Dec. 27th 1892.

Miss Sue Meusch,

Middleburgh, Pa.

Dear Madam:

Replying to your application of the 24th I have respectfully
to advise you that teachers for the Indian service now are required
to pass the civil service examination, and are then detailed to the
different Indian schools as is needed. If you wish to enter the
Indian service write to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission
at Washington, D.C., and ask when, where and how you may get before
the board; then if you pass the examination you will be sent here or
anywhere where there are vacancies.

Sept.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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December 28, 1892.

Christian Herald Bible House,
New York City.

Gentlemen:

As indicated to you several days ago, I send you herewith 19 subscribers, with my check for $38.00, covering the same, as follows:

Stailey Norcross, Clement Soldier, Wood Nashozey,
Wm. Cochrane, Martino Vallo, Thomas Kose,
Moses Patterson, Star B. Boy, Lazarus Willis,
Andrew Lyte, John A. Morrison, James Cloud,
Ida Warren, Annie Lockwood, Belinda Archiquette,
Susie Farwell, Elizabeth Sickles, Sarah Flynn,
Delia Randell.

These papers should all be sent, each under its own wrap, but addressed to "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.," except the one to James Cloud, which send to "Kawkawlin, Bay Co., Mich.," together with his bible. Send all the other bibles here.

During the summer months most of our students go out to work among farmers in the eastern part of this state and like to have their papers remailed to them.

1 enclosure.

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December 28, 1892.

Mr. P. L. Waterman,
Versailles, N. Y.

My dear Sir:

Yours of December 26th received. After reading
it I do not wonder that your boy is such a discontented, un-
truthful lad. What he tells you in regard to the medicines
he took is not true in any particular, and my doctor is prob-
ably as humane and as able as any of the doctors in your vicin-
ity.

Instead of reproof and sarcasm we have every right to
expect from you and your son no little gratitude, but evident-
ly you and he were both born without that quality, and I
judge from your letter you have no disposition to acquire it.

I will excuse you from troubling me with any more corres-
pondence. I would serve you right by publishing in your
neighborhood the facts in regard to your boy, and this letter.

Copy respectfully furnished Mr. Rynciman for his infor-
mation.

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My dear Sir:

I will excuse you from troubling me with any more cor-
respondence. I would serve you right by publishing in your
neighborhood the facts in regard to your boy, and this letter.

Yours truly,

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December 31, 1892.

Gus. Moses,
Akron, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

When Stansill Moses came here it was with a full
understanding that he should submit to all the rules and regu-
lations of this school, one of which is "Half day in school
and half day at work, with an evening study hour." I cannot
vary our system to please any one, nor can we break bargains
so easily.

Stansill will have to stay here.

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January 5, 1893.

Mrs E. C. Diament,
663 North 12, St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mrs Diament:

I have been unable to make anything out of the culprit up in New York, to help cover Flora's expenses. Miss Shaffner gave me your message and I feel annoyed that I have not been more successful.

The turn the case took left Newton without any responsibility in that direction, and I in consequence had no grip on any one. My charity fund is very poor but I feel that your modest request, that I send you $75, to cover the year's cost ought to be responded to, and I send you that amount from that fund. In the mean time I will submit the case to the Department and see if I can get it to allow me to pay, from my Government School Appropriation, that amount.

I should like to know if you would be willing to make a bill for me, for that amount, covering a certain number of weeks of care. If you could make it 50 weeks at a Dollar & a half a week, I could, I think by full explanation, get the Department to consent to it, by making a full explanation of the principles of your Institution and an expose of the case.

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January 5, 1893.

Mr. Frank Beaver,
Seneca, Mo.

My dear Sir:

I have given full consideration to the letter
written by you for Mrs. Beaver. It so happens that I have no
vacancy now that would serve for Mrs. Beaver, and the future
is so uncertain that I am not able to hold out any inducement.

We are in a good deal of a tangle in regard to employes
on account of the Civil Service covering part, and we have
considerable apprehension in regard to the balance, and all
because of the change in administration.

If Mrs. Beaver will write me again, say early in May, it
may be possible that the outlook will enable me to give a more
favorable consideration to her wishes.

Give my love to Charlie and best wishes for all of you.

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I could cite many of our students, both East and West, who are not only doing good work but set a good example not only for their people but for others; but these special citations only make them a mark and place them at a disadvantage with our enemies, but I always stand ready to give instances and information to those specially interested.

Our aim is, and has always been, American citizenship in its fullest, broadest, and most independent sense, and I challenge the closest scrutiny, contrast, and comparison.

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January 10th 1893.

Selim H. Peabody,

Chief, Department Liberal Arts,

World's Columbian Commission,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sirs,

I have yours of the 31st ult., advising me of the assign-
ment to this institution of 150 sq.ft. of space. In order that I
may work our exhibit intelligently I respectfully request to be
informed if aisles are exclusive of this space and also if there is
any wall space. My request was for 193 ft.of floor space and 80 ft
wall space.

Supe.

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January 11th 1893.

Miss Callie Steele,
Low Moor, Va.

Dear Madam:

All teachers who get positions in the Indian school
service must now pass the civil service examinations. For
information in regard to these examinations write to the
Chairman of the Board of Civil Service Examiners, Washington,
D. C. and state your wishes. The salaries of teachers in the
Indian service range from $480.00 to $1200.00, the general
salary being $600.00.

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January 13th 1893.

Allison Mayfield,

Metropolitan Hotel,

Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Replying to yours of the 12th inst., I hand you herewith copies of two letters, one from Capt. Hall of May 2nd 1887 in which he enclosed to me checks for $164.50 grass money to Kiowas, Comanche and Apaches at this school. I have not the receipts of the students as they were sent to Capt. Hall, for this money but their accounts on our books show that the money was turned over to the students named in amounts as follows:

Eugene Tahkapeur $13.70
Otto Zotom $13.70
Joshua Given $13.70
Otto Weils $13.70
Henry Outa $13.70
Martin Zuchhada $13.70
Wm. Tivis $13.70
Oddellah Aashtley $13.70
Etahdleuh Doanmoe $13.70
Laura Doanmoe $13.70
Martha Napawat $13.75
Julia Given $13.75
Total $164.50

Very truly yours

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

Supt.

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January 10th 1893.

Rev. Frank Mt. Pleasant,

Suspension Bridge, N.Y.

My dear Mr. Mt. Pleasant:

The enclosed is a copy of a letter which comes to me about the young man, Matthew Johnson, whom you recommended so highly. I hope there is some mistake about it and you can clear his skirts. I have not answered the letter nor have I said anything to the young man about it.

Very truly yours,

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

Supt.

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January 16th 1893.

Rev. C. M. Tate,

Chilliwack, B. C.

My dear Mr. Tate:

Your letter to Miss Burgess is before me. The proceedings
of Mohonk's last session are not yet received. I have asked for
extra copies and will send you one as soon as they come.

We are all glad to hear that you may visit us again soon. Be
assured of my own and Mrs. Pratt's most cordial invitation to become
our guests.

The upheaval of politics in the United States may give you the
chance to study the Indian management from a different stand-point
before many months.

I congratulate you on your growth, the new building and all
that you propose for your work there.

I see that Rev. Wilson of Shingwauk Home, Sault Ste. Marie, has
closed out his relations with that Indian work and has departed with
his numerous family for your section.

Cordially your friend,

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January 16th 1893.

Henry Standing Bear,

Pine Ridge Agency,

South Dakota.

Dear Henry:

I am entirely ignorant of the details of annuities to the Sioux. Those could be furnished you only by the Department at Washington or the Agent. Capt. Brown's judgment will be your test in guide what you propose to do. I am personally quite in sympathy in doing away with the rations and annuities but of course that has to be done consistently and in a manner which will arcuse the least disturbance among all the interests involved. Some of the tribes and agencies might be ready for it and others might have the rations and annuities continued indefinitely and withdrawn gradually.

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April 29, 1893.

Mr. Sumner S. Riggs,
Cordell, Washita Co., O. T.

Dear Sumner:

I thank you for your long letter and the information it contained. Sorry to hear Chester Arthur has been a victim of the lawless Westerner. What you boys need to do is to use the law on such people. Begin at once; make complaint before the proper legal officers where you are infringed upon and have those who wrong you tried and punished according to law.

I know the locality of your settlement very well, as I have traveled up and down the Washita a great deal and across country between the Washita and the Canadian. Was camped at Cogu Creek once a long time.

I shall be glad to have you write us from time to time, so that we may use in the "Helper" what news we can about the Indians, the returned students, those of your settlement in particular. Keep us informed. What the people want to know is the facts in regard to the matters. Who can tell these better than the Indian himself?

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April 28, 1893.

Charles F. Meserve, Supt. Ind. School,
Lawrence, Ks.

My dear Meserve:

Sorry to hear of your mishap. Glad to know
that it was small. Gave a little notice of it in the "Helper,"
as you see. They told me about it in Washington the other
day.

Note circular to Agents, Bonded Superintendents, etc.,
in regard to getting students for reservation schools; then
read the law for current year and for next year in the Indian
Bill of both years, by which you see Congress does not dis-
criminate between reservation and non-reservation schools.
Fear the new folks are a little off. Do not like to write and
find fault. Hope to be in Washington soon and talk it over,
which I think will be better.

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April 29, 1893.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

This is to certify that Mr. James S. Maddux has been in my employ since November last, in the capacity of Stenographer and Clerk, and that during this time he has performed his work in a manner satisfactory to me.

His employment was rendered necessary by the death of my Chief Clerk, and the consequent accumulation of work, and as there no longer exists such a necessity for his employment, he leaves me to return to his former work as General Stenographer.

I would cordially recommend him to any person or firm requiring the services of a competent Stenographer.

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

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April 29th 1893.

Prof. O. H. Bakeless,

State Normal School,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dear Professor Bakeless:

I return $2.36 of your $16.00 together with the bill for the tickets. I am sorry you feel called upon to do this but as much as you say you will feel better to have it so I ought not to raise more objections.

My disappointment at the conclusion of yourself and Mrs. Bakeless has been very keen. I had gone to the extreme limit in arranging for you: all that I had agreed to pay above the $1860.00 during the balance of the current year would have come out of my own funds and there was great doubt whether I would be able to get the approval for the increase I had promised you for the next year, and in that case I should have had to pay that also. But I wanted someone of my own selection who was deeply interested and capable in educational work to take hold and manage that feature of the school where I feel myself so incompetent and I was willing to meet these issues in that way. I have no doubt that in time, perhaps in a very short time, both you and Mrs. Bakeless would have been just as comfortably fixed, and perhaps more so, because you would have been in a building away from the pupils and more quiet and of course

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it would have been my intention to have fixed you up so that you
could have performed your work satisfactorily to yourself even
though I had added the room contemplated. There was no change
in my mind in regard to the ability of both yourself and Mrs.
Bakeless to fill the places designed. Your work now is on a higher
plain and probably you will have a wider usefulness: this is hard
work and too often the worker fails to receive even the gratitude
of the recipients, but these are the Lords poor and we will take
care of the reward. Just where I am to turn for one for the place
I do not know but I feel assured that in some way we shall be taken
care of. My heart was, and is yet very much drawn to you and since
Mrs. Bakeless' letter I have the same warm feeling towards her.

I have been absent and not very well or your letter would have
received a more prompt answer.

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April 29th 1893.

Mrs. M. L. Gibson, Gen. Sec. etc.,

1823 Arch Street,

Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Madam:

Chauncey Yellow Robe is here at the School and probably will not go to Chicago until near the time required for him to be there for the address, so I am unable to give you his address in Chicago. He will be on duty in the Liberal Arts Building, Section I, in connection with the Carlisle School exhibit.

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May 1st 1893.

Vista A. Gray,

Poplar, Montana.

Dear Vista;

Your letter of the 25th has just reached me. I did not understand that you referred to your cousin here in your last letter. Albert has been under the care of the doctor in regard to his eye, it does not seem to trouble him and it does not look badly. The doctor thinks it is not best for him to have a glass eye now for he is still growing and his eye would have to be constantly changed as it grows with the rest of his body. It is better since it does not trouble him, to let the eye remain as it is until he is a man and then he could have a glass eye which would fit him for years. to do otherwise would be much expense to him. You know the glass eye would not enable him to see, it only covers the defect. Albert has been at the school for a year and has just gone out again in the country. I know that Albert writes home for money to have his eye treated and then when he receives it he spends it in other ways. He is earning money and has all that is necessary to spend and it would be better if his friends would not send him money. The doctor will watch his eye and treat it when it is necessary.

I am glad to know that you are still improving, and I think too that it would be a good thing for you to get away from the

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Agency. I am gratified to know that some of the Carlisle students
are doing well but very, very sorry to know that others have gone
back to the old camp life.

Many of the pupils here have gone out to country homes for
the summer and we are gradually getting down to our summer smallness
here. The parade ground looks very lovely with the green grass
and the trees are fast putting forth their buds and leaves.

With many good wishes to you, I am,

Your friend,

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May 1st 1893.

J. A. Means,

8 West Main Street,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Mr. Means;

I have yours of today enclosing $2.25 contributed by
ladies for Mr. Tamura and have forwarded the same to Mr. Tamura.

Very truly yours,

May 1st 1893.

Rev. Naomi Tamura,

96 Fifth Avenue,

Pittsburg, Pa.

My dear Brother Tamura:

A little contribution from ladies in Carlisle comes to me
this morning for you and I enclose my check for the amount - $2.25.

I hope you are meeting with success in Pittsburg and will
reap in all that you wish.

We have just had a letter from Miss True telling us of affairs
in Japan. Mrs. Morris returned to her home at Overbrook a week
ago. She has improved in health since she reached this country but
is still weak.

With kind regards from us all,

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May 1st 1893.

Levi Levering,

University of Omaha,
Bellevue, Neb.

My dear Levi:

I have your letter of the 27th and enclose herewith my
check for $6.50 to cover your traveling expenses to Genoa. I shall
be glad to have you visit the school there and upon your return
write me a full report of it. Look well into matters and if you
see any points in which Carlisle is lacking write me of them that
we may improve.

We have had many rainy, cold days this spring and some few
pleasant ones, our snow storms, though, I think are over.
have

Hoping that you may a pleasant trip to Genoa and write me
all about it, I am,

Your friend,

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May 2nd 1893.

My dear Mr. Standing:

I am pleased to get your letter of the 30th in the evening mail just now. We have made no mistake in our location nor in our exhibit and I am gratified that you have pushed matters so well. We sent you a box by express containing what we thought you would like to have from the Madrid exhibit and including a few additions from the school, and the flag. I did not send my picture: I prefer not to seem to publish myself in any way in connection with the exhibit. The Department has granted me the $1625.00 for the exhibit conditional upon my withdrawal from the July program, which I have very gladly done. We shall satisfy ourselves with making the best use we can with our present exhibit and space and I entirely agree with you as to the advisability of an intelligent person on hand to explain and should it be necessary for you to come here I shall send someone there, and indeed I think it will be necessary for you to come home for a while in reference to the closing of the old year and the opening of the new. There are some important answers to criticisms made by the Second Comptroller, I cannot answer until you come.

The Department has been kind to me in the matter of approvals, forwarding money, etc., and I shall be unable to find fault with it if things keep on as they have been going, except in the matter of getting children: we are prohibited absolutely from taking children from the reservations except with the fullest consent of the parents

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This is contrary to law of Congress and I have no doubt when I sit down and explain to the Commissioner he will see it in that way. I intend going to Washington in a few days and will make a direct attack on Mr. Cleveland and ask him to withdraw the operation of Civil Service from this school.

I think you had better have a little more money and so send you another check for $100.00 and should it become necessary at any time you can draw upon me through the Deposit Bank, but as it looks now you are fixed for steady expenses and that will be likely all we will have to meet. I fear I shall be unable to handle the $1625.00 without your presence and this seems another reason for having you back, perhaps soon. How would one of the ladies do? I have thought of Miss Burgess or Miss Shaffner. Miss Shaffner proposes to be in Chicago at some convention and wants to take several girls, which I have not yet consented to, but may if the means appear.

I did not wait for the new flag but sent you the best and largest old one, the use it has had will not hurt it. I am glad you thought of it because it represents the Government. One argument against giving me the $1625.00 was because the exhibit was not in a Gov't building but I assured them the reason was not well founded, that I had put U. S. conspicuously.

I have agreed to let Chauncey speak for the Women's Convention on the 17th of May. He has his speak prepared. You will need to take him into your care up there. Do you think it will be advisable to have him with you throughout the exposition. Count the cost and let me know.

I am sorry to tell you of the death of Susan Longstreth. She will be buried to-morrow and Miss Burgess, Miss Shaffner, six girls

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Richard Davis, Mrs. Pratt and I go to the funeral. Also Henry Kendall died at his home of typhoid fever.

I had sent him a ticket to return to Carlisle but two days before he was to start he was taken with the fever which terminated fately a few days ago.

Have advertised for our lumber, coal, etc., bids to be opened on the 26th.

I hope you will send Gardner home as soon as you can, and when he comes this man must clear out, he is the most worthless stick we have had.

I approve of course of any arrangements you make for accommodations at 5757, indeed will be glad if you continue there as it is a link between, but the dollars must be pinched.

I have placed the Doctor in charge of the schools.

Mr. A. J. Standing.

5757 Madison Avenue,
Chicago, Ill.

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May 4th 1893

Hon. W. Penn Loyd,
State Senator,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Sir:

Permit me to invite your special attention to an important law now before the Legislature for the protection of fish and game. [see file 514 of the House of Representatives Session of 1893.] The slaughter of fish in this section this year has been such as to greatly discourage all stocking and keeping of streams stocked hereafter: nets, &c., night lines have almost robbed the streams. I have been at some pains in the past to help re-stock our Cumberland County streams and have it in my power in the future to do much more through correspondence with the U. S. Fish Commission, indeed I have been called upon for a map of the county and suggestions in regard to the best places to distribute fish but I hesitate to take any steps or assume any responsibility in the matter in view of the methods for the destruction of the fish permitted by the state. We need the protection of a stringent law and fearless fish wardens.

Supr.

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May 4th 1893.

Hon. S. M. Wherry,

House of Representatives,

Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Mr. Wherry:

You will confer a great favor on fishermen and do a real public service by giving your hearty support to House Bill (No. 314, Session of 1893) introduced by Mr. Lemon, February 9th 1893, re-reported from Committee in the House April 12th 1893. The destruction of fish by illegitimate means this year has been unprecedented: nets and night lines have in many streams taken the fish out almost entirely. I have given some attention to stocking the streams and had just arranged to do more through the Government's supply but it is a discouraging outlook unless we can be better protected. I would suggest a slight amendment in section 3 using "all" in place of "any", having it read "All Fish Commissioners, fish wardens, etc. are hereby--" making it as it seems to me a little more mandatory.

Very truly yours,

Dictated to stenographer just as Capt. Pratt was leaving for Washington, D. C., hence stencil signature, which Capt. Pratt begs you will pardon.

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May 9th 1893.

My dear Dr. Gates:

I send you herewith a letter just received from Agent
Robertson in regard to Henry Kendall. It will but make you more
heart sick to have this account of Henry, but it shows you more
plainly the odds against which he had to contend. No doubt there
were many secret influences at work which somewhat governed Henry
in his actions, and we cannot judge.

Faithfully yours,

Dr. Merrill E. Gates,

President Amherst College,

Amherst, Massachusetts.

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May 9th 1893.

Stephen H. Evans,

Pastor Meth. Epis. Church,
Middletown, Pa.

Dear Sir:

I have yours of the 8th. We shall be glad to have you visit the School at any time, the School is always open to visitors. It would be better for you to come on some school day when both the school room work and the industrial departments are in operation. When the weather is pleasant we have dress parade on Wednesday and Saturday evenings.

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May 9th 1893.

J. B. Garcia.

Cubero, New Mexico.

My dear James:

I am glad to hear through your letter of April 29th that
you reached home all right.

I shall be pleased to have a party of pupils from New Mexico
this summer and if you can work up a good party I will send some
one from here to bring it in. Let me know what you do in this
way.

All goes well with us here at the School. Many of the boys and
girls have gone out to country homes for the summer. But I must
leave you to get all the news from the "Indian Helper."

We were much grieved to hear of Henry Kendall's death. Will
you not write me fully what you hear in regard to Henry?

With best wishes for you, I am,

Your friend,

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May 9, 1893.

Rev. Luther F. Beecher,
Brookline, Mass.

My dear Sirs:

I feel obliged to you for your cordial letter.
In the early days of this effort here one of the principal
arguments advanced against it, particularly by people inter-
ested in missionary work among Indians, who believed that the
only way to lift an Indian up was to lift up the whole people
at the same time,--was the failure of the school at Cornwall,
Conn. As I was not familiar with the history of this school
for some time, I was puzzled to answer, but an accidental
visit to Lee, Mass., brought me into relations with a man who
knew all about the Cornwall matter and he gave me the facts.
When the Cornwall school was broken up it was done upon the
representations of some of the controlling members, among
them I think Mr. Everetts, for the reason that it was found
that educating Indians away from their people educated them
out of sympathy with their people and they were unfitted for
the proper missionary work of civilizing their people. But
this old gentleman told me that the declaration of this com-
mittee or board was not the true reason; that the young Indian

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men carried off some of the best girls of that section, and
it was prejudice against intermarriage that did the mischief.
Thereafter I felt better and have been able to answer that
line of argument and to urge that Cornwall was really a great
success, because of the very fact that it brought about real
true brotherhood. I am in favor of intermarriages. Three
weeks ago I had Mr. Frederick Douglass and his wife as guests.
Mr. Douglass gave us one of the most eloquent addresses that
I ever listened to.

You are undoubtedly correct in regard to the influences
of that school upon yourself and your friends and in order to
bring about proper fraternal relations we must multiply such
influences. To my mind it will not do for the church to belie
its own principles and doctrines. God is very gracious and
patient with us, but in the end He is sure to have His own way.
It would be better for us and better for those for whom we
labor to accept of His way in the beginning. If you could be
here in my place and look out over the whole field as it comes
into view from my standpoint, you would surely say, liberty,
equality, fraternity, Christianity, in their entirety, are the
only cures, the only hope.

I take the liberty to send you some of my literature.

Enclosures,

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May 9, 1893.

Mrs. Maggie Belt,
Assistant Teacher,
Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

My dear Friend:

I got your letter and should have answered you before, but I have been going to and fro and have been extremely busy, so that many letters have accumulated on my hands.

I am always so glad to hear of your success, Maggie, and you have been doing wonderfully well since you left Carlisle. It was a great pleasure for me to see your large school and the good order and interest of your pupils. I have felt all along anxious to help you, but unfortunately I am poor and friends are not so numerous as they used to be. There have been so many schemes, societies, and so on, organized to help the Indians,--some of them I fear to help the whites more.

We are expecting to be in Chicago, most all of us, in
October.

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May 9, 1893.

Fred Big Horse,

Rosebud Agency, S. D.

My dear Fred:

I have had your letter before me for some time
and have intended to write you but I have been running down to
Washington and attending to affairs and been so busy that many
letters have remained unanswered.

It did me good to get your cordial letter and to feel
that you appreciated the influences of Carlisle.

You ask me to tell you the quickest way for the Indians
of the reservation to become citizens. I will name you the
very quickest: let them move right out from the agency among
citizens, locate here and there, settle down, determine to be
the equal of the white man and to contend for all the neces-
saries and the good things of life with the white man; this is
the very quickest way I know and I think it the best way.
You ask me what is the slowest way. I say, stick to your
reservations, hang together, demand rations and support from
the Government, and you probably never will be citizens.

You ask me what the Dawes Bill is. That is almost too
long. Better write the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and
ask him to send you a copy of it and then study it. The Dawes

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Bill authorizes the Indians of any reservation to accept
lands in severalty at once and to settle down and become like
other people, except that the Government requires that their
final deeds for the land shall not be given them for 25 years,
and at the expiration of 25 years, if they have shown them-
selves capable, then they shall have the full deeds and full
rights and liberty as citizens, but if they have not exhibited
that ability, then the President shall put off the day of
their having this full deed another ten years. You could
probably get a copy of the bill from the Agent, unfortunately
I have not one to spare or I would send you one.

I congratulate you on being a farmer and trust that you
may be so industrious and faithful that you may hold to your
place and grow and become a power and help to your people.

We all join in sending you most cordial greetings.

Faithfully your friend,

Capt. & Supt.

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May 10, 1893.

To the President,

Executive Mansion,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

The situation is pressing upon me along the civil
service lines which I wished to talk to you about, as I men-
tioned on Saturday.

I have been here nearly fourteen years. This school is
my own creation. All the other schools of any importance are
more or less indebted to Carlisle for their origin, in that it
has led the way and established confidence. About ninety
thousand dollars have been given to me by friends and invested
in buildings and improvements, including a farm costing twenty
thousand dollars. I have had from the beginning, with very
slight interruption, the power to select my own employés, and
believe that I have had as good a civil service as the Civil
Service Commission could possibly give, inasmuch as it has
been entirely non-partisan and the tenure of every employé has
rested entirely upon competency. Now comes civil service to
take from me this power which has been largely my strength and

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upon which has largely hinged my success

My first experience with civil service was trying to get
one of my Indian girls before the Board. She was wanted by
the Agent as a teacher at Pine Ridge Agency July 1st, 1892.
I wrote for the necessary instructions in April, 1892, and was
informed that applicants for that district would be examined
at Aberdeen, S. D., the following November, nearly five months
after she was wanted and seven months from the time of the ap-
plication. That, of course, ended the matter; she could not
undertake the expense on such uncertainties nor could the A-
gent wait. I next wanted a teacher here for September, 1892,
and wrote July 11th and thereafter telegraphed four times, and
it was October, more than a month after school opened, before
a list of eligibles was referred to me. Upon the papers sent
neither of the three cited to me were such as we wanted, but
to establish my convictions I sent a competent person to look
up the personal records and characteristics of two of these
candidates, one near Albany, N. Y., and the other in north-
eastern Pennsylvania. These two had been teaching country
schools, were ordinary country school teachers, not at all
qualified for our work here, and were not wanted at home for
reasons. I asked for additional eligibles and after consid-
erable delay two more names were sent. These were inferior

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to the first. I was then authorized by the Indian Office to
employ a teacher temporarily, as the list of eligibles was
exhausted. This left me to provide for an important depart-
ment of the school late in October when every teacher of spe-
cial value had found place elsewhere. From my experience it
is safe to say that teachers not wanted at home are not wanted
in the Indian Service, and from the experience above noted and
subsequent ones, I am satisfied that very few, if any, ser-
viceable, experienced teachers undertake the civil service
examinations. The uncertainties, the delays, the expense, are
all too great.

I have always had plenty of applicants, and since civil
service rules have referred them to the Civil Service Commis-
sion. None that have impressed me favorably have been willing
to undertake the ordeal.

I have been wanting a principal teacher and three other
teachers for more than a month past. I sought out and persua-
ded a number of teachers to go before the Civil Service Board
in Washington for examination on the 11th of last month. They
did take the examinations, but on Saturday last, the 7th of
May, no names had yet been received at the Indian Office.
Those who took the examinations on the 11th of April are

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uniform in stating that they were ordered to report at 9 o'clock and did report at 9 o'clock, and were kept waiting in the hall outside the Civil Service rooms, with many others, until nearly or quite 11 o'clock, and from their statements as to the questions asked, the examination is, in some respects at least, quite incongruous.

If civil service does not give us good or better teachers and employes than we had before and if we are to be crippled by delays, it is plain that civil service is a reform that needs reforming very quickly.

I can believe that there might be under departmental management, modified civil service principles and methods that might work material improvement on past methods in many places

During all the history of this school--except for a short time during your administration when Gen. Upshaw attempted to manage it so far as appointment and removal of employes was concerned, and in two cases under the last administration--I have not been interfered with in the selection and appointment of my employes, not even by either of the several members of Congress from this district, with all of whom I have been on the best of terms.

I can see nothing but great hinderance and harm to my

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work here through placing us under civil service rules and I
write to beg that you will relieve Carlisle from the operations
of the civil service law and give me the free use of my fac-
ulties and powers in its management, as formerly.

With greatest respect,

Your obedient servant,

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

Supt.

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May 11, 1893.

Mr. A. J. Standing,

5757 Madison Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Mr. Standing:

I intend to start Chauncey from here on
Monday next, provided and providing that seems best to do at
the last moment.

I would a little rather you had made no alliance whatever
with Hampton for accommodations or anything else. Every event
of such character, however slight, ministers to our disadvant-
age. I sent you last Tuesday the scheme of Mr. Holmes for
taking care of people at what appears to be a very low rate,
and as the electric and steam cars are convenient and the fare
only five cents between the points, it seemed to me as though
that was the cheapest outlook. This will reach you in time so
that I may get answer yet this week. I have had a notion that
it would be advisable for us to have two people there but did
not wish to undertake that expense if it is unnecessary. I
could send either Miss Burgess or Miss Shaffner, and I do
think that we ought to have a good representative talker there
all the time, some one who would keep some record of passing
events, names of interested visitors, etc. Why would it not

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be well to keep a book for that purpose? My notion has been
that Miss Burgess might go up there for a month and then if
you were not ready to go back Miss Shaffner could go for a
month. The experience would be valuable for Miss Burgess and
she could represent us well and Miss Shaffner is a good talker
for us also. Mr. Holmes' scheme appears to be more promising
than Lincoln Camp that I asked you to look up.

I will attend to the samples of tinware. Sorry to hear
yesterday from Mrs. Standing and today by your letter of your
illness. It is too bad that you should be persecuted so.

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May 10, 1893.

Sergt. Wm. C. B. Girton,

Co. "I" 16th Infantry,

Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah.

My dear William:

Nellie left us at 3.50 today, ticketed to
Salt Lake via St. Louis, as I telegraphed you.

You sent me $35.00 and $21.00. I got her ticket for $51.00. She had a little money of her own, so that she left us with between eight and nine dollars in her pocket and a lunch sufficient to last her through. Frank Tourewy and John Wasero, going home to Laguna, will go as far as St. Louis with her. I think she will have no trouble in getting through to Salt Lake all right. I trust you will write me at once on her safe arrival, for I shall be anxious to know.

Faithfully your Friend,

Capt. & Supt.

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May 12th 1893.

Edward Marsden,

Marietta College,

Marietta, Ohio.

My dear Edward:

There has been a change in our plans for the Chicago Exposition. I have, as you perhaps know, installed a full expose of our work in the Liberal Arts Building, and I solicited the authorities in Washington to make an allowance from the appropriation made by Congress to cover this. The question then came up of the expense of our July trip, and it was discovered that the building in Chicago was a month behind and if I would pass out the other schools who had been arranged for would have their full time and in that case they would let me have the money which I would have used to take our school there to pay for this exhibit. Our teachers, as well as myself, have all dreaded the exhibit of our children for many reasons, it would spoil them, wear out the teachers and it could not under any possibility be made a fair showing of Carlisle School work as the building is only large enough for thirty pupils, barely able, really, to accomadate the band. I therefore very cheerfully consented to withdraw from my part of the exposition in July and so received the allowance.

My plan now is to take the whole school, or the greater part of it, all who are able to pay ten dollars, and most of them will

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be able to afford it, - to Chicago for one week the latter part of
September or the early part of October. I expect to have the band
there for a longer period. I told Dennison to write you this some
time ago but I now find he has failed to do so. Now we want you
to come to Carlisle, make your home with us and go to Chicago when
we go. We shall be glad to have you give us the lecture on June
17th and it may be that we can get slides so as to have your talk
on astronomy. Does not the college have the slides and could we
not borrow them, - I would be responsible for them. You can of
course have any time you want when we are in Chicago. I neglected
to say that I do not intend to have the members of the band pay
the ten dollars, but all others, the pupils and officers of the
school.

Cordially yours,

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Rev. Robert de Schweinitz,
Bethlehem, Pa.

Dear Sir;

I have yours enclosing check for $228.50 and enclose
herewith receipts for the same. I am obliged to you for the
remittance.

May 12th 1893.

Received of Rev. Robert de Schweinitz One Hundred Dollars,
covering care and schooling of two Alaskan Indian boys, David Skuviuk
and George Nocochluke, from January 1st to May 8th 1893.

$100.00.

Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., May 12th 1893.

Received of Rev. Robert de Schweinitz, One Hundred and Twenty
Eight Dollars and Fifty Cents covering R. R. Tickets for two Alaskan
Indian boys, David Skuviuk and George Nocochluke, Carlisle to
San Francisco and money advanced to them for incidental expenses.

$128.50.

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May 22nd 1893.

Malcolm Clarke,

Pawnee Agency, O. T.

My dear Malcolm:

I received your letter today with great pleasure. I have
wondered from time to time how you and your good aunt were getting
on. I am very glad indeed to know of the progress you are making
in allotting lands to the Pawnees.

Your expressions of gratitude are refreshing. I have so much
of the contrary sort that when I do feel that there is really grati-
tude on the part of an individual student it gives new brightness
to the day.

The time spent with your aunt will do a world of good to you
in many ways, enlarging you and preparing you to become a man of
affairs. We shall all be glad to see you back here in September
and Dickinson will be ready to welcome you.

Things plo'd along with us about as usual. We have 363 boys
and girls out in the country and another car load or two will go in
a few days.

With cordial greetings to your aunt,

Dictated.

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May 22nd 1893.

President Julius D. Dreher.

Grand Hôtel,

New York.

My dear Dreher:

I will make a special effort and see no reason now why I should not be at your commencement, except the one of funds. I am continually straightened in expense in going around and doing my own work. Do you know of any method of getting transportation?

Fraternally yours,

Dietsted.

May 23rd 1893.

J. Churchill,

1111 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia.

Dear Sir:

I have yours of the 22nd and in reply I have to tell you that so many of our pupils have gone out to the country for the summer that it does not seem best to undertake any more entertainments for this year.

Supp. to.

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May 25th 1893.

Chas. F. Ashley, U. S. Indian Agent,
Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency,
Darlington, O. T.

Dear Sir:

Since receiving your letter I have read the article referred to in yours of the 13th for the first time and feel mortified that such expressions should have gone into our little paper. It was unnecessary that it should have been so pointed or offensive but as it is it does not necessarily point to any agency. The Mennonite Mission School is not mentioned nor are there grounds, as I read it, for it to be taken up as a personal matter. You have been with us so much in all of our correspondence, though I have never met you, that I feel especially sorry that anything should have happened to have disturbed your kindly feeling.

Dictated.

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May 25th 1893.

Edward Marsden,

Marietta College,

Marietta, Ohio.

Dear Edward:

The law school does not continue in session during the summer vacation and I know of no lawyer in Carlisle who gives lessons, but it is practicable for you to take up a line of reading that would help you and that is about all that it amounts to anyhow. My notion would be that you might still further improve your printing abilities and perhaps take up some general book on law that would give you all that you need and work on that in your off hours. However you can work that out to suit yourself.

I had a pleasant talk with Gen. Eaton on the boat going to Mt. Vernon with the General Assembly last week. He spoke warmly of his interest in you and expressed great pleasure that you were going to be with us again.

Dictated.

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May 25th 1893.

Miss Anna C. Hamilton,
Greensburg, Indiana.

Dear Miss Hamilton:

Before your note was received I had made arrangements
to consolidate several departments so as to take care of the
normal room through June and also one other and perhaps two
other rooms, so that inasmuch as you had started out to give
yourself entire rest until the beginning of the new fiscal
year and these changes can be made just as well as not, I
think it better for you to make assurance doubly sure by
continuing your rest through the whole period intended. We
are quite reduced in our class rooms throughout the school now
having only 357 students present and about fifty of these will
go out at the close of the month.

You can come to us as you propose the first of July and
we can use you at light work through July and August, or if you
choose you can continue your rest through July and August.

We shall have radical changes next year. Prof. Bakeless
of the State Normal School at Bloomsburg, has accepted the
position of Principal Teacher and I am hopeful that his services
with us will be most profitable. Miss Phillips thinks her-
self able to undertake her work again and in view of her long

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service I will give her the opportunity. Miss Merritt leaves.
Miss Cory has left and Miss Hunt leaves, requiring us to fill
a number of vacancies in the teaching force, besides other
changes. Mrs. Sage has just signified to me her intention
of resigning.

Dictated.

May 25th 1893.

Alfred Jones, Secretary, etc.,

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:

I take pleasure in certifying to the most excellent
character of Miss Helen A. Lord, who has been an employé of
this school for the past two years, and also in certifying to
her splendid health. Miss Lord is a graduate of Smith College.

Dictated.

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

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Personal.

May 26th 1893.

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

Dear Sir:

You started out by giving me round trip tickets to Chicago for some of my people at $16.00 and for my last tickets you charged $22.00. I desired to send by your route and paid the increased amount, but as I had a rate only slightly in advance of your first rate of $16.00 by another line I suggest if practicable you let the first rate stand.

Dictated.

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May 26th 1893.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,

My dear Mrs. Cook:

Mrs. Pratt gave me your letter to her when it arriv-
ed some time ago and I have been unable to answer it because
of the turmoil I am in on account of Civil Service. Civil
Service has not helped in the matter of employes; it has worst-
ed. All my teachers and all my matrons have to come through
Civil Service and these are the only positions I had thought
of for you. There is nothing really within my control that
I can offer you. I am very sorry.

Dictated.

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May 26th 1893.

Maj. John Simpson, Q. M., U. S. A.,
1428 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Sir:

I have placed the three blank proposals as follows:
One with Frank E. Thompson, Carlisle, Pa., one with R. P.
Henderson, Carlisle, Pa., and one with Wm. B. Bretz, Carlisle,
Pa., and have posted the circular to bidders conspicuously in
the town of Carlisle.

Dictated.

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May 26th 1893.

Frank A. Fry, Secretary,

Perry County Agriculture Society,
Newport, Pa.

Dear Sir:

The going out for entertainments such as you propose
for our band has proved so destructive to the school interests
of the boys that I have had to limit and almost cut them off.
I should be glad if I could arrange to let them go frequently
for it would be a good thing for the cause, but their school
interests will not permit.

Yours truly,

Dictated.

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May 26th 1893.

Mr. R. C. Ogden,

Grand Depot,
Philadelphia.

My dear Mr. Ogden:

Sometime ago I wrote to you about one of our girls entering your millinery department for the vacation for the purpose of learning something of that art. You indicated that while the chances were against it was possible that it might be brought about and advised me to renew the correspondence when the time approached. She is an exceedingly bright and capable girl for any race, is three fourths white and it would scarcely be apprehended by anyone that she was an Indian. I think I could arrange to find a boarding place for her with one of our patrons and I am very anxious for her to have the opportunity. Of course as it is teaching we are after I would not expect her to receive any pay and I believe she would not be without value to you from the start for she has excellent taste. She could come to you any time after the first of June and would want to remain until about the 15th of September. She would then return to the school and

graduate in February. 1e

Trusting that you may be able to give this matter a favorable consideration, I am,

Dictated.

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May 26th 1893.

Mr. D. U. Betts,

Pyramid Lake Indian School,
Wadsworth, Nevada.

Dear Mr. Betts:

I am glad to get your letter and to hear of the good
fishing. Whether I ever succeed in reaching your locality or
not I shall have it constantly in mind and have no end of
desire to do so. Just what the summer may have in store for
me I am not now able to say. Of course the Chicago Exposition
our part in it and the plan to take the whole school there in
October will occupy something of my time but I do intend to
give myself a little outing and to take it in a business way
by looking up parties of children for the school. The Utes
of Colorado is one field I have been asked to work, Blackfeet
and some others in Montana and the Apaches of Arizona are all
making demands upon us.

Please thank Capt. Warner and Supt. Phipps for their
invitation and assure them of my desires, and if I may say, my
anticipations. I have landed a bass weighing 26 1/2 pounds
with a reel: now if I can land a trout weighing 18 pounds in
the same way I shall think myself a good disciple of Isaac
Walton.

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May 29th 1893.

Miss Lily Wind,

54 Church Street,
Hartford, Conn.

My dear Lily:

Your photographs have reached me safely and I am particularly pleased with the one in which you are standing and have sent it forward to be placed with other photographs in our exhibit at the World's Fair. The other picture I shall keep for myself. I feel proud of my nurse girls and I like to have their pictures where I can look into their faces once in a while.

Mrs. Pratt is now at Chicago for a few weeks. Yesterday I had all my grandchildren- there are five now- with me and we had a happy day together.

With my best wishes for you always,

Your friend,

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May 29th 1898.

Benjamin F. Oden,
L. B. 103,

Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Dear Sirs

In reply to your note of the 24th you will be able
to obtain moccasins by applying to the Indian Traders at
Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, or Darlington, Indian Territory

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Personal.

May 29th 1893.

Rev. J. O. Methvin,

Anadarko, O. T.

My dear Methvin:

I know there is a great deal of apprehension in regard to
the immediate future: I have shared the feeling but my intercourse
so far with the people at headquarters has been such as to quiet
my apprehensions in a great measure. There will undoubtedly be a
great reaction along educational lines. I have no doubt that the
persistancy and influence of the Catholics will enable them to
increase their forces in the Indian service. It may be that we
will fare better in administration that pretends nothing than
we did in one that pretended a great deal. Morgan, notwithstanding
what he said to the contrary, increased the Catholic appropriation
for their schools more than $150,000.00 per year during his term
of office. I anticipate that there will be more of the laxity than
of aggressive opposition. I do not really feel well acquainted with
Mr. Browning and cannot find out much about him. He has been
pleasant to me and his expressions have been along progressive lines.
I am inclined to think that Armstrong's tendencies are in the
direction we all apprehend but that he is not an active Catholic.
The battle is undoubtedly to come sometime, just when and how we
cannot foresee. We must simply move on doing the best we can. I am
sorry I cannot be more explicit but I cannot.

Very truly yours,

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May 31st 1893.

Edward Pierce,
218 Spring Street,
New York.

Dear Sir:

I have yours of the 25th and would be glad to have
you write me further in regard to the Canadian children, please
tell me from just what points these children come and all
that you may know about them. The question of these children
being Canadian Indians came up when they came here but the
contrary was asserted.

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

Sup t.

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May 31st 1893.

Miss E. L. Fisher,

Indian School,

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

My dear Miss Fisher:

Your note enclosing Annie's letter but corroborated what I had previously heard about Henry. It is a sad story but taken all in all I do not see how we could expect much else: the people are weak and their temptations are great.

Annie's letter is herewith returned.

1 enclosure.

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May 31st 1893.

Chauncey Y. Robe,
% Miss Folsom,
The Manitou,
Cor. 56th St., & Lexington Ave.,
Chicago, Illinois.

My dear Chauncey:

I am very much pleased to hear that you got through
with your speech so well and that you are enjoying your stay
at Chicago. You have an opportunity now not only to enlarge
yourself in seeing the wonderful collection of exhibits from
all over the world but of enlarging people's ideas in regard
to Indians. Talk to those who come to see our exhibit and
give them common sense ideas in regard to your people.

All moves on with us here about as usual. We have been
having some very pleasant weather and the boys have been hav-
ing very exciting games of base-ball, yesterday they played
at Chambersburg coming off in the game in the morning with
a score of 13 to 0 in favor of our team and in the game in the
afternoon 3 to 4 in favor of Chambersburg.

We are continuing to grow smaller in numbers: thirty-two
girls and three boys left for the country this morning.

Give my kind regards to Miss Folsom and with best wishes
for you, I am,

Your friend,

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May 31st 1893.

My dear Professor:

Did you tell Mr. Drum and Mr. Deavor to notify the Civil Service Commission of their willingness to accept of appointments in any of the four districts? If you did I can handle them through the Indian Office, if not and they do not move quickly I must make other selections. Dictated.

Very truly yours,

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June 1st 1893.

To the Adjutant General U. S. Army,
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 Sept. 6th, all 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,

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

Sup. to.

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June 1st 1893.

To the Adjutant,

10th U. S. Cav'y.,

Fort Custer, Montana.

Sir:

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

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

June 1st 1893.

Major John Simpson, Q.M., U.S.A.,

Quartermaster's Dept., U.S.A.,

1428 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Sir:

Hereewith enclosed please find Forage Requisition in duplicate for my two private horses for the month of June, 1893.

Very respectfully

2 Enclosures.

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

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June 15, 1893.

Mr. J. O. Daggett,
Employment Manager
Grand Depot, Phila.,

My dear sir:

Miss Ida Warren who presents this letter
is the young Indian woman, who desires instruction in Millinery
and about whom I have had correspondence with Mr. Ogden. She
is an excellent person, and it affords me no little pleasure
that your establishment is willing to open to her the excep-
tional advantages which you possess.

My friend, the Rev. Dr. Lippincott, of Broad and Arch Meth-
odist Church has kindly secured the espoirage of one of his
members, Mrs Emma A Burns, who suggest that Mr. Wanamaker's Ho-
tel on North Broad Street will be the best place for her to
board.

Believing, my dear sir, that you, yourself will also do what
you can to place her in right lines, I am,

Very sincerely yours

Capt. & Supt.

Enclosed find copy of Mr. Ogden's letter.

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June 15, 1893.

Mrs Emma A Burns,
Grand Depot, Phila.,

Dear Madam:

I am most grateful, personally, for your
kindness in undertaking to look after and get Miss Warren es-
tablished. It is a most valuable service.

Ida is a good girl for whom we hope much. She wishes a
vocation and has elected to become a Milliner. It is most for-
tunate that she can be instructed in such a large place, un-
der such exceptional auspices.

In order that you may understand the situation I en-
close a copy of Mr. Ogden's letter

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June 22nd 1893.

White Calf,

Piegan, Montana.

My dear Friend:

I was pleased to receive your letter telling that you are all getting on well and that you are cultivating your land and building homes for yourselves. That is what the Indians will have to do now. Work and make homes for themselves. That is the only course for them to take in order to progress and be happy.

I should be glad to send you some expression of my good feeling towards you but I have no beacons to send you, and besides the cost of sending one so long a distance would amount to more than it was worth. I advise you to buy yourself one at your home.

We are getting on well here at Carlisle. Many of our students are out in country homes for the summer.

With best wishes for you,

Your friend,

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June 22nd 1893.

Capt. George Lekoy Brown,
Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.

My dear Capt. Brown:

Between the time of your writing on the 17th and the receipt of your letter the papers announce that Penny is detailed at Pine Ridge again. This whole move of transferring to the army is looked upon as a Catholic victory. I tried when in Washington to get at some facts in regard to your difficulties and found that while you personally were esteemed to be all right, your clerk was looked upon with great suspicion. He would not stand a ghost of a show for appointment except for your holding on to him he would have been out of the service. I did not get into details but enough to show that he was esteemed of doubtful integrity. I do not know of course what your correspondence with the office has been nor what may have led to this action, but from what you say and what was said in Washington I think you can largely attribute your release to Conner's management of your affairs. If Conner stands well with Armstrong then there is a curious state of affairs. Just now Armstrong is running everything. I anticipate that radical changes in present conditions will take place in the course of a few months, certainly the Commissioner cannot afford to let things go on as they have been

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going on: he must take the hit in his own teeth. We are greatly hampered and annoyed by a multiplicity of petty and interferring orders; just what they all may mean I do not know. The Commissioner seems especially kind and friendly and quite judicial in his methods. Armstrong seems friendly enough but listens to no explanations or systems. I tried several times to have conferences with him, but immediately he launched out to tell and show what he knows about Indians and this and that feature of their management. At the Interior Office the other day I was told that if Armstrong approved a certain thing they would grant it from there. I asked if I could get Mr. Brown-ing's approval would it do, they had to admit that it would.

I am so glad to hear of the improvement in your father's condition. My little visit to "The Soo" has made me hungry for another but I would want to stay long enough to catch some big trout.

Please make my kindest remembrances to your father and sister, and believe me as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

dictated.

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June 26th 1893.

Lieut. Thunder Bull,

My dear Friend:

I have your letter of the 18th and am pleased to know
that you think so much of Carlisle. I have not forgotten your help
when I was getting pupils for this school and am glad to send you
in remembrance a small gift for the fourth of July. I suppose you
wish to make lots of noise on the fourth and so send you herewith
one dollar with which you can get a quantity of fire-crackers. I
hope this may help you to keep loyal to the United States.

All goes well with us here at Carlisle, many of our pupils are
out in the country for the summer with white families learning many
things which they could not learn here in this large school. They
to do
learn to speak better English and all kinds of farm work.

Next week we send several pupils home to Dakota and shall
hope to have some of them return and new pupils come with them in
the fall.

With kind remembrances to all my friends at Pine Ridge and
good wishes for you,

Your friend,

I enclose.

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Richard Davis,

Paunee Agency, Oklahoma.

My Dear Richard:--

I am glad to hear that you arrived safely, and that
the children and Nannie enjoyed the trip. It will be a good
experience for you, and will do you no end of good, and will
enable you to determine about matters which we talked over.

Paul is doing very well indeed with the cows, so
far as I can see. There is a proposition of the Y. M. C. A.
to send him to Northfield soon. I do not know how it has
been settled, but if he goes some other boy will have to take
his place for ten days or more.

We are starting about eighty of the pupils home on
Tuesday week, July 4th.

Elsie seems to drop lower and lower in her health.
She was quite restless and without sleep last night. Coughed
nearly all night.

All goes as usual at the school. Dr. Dixon has
been transferred to Haskell, and will leave on Wednesday, for
that place. I am thinking seriously of having an Indian
physician, Dr. Carlos Montezuma. You may remember something
about him.

Richard Davis------2.

Can't you give us a good letter each week for the
Helper ? Tell us how things are going at the Agencies, and
what Oklahoma amounts to as you see it.

My love to Nannie and the children.

Cordially, your friend,

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July 1st, 1893.

To the Adjutant,

10th U. S. Cav'y.,

Fort Custar, Montana.

Sir --

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

Major John Simpson, Q. M., U. S. A.,
July 1st, 1893.

Quartermaster's Dept., U. S. A.,

1428 Arch st., Phila., Pa.

Sir --

Hereewith enclosed please find Forage Requisition in duplicate for my two private horses for the month of July, 1893

Very respectfully,

2 enclosures.

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To the Adjutant-General, U. S. Army,
Washington, D. C.

Sir. --

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

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

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July 5th, 1893.

Capt. Hugh G. Brown, 12th Infantry,

Indian Agent, Anadarko, Ind. Ty.

Dear Sir:--

Mr. W. C. Shelley, who hands you this, has been chief of the Depredations Division of the Indian Office for several years, and also Special Attorney for defence of Indians against depredation claimants. I know that he is in good standing at the Attorney General and Indian Offices, and take pleasure in commending him to you as worthy of your confidence.

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July 5th, 1893.

Chauncey Y. Robe,

cr. Miss Folsom,

The Manitou, Cor. 56th st. & Lexington Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

My Dear Chauncey:--

I have your letter asking to have some money sent you, and accordingly send you my check for $15.00, and if you need more later on let me know.

Your other letter telling me about your experiences at the Fair reached me last week, and I was very glad indeed to hear from you. I have been very busy for a week or so getting the home parties off, or I would have answered your letter before. You have an excellent chance, my boy, for seeing this great Fair, and I have no doubt, from what you tell me, that you appreciate the fact, and are improving fully your opportunities.

All goes well with us here. You will find some changes among us when you return, however. Dr. Dixon and his family have left us and gone to Haskell Inst. The Doctor was transferred at his own request to be the school physician there. We are to have an Indian physician soon, Dr. Carlos Montezuma, who you may remember was here some years ago, when a medical student. As you may have learned from the Helper, several of our lady teachers have

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left us, Miss Hunt, Miss Merritt, and others, and we are to try
some gentlemen in the schools next year. The home parties left
us on Tuesday and yesterday for the West, some by way of the
Penna. R. R., and some by the Phila. & Reading R. R. Now that the
home people are off, and the country pupils placed for the summer,
we are about down to low-water mark here; only 177 reported
present for this morning.

Take good care of yourself and our exhibit. I am sure
you are doing us good there.

July 6th, 1893.

John Wenamaker,

Phila., Penna.

Dear Sirs--

I return your statements and bill for $31.50 for pur-
chases during April and May. I enclose my check for $2.81 in
payment of the portion of the bill for May. As Mrs. Pratt is
away from home and has been for some time, and I find no account
of the $28.69 rendered for April, please explain the same by an
have
itemized bill. Am sorry to troubled you with a second statement
of the matter, but by some oversight it has been overlooked.

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Personal,

July 11th, 1893.

Hon. D. M. Browning
Comdr. of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:--

I thought it would gratify you to read the enclosed somewhat personal letter from Miss Shaffner, who has charge of our exhibit in Chicago, by which you will see that it is doing its work, and that we made no mistake in placing it. I have frequent calls for reports, and evidences of interest from both our own and foreign educators.

The President was kind enough to send me an extract copy of the reply of the Civil Service Commission to my letter, and opened the way for me to make a further statement. With additional experience, I can make a much stronger case, and will send you a copy of both the Commissioner's letter and my reply, some time soon. I am waiting a little for information which I deem important, showing that there is a well organized system of coaching candidates, and from the fact that the coaching is done through the mails from Washington, and that somehow candidates generally find out about these special means to help them pass, I am led to believe that there is a collusion of examiners in the system, in some way. I have some pointed facts already. Such a

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July 14th, 1893.

A. J. Davis, A. M., L. L. D.,

Prin. Normal School,

Clarion, Pa.

My Dear Sirs:

I once gave my influence and joined heartily in recommending a man to be the Commissioner of Indian Affairs who was appointed and so took position over me. Unfortunately, he and I did not agree on many points, and afterwards I was constantly regretting the part I had taken in forwarding his claims. It is hardly a consistent thing for me to do, as the appointee would possibly feel under obligations, and I might possibly feel that I had special claims, if my influence was worth anything in securing the appointment. Therefore I have told several of my friends, who have asked for my help, that I did not think it would be right for me to join in helping secure the appointment of any one in the Service over me. I have already refused to help a man who has had long experience, and is quite capable of filling the place well. It does not seem as if it would be right, therefore, for me to help you.

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July 14th, 1893.

Miss Annie Thomas,

cr. Miss E. L. Fisher,

Indian School, Albuquerque, N. M.

My Dear Anniw:--

While you are at Chicago, why not run down and make a
little visit to us at Carlisle? I can arrange it so that it will
not cost you more than $18.00 for fare and we shall all be so
glad to see you. I would like to talk over many things with you.
I should be glad to hear from you after your visit to Laguna and
Acoma.

It is too bad that the Albuquerque Superintendent is so
jealous of Carlisle, but that seems to be our fate. Every other
Indian School is suffering the pangs of envy and jealousy. We con-
tribute largely to their success by sending out our best pupils to
them all the time, and yet it makes no difference. They will not
exert a single effort in our behalf in getting children. We must
go outside of the schools for our supply of pupils.

Why not you yourself study medicine? How is your health
now? Is it good? If so, there is no good reason why you may not
become a physician if you have ambitions that way. We are tak-
ing Carlos Montezuma as our school physician. You remember he is
an Apache. Was with us on our trip to Philadelphia and New York

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some years ago, when we gave entertainments in the Academies of
Music in those cities. Dr. Dixon has gone to Haskell.

I hope you will think well of a visit to us here at
Carlisle.

Faithfully, your friend,

July 14th, 1893.

H. Emilie Groce,

Lansdown, Penna.

Dear Madam:--

What I may have said in regard to your school was not
personal to yourself or to the management of the school, but was
personal to the students. It was the quality of the associates
that I criticised, if anything, and I did this entirely through
the representations made by my trusted Agent, who looked the matter
up for me, who is herself an exceptional teacher and capable of
judging. Of course there was not anything personal to you, nor
could there have been, so far as we knew.

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July 15th, 1893.

Capt. Thos. Sharpe, U. S. A.,

Indian Agent, Tongue River Agency,

Lane Deer, Montana.

My Dear Capt:--

I have found in my appeals to Congress that when I could
get the matter fairly and squarely before the committee by the
personal interest of even one member, it was not difficult to get
anything that should be given by Congress. Our Congress is lib-
eral and, in my experience, is full of good, common-sense men.
The great difficulty is in having the objects we seek to advance
go before them in a tabulated form with a great many others in the
same line, and with nobody to give special personal attention to
it, and probably an Indian Commissioner who is whipped out on a
great many points before the fight begins. Your judgment, gov-
erned by such long experience as you have had, should be the
guiding power for the charge over which you are placed, and I
believe that if you state the case clearly and frankly to the
Department, and get it, through the Department, into the book of
estimates, and then can, in some way, manage to get some person
or persons of the committee in charge in the House to give it
their personal attention, you will have no difficulty. You can
count on me to do anything that I may be able to do, indirectly
though it may be, in the matter, but I would first consider the

Capt. Sharp----2.

situation and determine just what I thought ought to be done--of
course making it as easy as possible, i.e., not have it disturb
the frontier settlers too much, and then I should be insistent
about it until accomplished. It is unfortunate for the whole
Indian Service that there will probably be an entire new Indian
Committee in the House, and there is where our Indian Bills must
originate.

It will be claimed and go against you somewhat, that
the Northern Cheyennes are renegades from their rights in other
localities. They could have located in the Indian Territory, and
under the Sioux Treaty, they have rights among the Sioux. (See
Art. 2 of their Treaty of 1868.)

These poor Northern Cheyennes are to be congratulated
that they have at last some one detailed to care for them who
is not entirely ignorant of their rights and needs, and it would
be a pleasure to me to second you in any way that I may be able.

Mrs. Pratt joins me in kindest regards and the assurance
that, if duty or pleasure leads you this way at any time, we shall
be delighted to see you at our home here.

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476

July 17th, 1893.

Richard Davis,

Darlington, Oklahoma.

My Dear Richard;--

Dear Elsie died yesterday at half past two o'clock, just
before church. She went quietly to sleep, apparently free from
pain and anxiety. We have just laid her away in the little
burying ground. All who were present marched down. The services
were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Marshall, a Presbyterian minister
who has been in the Mission work in the West for the past nine
years, and comes here now as a teacher.

I know you and all her relatives will have great sorrow.
Feel assured, dear Richard, that we all join with you in it.
Elsie had many loving friends at Carlisle,

Faithfully, your friend,

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July 22nd, 1893.

Mrs. J. W. Sanford,

Rutherford, N. J.

Dear Madam:-

In reply to your letter of some weeks ago, inquiring
about some Indian word, suitable as the name of the island you men-
tion, I suggest the following Sioux word, meaning peaceful,
Wah lē-bā-nah. I am sorry that I have been so delayed in answer-
ing your request, but at the time your letter came, various
matters of great importance here demanded my close attention. A
further cause for delay was the fact that we have so few pupils
present at the school now (a large number being out in country
homes for the summer) and it was quite hard to obtain from the
students here the information wanted.

After some little inquiry, I find the word I have sug-
gested probably the most suitable. So many of the Indian words
are not euphonious and difficult of pronunciation, but I rather
like the sound of the word I send you.

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July 24th, 1893.

My Dear Arthur:--

Your full, newsy letter came to me some little time ago,
and it is too bad that I have not answered it before this. But
you know how it is with us in the offices during the vacation
months. When all the other people are having their rest, we
office people are the busiest. During the early part of the
month, I had to send off the home party, and to see about getting
some new pupils for the school next year, and this has pretty
fully occupied my attention.

I am glad to hear from your letter that you are working
hard. You are far happier when you are busy in that way, than
you would be if you were loafing around doing nothing. What you
say in regard to your crops is about the same as comes from all
over the country. The wheat crop especially is not going to be up
to the mark of other years.

All goes well with us here at Carlisle. Almost all
the ladies are away now on their vacations, and we have very few
of the pupils on the grounds too. Only about 180 to report.
The rest are of course out in the country for the summer.

We are to have quite a change next year in the school-
rooms. Instead of having all ladies as we have had hitherto,
there will be four men teachers, besides the gentleman Principal.
Dr. Dixon has left us and gone to Haskell, and we are to have an

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Indian physician with us soon, Dr. Carlos Montezuma. You may remember something about him, as he was here at the school four or five years ago, before he graduated from medical school.

I am planning to take the whole school to Chicago to the World's Fair some time in September or October. The band are to spend a month there, giving concerts for the musical committee of the fair.

Remember me kindly to the girls, and to your father,
and keep me informed occasionally of how things go with you.

Faithfully, your friend,

Arthur Johnson,

Grand River, Ind. Ty.

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July 24th, 1893.

James B. Garcia,

Sante Fe, New Mex.

Dear James:--

Your letter came to me some little time ago, and I was quite glad to hear from you. I have been very busy lately with some important matters which have occupied my attention close-ly here, or I should have answered your letter before.

We were all very very sorry to hear of Henry Kendall's death. It was a great shock to us all. We were just arranging to have him come East to go back to his college work, when the news came of his death. Henry was a good boy, and we shall all miss him. I was so sorry to hear of the way in which he was buried. It was just the old barbarous Indian custom.

Things move on well with us here at Carlisle. Of course just at this time it is vacation, and there is very little to write about. The home party of about 90 left us for their homes in the West during the early part of the month. This leaves us with very few at the school, only about 180 being present on the grounds now. The rest are all out in country homes for the summer. We are to have some men teachers with us next year, in-stead of having all ladies as before. There will be four men teaching in addition to the gentleman Principal. Dr. Dixon, who has been our school physician for three years or more, has

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left us and gone to Haskell, Lawrence, Kan., and we are to have
an Indian physician soon, Dr. Carlos Montezuma. You may remember
him, as he was here at the school some five or six years ago,
before he had graduated from his medical college.

I hope you are doing well in New Mexico, and living up
to what Carlisle taught you here.

Ever sincerely your friend,

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July 24th, 1893.

Michael Burns.

San Carlos Agency, Ariz.

My Dear Michael:--

I was very glad to get your letter of some little time
ago, and should have answered it sooner, but various matters of
much importance have occupied my attention here at the school
very closely for some weeks back. I am glad that you thought to
write to me, for I always like to hear from our old Carlisle
boys and girls. I am glad also that you are doing something
for yourself, and not loafing around like so many boys who return
from school do. You are much happier, I know, than if you were
idle.

It is so long since you left us, and so many changes
have taken place here at Carlisle in that time, that you would
hardly know the place, were you to come here now. Hardly a
building remains the same as when you were here, and a great many
new ones have been erected. You see our policy is constantly
to improve things, so that we may do better work all the time.

Along with the improvements, we have grown larger in numbers also.
Now we carry almost 800 on the rolls. A good many of these are
out in the country in Bucks County and around Philadelphia, but
still we have 500 or over present at the school during the winter.

I suppose you have taken the Indian Helper since you

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left us, and you have kept along with some of the changes which
have occurred with us. We are planning to make some radical
changes for this next year. Instead of having all lady teachers
as we have had heretofore, we shall have four men, besides the
gentleman Principal. And we are to have an Indian doctor, too.
He is a full-blood Apache, Dr. Carlos Montezuma. He is quite
a young man but very bright and has been doctor at several
of the Indian Agencies out West.

We were all very sorry to hear of the sad end of Aleamo
C. Wood. I think it was largely his own fault, however; if he had
not been in bad company, he would not have gotten into trouble.

I am glad to have the good accounts I have of you, my
boy, and hope you will always hold yourself away from bad in-
fluences. Give my regards to any old Carlisle pupils you may
see, and believe me,

Faithfully, your friend,

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July 24th, 1893.

Mrs. Solomon Chandler,

Anadarko, O. T.

Dear Nellie:--

I was very glad to get your letter, and to hear that you are getting along so nicely. I am sorry that I have not answered you before, but you know at this season of the year, there are a great many things to occupy my attention.

Things run along very smoothly and quietly with us now at Carlisle. The home party left us during the early part of the month, and we have very few left on the grounds now. Not over 190 students, and almost all of the ladies are away on their vacations. We office people are quite busy. The number off the boys and girls out in the country, make a great deal of correspondence and other work for us. Our new Principal, Prof. Bakeless, is just about to start out to visit the boys on their places, and Miss Shaffner will return the first of next week from Chicago, to visit the girls.

We are to make quite a change in the school-rooms next year. Instead of having all lady teachers as heretofore, we are to have four men teachers, besides the gentleman Principal. You will have heard through the Helper that Dr. Dixon has left us and gone to Haskell Inst. We are to have an Indian doctor in his place,

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Dr. Carlos Montezuma. You may remember something about him, as he was here at the school some four or five years ago, and accompanied us on the trip to New York, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn, when we gave the exhibitions in those cities. The Dr. will be with us some time this week.

Keep me informed of how matters go with you. My kindest regards to Solomon and all his friends, and of course to yourself.

Faithfully, your friend,

July 25th, 1893.

Mason D. Pratt,

Steelton, Penna.

Dear Mason:--

I have just returned from the ocean to find your note in regard to Mr. Felton's willingness to undertake a fishing trip. The trout season ended on the 15th. Bass are on now, but the Susquehanna is a much better place than anything we have in Cumberland Co. Peter and I have been contemplating a trip to the river below you some miles on this side. He was to make inquiries, and I have not yet seen him. If the outlook is promising, and Mr. Felton feels inclined to join us, we should be pleased to have him.

Affectionately,

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July 25th, 1893.

Sarah Petoskey,

Petoskey, Michigan.

Dear Sarah:--

I am very glad to know that you have arrived safely,
and find all so well there. I see no reason why you should not
return to Carlisle if you want to. I should like to hear from
you in regard to it towards the end of August, and if you are
still of the same mind, I will place transportation at Petoskey
for you and any other good girls and boys who may be ready to come.

July 25th, 1893.

Geo. W. Boyd, Asst. G. P. A.,

Phila. Penna.

My Dear Sir:--

I intended to see you when in Philadelphia recently, and
thank you for your favor to myself and daughter of the 18th of
July. My daughter feels herself much benefitted from the trip
from which we have just returned.

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July 25th, 1893.

William Cochran,

Laguna, New Mex.

My Dear William:--

Glad to know that you finally reached home safely. What
a time you had on the way, with the cloud-burst and the detentions!
Sorry to see that your father is sick. Hope he will soon be in
good health again. In regard to your coming back, you know I
left that entirely with you. We should be very glad to have
you come back, but you and your folks must determine that.
Should you not come back, please send the books back with some one
who does return, but I hope you will come yourself and be ready
to go with us to Chicago when we go in September, leaving here on
the 18th, and giving that week to the Exhibition.

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July 25th, 1893.

Asbury C. Clark,

Laguna, New Mex.

My Dear Asbury:--

I have your letter telling me of your safe arrival at
home. You do not mention the name of the girl who, you say, lost
her pocket-book. I should like to know this.

July 25th, 1893.

Justin Shedde,

San Carlos Agency, Ariz.

Dear Justin:--

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July 26th, 1893.

Mary Jane Wren,
Kipp, Montana.

Dear Mary:--

I had a letter from Tessa yesterday, and today yours of
the 18th comes, informing me of your safe arrival, and also that
the poor sick boy got through safely, thanks to your good care on
the way.

I had some information about the behavior of the boys
between here and Buffalo, but I did not get the names. I am
glad that you gave me Julius Brown's name. I ought to know these
things always. And also it was right for you to tell me about
Eva. I sent her home for just such conduct, while she was out
in the country. She used to behave that way at the Agency
before she came to Carlisle. I had hoped that when she got here
and had a chance, she would act differently, but it seems that
she was hardened. I shall be glad to hear from you now and then,
and wishing for you and Tessa every good, I am,

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July 26th, 1893.

Gen. C. H. Howard,

Farm, Field, & Fireside,

Times Building, Chicago, Ill.

Dear General:--

Yours of the 21st in regard to Dr. Montezuma, is received
I am perfectly willing to have him do as you request. The
Commissioner notifies me that the Dr. will arrive tomorrow. We
will then take the matter up, and I have no objections to his
trip to Chicago to deliver the paper.

July 26th, 1893.

Antoine Labeau,

Forest City, Cheyenne Agency,

So. Dak.

My Dear Sir:--

There are so many false claims, and so much corruption,
in connection with Indian Claims, that I have made it a point not
to let myself meddle with Depredation Claims in any way. I
should be glad to do you a favor, and look up the condition of your
claim, but under the circumstances, it would not be best.

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July 26th, 1893.

Paul Shattuck,

Laguna, New Mexico.

Dear Paul:--

I am glad to hear that you have at last reached home,
and that you have at once gone to work helping your father cut
his wheat.

We have concluded to go to Chicago in September instead
of in October, as was arranged when you went away. It seems
better to do it about the time the boys change in their country
homes, and when those come in who have to. I am sorry to hear
what you tell me about the boys and girls wearing Indian clothes,
but that does not matter so much as their conduct. It may be
because they have no others
that they are compelled to wear Indian clothes, but they need not
necessarily become Indians again.

We shall expect to see you back with the party that comes
with Mrs. Collins. All goes well with us here.

Faithfully, your friend,

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July 26th, 1893.

Peter C. Snow,

Winnebago Agency, Neb.

Dear Peter:--

Thanks for your letter and what you tell me about your
self. We are getting along very well here at the school. Are
planning to go to Chicago about the middle of September, and hope
that quite all the members of the school will be able to go. Each
one must be able to pay $10.00 for the trip.

You do not give me the name of your sister, and as
there is no Winnebago girl of your name here, I am unable to tell
you anything about her. The three Winnebago girls here now
are all well.

I hope that you are taking hold of the work you can
find to do out home, and that you are making a name for yourself
as well as some money.

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July 26th, 1893.

Susan Gibson,

Petoskey, Mich.

My Dear Susan:--

I am glad to know that you and Sarah got home so nicely, and to hear from both of you of your situation. It is a great thing that young Indian girls can travel so far and so quick in such safety.

In regard to your trunk, it has undoubtedly gone through to Petoskey all right, and you should go to the Agent there and identify it. If you find that it has not reached Petoskey, write me and I will see what I can do in the way of looking it up from this end of the line. It was unfortunate that you lost the check, for that will prevent you from recovering any damages in case your trunk is not found after while. Mrs. Pratt and all the family join me in sending best wishes.

Things go on with us quite well at Carlisle.

Faithfully, your friend,

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July 26th, 1893.

Chauncey Y. Robe,

The Manitou, Chicago, Ill.

Dear Chauncey:--

I got yours of the 16th, telling me of the safe arrival
of the money, &c. I have just been away to the ocean for five
days, but the mosquitoes were so bad, and the sun was so hot, and
the reflection of it on the water was so trying, that I was not
inclined to make a long stay. Marion and Nana were with me. We
had fishing, boating, and a little fine bathing, but it was gener-
ally a most unsatisfactory resting spell. My big nose is all
pealing off. Miss Burgess started for Chicago last evening, and
we shall expect Miss Shaffner by the 30th.

Am glad that you are taking such good care of yourself.
Was afraid from what I heard, that your health was not as strong
as it ought to be. If you are careful about yourself, bathe
properly, &c., you ought to get along in Chicago as well as anyone.
Why don't you tell me something about Buffalo Bill's Indians and
the other Indians of the Ethnological Exhibit, also of the schools
that are there? Please keep me informed about these things.

Cordially, your friend,

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July 26th, 1893.

Olive Hill,

West DePere, Wis.

Dear Olive:--

I got your letter telling me of your safe arrival at home, and I am very glad. I am also glad to know that you have seen some of our boys working in the hay fields. I feel safe when I hear that our boys and girls are at work after they go home, but when I hear of their wandering around the country, I feel anxious. There is nothing special to write you about Carlisle. You must look to the Helper for general news. Miss Burgess left last evening for Chicago, where she takes charge of our exhibit, and Miss Shaffner comes home to visit the girls out in the country. We have changed our minds about the time of going to Chicago, and expect to be there about the middle of September instead of in October.

It makes me feel thankful to receive the tokens of your gratitude for what Carlisle has done for you. I trust that the little seed that has been sown here, may spring up and bear a great deal of fruit for you, and that yours may be a noble womanhood--an honor to yourself, your people, and to the school under whose care you spent several years.

Give my kindest regards to your parents, and to all the Carlisle students, and believe me,

Faithfully, your friend,

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