The trial is then proceeded with in formal manner. The charges are read, the accused is asked to plead guilty, or not guilty, and if he pleads guilty

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that closes the proceedings. He may then make any statement he
wishes in extenuation of his offense. The court is then cleared and
closed. If he pleads "not guilty", the witnesses are then intro-
duced and examined, and they may be cross-examined by the accused
and by the members of the court. After which the accused makes such
statement as he cares to in extenuation or palliation of his offense.
The court is then closed, and after due deliberation the finding is
taken, and if he is found guilty a sentence is then imposed. This
sentence may be confined in the Guard House, in a general cell, or
be
solitary confinement in a dark cell, or it may to carry a placard on
his back with the word "thief" on it for so many hours, or a day or
two, and for slight offense he may be required to walk in the band
stand for a certain period, or around the flag staff. He may be sen-
tenced to be whipped before the other boys, or privately whipped,
or he may be sentenced to be expelled from the school, and there are
many other forms of punishment that would readily occur to anyone.
The denial of social privileges for a month or months, or a fine for
the benefit of the Library is a common sentence. The whole matter
is always managed with absolute formality, and has proven to be en-
tirely satisfactory.

There have been a few cases where I have felt it best to
exercise my own authority and move at once in the matter. As, for
instance, a girl who had given a great deal of trouble everywhere
from her insubordinate character in refusing to work or study her
lessons, etc. She comes to me with a note from the laundress advi-
ing that she absolutely refuses to work. I write a note to the laun-
dress and say that this girl will not be allowed in the laundry and at just

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such work as you think best to put her at until further orders. I
explain to the girl that this is my judgment in her case, and send
her with that note to the laundress. By the time she reaches the laun-
dry she has rolled the note all up in a little ball which she throws
at the laundress and refuses to take hold of the work. The laundress
writes me a note in further explanation of the situation. I tell her
to bring the girl to the office. In the meantime I go to my house
for a raw hide, which I have always kept, and when the girl comes
into the office I ask her if she treated my note in that manner, and
if she refuses to do her work. She said that she did. I then give
her six or eight very sharp cuts across the shoulders, which brings
her to terms quickly, and she declares that hereafter she will al-
ways be patient, obedient and respectful, and will do her best to
please those in authority over her. I send her back to the laundry
and let her work there for two or three days to see that she is
sincere, and from that time to this she has been one of the best work-
ing girls in the school. Such cases, however, are exceedingly rare.
I may say that only once before in the 19 years history of the school
had I whipped a girl, but it was the judgment of my matron in charge
of girls, of the principal teacher, and of the girl's teacher that
an application of the whip was the medicine needed. After due delib-
eration and without anger, and without in any way taking hold of the
girl, I applied it with the result as stated. It has been oftener
in the case of boys, but very rare even there.

I am here to maintain discipline and to make things go, and
must be judge in these matters, in spite of the regulations of the
Indian Department. I told the Commissioner so, plainly, and when
they are not satisfied with my methods, they know what to do about it.

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I have written you this confidentially. I should dislike very much to seem in any way to encourage any other school in defiance of regulations. I am aware that I am an offender against the rules in these matters, but my offending is fully known by those in authority at Washington, and I am told that I am trusted in these matters, and of that I need not feel bound by the regulations. Because your long personal interest, and in your official capacity a seeker after the truth of the matter, I have been quite free in exposing my methods. I could not give them to the Government schools in the West or to the Superintendents.

I try always to avoid the appearance of anger, and if I find myself in that mood, I put off my action until the feeling dies, so that the pupils may all feel that I am governed by the highest judicial thought and conclusion. I have no system of punishment for particular offenses. In equity no such system can be satisfactory. When I realize that a student is making a proper effort to obey the rules and by accident fails, but is doing all he can to overcome previous bad training, or inate unfortunate temper, I can be patient for a long time, and overlook some offenses that might seem serious, counselling and arguing in a fatherly way, and often succeed without punishment, but if the offense is persisted in, and I realize it is wilful, I then feel called upon to proceed in the strenuous manner I have detailed.

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My dear Spottswood:

I have placed Col. Ward's name on our list for
special invitation to our Commencement, and shall be most happy to
extend to him all the courtesies of transportation and entertainment
we can. Is there a Mrs. Ward, and would he bring her?

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Confidential.

Mr. M.C. Kennedy,

Vice President C.V. R.R.,
Chambersburg, Penna.

My dear Sirs:

I have yours of the 5th of November with its enclosures,
and return herewith receipt duly signed.

Our Athletic Association is very garteful, indeed, for your
very special kindness in this matter.

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Hon. W.A. Jones,

My dear Sir:

On account of duties today and election tomorrow, I will
not come down until Wednesday, but shall expect to be in Washington
that evening at the Ebbitt House as usual.

I shall have pleasure within a few days of sending you a
dozen good reserved seat tickets for the game between our boys and
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia on Saturday next. Our boys shut out
Dickinson on Saturday completely, and scored 46. Could have made it
much better but for their real pity of Dickinson in the last half.
Dickinson had boasted very loudly of their expectations.

In sending you so many tickets, I have thought of your own
family, and of your possible willingness to let some of the office
people go over to witness the game. We have reserved a block of
100 seats for our people and pupils going from here, and your office
uses. Should you care to have a few more, I will cheerfully send
them.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 8th, 1895.

R.O. File,

Chief Clerk, Gen'l Passenger Agent's Office, Penna.R.R. Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. File:

I have pleasure in enclosing you one dozen tickets
for the football game on Saturday next.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 9th, 1936.

Mr. M.C. Kennedy,

Vice President C.V. R.R.
Chambersburg, Penna.

My dear Mr. Kennedy:

Our football boys, 2d in number, want to leave here Friday at two o'clock, so as to take supper in Philadelphia in preparation for their game with Pennsylvania, and I would be glad if you would arrange they have a through car for their accommodation.

Saturday morning, on the train leaving here at 8:30, there will be from 60 to 75 of our people and students going down to the game, and if practicable we would like to have two through cars, starting from the Junction. We will all want to return via the train leaving Philadelphia at 8:30 P.M., and would be glad to have you hold your late train at Harrisburg for us. Please advise me if you will do this. Two cars will probably bring the party back all right, unless something develops more than I see now to increase the party. We will use the regular half-rate ticket arrangement, which we have with your Road and the Penna.

In this connection, a special car, which was furnished our boys at Harrisburg to bring them back from their Harvard game on Monday morning the 5th of October, was in a disgraceful condition as reported to me.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 9th, 1898.

Major C.A.H. McCauley,

Qr. Mr. U.S.A.,

426 Arch Street, Philadelphia.

Sir:

I return herewith, signed, vouchers in favor of R.P. Henderson for my forage during the months of July, August and September.

In fixing this for my signature, I note that part is for Major 10th Cavalry, and part for Capt. 10th Cavalry. They all should be Major 1st Cavalry, to which position I was promoted on the last of July.

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Mrs. Lottie Laver,
Delta, Ohio.

Dear Cousin Lottie:

I send you my check for $10 in favor of Dr. S.P. Bishop. Please have him mark "paid", and return to me the account.

We are now ready at any time to give you a cordial welcome, and want you to come and make us a good visit. It would suit us better about the holidays or a little after, for the reason that Laura and I wish to make a little trip to the Bermudas, where I want to lay off a month. But if you can come immediately better than later, it will be all right. If you can fix for me the time you will come, I will get railroad ticket and send to you. I wish that Aunt Abbie could come along. It would be a great treat to us all to have her with us. If she can come, I will do the same for her about ticket, and we can assure you that our house is large, warm and cordial in its hospitality.

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Rev. H.H. Emmett,

Greenville, Mercer Co., Penna.

My dear Sir:

I have frequently heard of you as an exceptional
prator and public lecturer, and, being an Indian, I should be glad if:
at your convenience you would sometime stop at the school as you pass
near. It would be an inspiration for your students.

I should be glad to make some arrangements with you about
the expense, though we are not rich.

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Miss Lilly Complainville,

Teller Institute,

Grand Junction, Colo.

Dear Lilly:

Your letter of the 4th is just received, and I at once
send you herein the $50 you ask.

You surprise me when you say you do not love teaching. My impressions were all the other way. However, we learn to love that which we take an interest in, and if you can establish your interest in teaching, I am sure it will grow. It is the noblest of all professions. I can imagine your class, and a great deal of your daily routine at Teller Institute, for I was there with Mrs. Pratt last year.

We are all very well here at Carlisle, and our numbers are
883 today. More than ever before, though not quite what I antici-
pated this year.

With love from us all,

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1898.

Hon. Geo. W. McBride,
U. S. Senate,
Portland, Oreg.

Dear Sir :-

Mrs. Josephine S. Ketcham writes me, urging that I write
you in behalf of her husband, who filled some U. S. office, I think
that of Deputy Collector of Customs in Alaska.

Mrs. Ketcham's father was first lieutenant of Co. E., Second
Indiana Cavalry, to which I belonged when we started from Delphi,
Ind. in '61. He remained with us only a few months. His advanced
age and some want of ability as an officer led to his resignation.
But I knew him well as a man in excellent standing in the community.
I knew Mrs. Ketcham as a very little girl. I do not know her hus-
band nor what claim he has on the government. She says her husband
has been ill for a long time. I am unable to vouch in any way en-
dorse his claims, but naturally have much sympathy for the ills
coming upon the husband of the daughter of my old friend. If Mr.
Ketcham is worthy, which should of course be known first for h is
own sake as well as for the government, I should be glad, and have no
doubt you will, give your influence in favor of what may be just to
him.

With great respect, I am

Sincerely yours,

Dietated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1898.

Miss Annie Kitchell,
Shawnee,
Sac & Fox Agency, Okla.

My dear Miss Kitchell :

Upon inquiry I find that you are a Shawnee Indian and are
not eligible to admission into a government school unless you be-
long to that branch of the tribe called "Absentee Shawnees."

If you do, please advise me of the fact and from what railroad
point you wish to start, and I will have a ticket placed for you at
the point named.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1896.

Mrs. Carrie Warren,

Tucson, Ariz.

Dear Mrs. Warren :-

Mr. Warren sent me money to send the three children to him in Montana. I sent the oldest boy, but it was better in my judgment that the younger boy and the daughter should remain until later. In the meantime the railroad rates changed, so that the money sent did not begin to cover the expense of tickets to the point he named.

As Mr. Warren sent me the money with the understanding that the children should be sent to him, I do not feel free to use it to send the daughter to you, and it is a great deal better that she remain in Carlisle as long as possible. She seems to desire to do so.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 11th, 1898.

Miss Ella Smith,

Choctaw City, O.T.

Dear Ella:

I find that Mr. Styer has sent a part of what he owes you, and I enclose you check for $10.81, which is to your credit on our books, and Mr. Styer has promised to soon send the balance which is $10.00.

I did not speak to Mr. Field about getting you a place. He probably undertook it of his own accord. He is greatly interested in you and all the Indian people in that vicinity.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1898.

Mrs. Josephine S. Ketcham,
169 Park St.,
Portland, Ore.

Dear Mrs. Ketcham :-

From the very nature of the case it is impossible for me
to urge much in behalf of your husband. I have written such a let-
ter as I can to Senator Mc Bride. If I knew Mr. Ketcham persona lly
or the circumstances better, it might be possible, if the case is
a righteous one, to do more; but being in entire ignorance of the
circumstances of the case, the most I can do is to direct Senator
Mc Bride's inquiries, and the conditions as he finds them will of
course have to govern the case.

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Mrs. Jessie Fowler,

Gresham, Shawano Co.,
Wisconsin.

Dear Mrs. Fowler:

Your son, Philip Tousey, is a good boy and is
getting on all right. He has never been troublesome, so that he is
a student of the kind we most prize. Just now he is living with
J.C. Lambert at Lambertville, N.J.

I have no knowledge of who his Sunday School teacher is,
nor whether it would be wise to let his teacher assume the responsi-
bility of his further training, but he is in such a good place
that I am satisfied to let him remain right where he is until he
is twenty-one years of age, if that is your wish, and will carry
him as one of our Out pupils. If his Sunday School teacher is some
one else, I should want to know all about the person, before I
would say "yes" to your proposition, for the reason that there are
a great many sentimental people who would ruin young Indians by
their kindness. You can understand that very well.

You can write to Philip and tell him to write me just who the
person is and all about it, and, having your letter of consent,
I will give it such consideration, as I feel I would like to have it
receive if it were my own child.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1898.

Mr. Jno. Wanamaker,
Book Dept.,
Market St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

The bearer, Mr. O. H. Bakeless, is my principal teacher
and has full charge of my school library. We wish this year to di-
rect the students of our school in their purchase of books more
carefully than formerly, and I send him to Philadelphia to look
through your list and make some memoranda for our use in selecting.

I beg you will give him every consideration and name him your
lowest prices.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1898.

Hon. C. B. Landis,
Delphi, Ind.

My dear Charlie :-

Yours received. I am delighted that not only you, but Mr. Sherman, Mr. Eddy and so many others of our old friends have been returned. Am sorry that Dr. Barrows is left out. This time Indiana made me proud of being a hoosier.

Mrs. Pratt and I are going to leave the country for a few weeks
rest in Bermuda, sailing from New York on the 15th of December.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1898.

Hon. Jas Southard,

Toledo, Ohio.

My dear Sir :--

I want to heartily congratulate you on your reelection. The
whole outcome is simply fine. While there are some defeats to regret,
the fact that we have gained such a large majority in the Senate and
the House remains steadfast is bound to work great advantage to the
country.

I now hope that you and Mrs. Southard will make us a good visit
soon. I want you to see the school also.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1898.

Gen. John Eaton,
"The Concord",
Washington, D. C.

My dear General :-

I thank you for your appreciation of my report and my work.

You always do me good.

I have written for a state-room on The Trinidad which sails from
New York on the 15th of December. Mrs. Pratt and I have concluded to
go to Bermuda for a stay of a month or six weeks. It is only a two
days' sail from New York. The isolation of the place, the balmy air,
the fishing, boating and bicycle riding promise to give me just what
I need in the way of a rest. I wish you and Mrs. Eaton could go with
us. The round trip ticket is only $50.00 from New York and the ac-
commodations in Bermuda seem to be excellent and fairly moderate.

Mrs. Pratt joins me in most cordial greetings to yourself and
family. We shall expect you to be with us at the end of February when
we graduate our largest class. All goes well. We are only a little
short of 900 pupils. Our house since being repaired is very, very
comfortable.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1898.

Mr. Ned E. Brace,
Rainy Mt., School,
Anadarko, Okla.

My dear Ned :-

You are already employed ; you have your family to look
after ; you are in the vicinity of your property interests ; you are
helping your people ; you have good standing. My advice to you is
"Stick. Work out your salvation right there. " You would find dis-
couragements away from the reservation as well as there, and now that
you are so encumbered with family, property and surroundings, I can't
help feeling that your lines are so laid that it would be injudic-
tious to break away from them. If you did get away for a while, your
other interests might suffer and you would feel discouraged and would
want to return and look after things.

I have been rejoicing always over your successes and trust you
will work your way up. Practical experience is a tremendous element
in the making of a man. Theoretically, he may be remarkably well
trained; if he has no experience, his theory goes for nothing; where-
as if he is trained practically and has no training theoretically, he
may yet be a great man. The history of the world in many great men
proves this.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1898.

N. S. Howe,

Windsor Hotel, New York.

Y dear Sir :-

Mrs. Pratt and I wish to go to Bermuda on the steamer sall-
ing on the 15th of December, to remain a month or longer. We desire
comfortable quarters in Bermuda and have been reading about the dif-
ferent accommodations. Will you please advise me the best you can
do for us with a good comfortable room having a pleasant outlook?

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1898.

Messrs. A. E. Outerbridge & Co.,
39 Broadway, New York.

Gentlemen :-

Mrs. Pratt and I have concluded to take passage on the "Trinidad" on the 15th of December, and shall want round trip travel for two. We expect to stay in Bermuda at least a month, and will your agent there about the return. We will want the best room you give us, preferring midship, and think we would like the upper deck best; however our experience in this matter is not sufficient to guide us against your judgment as to the best location.

I do not find in your catalog that you want a remittance, but you do, will send you it on notice to that effect. Please let me know what room you have reserved for us.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1898.

Mr. J. R. Mead,
N. E. Summer Resort Association,
3 Park Place,
New York.

Dear sir :-

Mrs. Pratt and I plan to sail for Bermuda on the steamer
leaving New York on the 15th of December, to remain there a month or
more. We shall want comfortable accommodations while in Bermuda.
Will you please advise me the best rate The Hamilton can make for us.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1898.

Miss Luzena Choteau,
with Jno. B. Farwell & Co.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Luzena :-

I have arranged with Mr. Thompson to deliver you twelve tickets as you request. He will arrive in Chicago Friday evening and will stop at the Palmer House, where you can call on him. I am glad to know that Emily is pushing her accomplishments and that you think so well of her prospects. You did not give me her address, and as Chicago is quite a town it would hardly be worth while for me to write to her until I know where to address her.

It is barely possible I may see the game, and if so, both you and Emily I hope. With kindest remembrance to her and yourself,

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Personal.

Carlisle, Pa., November 15th, 1898.

Hon. W.A. Jones,

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

As you know, Miss Gertrude Simmons, one of my teachers, is a Sioux Indian. She belongs to the Yankton branch of the Sioux family, and has whatever individual rights inhere to the treaties of that tribe. She is exceptionally musical, and laterly has become fascinated with the violin, taking lessons from a distinguished Professor in Harrisburg during the summer. He urges her, and her other friends urge her, in the interests of art to develop her talent to the highest degree. She is anxious to do this, and her friends have secured for her a free tuition in the Boston Conservatory under Professor Greenberg. Her problem is reduced to one of support while taking her lessons, and she is anxious to know if there are any resources accruing to her as a member of the Yankton tribe, which could in any way be made available for that purpose. I do not know just who to go to about it. Perhaps you will kindly place this in the hands of one of your Chiefs of Divisions, who could advise her or me.

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Miss Lydia L. Hunt,

Supt. Indian School,

San Carlos, Arz.

My dear Miss Hunt:

In Washington last week, I had opportunity and a good talk with the Commissioner about you. I find the Commissioner has been passing through some experiences, and making up his mind because of those experiences. Among other things, he said he was against appointing ladies as superintendents of schools. He admitted your high qualities and success, and that you were entitled to special consideration on that account. He said he would have transferred you had it been practicable to send you to a place at anywhere near the same salary. He asked if I thought you would accept a place as principal teacher at $900 to $1000, or if you would take a place in the Department at $900 to begin with. I told him I thought it possible. He admitted that reports had been made against you by the dismissed employee, but that he did not believe anything the man said. Said he thought you were a little off in the freedom of your actions and remarks. Told me an incident, which you yourself have told me, that occurred on the railroad. He assured me that Lieut. Rice had not said one word against you, and said that Rice was doing everything he could to get the clerk appointed Agent. I told him I would write you as above. He said, all right.

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Miss Hunt.

I feel assured that the great trouble has been want of a
proper place to transfer you to. The exhibition of some mania
riding astride, etc., etc., has created unpleasant impression.

I doubt if it will be possible for me to go to Arizona. I
have asked for tickets and state-boom on steamer sailing to Bermu-
da on the 15th of December, and expect to be away until about
the first of February.

I believe that something will work out for you, and on re-
coipt of your reply to this, I will take the matter up again. In
the meantime, do not be driven from what you know to be best. You,
perhaps, have as just a cause to feel blue as anyone could possibly
have, but it will do no good. Keep a stiff upper lip, fight ahead
for right things, and in some way proper relief will come.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 17th, 1898.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,

100 State Street,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Doctor:

I could go to Arizona with you and Dr. Dudley if
you could leave about or before the 1st of December, and get back
so that I might be at home by the 11th. That is, I could be in Chica-
go so as to start by the 28th, 29th, 30th, or 1st, and return to
Chicago by the 10th. This would give us four or five days at San
Carlos. Not much, to be sure, but enough for me, and possibly
enough for you.

I am sorry not to be at the football game, but my condition
does not encourage me to excitements of this kind, and there is no
special need of my going. The boys will pull through all right, I
am sure. What we want is funds for our athletic field.

When I return at the end of January, the problem of Commencement will be upon me, and nothing can be done until after that. Then comes the Outing, but I can skip that through March, and go with you in March.

Give my kindest regards to Dr. Dudley, and thank him for his
offered hospitality, which I should only be too glad to enjoy if
I were coming to Chicago. By the way, I have somehow lost Dr. Dud-
ley's initials and his home address, so that I would be obliged to
you if you send them.

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Dr. Montezuma.

I like your red hot articles. Keeping overlastingly at it
is the only way.

I send you couple copies of my report, one for Dr. Dudley,
as I suspect you have not had one, because you say nothing of it.

(Disted) Mo

Hon. W.A. Jones,

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

I return to you the letter of Mrs. Hardt and her daughter's letter as well. When these children came to Carlisle I wrote Superintendent Jacobson of the Wittenberg School, who sent them here, reporting conclusions of my doctor. Three of the party were well established in consumption and I had to return them; another was ailing and another was doubtful. Gust Hardt, the boy, had a deformed ankle. A number of the children were apparently white, notably the two Hardt children. It seemed one of those cases where the superintendent of a western school had taken advantage to dump into Carlisle children who were not suitable. Mr. Jacobsen wrote the enclosed in reply to my letter. I have also had letters from those interested in the children urging me not to allow the girl or boy go back to their mother as she was a bad woman. There is no evidence of Indian in the children. The mother has written me very ugly letters, to which I have only replied that I could not carry on the correspondence unless she was reasonable. I fear she is not the real writer of the letters received by you or me. Suspicious that the children were white and ought not to be left upon the Government, I placed them in the country. They both are excellent homes and school privileges.

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Hon. W.A. Jones.

On receipt of the last letter from Mrs. Hardt, I wrote to Superintendent Jacobson for a full account of them. To that I have yet had no reply.

I should certainly be glad for release from the care of such children, and yet their interests do not admit of my taking the initiative in any way to get rid of them. I have anticipated that the conditions would work out their solution.

I forgot to speak to you about the expense of my harness-maker in going to Chicago. I sent the account down for the official approval and requested that the expense be paid by Department funds, but the account came back and I was directed to pay from my own funds. Aside from getting leather that we did not ask for, and do not want, the whole treatment seems in this matter singular to say the least.

I spoke to you of Supervisor Wright's notions about plants for Outing the orphans of the Indians. Brother Wright is new and energetic in his writing, but such schemes as this need to be well worked out. As a matter of fact, usually the guardians or relatives of orphans are more difficult to deal with than the parents, and I see no prospect of any material results being accomplished by schemes that have their location so near the Indians. Distance is what brought me here. I had quite a controversy with General Sherman about it, and explained to him that I could not make any success along this line, which was to me the important one, except at a place a long ways away from any Indians. What I realized and explained in the start has been more than established by our experiences at the other great training schools. Haskell is unable to

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anything on this line which amounts to much. Chemawa does prac-
fully nothing, and so throughout the list. Unfortunately their
imability to make a success of it only seems to aggravate their
jealousy and opposition to Carlisle. If Mr. and Mrs. Watson were
located in Ohio or Indiana, or some more eastern state, they might
be quite a help on this line, but as Genoa does practically nothing
in Nebraska, I do not believe that Mr. and Mrs. Watson can do much
better in the same locality, though, of course, very much depends
upon the earnestness and spirit of the management. I write
to Mr. and Mrs. Wright giving him my views, which of necessity must be
somewhat against his. At the same time, I would not under any cir-
cumstances want that any proposed and seeming good should fail of
trial. The Government would have saved immense sums of money, and
been hundreds of miles further on the way to success, if it had been
willing to accept my judgments in the start. That there has been
consistent failure and will continue to be, and that we shall never
reach the final accomplishment by any such methods. I am sure of as
I am of my own existence, and the final result will be that a decla-
ration will come that the Indians cannot be civilized and made useful
citizens except through centuries of effort, which is all a lie. In
the mean time the disease and conditions brought on by false manage-
ments will accomplish their deadly work and we shall have no Indians.

(D) Mo

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Hon. A.O. Wright,

My dear Sir:

I have great interest in your scheme for Mr. and Mrs. Watson, because it is working on my lines. Experience teaches that all effort to get the Indians into our life, either by school or Outing, at points near their reservations, is fraught with greatest difficulty, so great as to almost amount to inability. When the school is located anywhere near Indians the disposition to run away is excessive. This condition has largely been educated into them by the system of training at the home schools. For many years it has been the habit in most places, at both the day and boarding schools, to keep mounted policemen ready and equipped to chase down runaways. Necessarily it has been impracticable to inflict punishment for running away, so that the boys and girls learn to think it a lark, and many of them run away many times. They get home, or are caught before they get home, and are mounted behind the policeman and ride back to school, and that is the end of it.

You will find that you are quite mistaken in the advantage of taking orphans, because there are always relatives of some sort who claim the care of the children, and often there is more difficulty in dealing with the uncle, aunt, grandfather or grandmother, than there would be in dealing with the parents direct. The way to overcome this would be by law of Congress to take the children any how.

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It seems a peculiar condition that when the Government has
to support in whole, or even in part, it should have to get down on
its knees and beg consent to educate and train their children, or
else allow them to train up their children to become paupers like
themselves. That is what we are practically doing all the time.

(Distated) Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., November 18th, 1898.

Joseph Dubray,

6th Mass. Vol. Inft.

Concord, Mass.

My dear Joe:

Your letter about the Porto Rico boy at hand, and I
have just talked with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Wash-
ington over the phone about it. He says that I may take him, so that
If your people up there will get him here, we will take him into
Carlisle and do him all the good we can. I would say that unless he
is already in school, it would be better for him not to waste his
time laying around, but come at once.

I am glad you stood up for Carlisle in the matter, and that
you can tell the people that there is another school in the country
that is able to do a little something for Indians besides Hampton.
People in Massachusetts are too much inclined to think that there is
due only the one Indian School, and do not realize the far greater work,
and as I think, and you think probably, better work that is being
done elsewhere for the Indians.

I should think the boy if he had his ticket through to Car-
lisle, and a letter to the railroad officials, could come through
alone all right.

Our boys left for Chicago yesterday, and I think will give
a better account of themselves than they did at Philadelphia. I

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only hope they will have a pleasant day. If they do, the crowd will
be enormous, for the people of Chicago have a warm side for Carlisle
and its football team.

If you happen to see Col. Rice, please say to him that
Major Pratt sends his kindest regards.

(Distated) Mc

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Hon. R. W. Fiddle,
President Judge,
Carlisle, Penna.

My dear Judge Fiddle:

The two Indian girls were released yesterday, and I have sent them to their respective homes. There are things in connection with their incarceration in the County Jail that I think you ought to know, and perhaps will feel inclined to rectify.

I find in their possession a pretty liberal collection of notes, that have passed between them and others in the jail, which are full of suggestions of evil. One correspondent, a woman, probably colored, laid a plan to get them into vile uses in Harrisburg. Other notes, and numbers of them, from men are also full of vile suggestive intimacies. These conditions certainly can be prevented, and from what has come to me I am led to believe that there ought to be more substantial character in charge at the Jail than there is. Especially would it be great protection to have a nottle well poised woman as matron there, and such regulations as would keep the inmates quite entirely apart. No letters ought to go them or from them without being read, and when they indulge in indecent proposals the prisoners ought to have extra punishment for it.

By some means or other the girls made way with an extraordinary amount of clothing. My matron reports that they had six pairs of shoes during the time they were in Jail. They had dresses in

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abundance and each of them had capes. No fragment remains, and when
they came out they were not sufficiently clad, so that there has
been crooked work of some kind, which I was unable to get at from
the girls. Both of them were greatly hardened by their confinement.

I write these things to you, because I know from my talks
with you of your great desire to clean out wrong, and perfect sys-
tems, so that good and not evil may result from administering the
law.

I am, my dear Judge, with greatest respect and highest regard,

Very sincerely yours,

(Dictated) Mc

Major, etc.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 19th, 1898.

Hon. A.S. Draper,

President University of Illinois,
Champaign, Ill.

Dear Judge Draper:

On account of our intended absence, Mrs. Pratt and I thought we had better save and not go to Chicago, anxious as we were to see you again and to witness the struggle between our two Institutions. I have engaged passage on the "Trinidad", which sails from New York on the 18th, reaching Bermuda on the 17th. We plan now to stay there until near the first of February.

I trust the battle tomorrow will so result that there may be no disturbing of the very pleasant relations that exist between our two Institutions. I am sure that my boys are all in the best of temper and have the best of intentions, and that if anything does occur that would seem at all irregular, it will be a temporary matter.

It would be a great delight to Mrs. Pratt and I if you and Mrs. Draper could go with us to Bermuda, and I should like nothing better than to visit both Cuba and Porto Rico with you. I sat near the President at the Peace Jubilee in Philadelphia as our Army marched by. I had not seen an organized part of the 10th Cavalry for more than 24 years, and when they hove in sight and the vast multitude gave to them unusual applause, I do not think I was ever so stirred before. The tears ran down my face like rain in spite of

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all I could do. General Shafter and his wife and General Lawton and his wife, old Army comrades, sat just behind me. Shafter had served for many years with colored troops, and was greatly moved by the appreciation of the multitude. After the Army came the Navy, and scattered throughout the different companies were black men, evidently upon the same equality as their fellows, with no marks of distinction; no separation into squads or companies, as in the Army. Both Lawton and Shafter remarked upon it. Shafter said it never should have been different in the Army, and I said, that is so. Organizations of colored men are a violation of the Constitution of the United States. That night at the reception of the Union League, I met some of the officers and the Chaplain of the regiment, black as your hat, and it was a pleasant reunion.

In regard to our team we had concluded to close our campaign with the game tomorrow, and I told Mr. Thompson that it would be better for him to get back as soon as practicable with the boys, so that they might not lose more of their school routine.

I think they will leave Chicago on the 10 o'clock train Saturday night.

Thank you for the cordial invitation both for Mrs. Pratt and myself and for our boys.

There is a feature about our team that needs to be taken into account. In playing with the great teams, we are not only playing with higher intelligence, but we are playing with greater experience. In all the teams they have the experience of many years that comes back to them in those who have gone out from the institutions. The other day there were nine of the old Yale Captains and eminent players back at Yale giving instructions to their team.

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It is to be considered also that the College and University teams
are made up of those who have played formerly on teams in the lower
institutions of the High School and the Preparatory Schools. It is
so here at Dickinson. It is so at Pennsylvania and everywhere, and
our boys are not equipped with those long experiences, and are all
dependent upon what they gained here at Carlisle, so that if some
of our players run on a little beyond the usual college period,
it ought not to be counted against them. We have no professionals
who play for money, or have ever played for money, and shall always
keep clear of such.

With most cordial remembrances to Mrs. Draper and your family
in which Mrs. Pratt joins.

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Carlsie, Pa., November 21, 1898.

Mrs H Cornelia
Sacole, Wisconsin:
Dear Mrs Cornelia:

have the very unpleasant duty of informing you
that your daughter, Mrs. Moore, is pregnant. Mrs.
Cora's conduct here has
been so good all these years that it is a most unexpected and severe
toll to us. I enclose my doctor's report. The circumstances as ex-
plained to me by Mrs. Cora, in the presence of Miss Shaffner are these:-

She had lived with Miss Scott and her father, at Concord, in all
three Summers and two Winters and last Spring asked to go there again.
We were much pleased to have her go as we thought it one of our very
best places, and it was to Mrs. Cora's credit that she was specially asked
for again.

In July the Scotts had to get a new farmer and employed a man named
Paxton, who moved on to the place with his family in to a separate house
he had a boy 17 years old, as appears, a worthless, bad fellow. The fa-
mer himself is a very poor man and was not satisfactory to the person
that employed him. Mrs. Cora and the other girl who lived with Miss Scott
became acquainted with this family and got permission occasionally to
visit them, going together.

Cora grew intimate with the young man and would meet him alone.
She denies that there was any expression of affection, but he persuaded
her to criminal intimacy, and she admitted of seven different times,
sometimes in the house and sometimes out of doors where she would meet
him. It appears that she simply yielded to his persuasion, and all the
incidents as she relates them are. I am sorry to say, very much against

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Carlisle, Pa., November 21, 1898.

Mrs L H Cornelius
Sagole, Wisconsin:

Dear Mrs Cornelius:

I have the very unpleasant duty of informing you
that your daughter, Cora Moore is pregnant. Cora's conduct here has
been so good all these years that it is a most unexpected and severe
blow to us. I enclose my doctor's report. The circumstances as ex-
plained to me by Cora, in the presence of Miss Shaffner are these:-

She had lived with Miss Scott and her father, at Concord, in all
three Summers and two Winters and last Spring asked to go there again.
We were much pleased to have her go as we thought it one of our very
best places, and it was to Cora's credit that she was specially asked
for again.

In July the Scotts had to get a new farmer and employed a man named
Paxton, who moved on to the place with his family in to a separate house
He had a boy 17 years old, as appears, a worthless, bad fellow. The fa-
mer himself is a very poor man and was not satisfactory to the person
that employed him. Cora and the other girl who lived with Miss Scott
became acquainted with this family and got permission occasionally to
visit them, going together.

Cora grew intimate with the young man and would meet him alone.
She denies that there was any expression of affection, but he persuaded
her to criminal intimacy, and she admitted of seven different times,
sometimes in the house and sometimes out of doors where she would meet
him. It appears that she simply yielded to his persuasion, and all the
incidents as she relates them are, I am sorry to say, very much against

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her. If her statements are true she is advanced about three months.

I have consulted a lawyer about it, Judge Henderson, and find there
is scarcely any chance for me to do anything with the young man until af-
ter the child is born, and even after that because of his worthlessness
and his father's poverty, it is questionable whether any action I could
take in the matter would be of benefit to Cora or be much punishment to
the young man. If he were worth anything a marriage might be arrang-
ed, or he might be compelled to pay a small sum per week for her sup-
port, at least the Court would order that.

By Cora's statement he is the most undesirable person to be in com-
pany with, so whichever way I turn I see little hope of mending the
matter. Cora is in good health; she has been highly esteemed here in
the School. She is President of one of the Kings Daughters' Circles,
and is the foremost girl in the sewing department, and in every way had
a good future before her. That she could so far forget herself and
bring this trouble on herself and shame on all her friends is a great
mystery.

I should have sent her home last year and the year before but for
the urgency of her aunt Carrie. Cora begs me to send her home now.
If she stays here I shall have to hide her away somewhere for a good
many months. I have written you thus fully about it because I want
your immediate desire. I will send her home at once if you say so, or
will provide for her some place here if you think that is best.

Cora's course has greatly distressed me. She admitted that the
young man did not at first accomplish his purpose; but Cora did not tell
the good woman with whom she lived, anything about it at any time.
Had Cora told her at the time the young man made his first advances I
am very sure he and the whole family would have left the place at once

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and that she would have been thoroughly protected. She returned to
the School apparently with a good record, from her Summer outing.
She did not tell the Matron in charge of girls nor me but kept the mat-
ter strictly a secret until the absence of her monthly period for two
months made it necessary that the doctor should examine the case, and I
have his report herein.

My own judgment is that Cora had better return to you at once, but
I want to hear from you. She has $12.30 in money and will be at no
expense for going home.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 22nd, 1898.

Altenheim Medical Dispensary,

103 Selves Building,

Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gentlemen:

I am beginning to be afflicted with loss of hair, and shall
be glad to try your prescription, as advertised in McClure's Magazine.

(Dictated) Mc

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W.F. Campbell,

294 Third Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear William:

I have written to Lewis Uran stating that I would
send him transportation whenever he was ready to come to Carlisle.

I am sorry you are having difficulty in getting your contract approved. I am a little afraid, William, that the fault is quite entirely your own, for I know that the Commissioner would be glad to stand by you, but has some fears on account of your habits. It seems to me that you have had your experiences now, and that with your great abilities you might stop all nonsense and become more serious and earnest. You have had a wonderful experience for a man of your origin in the great friends that come forward and desire to help you, and the opportunities that have come to you. Why wear out their patience and lose your opportunities, for certainly and sure, sooner or later, your opportunities will all disappear if you continue your course. When you visited us at Commencement, I should have been glad to put you forward, but for the unmistakable evidence of conditions that I could not thus before the school seem to approve.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 22nd, 1898,

Excelsior Importing Co.,

Dept. 12 Excelsior Building,

111 Nassau Street, New York.

Gentlemen:

I enclose you my check for $1.00 for which please send me
one of your Achromatic Telescopes, as advertised in McClure's Mag-
azine for November.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., November 22nd, 1896.

Shaw Stocking Co.,

Smith Street, Lowell, Mass.

Gentlemen:

I enclose a check for $1.00 for which please send me
two pairs of dark navy blue and two cadet blue stockings, as per
your advertisement in McClure's Magazine. A good substantial
winter stocking is what I want just now. I wear a # 9 shee.

(Dictated) Mc

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Mrs. J.H. Babbitt,

721 11th Street, N.E.,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Mrs. Babbitt:

I have a special rate and am sending a boy to San Francisco over the Southern Pacific for $45. I told the agent when he granted it, that I would probably have a lady to go out about the first of December, and he said that I might rely upon having a ticket at that time for the same money.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 13rd, 1898.

Fred W. Hyde,

Depot Commissary,
Camp Meade, Penna.

My dear Captain:

I send you herewith my check for $35.84 covering
bill of goods shipped on the 18th. The goods did not arrive until
last night and Mrs. Pratt has just checked them off and reports
that they are here and satisfactory, and we are both exceedingly
obliged to you for your kindness and trouble in this matter.

And now, we have laid in two turkeys, good fat ones, for tomor-
row, and Mason is to be here with his whole family, as he says on
a "Turkey Hunt". If you should, by any good fortune, happen to find
it convenient to come up and join us, we shall be only too happy.
The day will furnish some sports in addition to the dinner. We have
our Thanksgiving Service at 9 o'clock in the morning.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 23rd, 1898.

Hon. W.A. Jones,

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

The enclosed correspondence is in regard to Fred Smith, whom you ordered transferred from Lincoln to Carlisle. Note the dates, and also that I have not come to the Department about it, nor have I in any way encouraged the boy to come here. Jacobson reported him to me as a boy who ought to be in our proposed band, but what I ~~showed~~ hear some undue influence had been used to get him to Lincoln. I had an application from the boy, himself, and sent that to the Superintendent of the Educational Home in the letter, of which the enclosed is a copy. Given's reply which follows as characteristic of the man. The fact is that Lincoln ought to be ended. The Government will never get value received if the school should continue until doom's day. It is purely a church school, and was established for that purpose, and I am sorry to say somewhat in opposition to Carlisle. There are constant tangles, and the underlying principle is wrong.

On receipt of the order, I sent ticket for Smith to come to Carlisle, and wrote asking that the expense of getting him to Lincoln come to me for settlement, as you ordered. There is no response, and I have no doubt that, as usual, Mrs. J. Balangee Cox and the authorities of Lincoln will strike out with a big political pull to block the matter, and assert that you are militating against them and in favor of Carlisle, which is all rot.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 25th, 1893.

President S. Clarke Seelye,

Smith College,

North Hampton, Mass.

My dear Doctor:

I am very greatly obliged to you for the kindly
estimate you have of my work, and your approval of my Report and
the position I take on Indian education.

We are wasting, and worse than wasting, millions of dollars
on Indian education. The logical result will be that after a while
people will say "it is no use to educate Indians, they will remain
Indians and tribes in spite of education;" whereas the fault will
be entirely with the system of education and not one bit of it with
the Indians. The results here at Carlisle compared with the re-
sults on every Indian reservation all show this beyond a peradven-
ture.

I am greatly obliged to you for your invitation to come to
Smith College again, and shall have greatest pleasure in doing so
before long. I find myself below par because of the strain that
has been upon me for an unusually long period without relaxing,
and have planned to take Mrs. Pratt and sail for Bermuda on the
15th of December, to return about the 1st of February. Some time after
that, if all goes well, I will take a little run into New England
and stop and see you.

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Carlisle, Pa., November 26, 1898.

Emily E. Peake,

275 Indiana Street,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Emily:

I am glad to get your good letter for several reasons. First, because it tells me where you are, which is always a matter of interest, and what you are doing, equally a matter of interest, and then it tells me that you are pushing on to higher things, which is more important than both the others. I wish you greatest success. If I could only inspire all my boys and girls to strike out, and pull themselves up into the highest nitches they can possibly get into, we could make short work of the Indian question.

I am glad you saw the game. It was an excellent thing for the boys to close their season with such a success, especially after their great defeat by the Pennsylvania team.

All goes well with us here at the school. You will be pleased to know that Chester Cornelius is here, having brought to us 13 Kickapoos. This is attribute not heretofore represented in the school.

Mrs. Pratt and I have planned to leave Carlisle on the 14th and sail from New York on the 15th for Bermuda, where we expect to stay about 6 weeks among the oranges and bananas, and good fishing and also fine bicycle roads, where we only get a mail once in 10 days, and where there are no Indians. Just think how

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Carlisle, Pa., November 30th, 1898.

Mrs. Mary Gabelist,

26 Kerrs Avenue,

Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Gabelist:

It is quite evident now that there will be a
large reduction in the Volunteer Army very soon, and instead of mak-
ing a special effort to get your husband out, I would suggest that
you await the conclusions, for it may be that the 8th Regiment
will be one of those mustered out.

I was at the War Department yesterday and learned that there
has been such a flood of applications for discharge from the Army,
that the War Department is over loaded and has had to make rules
to substantially not discharge anybody for the present, so that a
special appeal for your husband would be of no avail, and nothing
could be done under any circumstances without the favorable endorsee-
ment of his Company and Regimental Commanders.

If later on it should turn out that the 8th Regiment is not to
be mustered out, and Capt. Speck and the Colonel of the Regiment
are willing to give favorable endorsement to his discharge, and
I know that fact, I perhaps could help you somewhat.

(Dictated) Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., December 1st, 1898,

A. E. Outerbridge & Co.,
39 Broadway,
New York,

Gentlemen;

Mrs. Pratt and I wish to take our wheels with us to Bermuda on the 15th, and I would like to know the penalties in connection, both on the steamer and in Bermuda. Also what a small folding boat weighing about 10 lbs. would be subject to in duty.

(Diated) Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., December 1st, 1888.

King Canvass Folding Boat Co.,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

Gentlemen:

I am about to spend a little while in Bermuda, and think
of taking one of your boats along. I have written to find out
the probable tax there will be if I did take it. In the meantime
I should like to know more particularly the length of the package
in which your 11 ft. goes. Are the oars joined so that they can
be made the same length as the boat folded? Could you furnish a
cance paddle joined? I would also like to know what arrangements
you could make for a small sail and the price. As I leave on the
13th inst. a prompt answer will oblige.

I am taking my wheel along, and as the roads in Bermuda are
delightful for wheeling, and there are many little bays and places
I could like to visit, and I would like to go about in a boat,
and am tempted by the fact that the lift boat can be carried on
a wheel.

Dictated) Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., December 1st, 1898.

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

Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Friend:

We are hunting for large pictures to put in our students' diningroom. I have from other railroads promise of one or two pictures, each representing features of the road of striking interest, and I would be glad if I might have one or two from the Pennsylvania Road. We have room for about two dozen, and we were thinking that a large picture of the Horse-shoe Bend would be quite a feature. If you could spare one, and if you have others, I should be very greatly obliged.

Six hundred young Indians will have them in sight three times a day, aside from a constant flow of many visitors.

(Diated) Mc

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Miss E.S. Cook,

Indian Office,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Miss Cook:

We have been looking for large pictures to hang in our dining-room, and want about twenty-five to use between the windows and other suitable places. We have secured by contribution some railroad scenery and some buildings. Is there not something put out by the departments of the Government that you or the Commissioner could ask to be sent here? I would not mind two or three real good Indian views. I would not care for the pictures of Indiana because that would be a little invidious. If you can think of anything to help me out I should be obliged.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., December 2nd, 1898.

Charles E. Dagenett,
Indian School,
Chillicothe, O.T.

My dear Charles:

I got your letter, and it always does me good to hear from you. I thank you for the felicitations on my promotion. The title does not amount to so much, but as I am getting along in years, and must before many more lay down my burden, I am not averse to the promotion which gives me added pay. For after all, I find in myself a streak of selfishness that aspires to such things. I think, however, one of the greatest comforts to me is the enlarged opportunities.

We shall all be delighted to see you here, and if possible your wife, too, at Commencement, and I think you will be able to get many good points. It is possible that I can fix a low rate for you, if you will let me know sufficiently in advance, and I will take the matter up and see what I can do.

Mrs. Pratt and I leave home on the 13th for an absence of about six weeks in Bermuda, but I shall be back in ample time the 1st of February to take up any Commencement matters.

You have written me so often about your clerical desires that I quite sympathize with them, and agree with your idea of fitting yourself beyond a peradventure for the position. If you take a course at Eastman in addition to what you already have, you should

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surely be qualified for any clerical position in the field service
under the Indian Bureau.

In regard to Joseph Blackbear. Joseph is very competent,
particularly with his pen, and has good ideas of discipline, and
some skill in drill, so that I think he would make you a very use-
ful assistant, but he is getting $250 a year with us. Whether
he would care for the larger salary with you is a matter that you
had better correspond with him about. I will not say anything
about it one way or the other. If Joseph wants to go to you, all
right. We can very readily supply his place here.

With love to Esther, as ever

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated) Mc

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J.J. McNamara,

Sporting Editor, Boston Herald,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Sir:

My Mr. Thompson gives me your name as one interested in
our Carlisle School and willing to push any matter that would help
it along.

I enclose to you a small slip, together with what I would say
about it. I wish you would print it in the Herald on the editor-
tial page, and then send marked copies to Hon. Cornelius N. Elisa,
Secretary of the Interior, Hon. W.A. Jones, Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, Hon. James S. Sherman, Chairman of the Committee on Indian
Affairs, House of Representatives, and Hon. William B. Allison,
Chairman of the Senate Appropriation Committee, all of Washington,
D.C.

(Dictated) Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., December 3rd, 1896.

Hon. W. A. Jones,

1314 N. Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

Miss Simmons is naturally anxious to get into the training which she feels so necessary and promising to her success in life. I have told her what you said, that you could see Mr. Slater and find out if there was not some fund that could be used, and we have waited quite a little expecting to hear. Knowing the great press of business upon you, I realize that it may have passed from your mind.

It seems to me clear that from the General Appropriation, 1st clause under Support of Schools, where it says "and for other educational purposes not hereinafter provided for", *ikax* she could receive a sum for this purpose.

I believe thoroughly, Mr. Commissioner, on the principles I expressed to you that we should as early and fully as practicable help every special case of genius to the fullest development. Nothing goes further with the public mind than practical demonstration. Miss Simmons, having this exceptional musical talent and being already well advanced, and having the endorsement and urgency of the best instructors to go ahead and develop her talent, encourages me to believe that she is one of the specially qualified cases. Her stay at Carlisle, and her career as I know it before that, assure

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