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August 10th, 1893.

J. Loomis Gould,

cr. H. R. Gould, Sumner, Wash.

My Dear Sir:

I have yours of the 5th. We will gladly undertake to give your young people the instructions you want, and give them the fullest opportunities to see all our work here, provided there is no expense to us in any way. Our corps of helpers is full, and we do not need them for any purpose. They will therefore have to take care of their own expenses entirely. Board in our teachers' mess costs $3.50 a week per person. I will cheerfully give them furnished rooms, and heat and light without cost. The young man can drop in as an assistant with the boys, and the young woman as assistant with the girls, which will, I think, give them the best practical training possible. Should be glad to see you here if you can make it convenient to make us a visit.

Fraternally, yours,

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

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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August 10th, 1893.

Mrs. D. W. Collins,

Xenia, Ohio.

Dear Mrs. Collins:--

It will be important to us that you stop here and make
up your account, which has to be sworn to before the Clerk of
the Court. We can do it in a few hours when you are here, and
the account is placed in the hands of my clerk. We are all de-
lighted to see Mary and Annie back. Mary went to Philadelphia
day before yesterday. Said it was your instructions. As I sat
here talking to them just before Mary left, I said to them what
is true,--that 250 or 300 years of Catholic dominion over their
people had failed to produce any women that knew one-half as much
as they did of true civilization and Christianity. What a com-
mentary that is on Catholicism!

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August 10th, 1893.

Celinda Metoxen,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Celinda:--

I got your first letter some time ago and answered it
recently. I now have your second letter. I am glad to hear
from you indeed, and to know that you think so kindly of the school
and of all of us here.

Mrs. Pratt tells me to ask you if you would not be willing
to come back and work for her, and if you would, she would give
you a good home and good pay right along, and it seems to me
that it would be as good a thing as you could do. You would, of
course have to live at our house, and could not be as one of the
pupils, but would be entirely a help to Mrs. Pratt. I am sure
Mrs. Pratt would be glad to give you $10.00 per month if you did
as well for us as you did before. Think about it and let me know
at once. If you would rather come back as a pupil, you can do
that. I shall be wanting to know very soon now just how many girls
are coming back, and I wish you would all talk the matter over
among yourselves and let me know. All of you who do come back
should be here by the first of September. With love from us all,
and my love to all of the Carlisle pupils and their parents,

Faithfully, your friend,

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August 10th, 1893.

Richard Sanderville,

Dupuyer, Mont.

My Dear Richard:--

I am always glad to get a line from you, even though
it prove to contain unpleasant news. Am so sorry to hear of
James being seriously ill. I have sent home all the sick Piegan
children, and those here are all in the best of health now.

Things go about as usual with us. We anticipate consid-
erable improvement in the schools during the coming year. We
have Prof. Bakeless, from the State Normal school at Bloomsburg,
Penns., in Miss Fisher's place. We have also four gentlemen teach-
ers, and I hope that our boys will be on a better footing the
ensuing year than ever before.

With kindest and best wishes for you,

Faithfully, your friend,

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August 10th, 1893.

Rev. Eugene P. Dunlap, Missionary,
Bangkok, Siam.

My Dear Mr. Dunlap,--

I have read with the greatest possible interest your little account of itinerating on the West Coast of Siam. What an experience you had! How much it brings to us of what is going on for the Master's cause in the world! I am glad to hear from you and get the account. We have thought and talked of you much during the recent trouble between France and Siam. What effect it will have on your work and all good work in Siam, has been uppermost. As all things work together for good, &c., we are led to believe that there will no real harm, but permanent good, come to you from the international incidents.

Very sincerely yours,

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August 12th, 1893.

Mr. S. Hamilton Coe,

118 Walker Edg., Worcester, Mass.

My Dear Sir:--

I regret sincerely to hear of the death of Mrs. Bancroft. She greatly impressed us when here, and her large gift enabled us to send a number of our best students to normal schools, and higher institutions. Quite a number of them are teaching now. I wanted to tell her of these things, and did write her once a full letter, and wrote a number of other times briefly, but failed to get any response. Surely she was full of good works, I have been greatly impressed and helped in my work by the spirit of just such friends as Mrs. Bancroft. Not long ago, Susan Long-streth of Philadelphia, died. Through all the years of the school, she helped us most liberally, and her means were, like those of Mrs. Bancroft, purely the results of her own industry. She carried on a young ladies' school in Philadelphia for fifty years.

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August 16th, 1893.

Rev. Mr. H. Patterson,
Sanborn, New York.

My Dear Friend:--

I am glad that you are going to stand for Carlisle at
the picnic and temperance convention. I am almost persuaded to
run up and help you. These Indians need a good talking to. They
are simply cutting their own throats by their course towards their
children here. They seem to be much worse than the wild Indians
in principle. Sometimes I feel that the truth is not in some
of them. They bend all their energies to get their children out
of school, which means nothing but ruin to the children. The
little principle of stick-to-it-iveness they may have, is all
taken out of them. I am glad to send my son away for many years
and pay large sums for his education--some of it not any better
if as good as we have here at Carlisle. Your Indians get their
children fed, clothed, and taught, without cost, and then do little
else but plot and plan to get their children home, and breed all
sorts of discontent, is it to be wondered at that they are con-
stantly at a disadvantage in competing with their white neighbors
and that they are poor and dependent. I tell you, my dear friend,
that unless they can wake up, and make up their minds to endure a
little hardness, and require their children to do the same, the

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end of the whole race is not far off. A gentleman said to me
some time ago, that there was scarcely an Indian in Western New
York that could be believed. What a reputation that is for your
people to have!

I think a great deal of your two boys. Homer has been
my orderly for months at a time, and he is an intelligent, push-
ing boy, always ready to execute promptly whatever I require.

Cordially, your friend,

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August 15th, 1893.

Katie E. Metoxen,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Katie:--

I wrote to you about two weeks ago, but since then I note
several things in your letter to me that require a little addi-
tional word from me.

Your brother Carl may come to Carlisle with you, if he
is over 12 years of age, is in good health, and has been to school
for three years. We should be glad to have him if he fulfills
these conditions. As to your bringing a number of new students
in with you, I have no objection to that, if all who wish to come
are of good character, in good health, are at least 12 years of
age, (better not under 14), and have been to school somewhere for
three years. It is quite likely that there will be a number of the
Oneida returned pupils coming back to us this fall, and you can
all come together. Write me when you are ready to come, and also
about any students that you can recommend, if they fill the above
conditions, giving their names.

Cordially, your friend,

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August 16th, 1893.

Lucy Cloud,

Kawkawlin, Mich.

Dear Lucy:--

Some time ago I received a letter from you and Eliza
Peckham together, asking to be allowed to come to Carlisle for
some kind of employment. I think it just as well that you try and
fight it out at home, this year. It would probably be just as
easy for you to find something to do around your home as here.
The thing to do is to get clear away from all influences that
tend to help and support you, and then pitch in. If you have
sufficient stick-to-it-iveness, you will succeed there as well
as anywhere.

You have my kindliest wishes wherever you may be. Let
Eliza know the substance of this letter.

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August 16th, 1893.

Rosa Bourassa,

Worth, Mich.

Dear Rosa:--

Your nice long letter after you reached home was received some time ago, and should have had a much earlier answer, but you know the summer time, when the rest of the folks are having their vacation, is the busiest time of the year for us office people. It always brings a great deal of correspondence.

I was glad to hear of your safe arrival home, and that you had enjoyed the trip to Chicago and the Convention so much. The Fair is certainly a wonderful education for one, but it is only an index of this wonderful age in which we live. Our children are anticipating with no little pleasure their promised trip to Chicago and the Fair some time during September or October.

Sorry that the conditions for the exhibit of the other Indian schools are so bad. Notwithstanding these, however, Has-kell has attracted a great deal of attention while there, and I am glad of that. Miss Burgess has charge of our exhibit now. She relieved Miss Shaffner the first of this month.

Affairs here at Carlisle have run along very smoothly since you left us. We are getting ready for an aggressive year all around. The schools are to begin September 1st as usual, and

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I hope to have them more effective than ever. Besides Mr. Bake-
loss, the Principal Teacher, we are to have four men teachers.
This will seem a little peculiar to us until we get used to it,
but I trust that it is for the better.

My daughter Marion, Mrs. Stevick of Denver, has been
visiting us for some months, and just now one of her little girls,
Mary, is quite sick. We have been quite disturbed about her for
a week or more, but think she is pulling around all right now.

Miss Shaffner is out on her annual bout among the girls.
We shall call the country pupils in about the middle of September.
But I must leave the news of the school in general to the Helper.
It is too much for me to give it all.

I am very glad, my dear Rosa, for your words of gratitude
about what Carlisle has done for you. It does me good. Sometimes
when I get discouraged in my work here, it cheers me up to remember
the grateful words that come back to me from some of my good
girls like yourself.

My best wishes for you wherever you may be.

Faithfully, your friend,

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August 18th, 1893.

Thomas Tonkin,

Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

My dear Mr. Tonkin:--

One of our Indian boys, Solomon Collins, has been very successful in selling a book called *Stiya*, and also in getting subscribers for the Indian Helper. He was allowed to go home to Mt. Pleasant during vacation, and now writes that he has taken orders for 500 copies of *Stiya*, and also has a large list of subscriptions for the Helper. He has been, so far as we know, entirely truthful and honest in all of his actions, and seems to have a great faculty of approaching people on these lines, but I do not wish to place too much temptation in his way. The 500 copies of *Stiya* would amount to $250.00. What I want you to do for me, if you will be kind enough, is to receive the 500 copies of *Stiya*, and let him have them by 50's. I am perfectly willing he should take as many as 50 at a time, and when he turns in the money for the 50 copies, then let him take another lot of 50, and so on until the whole number is sold---or about in that way, trusting to you to extend or limit the number to be given him at any time. His taking up the sale of *Stiya*, and the obtaining of subscriptions for the Helper, during vacation was entirely unknown to us. We thought he would back up there to his home, and probably drop

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back into old lines.

I shipped you by express yesterday 372 copies of Stiya, and when they are exhausted, either write or advise me by wire, and I will send the balance. Of course I desire to pay you what is right for your trouble, and also will pay any drayage or such expenses. Solomon must pay the express charges himself. I invested quite a sum in the publication of this book, and find that I shall have great difficulty in getting out even, and am quite pleased that Solomon is meeting with such success, if it turns out to be bona fide in every way.

Solomon is entitled to retain 20 cts. on each book sold, that is he has to turn in 30 cts. on each copy.

Sincerely, your friend,

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August 18th, 1893.

Rev. Geo. Runciman,
Versailles, New York.

My Dear Brother:-

I have lost several of the Western New York boys within
the last fortnight by runaway. Why, I do not know. There is
no reason why the children should be coming and going, and if we
are to be disturbed by that, they are better out of our care than
in it, for in order that I may carry out the best purposes of the
school, I must have them under care during vacation as well as
school time. There is no doubt that influences emanating from
some one source are at work trying to down us. But I believe in
truth and its ability to stand out against every opposition, and
we shall not fail to put all these people to shame in time. There
is no student who works either at this school or out from it, but
what receives every cent earned, and makes use of it for his or
her own purposes.

Miss Kennedy writes me that she has used her influence in
our behalf, Mr. Patterson, of Sanborn, who seems to be a strong
sensible man, also, and there are others.

Very sincerely yours,

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August 13th, 1893.

Solomon Collins,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Dear Solomon:--

I have thought it best to send the 500 copies of Stiya
to Mr. Thomas Tonkin, at Mt. Pleasant, whom you know very well,
and he will let you have for delivery 50 copies at a time, or
about that. When you have delivered the 50 copies, you will
turn in the money to him, and he will give you 50 more. You will
have to pay the express charges on the shipment of books, yourself.

You have made a wonderful success of your vacation, and I
congratulate you. I cannot tell how many subscribers will win
the prize for the Helper, but if you have had anything like the
success you had last year, the chances are largely in your favor.

Cordially, your friend,

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August 19th, 1893.

Robert Blight,

Supt. Educational Home,

4901 Greenway Ave., Phila., Pa.

Dear Sirs,

I thank you for your trouble in forwarding Robert Thomas to us. I hope you will not forget my desire that the Educational Home shall not be a harbor for our boys, and have your people understand that I would make it as a request that when they present themselves and cannot satisfactorily account for their presence there, you turn them over to the police authorities. If we can get that into their heads, it will give them better staying qualities in their work.

Very truly, yours,

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August 21st, 1893.

Alene Comover,

Anadarko, Ok. Ty.

My Dear Alene:--

You were given a ticket through to Minco, and your
baggage was checked through to that point also. It undoubtedly
is there, and if you have not already gotten it, you can get
it by sending or taking the check which was given to you here
with your ticket, to Minco.

I am very sorry to hear what you say about Henry Brave,
and also about Frank Everett. Glad to know, however, that you are
having a pleasant time at home.

Affairs move along quietly with us here at the school. Nothing
has occurred of very special importance since your parties
left for the West. We are getting ready to open school on the
first of September, and hope to have a very successful year. You
no doubt get the Helper, and can get all the general news from
that.

Sincerely and always, your friend,

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August 21st, 1893.

Josephine Culbertson.

Poplar Creek, Montana.

Dear Josephine,--

Your letter came to me some time ago, and I was very glad to hear from you, and especially glad to know that you had just gotten through with a washing. I hope you are putting to good use some of the things that you learned at Carlisle, and if you go ahead and do what work you can find to do around home, you will be far happier.

I send you the pictures that you ask for, their price is $1.40. This you can send me when you write again.

All goes well with us around here. School opens on Sept. 1st, and we hope to have a good year. Miss Shafiner is out in the country just now among the out girls. We expect to have the out pupils come in about the middle of September, and I hope to take the whole school out to Chicago a few days after. You no doubt get the Helper, and will learn all the general news there. Remember me to any of the Carlisle students you may see, and believe me,

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August 24th, 1893.

A. K. Smiley,

Mohonk Lake, N. Y.

My Dear Mr. Smiley:--

I have your gracious invitation to be present with Mrs. Pratt at the Annual Conference on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of October, and prepare a paper, also to bring some of my Indians and others. I am planning to take the whole school to Chicago for a week, and have designated to the Railroads the first or second week in October as being most suitable for us. That is now pending, and as we are to some extent beggars in the premises, I feel it is best that the Railroads should take us at the time that suits them. Should the time be fixed for the week of the Conference, I must of necessity be absent. If not, Mrs. Pratt and I, with some of our people, will be with you, and I will endeavor to have the word to say that you ask. When more definite understandings are arrived at, I will write you of the names. Dr. Carlos Montezuma, my Apache physician, should be among the number of course.

Thanking you and Mrs. Smiley for again remembering us,

Always cordially, yours,

Capt, 10thavy., U.S.A., Supt.

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August 26th, 1893.

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

Dear Sir:--

Please send me one ticket Carlisle, Pa., to Holton,
Kansas, (via Chicago), and return, good until the end of Sep-
tember, at the best rate you can, for one of my employes.

Very truly yours,

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August 28th 1893.

Sumner Riggs,

Cordell, Washita Co., O. T.

Dear Sumner:

I have had your letter for some time but have been exceedingly busy writing my annual report and the more urgent correspondence of the school and have also been away part of the time so this must account for my delay in writing to you, though there is nothing specially to write you about. I was glad to get your full letter and hear what you write about the returned students.

Richard Davis and family are back at Carlisle. Mrs. Davis and the children came back with distressing cases of sore eyes and Richard has been far from well. He has had a little attack which has laid him up but is taking medicine which I hope will make him all right again.

You seem to have great trouble in getting an Army officer located at your agency. Capt. Wooden, who has finally accepted, I think will make you a good agent.

All goes well at Carlisle.

With kindest regards to you always,

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August 28th 1893.

Mrs. A. D. Gillette,

Dupuyer, Choteau Co., Montana.

Dear Madam:

I had a brief note from Richard Sanderville telling of
James Phemister's death. I am much obliged to you for the further
word. James was a good boy and we were sorry to send him home
because of his health, but we seemed to have received an exception -
ally large number with consumption tendencies who came at the same
time from that agency. I do not think that the climate has any
material influence in the matter. Consumption is the bane of the
Indians and they go at home as well as away from home, both young
and old. Some years ago two of Spotted Tail's children died here.
The Indians made great capital of it but an investigation by the
agent revealed that five of his children had died at the agency
during the same time and my observation and experience warrents
the statement that there is little if any difference in the mortality
from that disease here and at the different agencies and when
the question of mortality from other complaints comes up we have
immeasurable the advantage. On plenty of the reservations hundreds
of children have died from measles: we have had hundreds of cases
here and have never lost one. Scarlet almost invariably kills
on the reservations: we have had sixteen cases in the fourteen
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years and only one death.

It is gratifying to know that Mrs. Phemister had the sad
comfort of her boy at home. Please say to her that she has the
loving sympathy of all of us at Carlisle for James had only friends
here. James' death is generally known throughout the school.

August 28th 1895.

Edward Davis,

Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

Dear Edward:

I think it just as well that you remain where you are
so pleasantly located.

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August 28th 1893.

Sarah James,

Laguna, New Mexico.

Dear Sarah:

I received your letter sometime ago and am very, very sorry you are not to return to Carlisle. It is all right and I am glad to have you write me so frankly about it. You are pretty well advanced in your education. A very large proportion of the women of our white race are less able to communicate in our language than are you. I hope you will keep up your interest in affairs outside: read books, explain them to your parents when you become able to talk to them in your language, write to your friends in the east, keep up kindly relations with them. I shall always be glad to hear from you.

I have instructed Mrs. Worthington to send you the pattern for your dress.

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August 28th 1893.

Thomas Tonkin,

Mt Pleasant, Michigan.

My dear Mr. Tonkin:

I have no control of or arrangements with the railroads
in Michigan so that I am entirely unable to help Solomon to secure
low rates. Solomon traveled around in Pennsylvania somewhat on
low rate tickets but I have arrangements with the Pennsylvania
Railroad for half rates, the same as are given country children
attending school in the city.

I will see that Solomon has some of the dodgers he requests.

Edward Davis was returned because the doctor thought his
health demanded it. It is just as well that he remain where he
is as he writes me by letter received today he intends to do.

With kind regards to Mrs. Tonkins,

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August 28th 1893.

S. H. Carnahan,

College Place, Washington.

My dear Sir:

Referring to yours of the 15th I should be glad for our
pupils to receive the papers you speak of and shall feel obliged
to you for them.

I send you a half dozen copies of the North Western Christian
Advocate as you request.

August 28th 1893.

Rev. R. Tetter, Missionary,
Cantonment, O. T.

My dear Sir:

Little Man has been quite misinformed in regard to his
all
son. He is not at in bad health. Please assure Little Man of
my interest in his boy and tell him that if any serious ailment
takes him I will inform him.

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August 28th 1893.

T. F. Richardville,
Miami, I. O.

My dear Friend:

I had a letter from Mrs. Jones of Huntingdon, Indiana, in reference to her children and I wrote her my judgment in regard to their enterring Indian schools. She lives in a community of good schools and if possible, for their good, they should attend schools with children of that locality, that will be the means to prepare them to contend with those same or like children in future.

Then at the same time I opened the way for them to come here if she still thought it was best.

I should be very glad if on your way to Washington you would stop off here. There are a number of things I should be glad to talk to you about.

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August 28th 1893.

Levi Levering,

Omaha Agency, Nebraska.

Dear Levi:

Capt. Beek is right; students are required to return to
the schools they attended last year, they can be changed to other
schools only by order of the Department, and I fear that is too
much of a job to accomplish before your college opens, it will have
to be left for future advisement.

I am sorry to hear what you say of Joel Tyndall. One of the
greatest difficulties we have to contend with in this world is
ourselves; to maintain our modesty and humility is the greatest
feature of our struggle.

Let the securing of pupils go.

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August 28th 1893.

Alice Long Pole,
Osage Agency,
Pawhuska, O. T.

Dear Alice:

I have yours of August 22nd and it is all right for you
to start from Elgin. The orders have been changed about Mary
McKeehan and she will remain at Haskell. I am waiting for answers
from some of the other students to whom I have written and who
went home at the same time with you and when I receive these I will
ask the Railroad Company for tickets for all who wish to return.

Your friend,

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September 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.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.

Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.

September 4th 1893.

Hon. W. F. Sadler,

Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Judge:

We have three small boilers of different patterns either one of which I think would serve you well for heating your house, the one I used in my house would be the best perhaps. Come out and see them. If any of the boilers suit you we will endeavor to make the price fit. I shall be away this afternoon but shall be at home to-morrow.

Dictated.

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE

Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.,

September 4th 1893.

Wm. F. Campbell,

Detroit, Minn.

Dear William:

I have your letter of the 29th ult and regret the conditions annoying to us both. I trust you that you will reimburse me at the earliest possible moment.

I think well of your scheme of discussing the legal status of the question publicly. We have such an infernal lot of sentimental cranks of our own race always bobbing up at every opportunity to make themselves notorious on any phase of the subject that the public is rather sick of abstract statements, and will listen with unusual interest to the discussion by one of the race, especially by one as capable as you are.

Dictated.

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Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.

September 4th 1893.

D. E. Pryor,

Logansport, Indiana.

Dear Embra:

I received your telegram yesterday and endeavored to respond by telegraph but the operators had quit their office. I wrote Emma and am very sorry it is not practicable for me to be away from home just now or I would certainly go to Emma at this trying time.

Cordially yours,

Dictated.

Annie Thomas
Albuquerque, N.M.

Sept 4, 1893.

Creager's message received. SantaFe

uncertain. Be patient;persist.

R H Pratt

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Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.

September 7th 1893.

Chauncey Y. ROBE,

Indian School Exhibit, Dept. "L," Sec. "I,"

Liberal Arts Building, Columbian Exposition,
Chicago, Illinois.

My dear Chauncey:

Nana and I expect to leave for Chicago on the Columbian
Express, Friday. We should be with you by or before noon of Sat-
day.

Your friend,

Dictated.

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.

September 8th 1893.

Maryetta B. Eames,
Willowgrove Ave.,
Cheektowka Hill,
Philadelphia, Pa.

I favor you plan for Jolli. Come to Carlisle Thursday
P. M. and am. I shall be at home Friday A. M., then absent for
a week in through.

J. E. Pratt,

BLURRED TEXT

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.,

September 7th 1893.

Calls H. Looking,

Salt Paint Camp,

Rosebud Agency, S. D.

Dear Calls:

I have your letter and am glad to hear from you and to
know that you are getting on fairly well. There is no news to
write you beyond what the Helper contains, I hope you get that. Be
strong and of good courage.

Faithfully your friend,

Dictated.

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In reply to:

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

Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.,

September 7th 1893.

Edward Marsden,

Prospect, Butler Co., Pa.

Dear Edward:

I will gladly give you an evening at any time after you return for your heavenly lecture.

I have been bauked a good in making arrangements for Chicago.
The railroads seem very unwilling to give me rates I can manage.
However I have done the best I can and am proceeding in the matter
with the intention of going to Chicago the first week in October.

Your friend,

Dictated.

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

Indian School, Chillicothe, Mo.,

September 7th 1906.

Miss Alice N. Flaherty,
mentored by Bishop.

South Braes & White Sevea to.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Miss Flaherty:

Wishing for your letter of recommendation with the letter
from Mrs. Flaherty. I am greatly pleased to have done in my little
making a difference of at least a little, and I hope and pray some day
making a difference in the lives of other girls. Will you write me a
true friend, and say how you feel and why you still continually place me
above all other friends in your life? I cannot express to you how much
I value your help and your advice, and how much I wish you were here
and I am educated here. I am so glad to hear of your success, and I
are educated at home or at school at all the same. God bless you.

I am glad to hear the best news of the other girls and also of your good news.

Yours sincerely,

Dictated,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
WEEKLY MEETING

Indep. School, Christian, Mo.,
July 26th 1894.

T. B. Rowley, President & V. B. R.

Ottawasburg, Jn.

Dear Mr. Rowley:

My visit to Philadelphia was very successful. I met an excellent boy at a school from Pittsburgh to Chicago for 450. I was able to talk to some of the pupils and I also met some of the students. I was very pleased with what I saw. I think I will stay there for a week or so. I hope to see you some time. I am sure you will enjoy your stay with us. Please let me know if you have any questions. I am sure you will find all the students very friendly and pleasant. I am sure you will enjoy your stay with us. I will take care of you and my job will be very easy. I hope to see you very soon. I will write again as soon as possible.

I go to bridge on Friday to look the field over again.

Very truly yours,

Dictated.

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Indian School, Carlisle, Pa.,

September 7th 1893.

Ezra Fremont,

Omaha Agency, Nebraska.

My dear Friend:

Nettie is in the junior class and does not graduate until
next year. She is a pupil teacher and having special advantages
in that line. It would be a mistake to crowd two years into one,--
that has been proven over and over again and I do not think she loses
anything by the delay for she is gaining more experience all the
time as a pupil teacher. Of course I would be glad to oblige you
but my judgment is decidedly against it and I trust you will think
of it just as I do.

About the wagon, I shall be glad to send you one at any time
that you may send me the money. I can put you a wagon, covered,
two seated, at $55.00 platform springs. You would have in addition
to that to pay the freight from here to point of delivery.

Disted.

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(Salo), Camille, Pa.,

September 7th 1893.

Dr. E. B. Stedwick,

483 Highlands Street,
Columbus, Ohio.

Dear Sirs,

I have received a copy of your letter to my brother's family asking me to apply for a position in their family, stating the date you wish in regards to your application.

You will please note the number 2177 on page 96. She was married under the name of Annie Pratt, the exact date of their marriage is not known to me, but the oldest child and was born December 2nd in 1868 in Allegheny Co., New York. On April 12th 1869 she was born in this month. We have four children, all living. My oldest, who is 16 years old, was born Jan. 23rd 1865 and was married about 14 years ago to a Mr. Crane. They have three children: Sarah, who was born 1848, our second son, and our oldest daughter, Marion Cora, was born April 1st, 1848 and was married April 16th 1889 to Guy LeRoy Stedwick. Their two children: Anna Laura, born February 12th 1890 and Mary Ellen, born February 1st 1892. Our next daughter,

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Sept. 7, 1893.

Wm C B Girton,
Sergt. 16, Infantry
Fort Douglass, Utah,

Dear Wm.

I have your letter of Sept. 1st, and am glad
to know you and Nellie are well and getting on nicely. I am
always glad to hear from my Carlisle pupils, and especially
glad to have good news of them.

Our school has opened and we expect a profitable year. I
expect to take most of the students to the World's Fair the
first week in October; those who have money to pay their way.

The Band has a concert at Mont Alto to-day; the second one
this year at that place. It has over 30 pieces now and plays
very well indeed. I expect to take it to Chicago, too.

I am sorry one of your men killed himself. Where did
Carlos Vidette live before he went to Mt Vernon; how old is
he and where was he educated?

With good wishes for you and Nellie and other of the Car-
lisle students,

Your friend,

Sept. 3, 1893.

Publicity Writer,
Pine Ridge, S. Dakota,
Dear Phillips:

No, my boy, I have not forgotten you. I
think of you and my other Pine Ridge boys a great deal. I can
very well imagine you lost your good friend, Capt. Brown, sorry
that you have lost your work, and the other boys who have gone
home recently cannot get anything to do. Always be strong
and manly, do the very best you can and all will come out
right. I have ordered the Helper sent you, and I hope you
will get it all right. It will tell you what we are doing
at Carlisle. Our school opened last Monday. I expect to take
a large party of students and the band, to Chicago the first
week in October. I wish you were here to go with us.

YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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Sept. 7, 1883.

Josie Vetter,
White Cloud, Kansas.

Dear Josie:

In regard to the children you speak of, I
will take them if they have been at school Three years and
are over Twelve and under Eighteen years, if delivered here.

Mrs Pratt was very sick in August but is quite well again.

Marion and her two little girls have been with us all Summer and Mr. Stevick has just come east. Nana and I expect to start for the World's Fair to-morrow. Nana will go to her aunt in St. Louis. Richenda has grown very much since you saw her; it is almost as tall as her mother.

School has opened and we expect to make this one of the
best years we have had. Prof. Bakeless is the Principal and
we have several other male teachers.

I am always glad to hear from you. Remember me to your
brother. I hope you will both continue to prosper.

Cordially your friend

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Sept. 7, 1893.

Dear William:

I have your letter about coming back to Carlisle.
I am sorry you cannot get your parents' consent to come back
and finish your course, but it is not best to come unless you
can get their consent.

I expect to take the pupils to the World's Fair the first
week in October and am disappointed that you and Thos. will
not be of the party as you expected.

We have commenced school and I expect this to be one of
the best years we have had. When you write again tell me
what you know of Yaamie Leeds and any of the other returned
students.

Wm Cochrane,
Laguna, N.M.

Your friend

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Sept. 11, 1893.

Aluck Porter

Tower City, Minn.,

Dear friend:

In reply to your letter of the 2, inst. I
have to say the term at this school is 5 years.
The Gover-
ment does not authorize the return of students to their homes
for a visit until after the term for which they come, has end-
ed. There is not a day but I receive such requests as yours
and if I yielded to these requests to return pupils, it
would practically destroy our school work. Your daughter is
well and doing well. Her return now could be of no real ser-
vice to you, while her stay at the school will be of real ser-
tice to her, because she is all the time getting herself read-
y for the responsibilities that will come upon her after
while.

Very truly yours

Capt. & Subt.

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Sept. 11, 1893.

Monty W Price,
Cloquet, Minn.

Dear sir:

I have your letter about entering the Carlisle School, and write to ask what your plans are for next year's future education. By your letter I judge you have about reached the grade to which we take our pupils. If you could enter the preparatory department of some good College of white students it would be of vastly more benefit to you.

Very truly yours

Capt. & Supt.

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Sept 12, 1893.

Mary Young,

Tiff City, Mo.,

Dear sir:

I have your letter about your brother, David Turkey, coming home, and have to say he is in the graduating class, will be through the first of March and get his diploma at that time, if he gets through, which I think he bids fair to do. After graduation he will be free to do as he chooses.

He is well and getting on well and I think you are mistaken about his annuity. If he does not draw it or authorize some one to, it will remain in the United States treasury for him.

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Sept 12, 1895.

Jacob White Cow Killer,
Pine Ridge, S Dakota,

Dear Jacob:

I have your good letter and have to say I would like to have you go on with your education. You are young, healthy and full of life; you need a great deal more learning to fit you for the duties of life and yet I would not have you come back to Carlisle unless your father was willing you should come.

If your father gave his free consent, then I should say come back and stay until you graduated; until you could carry home your diploma.

We expect to graduate a large class this year; Twenty or more expect to go out from the school in March with diplomas.

I hope you find some work out there to do. If not on the Agency somewhere, do not be idle, but try to get something to do, for that will make you stronger and better.

I expect to take the boys and girls to the World's Fair in October, and they are looking forward to the visit with great expectation. I hope you can some day have a chance to finish your education. You have the right idea about it; that you should do this while you are young.

Remember me to the Carlisle boys and girls,

Cordially your friend,

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

Sept. 18, 1895.

Dr. A. Fullerton,
Woman's College,
Phila., Pa.,

Dear friend:

I shall take about 400 of our students who can pay their expenses, which will be $15. each, to the World's Fair leaving here very early Monday morning, the 2, proximo, and returning late Saturday night, giving 4 full days at the Fair. I shall be glad to have Katie go with us, especially as her voice in the choir will be very helpful, and because she is anxious to go.

The choir is to sing in Festival Hall, before some 15,000 people. If Katie goes she should be here not later than Friday, the 29, inst. I will send a ticket if I hear favorably from you.

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Carlisle, Pa.,

Sept. 18, 1893.

Rev. Dr. A. Rittenhouse,
Methodist Hospital, Phila.,

Dear Doctor.

I shall take about 400 of our students who can
pay their expenses, which will be $13. each, to the World's
Fair, leaving them very early Monday morning the 8, proxim,
and returning late Saturday night, giving 4 full days at the
Fair. I shall be glad to have Elizabeth Wind go with us if
you can arrange to have her absent, as she is anxious to go,
and she is in the choir which will sing before some 16,000
people in Festival Hall. If she goes she should be here not
later than Friday, the 18, inst. I will send a basket if I
hear favorably from you. A prompt answer will oblige.

Very cordially yours

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Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 20, '93

Miss Mary R. Hyde,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dear Miss Hyde,

I returned from Chicago Saturday night; Monday and Tuesday were exceedingly busy arranging for our party to go to Chicago for a week. I am sorry that I am not able to send you a favorable response to your letter of the 14th. in reference to ladies you recommend. Our corps of help is complete, and so far as I know there is little chance of an opening during the school year; six weeks or two months ago I could have given you a favorable answer.

I have arranged to take four hundred and fifty of our students and people to Chicago, leaving here at midnight on the 1st. of October, and returning by 8 o'clock on the following Sunday morning; this gives us four days on the ex-position grounds and we have full opportunity for our band and choir in Festival Hall and Music Hall, and for the band in the same places and other prominent places on the grounds, also for exhibition drills and parades of our students. This with the greatest liberty of the grounds, will, as I think, be an unprecedented opportunity for young Indians. Four hundred and twelve of our students are able to pay their own

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Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 21, '93.

Abe Comers,

Lawrence, Kansas,

Dear Abe; -

I have no power to secure your transfer and the
transfer of other boys who wish to come to Carlisle, except
it is given by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Now that
you are located in Haskell do not you think you had better
stay there? If you feel particularly anxious to do it, you
can write to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington
and see what he says.

Your friend,

Capt. & Supt.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 21, 1893.

Rev. 4. Rittenhouse, D. D.
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Dr.;

I am personally gratified that you can favor Elizabeth Wind and let her accompany us to Chicago; I trust that her industry, before and after, may make up to some extent the loss she sustains by her absence.

The Woman's Hospital permit Katy Grinrod to go with us with the understanding that she makes up twice as much time as she loses by such absence; if you want Betty to do the same thing there is no objection to that.

Sorry to hear that you are hors du combat; under the circumstances in which it was written, I must compliment you on the penmanship of the letter.

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Sept. 21, 1893.

Nancy Cornelius,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Nancy:

Yo., asked to be informed when the party of
students were to go to the World's Fair. We leave here Sun-
day night, the 1st, proximo, reach Chicago 8:30 Monday night,
have 4 full days at the Fair and return, leaving Chicago 11:30
Friday night.

If you leave home in time to reach Chicago Monday evening,
you can take the street cars at your depot, go to the Illinois
Central R.R., then, to Windsor Park and you will be 3 blocks
from the South Pier Hotel where we will all stop.

Capt Archiquette is to bring a party of students at that
time and you can join him; but I give you these directions in
case he fails to start as soon as you want to, to join us and
have the benefit of the Fair the 4 days with us.

Cordially your friend

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,

Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 22, '93.

Mr. Juan C. Weems,

Sykesville, Md.,

My Dear Sir;--

Through our special friends, Judge and Mrs.
Henderson and their relatives in and about Baltimore, we have
heard of your Institute. Mrs. Pratt and I are looking for a
place for our eleven-year-old daughter and would be glad to
hear if you have a vacancy for her as a boarder the ensuing
year; if so, Mrs. Pratt will come down on Monday next and see
you. We have been favored with a copy of your prospectus and
think we should like to place our daughter in your keeping,
but would first care to make the personal visit. In case we
do send her to you we would not have her go until the second
week of October, as we propose to take our school to the World's
Fair the first week in October and this is a treat she has
been looking forward to for sometime, and which we would not
feel it right to deprive her. Should you receive this letter
by to-morrow, Saturday, a reply sent Saturday afternoon would
reach me Monday morning in time; should this not reach you so
you could reply on Saturday, please wire me.

Yours Sincerely,

Capt. & Supt.

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Capt. Thos. Sharp, # 2

likes to have special objects and special information; I
would also write a personal letter to General Armstrong, Asst.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs; General Armstrong will listen
to you and be rather glad to have you write him, I think, and
his pull upon Congress, it is thought will be a strong one.
The member from Montana and the Senators also would be good
men to write to. I have been absent in Chicago or your letter
would have had more prompt answer. You understand that it is
out of my line to meddle with Agency affairs, but it sometimes
happens when I am in Washington and meeting different people
and they speak to me of such things. I then, of course, ex-
press myself as I feel I ought.

With kindest regards and best wishes,

Yours Sincerely,

Capt. & Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 23, '93.

Shorty White Gross, Policeman,
Piegan Agency, Montana,

My dear Friend; -

I thank you for wishing to add to my store of
Indian curios. That suit you gave me was a fine one and I
placed it in one of the largest and best collections in the
country.

I shall be glad if a party of children up there come to Carl-
lisle, We will do them all the good we can. If they were here
they might go with us to the World's Fair. 420 of our boys
anf girls go to the Fair the first week of October. They are
not going there as an Indian show, or anything of the kind,
but they are going to see for themselves and we shall go into
all the buildings and look at everything we can during that
time, and learn as much as we can; that is what we purpose.
Robert Hamilton and Oscar and Anthony Austin are getting on
nicely and have earned money enough to go with us on this ex-
pedition to Chicago. I entirely agree with you that Richard
Sanderville was an excellent boy, one of the best we ever had
in this school. I am glad to hear of his success and that he
is still helping the schools. Too bad that he should lose his

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horses while he was away at school. The schools can do a great deal to help the Indians out of their difficulties, but the schools cannot do it all. Indians must themselves get the courage to move out and establish themselves among white people else there is no success.

Yours Truly,

Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 23, '93.

Mr. Jas. B. Garcia,
Cubero, N. M.

My dear Sir:-

I have information about your conduct at Mr.

Watson's which takes from me all interest in your affairs.

Indeed it would be right for Mr. Watson to proceed against
you and give you great punishment.

Yours Truly,

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Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 23, '93.

Frau Kapp,
Smith College,
Northampton, Mass.,

My dear Friend:-

Getting into my letters after an absence, I
find the enclosed which was sent to Miss Green acknowledging
the donation from the College society, which it seems followed
her to Cleveland, O., and from there returned to the Dead
Letter Office. I am sorry for this delay in receipt of ac-
knowledgement.

We opened the new year in good shape, almost six hundred pu-
pils present in the school, four hundred and twenty of whom
will go with me Oct. 2nd. to spend a week at the World's Fair,
each one paying his or her own way from the funds earned while
out with farmers during the summer.

Yours Sincerely,

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Sept. 25, 1893.

Dear Phebe:

The other Nurses, Katie and Elizabeth, have written asking if they can go to the World's Fair with the party of students. Not having anything from you I suppose this is too critical a time with you for you to stop and think of being away from your post. If this is so, it is all right, Phebe, but if your business will allow of your being absent we should be glad for you to be of the number who go. We leave here late Sunday night, the 1st. of October and return here the following Sunday morning, early, thus giving 4 full days at the Fair. The cost will be $13. each, which covers R. R. fare, board, lodging and admittance to the Grounds each of the 4 days. Also fare to and from the Hotel to Fair each day.

If you go let me know soon and be here by Saturday night, the 30, inst.

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Sept. 25, 1895.

Dear Nellie:

The party of Students and Employees are to leave here for the World's Fair, next Sunday night, the 1, proximo and have 4 full days at the Fair, returning here early Sunday morning, the 8th. The expense, including everything, $13.

I should be glad to have you go, for your own good as well as to have your assistance in the choir which is to sing in Festival Hall before some 10,000 people, but want your self and Prof Phillips to determine the matter of your leaving the School for that period. If you come you should be here Saturday. Let me know as soon as you can.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 25, '93.

Mr. Thos. Tonkin,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.,

My dear Mr. Tonkin;—

Solomon was always queer here at the school, he never was like the other boys. At the very beginning he objected to playing and associating with them, and in the school room and elsewhere he was often so queer as to cause considerable, and amusement, but he took up the work of selling "Stiya" and did remarkably well at it, a year or more ago. He also secured a very large number of subscriptions for the Helper, and I felt warranted by his experience in yielding to his request and believing that what he said was true. I see why that a mistake has been made. If you can get the fifty comes back from him please box them up and ship them back to me by. Story I have occasioned you the trouble I want about this matter, but you can easily see how it was. We will join in best regards to yourself and Mrs. Tonkin.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 25, '93.

Mr. Thos. W. Potter,

Darlington, O. T.

My dear Potter;—

I received yesterday from the Fidelity Trust Co. of Washington request in regard to you, and have given you as I well felt I could do a most favorable indorsement to them, and I trust you may receive from them your necessary bond.

I know very little about the eastern Cherokees school but believe it runs from eighty to one hundred pupils, and that the Supt. is acting Indian Agent as you suggest. I should judge it was a good place for you to utilize the experience and capacity you have in such matters, and I feel personally assured you could give good satisfaction to the government in the place.

Sincerely yours, A. N. Tuck

Capt. 10th. Cazy. Supt.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 25, '93.

Mr. R. S. Moore,
Econtuchka, I. T.

My dear Mr. Moore; -

Your letter to Sarah dated the 7th. falls
into my hands as indicating your disposition to pay for your
children to go to the World's Fair with us. We leave here for
the Fair, 420 students and 35 employes, on Sunday night at
midnight the 1st. of October. We have four days in the Fair
grounds, good entertainment at a very excellent hotel, on the
lake shore six minutes from the Exposition grounds. All the
expenses of transportation, hotel, electric or steamboat fares
to and from the grounds and entrance to the Fair are covered
by $13.00 from each of the students. I take it that you would
be anxious that your children should go and that you would
send them the money. I shall therefore let them go although I
may not hear from you in time.

There are points of your letter that it seems best
for me to note. Our regulation in regard to registered let-
ters is that they shall be opened in my presence, or in my ab-
sence in the presence of the Asst. Supt in order that we may

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 25, '93.

Mr. Levi Levering,
Omaha University,

Bellevue, Neb.

My dear Levi;—

I have your letter telling me of your return
to college. I am glad you are doing one thing and endeavoring
so hard to do it well.

I thought best to comply with your request sometime ago
and let Lewis return to his agency. I am very much afraid
for his future. He has quite a considerable sum of money, and
he has neither the character nor the intelligence to return
to the agency and make good use of it and of himself. How-
ever, experience may help him. So far as I can see we can do
nothing farther in his case but trust.

Yon dially your friend,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INDIAN
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE

Carlisle, Pa.

Sep. 26, '38.

Mrs. Sara T. Kinney,

New Haven, Conn.,

Dear Mrs. Kinney;—

Montezuma is an impressive speaker and would be a tip top man for your meeting. He is a full blooded Apache with quite a marvellous career and would strike from the shoulder.

I did not know for certain that your Association had undertaken Isabella, but I suspected that you would, and I am glad, for Isabella, like Nancy, has qualities to make her useful anywhere.

26,

G H Wilson
Sec'y
World's Fair, Chicago

My telegram of yesterday. We thought 12, M. bad because the noon hour, but you will know best.

R H Pratt,
Supt.

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa.,

Oct. 5th. 1893.

Mason D. Pratt, Esq.,

Stealton, Pa.,

Dear Sir:-

I forward to-day by express the plan of School premises in regard to which I wrote you the other day. It has been a job somewhat out of Mr. Eckels' line and has taken him longer than was expected. I send also a tracing made from plans we have but on a different scale, that may be useful for reference, and also a plan made by Mr. Eckels, but defective in some points and in execution, that will give the numbering of buildings, length of lines &c.

On Mr. Eckels' plan the _blue pencil line_ signifies water supply pipes; the _single red line_, steam pipes, and _double red line_, drain pipes. The paths are shown by double pencil lines.

The red lines signifying steam are shown as running through the buildings; follow custom on this, whether to stop at walls or run clear through, visibly. Large pencil dots on water line are fire plugs.

Capt. wants a first rate, clean copy made as quickly as practicable. A sheet of tracing cloth enclosed.

Respectfully yours,

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135

Carlisle, Pa.,

Oct. 5th. 1893.

Mr. Wm. J. Shriver,

Baltimore, Md.,

Dear Sir; -

In the absence of the Superintendent, Capt. Pratt,
your letter comes to my hands for attention.

I forward you by this mail some printed matter that will inform you as to the work of Carlisle, as well as give some ideas in regard to the Indians as a whole.

In regard to the special point of your meeting, as to what in particular your organization can do, there is a wide range of plans that may be traversed, but probably the most feasible for immediate usefulness would be to select some already established mission, or school, and undertake the supply of Sunday School and other literature of a simple nature, and so establish relations between that particular place and the city of Baltimore.

In most Government schools there are good Christian workers who would value and use such help in their work. If this plan suits you, more direct information can be given.

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Mr. Wm. J. Shriver, # 2

What is particularly needed is that all such meetings as the one you contemplate, be given publicity-that Congress may be informed as to the interest of the Christian people of the country in the welfare of the Indian race- and legislate accordingly.

There is in Baltimore a lady for a short time connected with this School, who, I think, is well posted on the Indian question, whose address I give you, viz: Miss A. M. V. Davenport, #933 N. Broadway. She has for years been connected with your City Board of Charities and might be of service to you.

Respectfully Yours,

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October 12, 1893.

Mason D. Pratt, Esq.
Steelton, Pa.

Dear Sirs:-

Replying to enquiries of your letter of the 10th inst.
I herewith enclose a plan of pavement in front of school building
and also enough of the fence line, rear of teachers', for you to
locate the back buildings, at other points when not on plan I
would not trouble about them.

As to title, use this, viz:

GROUND PLAN
of
BUILDINGS and PREMISES
of
U.S. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

CARLISLE BARRACKS, PENNA.
Fort used as Barracks, 1777; as Indian School, 1879.

The object of the plan is that the Secretary may have before
him a good clear idea of the premises; the buildings to be the
prominent feature and the pipes to come in as a useful part, but
we want to convince the authorities that they have a valuable plant
here, fairly well equipped and on which they would be justified
in making further expenditure, needed to keep up with the times.
If you, yourself feel satisfied with the result as you now have

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa.,

Oct. 18th. 1893.

Ida H. Wases,

Rancocas, N. J.

Dear Ida:—

Now that Chicago and Lake Mohonk trips are over I
am taking up my correspondence and find your letter of the
29th. of September. I am glad to know that you took your dis-
appointment so nicely. It was right that you should not go.
You need now to look into the future. You can come out of the
dark past and into a bright future, if you only will. It all
rests upon you. You have good friends who are willing to help
you, notwithstanding the past. Be careful not to throw away
your friends. Be patient and true, and the good Father will
help you.

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa.,

Oct. 18th. 1893.

Mr. Justin W. Sheedy,

San Carlos Agency, Ariz.,

Dear Justin;—

I had your letter sometime ago telling of the
death of poor Lucius. He lived longer than we thought he
would when he left Carlisle.

We are getting on nicely at the school. Over 500 of
us went to Chicago for a week. It was the greatest treat the
school ever had. The boys drilled a little, the band played
some, but there was plenty of freedom to look over the Fair.
There was so much that we did not begin to take it all in, but
we got many good ideas and felt on our return that we knew
more about the world we live in than when we went away.

Wishing you every success, my dear Justin, believe me always

Faithfully your Friend,

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Oct. 18th. 1893.

Parker W. West,
San Carlos Agency, Ariz..

Dear Parker;—

I received your letter some days ago, but absence at Chicago and at Lake Mohonk have prevented answering. I am glad to hear that you are safely settled at home, and to feel, from your letter, that you are holding on to the good things that you gained when you were in the East. I do not see why, if the Agency and reservation does not offer you a place, you do not go to some other place and find work. There is plenty of work to do for those who are anxious to work.

Morgan arrived safely and in time to go with us to Chicago, but I must let the Indian Helper give you the news. Glad to hear from you always.

Faithfully your Friend,

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION

Carlisle, Pa.,

Oct. 18th. 1893.

Mr. Geo. Ladeaux,
Wounded Knee Creek,
Manderson, S. Dad.,

My dear George;—

I have your letter and am very glad indeed to hear from you and to realize that you are prospering in your affairs. I congratulate you on your changed conditions and trust your life may be a happy one. We have had a grand trip to Chicago, over five hundred of us. Four days on the Fair grounds gave us a pretty good chance to see much of the great show. I do not think our boys and girls ever had as grand a time before.

I am always glad to hear from you but must leave you to the
Helper for general news in regard to us.

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa.,

Oct. 18th. 1893.

Narragansett Machine Co.,

Providence, R. I.

Gentlemen;—

We have received your invoice of goods of September 22nd. I must ask your indulgence for a short time—not many days I hope—until I can accomplish the securing of the necessary authority. Should it not come in a reasonable time I will settle it in some other way, but my wish is to have the Govt. approve of it and let it be covered by the Govt. appropriation for the school. The goods are quite satisfactory.

Sept.

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Carllisle, Pa.,

Oct. 18th. 1893.

Mr. Richard Devine,

Philadelphia, Pa.,

Dear Sir;--

Enclosed find my check for $21.20 covering your
bill of the 14th, which please receipt and return.

Mr. John Olberg,
Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir;--

I thank you for the suggestion, and have mailed
to the Commissioner photographs of our school, among them the
contrast picture@you speak of.

Personal

Oct. 18th. 1893.

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Oct. 18th. 1893.

Honorable D. M. Browning,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

Thinking you might care to have a little collection of our photographs, I send you a package to-day marked "Personal". You will probably be interested in noting especially the contrast pictures.

Carlisle, Pa.,

Oct. 18th. 1893.

Mr. Harry Kohpay,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Dear Harry:-

I have asked Dennison to write to Conn and ask him the very lowest rate at which he would furnish a Cornet, and thought best that you get it in that way. Dennison, being a band leader can get lower rates than you or I could.

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Mr. Mc. Fadden # 2

had their minds quite changed. They came and thanked me for
my outspoken and radical position. I have Dr. Hale's speech
entire for the next "Red Man" soon to come out.

In regard to what you say about my health and work,
personally, you know I agree with you, but I am in the jaws
of a situation and it seems practically impossible to get out
of the wear of it.

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Oct. 23rd. 1893.

Mr. Arthur Johnson,

Grand River, Ind. Ter.,

My dear Arthur;—

I am indeed sorry to hear of your loss in
the death of your mother. It is a great blessing that she
has been spared to you so long, until you are all practically
grown up, but it is a loss that is never replaced.

In regard to your returning to Carlisle to work I
must tell you that I have many more hands than I can supply
with work and I would not advise, nor do I think it best,
that graduates or returned students, who have grown to years
of maturity, should come back to Carlisle for work. The great
world is before you, and certainly there are opportunities for
worthy laborers everywhere. You ought to have no difficulty
in securing employment.

Sincerely your Friend,

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlsle, Pa.

Oct. 27th. 1893.

Personal.

Dear Judge:-

The writer of the enclosed letter was one of my employes when I was serving at Ft. Still, eighteen and twenty years ago. I always thought well of Woodard and believe that he stands well with the Indians and with the officials, and others at the Agency and on the reservation. Of course, I would not in any way meddle with any Agency affairs. If Mr. Woodard's request is right and reasonable I should like to see it granted, but there may be reasons for the change of which even he does not know. I concur in his commendation of Capt. Brown and believe you will have in him an excellent military agent, as military agents go. I write you this personally and unofficially. I do not wish to go upon record in these matters.

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in reply to

Carlisle, Pa.

Oct. 27th, 1893.

Mrs. Mary Mc.Henry Cox,
Wayne, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Cox:-

You ask too big a question is wishing me to conditions
describe Agency and Reservation schools before eastern
schools began. Progress enough to warrant ten times the out-
lay has been made.

Your conclusions about Reservation schools are cor-
rect. They may teach English, but they teach also dependence
rather than independence. They build up and strengthen the
tribe and beget no notions of disintegrations, or citizenship.
Not being lifted out of camp life, they do not, of course,
drift back to camp life, that is the difference.

I guess eastern schools have got to take some knocks
but I also guess they can stand this.

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October 1st, 1893.

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 28th, and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the Interior, dated Sept. 6th, all 1879.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

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

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November 1st. 1893.

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

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

1428 Arch st., Phil., Penna.

Sir,

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

Very respectfully,

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

2 enclosures.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 1st. 1893.

Rev. Jas. A. O'Connor,
142 W. 21st. St.,
New York, N. Y.

My dear Sir:-

I thank you for kindly sending me the clipping
from N. Y. Evening Post in regard to the Indians. I had not
seen it. I know very well of Mr. Grinnell, and like a good
many others who write on the Indian question, he draws a long
bow, and his statements in regard to the universal and exces-
sive fondness of the Indians for liquor, does them injustice.
I have known many Indians quite as temperate and abstemious as
any white men. I have had quite a good deal to do in the past
years with Indians and the liquor traffic. I can say that
there is no trouble about it except in enforcing the law. The
law is good enough. It protects me here in Pennsylvania. I
had one man in Bucks Co. fined $1000.00 and sent to jail for
six months for selling my boys whiskey, and I had one man be-
to the U. S. courts for sometime who was one of the most
ominant hotel keepers in Bucks Co. and a very respectable
who thought he could whip us out, but finding he was in

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the clutches of the law, and likely to lose his property and
go to jail besides and that there was no escape, he squealed
and interceded with the authorities in Washington, and on a
general promise of good behavior and an agreement to pay all
expenses up to that time, I listened to the judgement of the
District Attorney and permitted him to stop the proceedings.

The picture he gives of Major Steel is a common one on the
frontier, and the frontier is the trouble. The unfriendliness
to the Indians, and the lawlessness so rampant there makes it
practically impossible for the best intentioned officials to
protect. Major Steel was a good Agent.

I am always pleased to get your "Converted Catholic."

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In reply to:

Carlsie, Pa.,

Nov. 4th, 1893.

Mr. Eugene Tahkaphuer,

Conway, Mass.,

My dear Eugene: -

I have yours of the 1st. of November. It
would be impossible for me to accommodate you with a loan.
The demands upon me keep me impoverished all the time, so that
I am really myself compelled to borrow. I should be glad to
see you established in the way you propose, particularly if
there was sufficient money in it. You must keep up your relations with the reservation and hold on to your land rights there. Glad to hear of your continued success.

Faithfully your friend,

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In reply to:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 4th. 1893.

Mr. Levi Levering,
Omaha University,
Bellevue, Neb.,

My dear Levi:-

Now you have the kernel of the whole matter. You will be a man when you take entire control and care of yourself and yours, and you are somebody's else man just so long as they take care of you. If they partly take care of you, you are in part somebody's else man. I am glad to get your letter of October 30th., particularly to know that you take hold of the old idea with renewed courage. It would be better for you to be sawing wood and taking care of yourself- it would be more creditable to your manhood and more helpful in every way, than it would be to be going to the University of Omaha at somebody's else cost.- however much you may learn intellectually.

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 6th. 1893.

Rev. J. H. Anderson,

#116 Liberty St.,

Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

I find in the Journal of Education, Boston, which is about the foremost educational paper of the country, in its issue of November 2nd, a brief tribute to the Rev. J. C. Price, which may escape your notice.

Supt.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 9th. 1893.

Miss Lydie L. Hunt,

Siletz Agency, Oregon.,

Dear Miss Hunt:-

I had a conference with Robert, and have written the Agent, so that his father and you and the Agent may know what I think about it. I think Robert is settling down to work along the line of my views and he seems a most excellent, manly young man. I trust your affairs may get on all right, and the change in Agents may not affect you, as you seem to have reasons that it will not. I fear General Armstrong's criticism of Miss Merritt's possibilities are likely to come true before very long. The school seems to be having quite a good deal of trouble.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 9th. 1893.

Mr. H. M. Hudelson,

Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Hudelson:-

Mr. Campbell's aspirations seem to be
a long way from realization. I now greatly doubt his trans-
fer, or appointment, elsewhere, especially since Tuesday's
snow storm.

I want to assure you my good friend that both Prof.
Bakeless and I have the warmest feelings for you and we have
the highest appreciation of your character and attainments,
but we both feel that No. 11 has been persecuted too long by
changes, and that it must end, and if possible to find a man
with the ability and the health to stand up to the work con-
tinuously, we must have such an one there. We both believe
that you would be doing a wrong to yourself to undertake the
grind of school room work just now. So, that while it is hard
for you and unpleasant for us we feel that this is a place
where there are two unfortunate dilemmas. We must choose to
leave it, or accept it. But which is best for the school.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 9th. 1893.

Mr. W. Bent,
Harlem, Mont.,

My dear Mr. Bent:--

I am so sorry to hear of poor Katie's death, yet it seemed that was to be so when she left here. We all hoped against our judgement that she might rally.

She was so kind, patient and loving in her disposition that we all felt greatly attached to her. Our loving sympathies are with you.

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In reply to.

Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 9th. 1893.

Miss Aline Conover,

Anadarko, O. I.

My dear Aline:-

I am so sorry to hear what you tell me of
Julia Bent. It does not seem possible that she could do such
a thing. Just think of her ten years at Carlisle, of her be-
ing a graduate and her going to Normal School. It is too bad:
I am glad to hear from you and to know you are doing the best
you can. With love to you all,

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Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 14th. 1893.

W. J. Buck, Sons & Co.,

Philadelphia, Pa.,

Gentlemen:-

I am wishing to make some changes in suspending the electric lights from the ceiling in a church and I want 10 pieces of 7/8" pipe, 8 ft. long, 12 pieces 3 ft. long and 1 piece 14 ft. long, but these lengths might be in shorter sections. I thought that a ball or two on the long lengths would add to the appearance of them. We would also need fastenings for holding a large shade. The pipe being only for ornament need not be heavy, and should be bronzed or polished so as to make an unfading surface. Please let me know about these and I would be glad to have your circulars of fixtures and material generally of this character, as we are just placing 700 electric lights in our school and shall probably want to make small orders from time to time.

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Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 14, 1893.

Miss Mary Shoneda,

Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.,

Dear Miss:-

The orders of the Indian office require that all students shall attend the same schools they were at last year, except there is special permission from Washington. I suggest that you write direct to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington and ask him for permission, if you still wish to come to Carlisle.

Sincerely your Friend,

Capt. 10th. Cavy.,

Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 15, 1895.

Mr. John D. Miles,

Lawrence, Kansas.

Friend Miles:-

I have written Senator Dawes in Woodward's be-
half. I apprehend though that my interest will not amount to
much, particularly as one so well known as Senator Dawes would
immediately have a flood of applicants, and no doubt the Sena-
tor has those who have served him before whom he will light
upon. However, there is nothing like trying. I should be
glad, of course, to help Woodward or you in any manner. I
have been on my back for several days and was not able to at-
tend to business, or this would have been attended to more
promptly.

How are you? I hope all goes well with you and
yours. Mrs. Pratt and I are entirely alone. Nana is visiting
Marion in Denver, Mason is in Steelton and Chenda is at board-
ing school in Maryland. It is lonesome in our big house.

Faithfully yours,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

Carlisle, Pa.

Nov. 16th. 1993.

Thos. P. VIlton,
Supt. Cheyenne School,
Darlington, O. I.

Dear Sirs:-

You are of the 9th. speaking kindly of Leonard Tyler
and Paul Good Bean, former pupils of this school, is grate-
fully received. I will write the boys as you suggest.

In regard to your project of an industrial school,
long experience and observation warns that the home and tribal
schools simply build up the people against the United States,
and really against their own interests. The fact that you
must have a Cheyenne school for the Cheyennes and an Arapahoe
school for the Arapahoes at your Agency, and that there must
be a Comanche, a Kiowa, an Apache and a Wichita at the Kiowa
Agency for each tribe there, is an outrage on every good Amer-
ican principle.

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Carlisle, Pa.,

Nov. 23rd. 1893.

William Petoskey,

Petoskey, Mich.,

Dear William:-

I was glad to get your nice letter and have
turned the 10 cents over to Miss Burgess, who will send the
Helper to you. I congratulate you on your enlarged field of
usefulness and feel assured that you will fully meet the ex-
pectations of those who appointed you.

If you wish to come to Carlisle for additional education, come on. Give my love to Jane and believe me always

Faithfully your Friend,

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where a boy could not stand prosperity. Solomon, because of
his success at that time concluded he could do most anything
in that line, talked about it incessantly and bothered me not
a little. I began to think his mind was a little unhinged, and
so, let him go home when he desired to. I do not think it
would be at all well for him to come back here. He needs dis-
appointments, adversity, in order to see where he is. Sorry
to have bothered you so much about these matters. I did not
apprehend it when I sent you the goods. Ship the goods by
freight as there is no great hurry about their getting back
here. With cordial regards to Mrs. Tonkin,

Yours Faithfully,

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