June 22, 1892.

Mrs Katie H. 1 1 1,
Oneida, Wis.,

Dear Madam:

Received your letter, wrote to Calsey and waited quite a long while for his answer. I suggested that he send you from his large savings, $50. He seems determined to stick to school and further his education.

He says in regard to the money, he will not send any unless it is asked for from home as he may need it to push forward his education.

Under these circumstances it seems to me he should remain just where he is.

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July 8th, 1892.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,

White Rock, Nevada.

My dear Carlos:--

I have just returned from two weeks absence in Colorado to
find your letter of June 21st.

You and I are agreed entirely in regard to the influences and
the best way out, for the young Indian. Reservations make Indians of
white men, and of course early make Indians again of young Indians,
unless they are sustained by a great deal of education and business,
such as you have. After that it is a mere question of duty and benefit.
Some may feel it to be their duty to sacrifice the benefit, and others
cling to the benefit, and think that duty is subserved thereby. In your
case and in all cases it is best to have the bird in hand. If you could
be sure of place and opportunity to make a living in the higher and
better influences in civilization, I should say do it, but until you do
see that, better cling to what you have, and save, save, save, so that
you may sustain yourself, if necessary, through the period of acquiring
practice.

The Indian Congress I don't take much stock in. The intention
is to gather a lot of old coffee-coolers together in Chicago, with
interpreters, and have them give to the world their inexperienced and
unrefined ideas of what they think should be done for the Indian. As
they will be in paint and feathers, they will attract a great deal of
attention, and possibly what they say will have weight with some.

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Indian Industrial School,

Carlisle, Pa., July 25th, 1892.

Miss Sophia Wigfall,
Abington, Pa.,

My Dear Miss Wigfall:--

I have waited to write you in reference to Flora until I had all the facts in the case, and I now desire to personally thank you for what you have done for her. Your great kindness, your patience under the most painful and trying circumstances, and your generous treatment of the unfortunate girl, call for the warmest expressions of appreciation and gratitude. I cannot tell you how deeply I regret that you have been subjected to this great trouble and annoyance, nor how fully I appreciate all you have done. In this I am joined most heartily by the people who have had some charge of her before coming here, the pastor of her church, and others.

Again thanking you most sincerely, I am,

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August 28, 1892.

W. P. Campbell,
Disciplinarian,

Sir:

You will break camp and return to the school with your
detachment and baggage to-morrow, Monday the 29inst.

You can employ a team there to help haul your goods to the
Railroad. I will notify the Railroad here of the movement
but it will be as well that you do the same at your end of the
line.

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Sept. 15, 1892.

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

Dear sir:

My Miss Ely who has had charge of our out-
ing business all these years and has had to puzzle her brain
not a little with Railroad time tables and Railroad matters
wishes to spend her leave, one month, at Pleasanton, Kansas,
and would like a round trip ticket at the very lowest rate
you can give.

I shall be personally obliged to you for the best accom-
modation you can give in this matter. Send the ticket to me
and I will remit. She wishes the ticket made good to the
end of October.

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Sept. 21, 1892.

Phebe Howell

126 North 11, St.Phila.

My dear Phebe:

I have your letter telling of your dis-
content because of the condition that surround you, and ask-
ing my advice about writing to Lillie and Nancy, &c.

Now, Phebe, your arrangement was for one year. You enter-
ed into it voluntarily; you sought the position, and not the
hospital people. It would be dishonorable in every way for
you to lack out.

You must remember you entered as a student and not as a
nurse and being an apprentice, you must necessarily, at first
do the unpleasant work; that is the rule.

You ought to be well satisfied if you are getting your
board for a year and the additional information and having it
cost you nothing. This is what you say is to be the case.
Better by all means stick; don't give up the ship. I have no
doubt but that later on you will have the chance to go out, a
plenty, and it may be you will find your income will be increa-
ed. But whether it is or not, and whether you go out or not,
I can only say to you, my school daughter, STICK.

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Sept. 29, 1882.

Nellie Robertson
Normal School
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Nellie:

I enclose you a check for $10.39, this
amount because I have the check on hand.

I am glad to know you are getting on well. I feel sure
you are in the right school for your best good, and it helps
you to think so yourself.

We are getting on as usual; we're all at the Fair in Car-
lisle, yesterday; about 4,000 school children attended, free,
ours among the number.

Cordially your friend,

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Oct. 6th 1892.

Adj. Gen. John Winfield Scott, Chief of Staff,
47 Times Building,
New York.

Dear Sir:

We arrive in Jersey City, Pennsylvania line, at 7.10
Monday morning. I am endeavoring to get the railroad company
to ferry us to 59th Street or thereabouts so that we may be
near the formation point as I understand it. I shall send one
of my men over to make arrangements to have breakfast either
at Jersey City or some point near the landing at 59th Street.

Now I am anxious that we return to one of the sections
of the trains which leaves New York at 8 P.M. Monday, so that
may be at home at 11 oclock that night. This is important as
we have much to do in preparation for our part in the Chicago
parade two weeks hence.

I trust that your aid to meet us in Jersey City will be
able to give me precise directions in this matter.

I will have the young man whom I send to New York report
to you so that he may have a full understanding whether to
attempt to march from the point of disbandment to Disbursed
Street ferry or to take the elevated to Courtland Street is a
point important to be settled.

One of the papers announces that the children are to carry
flags. I telegraphed Grand Marshal Brown asking if it would

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be possible for the authorities to provide us with flags. We
could of course return them. Please advise me about this and
any other feature which I should understand.

Our boys move well in any order, twos, fours, platoon or
battalion. If we have a clear street down 5th Avenue we shall
use company front, manouvring in the different movements as we
march. I shall not be ashamed if you place us in the midst of
the military schools.

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Oct. 17th 1892.

Mrs. M. LaFleshe Picotte,
Omaha Agency,
Thurston Co., Neb.

Dear Mrs. Picotte:

I enclose a statement from my school physician of
Paul Lovejoy's health condition and you will see from it there
is no need for anxiety about Paul. Paul has gone with three
hundred of our boys to march in the Civic Parade in Chicago
on the 20th. It is a grand thing both for our country and the
boys to have the boys take part in the Columbian celebrations,
and Paul will have larger ideas of life when he returns from
this trip.

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Oct. 17th 1892.

Miss Nellie Robertson,
State Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Nellie:

Papa has just left for Chicago with three hundred
of our boys and he was so very busy before he went away that
he left your letter for me to answer, with this message to you,
Papa says that he thinks it just well that you take up Instru-
mental music at the beginning of your next school session and
I will write to Dr. Philips about it this afternoon.

I am glad that you are enjoying your school more and more
as they days go on, and as you get better acquainted with your
school mates I am sure you will feel homesick no more.

You will see by the Indian Helper and the next Red Man
what a grand trip we had to New York and I am sure we will get
as good accounts from the Chicago expedition. The girls did
so well in New York, and we felt so proud of them. I wish you
could have been with us to see the great parade.

Papa left his love for you and I send mine also.

Your friend,

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Oct. 17th 1892.

Dr. Phillips,
State Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Dr. Phillips:

My father Capt. Pratt, has just gone to Chicago and
as he was so exceedingly busy before he went away that he was
unable to write to you himself he has asked me to do so. Nellie
Robertson has written about her music. Nellie is very anxious
to keep on with her instrumental music and Father thinks it
just as well that she begin her lessons at West Chester at the
beginning of your next session and I have just written that
she may do so. Father said that if there was any extra expense
connected with her music lessons we would gladly meet it.

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Oct. 19th 1892.

S.S. Reitzel, Esq.,
Chairman Columbian Com.

Dear Sir:

Your letter addressed to Miss Shaffner, in regard to
the scholars of this school taking part in the parade on Friday
has been referred to me for action.

After considering your program with reference to our own
arrangements for the day, we have concluded that it is not best
for us to participate in it, especially on account of the absence
of three hundred of the boys in Chicago.

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Oct. 24th 1892.

Miss Linda Richards,
Methodist Episcopal Hospital,
South Broad and Wolfe Streets,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Miss Richards:

Your letter has come in my father's absence from home
but I want to acknowledge it and thank you for your suggestions.
I have just written to Miss Whitney and Miss Nye to ask if
they would consider the position and how soon, if the arrange-
ments should prove satisfactory, they could come to us. I should
like to make the same inquiries of Miss Petronia and will do
so when I receive her address from you. I will refer your
letter and the replies I receive from Miss Whitney and Miss Nye
to my father as soon as he returns home. Father is particularly
anxious to fill this position as soon as possible and so I
regret that Miss Harl is engaged until spring.

We are delighted to know that Lillie Wind is doing so
well with you. We felt when she was here that she had ability
and we are so glad that she now has this opportunity to culti-
vate it.

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Oct. 24th 1892.

Miss Nye,
University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Miss Nye:

Owing to the resignation of our school nurse to take
a course in medicine the position of school nurse, is now vacan
and Miss Richards of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in Phila
d has suggested your name in connection with this position. We
have a hospital building on the grounds where the nurse has
room and board. The salary is sixty dollars per month. We
particularly need some one of experience and ability and I
should be glad to know if you would consider the position and
how soon you would be able to come to us should our arrange-
ments prove satisfactory. My father, Capt. Pratt, is just now
away from home but I should be glad to have an early reply, and
I will refer it to him when he returns home.

Oct. 24th 1892.

Mrs. Sara T. Kinny,
1162 Chapel Street,
New Haven, Conn.

My dear Mrs. Kinne;

Edward Mrsden leaves us today and as he will no
longer be an inmat of this school we cannot allow him the
advantage of the special rates permitted to our students.

Very truly yours,

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Oct. 25th 1892.

Miss Mattie S. Barr,
Elliot Hospital,
Manchester, N.H.

Dear Madam:

Your sister now in Philadelphia has mentioned your
name as being a suitable person for the position of nurse at
this school, now vacant, and desires that I write you in regard
to it.

The position in question is a responsible one, being in
charge of the school hospital under a resident physician, and
requires a good deal of vigilance, tact and judgement, with
ability to act in ordinary cases during temporary absences of
physician.

The compensation is $60.00 per month with room and board.

If you entertain the idea, write fully in regard to your
qualifications and the earliest date you could come to look
the ground over or enter on temporary duty. I would also like to
be informed fully in regard to your physical ability and
general health as well your experience in hospital work.

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Oct. 25th 1892.

Miss Mary E. Barr,
Philadelphia.

Dear Madam:

Your letter of the 23rd to hand duly, and I have this
morning written to your sister in regard to the nurse's posi-
tion.

Capt. Pratt is away from home just now but if it seems
that your sister has the qualifications for the position, I
think it would be much the best for her to come to Carlisle
and take temporary duty so that the matter could be tested on
her part and ours before making any permanent arrangements.

We are in need, and anxious to meet the right person. Further
action will be governed by your sister's reply.

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Oct. 25th 1892.

John Frost,
Crow Agency, Mont.

Dear Friend:

Your letter of October 17th comes to hand while Capt.
is away, but on the conditions which you mention, namely, of pay-
ing your own expenses to and from Carlisle, there will be no
objection to admitting you for the two years specified in your
letter. Come at your own convenience.

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Oct. 26th 1892.

Miss Sarah Whitney,
Boston City Hospital,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Madam:

Your letter of the 26th reaches me this morning and I am glad to reply to your inquiries.

This is a government institution occupying the once military post situated about half a mile from the town of Carlisle. Of the old post most of the buildings have been remodelled or rebuilt and a number of new buildings have been erected, among others the hospital building. We have nearly six hundred pupils here at the school and with the number of care-takers and teachers we form a pleasant community. The position of nurse is considered one of the best positions here, but also a very responsible one as I am sure I need not tell you. As nurse the salary is $720.00 per year with room and board in the hospital building with one month's leave of absence each year without loss of pay. The nurse takes entire charge of the hospital, under the direction of the doctor of course, and should be a housekeeper as well as a capable, kindly nurse, strong and healthy.

If there is any other information in regard to this matter I shall be glad to give it to you.

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Oct. 28th 1892.

O.S.Nye, M.D.,
Rutland, Pa.

Dear Madam:

Your letter has just come to me in this morning's mail. Since writing you we have had a number of applicants for the position as nurse here and we are particularly anxious to fill the position as soon as possible. However the decision rests with my father, Capt. Pratt, and upon his return I will refer your letter to him.

The position of nurse is a responsible one, as I am sure I need not explain to you, The nurse has full charge of the hospital, under the direction of a resident physician, and requires a good deal of vigilance, tact and judgement, with ability to act in ordinary cases during temporary absences of the physician. The salary is $720.00 per year with room and board in the hospital building with one month's leave of absence each year without loss of pay.

Very truly yours,

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Oct. 28th 1892.

Miss Frances Petrikin,
1934 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia.

Dear Madam:

I have allowed your letter to lay over a day or two
in order that you might have an interview with Miss Seabrooke,
formerly nurse here now resident in Philadelphia, who could
and would explain matters here fully and so render action on
both sides more satisfactory. There are several applicants
now in correspondence in regard to the place and I do not
intend to hastily fill it but will allow time necessary to
choice of applicants.

I am glad to know of you and think a good deal of Miss Richard's recommendation. If the final decision should be in your favor you will hear from me duly.

Asst. Supt. in Chg

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Oct. 28th 1892.

Dear Madam:

Your letter of the 27th inst. duly to hand and seems
to show that you have had the experience required to fill the
vacant position here.

I would like to know from you by telegraph the earliest
date at which you could report here for temporary duty, leaving
permanent arrangements for the future.

There are other applications pending, but no decision yet
reached.

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Oct. 31st 1892.

Miss Elizabeth H. Baker,
1515 Arch St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Madam:

Miss Seabrook informs me fully of her interview with
you and arrangements made for you to visit Carlisle, all of
which is satisfactory.

Now as to the time of your visit, Capt. Pratt will not be
at home until Saturday and as a final decision will rest with
him I would much rather that your visit was postponed until
that time, say Monday Nov. 7th leaving Philadelphia about 11.00
and arriving at Gettysburg Junction at 4.30 P.M. Send word if
this will suit.

The pressing need for immediate help has passed, but in
case of an agreement between Capt. and yourself I know he
would wish you to enter on duty as soon as possible.

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Oct. 31st 1892.

Mrs. Kate Adams,
4433 North 18th St.,
Nicetown, Pa.

Dear Madam:

Your letter of the 26th ins' duly to hand with testi-
monials inclosed.

In the absence of Capt. Pratt no positive action has been
taken in regard to the vacant position at the Hospital, although
a selection has practically been made.

Your application will however be brought to his notice
and action taken immediately on his return about Nov. 5th.

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Oct. 31st 1892.

Thomas Eels,
Gowanda, N.Y.

Dear Sir:

Your letter of October 28th to hand. In absence of Capt.
Pratt it comes to me for attention. I am very much surprised
to receive such a letter from you or from any one who has any
idea of what the Government is doing here. Your ought to know
better than to accept the stories of deserters who must say
something to excuse their conduct. As to the facts, every student
here has a pound of fresh beef every day and full army rations
of bread, besides vegetables, milk and the other necessaries
which go to make up a good table. We farm 500 acres of land
and nothing is sold off it, everything is used as food, as well
as the products of 70 dairy cows. You cannot find anywhere
600 better feed students or better clothed or housed than these
are here. You might know that what the Government does it
does right and without stint. If you have any doubts come here
and see for yourself.

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Oct. 31st 1892.

Lawrence Gotelat,
Mt. Vernon Barracks, Ala.

Dear Lawrence:

Your letter in regard to coming back to Carlisle has
been received. We are glad to hear from you and that you think
well of old Carlisle, but as to your coming back I cannot make
you any promise. You know that you were sent away only on
account of your health. The doctor thought that you would have
better health at Mt. Vernon than here and I certainly think
that you ought not to come back until your health is real good.
There was nothing against you in regard to your conduct. It
was only on account of your health that you left Carlisle. Sound
the winter at Mt. Vernon and do the best you can.

Your friend,

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Oct. 31st 1892.

Lieut. Abner Pickering,
2nd Infantry,
Fort Omaha, Neb.

Sir:

Your letter relative to the enlistment of Indians in your company comes to hand in the absence of Capt. Pratt and no action will be taken in regard to it until his return about the 5th of November, when you will hear from him. We have been drawn upon a good deal by similar applications and I doubt whether there are many suitable for you.

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Nov. 1st 1892.

T.J.Buford, U.S. Indian Agent,
Siletz Agency,
Oregon.

Sir:

Your letter in regard to the young man Adams comes to
hand in absence of Capt. Pratt, and by reason of having no
transportation arrangements complete from the point you
mention we would have to wait a few days, and as Capt. Pratt
will be home next week the matter will then receive his
attention.

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Nov. 3rd 1892.

Mr. C. F. Fought,
Secy. Y. M. C. A.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:

Your letter of even date in regard to a young man to
lead a Sunday afternoon Prayer Meeting at Reading comes to me
for attention.

I think you are familiar enough with the situation to know
that outside of Mr. Marsden you mention (not now here) there
is no one qualified for the duty asked.

Please so inform your Reading correspondent and oblige,

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["363", "Nov. 9th 1892.", "Jane Mark,\nRidley Park, Pa.", "My dear Jane:", "All of your brothers and sisters except David are too young for us and we have so many boys already this year that I do not see how I can take David. 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Nov. 9th 1892.

Miss Nellie Robertson,
Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Nellie:

I send you $10.00 and if that does not prove enough you can advise and I will send you more. I am thinking of making a little run down to see West Chester Normal and you in a few days.

While in Dakota I saw your uncle at his school and again when present at the morning service at the Agency which he conducted. He and his wife called upon Mrs. Pratt and myself. It was a great pleasure to met him again after ten years. I was glad to find him located in a new house and school house with the prospect of a much good school work as it is possible to do on the reservation.

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Nov. 14th 1892.

John D. Miles,
Lawrence, Kansas.

My dear Friend:

Thanks for your kind letter and its approval of my venture into the great parade in Chicago. I took three hundred and twenty of our students into the parade in New York last week before and won more applause than any other organization. Every one seems pleased with our appearance in the two parades except the Catholics who were pleased with nothing except themselves.

Mrs. Pratt and I went to Pine Ridge and spent ten days with our old friends Capt. and Mrs. Brown. I rode well over the reservation and saw most of the Indians in their homes and was greatly pleased and benefited with the trip.

What a political upheaval we have had, -President, Senate, House, all in the hands of the Democracy. If they do not do what they want to now it is entirely their own fault. So far as Indians matters are concerned I think Cleveland is as safe and progressive a man as Harrison. I think he is even broader. We have the advantage of his previous service and he is one of the most approachable men I ever knew. I reckon however that professional philanthropists and cantankerous cranks will still continue to demand the right to run the machine.

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Nov. 14th 1892.

Clarence Three Stars,
Pine Ridge Agency,
South Dakota.

Dear Clarence:

I feel very confident that in a few days I shall be able to ship clothing for your boys and girls. I have placed the matter in the hands of a friend who thinks she can raise the money to buy the articles. I shall send them to you as quickly as I can.

I remember with the greatest pleasure my visit to you and Jennie and shall always be ready to help you all I can.

With loving remembrances to you both from Mrs. Pratt and myself, I am,

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Nov. 14th 1892.

Jane Willis,
Charavotx, Mich.

My dear Jane:

Your letter requesting a copy of our Whip-poor-will
song book came duly and I have told Mrs. Campbell to send you
one.

I am very glad indeed, my school daughter, to help you to
continue to enjoy the things which pleased you when at Carlisle.

I am sorry to hear of the death of your cousin, but we must
all die.

I trust that in your present school life you may make
progress rapidly and that you may grow to be a good strong woman.

Ever your friend,

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Nov. 16th 1892.

Mrs. Mary Schanandore,
Sagolee, Wis.

Dear Madam:

I am glad to be able to send you very good reports of your son and daughters. They are all getting on well and I am pleased at the progress they are making. Lillie is in a pleasant home for this winter and I have just recently had a letter from the woman with whom she is and I will repeat what she, Mrs. Phillips, says of Lillie: "Lillie is to start to school the beginning of next month. She is an excellent girl, thoroughly trustworthy in everything. She is also very well and large and strong for her age. I want her to write and tell you how much she has learned about housework. She makes very good bread, and can cook an ordinary meal as well as I could desire. The best of it is her pride and interest in her work and her ambition to learn." I am sure you will be glad to hear this, and if Lillie keeps on she will come out well. Fda is here and doing well in her studies. Thomas is also in the country and we have good reports from him. He has written to you regularly this fall to the same address as you send with this letter and you should have received his letters. We require every student to write home at least every month and keep a strict account.

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and so in this way know that the letters have been sent to you.
Perhaps if you inquire at the post office you may be able to
trace them.

Students are privileged to return home after their term
of five years and if your children wish to return after that
time and it seems best that they should they may do so.

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Nov. 18th 1892.

Charlotte Wilson,
Abyington, Pa.
Mrs. Jno. Bochius.

My dear Charlotte:

I have read your letter and have read Miss Ely's
and then have looked into the matter, and although I think Miss
Ely was unnecessarily severe I also think that you have deserv-
ed strong language. You have not been as good and helpful
and attentive in your work as you ought to have been and I am
sorry, very sorry that you should have opened a way for any
reproof from here. The letter from Miss Ely is yours hence
I return it.

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November 26, 1892.

Capt. Le Roy Brown,

Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.

My dear Brown:

I have been quite shelved for a week and am only now able to be out a little. I think part of my trouble is due to the cold I took at Chicago and part of it to the fact that I am not as young as I used to be.

You will probably before this have received copies of the new Rules & Regulations for the Service and can yourself see the route that has to be taken in order to get rid of unworthy employes. I think after four months hence there will be less difficulty. I look upon the Rules & Regulations as quite thorough and very fair. The Civil Service rules are to be full of blunders. One of the greatest blunders is in writing entirely to provide for the return to the service of anyone who has previously passed out of it and wishes to and who has rendered good service. The Civil Service rules very largely, like the Indian Department, seem to ignore experience.

Personally I do not feel particularly bad about Cleveland's election.

November 26, 1892.

Rev. George Runciman,
Versailles, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Runciman:

I make no doubt some people have been
mislead by our system and its rewards. Our boys do earn as
high as eighteen and twenty dollars a month during the summer
vacation, and we have those who are now getting twelve to fifteen
dollars a month; the money is their own, of course. In
speaking of the matter hereafter it would be well to have people
understand just how it is with our school system. In our
shops boys first work four months without pay, after that they
get four cents for each half day's work for one year, for the
second year they get six cents, and for the third year and
after they get twelve cents, and if they work whole days they
get twice that. This is for four years work only. Inasmuch
as they get their schooling, their clothing, their board, and
all besides, this, you must admit, is exceedingly liberal,
and instead of being a subject for complaint ought to be a
subject for no little gratitude. Our boys get all they are
worth when they go out to work in the country.

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I expect to let Newton return home sometime in December, with the understanding that he will return to Carlisle after he has made a short visit.

I sympathize with you in having an enemy. Did you know that the great Dr. Deane has said that after a dozen friends the best thing a man can have is one good enemy? Yours is old Van and mine is Catholicism, and they worry us along exactly the same lines.

While I do not wish to increase our School more, I am always ready to take a very small number of exceptionally good ones who come to go through. When you have such you may notify me.

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November 26, 1892.

Mr. H. Rowtst.

Culburo, Valencia Co., N. M.

My dear Rowtst:

Glad to know that you are working at your trade and making use of that knowledge you gained here to get your family under good cover. You said nothing about your difficulty with your wife. Was that satisfactorily arranged and are you now caring for her and your children?

Tell me how the Acomas feel about another party of children for Carlisle this coming summer--just a few.

Give my regards to Mr. & Mrs. Bibe, and believing you to get your general information about the School from the Indian Helper, I am, always,

Faithfully your friend,

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November 28, 1892.

Mr. William C. Girton,
Co. I, 16th Infantry,
Fort Douglass, Utah

My dear William:

I told my daughter to thank you for the photographs, and she has already written you. What manly, good-looking soldiers you three Carlisle are. I feel real proud of you, and I trust you will not only look manly but that you are manly in every way, and that you will stand right up to the very best principles all through your soldier life. I turned over the other picture to the President of the Endeavor Society.

The Endeavors gave us one of the nicest entertainments we ever had in Carlisle last evening. They wish to raise money to equip their society room, and I think they were fortunate enough to get as much as fifty dollars. They got off some sarcasms on the boys' societies, and I understand the boys intend to pay them back, which, of course, is but fair.

I congratulate you on your promotion and your good pay.

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Mr. Wm. C. Girton, page 2.

It has been a source of great disappointment to me that Ralph Eagle Feather should turn out so bad. He was in the Guard House because he had gotten drunk, and he lost his trip to Chicago by that.

Give my love to your other comrades in the picture.

I remain always,

Faithfully your friend,

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Nov. 28th 1892.

C. L. Hammond

Room 12, 116 La Salle St.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Sir:

I have yours of the 26th enclosing letter from Hon. J.M.
Weaver, House of Representatives, and feel under very great obliga-
tions for your interest. I will write Mr. Weaver and also Mr.
Aldrich as you suggest.

Although a republican I do not feel especially bad so far as
Indian matters are concerned because Mr. Cleveland is elected for
the reason that in my judgment we have made more and grosser errors
under the present administration than have been made in the Indian
service since I have been connected with it, now more than twenty-
five years. Immense sums of money, which only ruin the Indians, have
been paid them for lands along the line, as I believe, of false prin-
ciples. The very large sums of money that have been secured for
education during this administration have been in a great measure
most unwisely expended on Indian reservations. These two lines of
expenditure are calculated to only build up the Indians more and
more as tribes and are a premium to them to remain on their reserva-
tions and look to the Government for continued support.

I persistently pressed these views upon the present administra-

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tion at the beginning but my influence amounted to nothing in opposition to western spoilsmen in both parties who demanded that Government money should be expended in their districts and on the reservations near them and that they should manipulate even the most subordinate appointments. Under these circumstances I felt that a change was absolutely necessary and even though the growth of schools should stop for want of money I believe that would be better than that there should be an increase of effort and appropriation along false lines.

I write you thus fully because of your special interest and
because that interest entitles you to the views of the one you
would assist. Through a very long experience and the closest
observation of the whole field I have come to know that the Indian
will be civilized and Americanized, distributed and absorbed only
through personal contact, association and participation in these
several conditions, and that the education of him as a pauper and a
separate body only gives him the skill and ability to make greater
demands and secure larger appropriations. We shall get him into
our lines only by bringing him into them and educating him in them,
and then requiring that he stay in them and take care of himself.

Very truly yours

Supt.

Dictated.

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Dec. 1st 1892.

Chas S.Kelsey, U.S. Indian Agent,
Keshena, Wis.

Dear Sirs

I return herewith the duplicate receipts for patents of
land on Oneida reservation allotted to students here who are 21
years or more signed as you request.

The students have expressed no wish as to what they would like
done with the papers but if they are sent to me I will keep them in
my safe for them while they are here.

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Dec. 3rd 1892.

J.C.Williamson,

Blue Jacket, I.T.

My dear Mr. Williamson:

I am still unable to give you any information about Curtis. His work was light, his conduct was satisfactory, and he seemed perfectly contented so far as the people with whom he worked knew and so far as we here at the school knew. The day or two before he left he had purchased a new suit of clothes at Trenton, New Jersey, and without any notice or warning he went to his room put on his new suit of clothes and went away. It was during the absence of the man with whom he worked. He said nothing of his intentions, he said nothing whatever, and did not take his valise or clothing with him.

We have always heard sometime of runaway boys and I still hope to hear of Curtis. Traveling Indian Medicine Companies have on one or two occasions picked up our students and had them a long time before we heard from them.

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Dec. 5th 1892.

Chas. Winterbottom,

90 Haines St.,

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:

Referring to yours of the first in reference to knitting
machine I have to advise you that I am not situated so as to take
up the matter of that kind during the present fiscal year. Our
expenses have been closely gauged to consume our appropriation. If
after the beginning of the new fiscal year in July next you should
care to give us the benefit of the trial I shall be in a position,
I trust, to give the matter more consideration.

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Dec. 5th 1892.

Jane E. Willis,

Charlevoix, Mich.

Dear Jane:

I received your letter some days ago. I am always glad to hear from our returned students.

Yes, Joshua Walker is back and I think Joshua will do better now that he has had a visit home.

We get on very nicely here at the school and I must leave you to find out all the news from the Helper which you ought to take if you do not. It only costs ten cents a year you know.

Faithfully your friend,

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Dec. 5th 1892.

Tobacco,

My Dear Friend:

I know how you feel about your boy and I can realize that he would be useful to you at home but there is one other thing to consider besides what you are thinking about, and that is, the boy himself. You must remember that he cannot live the life you have, he must meet the white man and do business with him, he must be able to hold his own in competition with the white man and if he does not have the ability or education he will be downed in every transaction. If he lives as long as you have the probability is that he will not have an agent to look after him. The Government will compel him to look after his own affairs. The course which is best for you and the course which is best for the boy compels that he stick to his school. I did not promise you that I would send him home. I promised that I would consider any reasons you might send and this is my mind about it.

Faithfully your friend,

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Dec. 5th 1892.

Maj. Henry E. Alvord,

932 New York Ave.,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Major:

Your letter to Harry Kopay informs me of your whereabouts
and that you have left the college for which I am sorry, not for you
unless it is to your disadvantage, but for the college.

Henry did not feel equal to enterring the college and desired
to stay with us another year and take a post graduate course. This
he has done and I think he will get on very well and I hope he may
have the opportunity.

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Dec. 5th 1892.

Miss Minnie Perrine,

Willow Creek, Mont.

My dear Minnie:

I would be very glad to make arrangements for you and
your little party but the application for transfer of students to
this school must be sanctioned by the agent. The Agent has forms
I should know the names, ages and be assured of the good character
of the students, and their good health, and also of the fact that they
have been at least three years in school somewhere. You can attend
to all these matters very easily if you are near the agent, and if
you do, and ask the Agent for the transfer of the students, I will
cheerfully make arrangements for the transportation for you and your
party from such point as you designate. We shall all be glad to
have you come back to Carlisle.

Your friend,

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Dec. 6th 1892.

Jason Brown,

P.O.Box 203,

Pasedena, Cal.

My dear Mr. Brown:

After a long time in not hearing from you I sold the
books to our students at the price I paid for them through the
express company and so far as I am concerned that matter is entirely
and satisfactory settled. I am sorry that your venture did not
prove remunerative, one would have thought that the negroes would
stand by you for many editions of the work.

I am glad that you like my paper, it is the outgrowth of a long
experience.

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Dec. 6th 1892.

Wm G. Fischer,

1221 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia.

My dear Friend:

I thank you most cordially for yours of yesterday and
its enclosed fifty dollars towards our New York and Chicago expenses.

Under another cover I send you a paper giving the appreciative comments of our largest newspapers and showing my outlay and what I have so far received towards it.

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Dec. 6th 1892.

Miss Ellen Collins.

41 West Eleventh St.,
New York.

My dear Miss Collins:

I thank you for your note of Dec. 2nd and its enclosed
check for sixty dollars from you and your sisters for Clarence
Three Stars' school. I am looking up this matter and hope to send
a box to Clarence in a short time.

Thank you also for your inquiries for my health. I am up and
about, but do not yet feel as well as I ought.

With kindest regards, I am,

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December 12, 1892.

Mr. William H. Ordway,
Treas. Congregational S. S.,
Chicopee, Mass.

My dear Sir:

Through Dr. Shelton I have the contribution from
Mrs. Bennit's and Mrs. Smith's classes of your Sunday School,
amounting to $4.88, and herewith enclose separate receipts for
each.

Thanking you and them cordially for remembering us, I am,

2 Enclosures.

Capt. & Supt.

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December 12, 1892.

Mr. Malcolm Graham,

315 Broadway, New York.

My dear Sir:

I have yours of the 10th, with its enclosed $50
towards the expenses of our school, and herewith send my
receipt. I am very greatly obliged to you for this strong
interest and your kindly expression.

1 enclosure.

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450

December 12, 1892.

Mrs. James Boyd,
Poplar Creek, Mon.

Dear Madam:

I received yours of the 4th with its enclosed $40 but had already started Vista home, because there was a chance for her to have company part of the way.

The ticket cost me $43.40, as I concluded it would be better for her to go first class rather than second class and be compelled to ride in the smoker. I have, however, charged the balance $3.40 into our charity accounts and you need not send that.

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December 12, 1892.

Dr. Isaac N. Harris,
Box 468, Rushville, Ind.

My dear Doctor:

Thanks for your concern and interest. I feel personally that Carlisle is no less on good footing with Mr. Cleveland in the chair than we have been with Gen. Harrison, and I am hopeful that we shall be on even better footing.

Although I am a Hoosier and knew Harrison during the war, he has been to me one of the most unapproachable men and has been quite entirely unwilling to give my views on Indian matters any kind of consideration; I am therefore not personally sorry that he is out, although I am a Republican. Mr. Cleveland was always courteous, and, although I have had some warm times with his subalterns, yet whenever I got over them to headquarters, I was sustained, and anticipate, if the need comes, that there will be no change in his attitude towards us.

I have asked Gen. Morgan to send you copies of his two last annual reports.

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December 12, 1892.

Mr. David Patterson,

Versailles, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

Philip Waterman is not a rugged boy but he is not sick. He has been vaccinated, as about 250 others in the school have been, and, of course, is a little disturbed as many of them are by that, but that is practically over now.

My school physician reports that inasmuch as he is not a rugged boy and his people are evidently inclined to bother a good deal about him, that it would be just as well to let him go home. Under the circumstances, if the money is sent for him to return home on, I have no objections. It would cost about $0.50.

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December 12, 1892.

Jemima Wheelock,

Sagole P.O., Sagole, Wis.

My dear Jemima:

Zippa Metoxen, as you may know, went from here several months ago to a school for nurses at New Haven, Conn. She made a most favorable impression at once and was regularly entered after her month's probation as a student in that most excellent school. Several weeks ago an engineer from one of the Sound steamers was brought into the hospital sick, and in a little while he developed small-pox, and from that there were quite a number of cases, among others the physician who waited upon him and Zippa who took one portion of the time to nurse him. Zippa having been vaccinated here at the school, had had it in a very light form, but she had to be sent to the pest house, as the doctor and all the others were, and has to be kept there until the small-pox is entirely over. She is now entirely recovered and helping to nurse those who are sick. If she has not written home it is because she is not allowed to do so on account of the danger of sending disease through the mails. There is a telephone between the place where she is and the house of a friend of mine and I have had constant reports about her. It did not seem best or necessary to alarm

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the poor relatives at home because they would think the case
much worse than it is. Zippa having had the small-pox now
will never have it again and she has had it so light that it
will leave no marks, and she is far better qualified for her
duties as nurse than she would have been if she had not have
had it. Please assure her mother that she has had the kind-
est treatment and care of her friends and that she has not
been in any danger whatever, and that she is entirely re-
covered.

Very respectfully,

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Dec. 12th 1892.

Miss Ellen Collins,

41 West Eleventh St.,
New York, N.Y.

My dear Miss Collins:

The check from your cousin Miss Hartshorne, which you kindly send me, together with other contributions leaves me short only $11.98 in the expenditure for clothing for Clarence Three Star school. I have sent the receipt for the check to Miss Hartshorne as you suggest. Last Friday I sent two boxes to Clarence which contained full suits for nineteen boys including caps, shoes, two pairs of stockings each and two suits of under-wear each, knit boots for nineteen girls, four dozen pairs of hose and a pair of shoes each.

With kind regards,

Very truly yours,

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December 14, 1892.

Editor of the Omaha Bee,
Omaha, Neb.

Dear Sir:

You need to send a more truthful reporter after further facts in regard to Kid, the Apache, about whom you give such romantic details in your paper of the 2nd instant. Neither Kid nor any of his gang were ever in Carlisle school or any other school, either on or off the Reservation. Kid and his party were doing their ugly work years before we had any Apaches in this school from Arizona. None have ever graduated. This is not a university, not even a high school. It is very difficult to hold our pupils long enough to graduate them from our course, which ends with the grammar grade of the public schools of this state. We can account for every Apache who has left the school, and all have done and are doing either well or fairly well, except one who is in jail for being a party to a forgery, but this crime is not peculiar to the Apaches.

The attempt of the article, therefore, to disparage Carlisle and Indian education is, to say the least, malicious, and I ask that you give this statement the benefit of your

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columns, so that it may have as nearly the same circulation
as the article to which it refers.

Yours truly.

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

Dec. 14th 1892.

Mrs. E.M.Rose,
151 Meigs St.,
Rochester, N.Y.

Dear Madam:

Replying to yours of the 10th I send you a few expressions
from part of my teachers which will answer the questions you ask.

Yours truly,

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Dec. 14th 1892.

Prof. Luther T.Townsend, LL.D.,
Boston University,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Sir;

I wish to hold up your hands in your arrangement of the Catholic church yesterday. The conditions are altogether as bad as you have delineated and even worse. A gentleman connected with one of the great dailies in Philadelphia told me some time ago but did not want his name known in connection with the statement that there was not an important newspaper in the country that did not have Catholic editors to look after Catholic interests and that these editors were directed from Catholic head quarters.

The truth of your statement, "When Protestants go wrong the facts are heralded to the world; but when a Catholic priest gets into trouble the reportorial dogs are kennelled," is verified by experience here. Three out of six Catholic priests stationed in Carlisle within the last thirteen years have been flagrantly and notoriously guilty of conduct for which any Protestant minister would have been mercilessly exposed through the press but not one word was said by the press about the conduct of either of the three

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Dec. 16th 1892.

Harry G.Beetem & Co.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Gentlemen:

I enclose herewith my check for $77.50 covering the
10,000 No.2 Shingles which I pay from my charity fund. The other
item in the bill is a government expenditure and I will pay for
that with the other goods I have gotten from you when I have your
bill for all and can make out a voucher covering them. Please
send me receipted bill for the $77.50.

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Dec. 17th 1892.

Mr. John Wedderburn, Gen. Mar.
Washington, D.C.
613 F Street, N.W.

Dear Sirs

Your letter of the 16th in regard to my claim on account
of Indian depredations is about the sixth or seventh letter I have
received from different attorneys solicitating the business of
collecting it. I have thrown such letters in the waste basket. The
only obstacle to my giving you the business is the fact that I
collected that claim myself and received the money just nineteen
years ago.

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December 21, 1892.

Chihuahua,

Mt. Vernon Barracks, Ala.

My dear Chihuahua

Thank you for the good letter by the hand of Dexter Loco. It gives great pleasure to me and to all friends of the Indian everywhere to know how well you and others are doing at Mt. Vernon. I am so glad that you stand by the school and that you Apaches are improving your conditions every day.

I know of nothing new to report to you from here; Dexter
no doubt has told you all the news.

With best wishes,

Sincerely your friend,

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Dec. 23rd 1892.

Vista Gray,

X. James Boyd,

Poplar Creek, Mont.

Dear Vista:

I am just in receipt of your letter telling of your safe arrival home and the incident of your journey in Chicago. Strange, is it not, that with all the children we have brought in and sent back to the west, and many have gone alone, like yourself, that no serious accident has beenfall on them!

You have cold weather in Montana. We now have it cold here and we must expect snow and ice for several months.

I am so glad that you remember Carrière pleasantly. I certainly hope that your health may be entirely restored.

We are to have pleasant times here during the holidays. To-morrow the Whateverover circle of King's Daughters are to have an entertainment in the gymnasium by which they hope to make some money. We are also to have a beautiful cantata New Year's eve, by one hundred of the boys and girls have been practicing for several weeks. Then there are to be several other entertainments holiday week, but we have school every day except the Mondays after Christmas and New Years.

Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

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