Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 1, 1898.

To the Adjutant,

1st U. S. Cavalry,
Camp Wykoff, Montauk Point,
Long Island, New York.

Sir :-

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

My address for the next month is as above.

Major 1st Cavalry, Supt.

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THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 1, 1898.

Miss Elizabeth Williams,
Saguing, Mich.

Dear Elizabeth :-

I have asked Mr. Wood of the Pennsylvania Road to have
the ticket agent at Saganing deliver you a ticket reading "to Carlisle
saying you would ask for it about the 13th of September. You say noth
ing about any others, so I take it you are to be the only passenger.
If there are others to come with you, I should know all about them,
their age, health, character, etc., and should know at once.

Dictated (P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 1 1898.

Mrs. J. E. Crawford,
"Beacon by the Sea",
Point Pleasant, N. J.

My dear Mrs. Crawford :-

When I left here last Friday your telegrams had not been received, and I had about made up my mind you were full and could not accommodate us. Still I left word that your telegram should be forwarded to me at Philadelphia. Mrs. Pratt and my daughter had gone on sometime before and met me in the Broad Street Station. It was hot and I was tired and sick. Mrs. Pratt insisted that I should not go to any place where there were Indians or where I would have to talk about Indians. A number of our friends urged Cape May, and as we had never been there and it seemed a good time, I forgot all about your telegram and arranged transportation for Cape May and had barely time to board the train. We arrived just before dark. I had the very novel experience of being in a popular resort three days without meeting more than one person I knew; so I had a complete rest. We came back to the city on Monday and endured the heat of Monday and Tuesday, coming home last night. On account of the experience of yesterday and the day before, I reached home worse off than when I left. Am trying this morning to pull myself together for the accomplishment of a little necessary work, and then if possible I shall quit the country for a time and go to Europe.

I am very sorry I did not get down to your place and see how the boys are getting on, but taking everything in consideration I think it is just as well.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 1, 1898.

To the Adjutant General, U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

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

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 1st, 1898.

Miss Cynthia Webster,

Pottowatomie School,
Nadeau, Kansas.

My dear Cynthia:

I got your letter telling of your safe journey
and warm welcome, all of which pleased us much and quite eases my
mind in regard to you. Your great problem now will be to be as
womanly as your new duties you have undertaken require. Be true
to yourself and you will be all right.

You are quite close to Mrs. Given, and she will be glad
to see you, I am sure. She is at Holton wth her brother-in-law,
Dr. McCandless.

I am very glad to have you continue to call me your school
father, my good school-daughter, and your success will be one of my
greatest gratifications.

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Rev. George B. Stewart,
Chairman, etc.,

17 South Second Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Doctor:

I thank you most heartily for your good wishes
and congratulations on my promotion.

I have carried the title of "Captain" about 34 years, and
I guess it is tacked on for life. It seems unnatural for me to
think of myself as anything else, and invariably when talking over
the telephone I forget and say "Capt. Pratt", and most of my peo-
ple do the same thing. However, I have the rank and the added
emoluments, which are, of course, at my years acceptable.

In regard to your plan of visiting the Indian School the fore
part of October, I want to say that I shall welcome you most warmly
and you will be coming at a time that suits us well, as our school
will then be in full flow, and in such condition as we are always
pleased to have visitors see us. There will be over 600 pupils
present. The new band will also be in some shape. The first
installment of new instruments came yesterday, and we expect to have
a complete band of about 60 pieces.

I will give you and your party as good a reception all around
as possible. Please write me when the time approaches with particu-
lars as to the time which you can stay, etc.

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

Dear Susie:

Louise Wheelock will be returning to the school from White Earth about the 1st of October, and your sister, Tressée, can come in with her. You had better write her to see or correspond with Louise, and be sure to let me know in advance the time of starting, so that I can furnish your sister ticket.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carliole, Pa., Sept. 2nd, 1898.

Miss Kate McBeth,

Ft. Lapwai, Idaho.

My dear Miss McBeth:

I enclose you a letter from Corbett Lawyer. I
have heard such stories about him since his return to the Agency
that I do not feel it would be right to receive him back, and yet
I do not want to fail to do anything that I ought to do as a matter
of duty. Our good David McFarland, while here, I learn has
also gone badly astray.

I should be glad to have information from you confidentially
in regard to Corbett.

Please return his letter.

(Dictated) Mo

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 2nd, '98

Fred Genrich,
Delphi, Ind.

My dear Old Comrade:

I have been kept right at the grind here all summer long and feel the need of a change greatly. It is my purpose as soon as I can get loose from here to take a little trip to Europe and get away from Indians and from people who continually talk Indian. My physical condition needs a good long change, and I do not see how it would be possible for me to be present at the reunion of the Company under the circumstances.

Please say to my old comrades of Company "A" that nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be with them, particularly at this late reunion. We are getting old, some are passing away, the rest of us cannot anticipate a very great many years and naturally the ties of our service and association grow warmer.

No portion of my war service is as dear to me as that with
Company "A". I wish especially to be remembered to Mess #1, for
while they expelled me for an unjust reason I have not allowed that
to interfere with my feeling of friendship for each and every one,
and to go over the incidents of our service from '61 to '64, to re-
call the jokes and the service and the foibles of each would be
especially refreshing and pleasant.

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Miss Mary L. Logg,

Cheyenne Agency, S.D.

Dear Mary:

In accordance with your request I return you herewith
the registered letter. Your letter said there were 10 cents in
stamps enclosed, but there was no stamps.

I am glad to know that you have prospect of getting some-
thing to do. Work is often the very best of medicine.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 3rd, 1898.

Dr. L. Webster Fox,

Philadelphia,

Pa.

Dear Doctor:

I enclose you a little clipping that went into our papers here. It seems to have been cut quite a little.

It has been so intolerably warm since we came home that Mrs. Pratt has been quite laid up. It was her intention to go out among the ladies and see what she could do in the way of raising some sort of a contribution.

Did you forget to write to my Dr. Diven about Lettie Scott?

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Lyon & Healy,

Chicago, Ill.

Gentlemen:

I note your advertisement in McClure's Magazine. I am about to get a "Baby Grand" piano for my daughter, who is very much in favor of having a "Steinway". I expect to trade on such piano an upright "Decker" which we have had about 14 years. It has been very little used, and is in comparatively good order. Our objection to it is that my daughter is something of a vocalist and objects to singing against a piano, and as the square pianos have pretty much gone out of use, the "Baby Grand" seems the only resort.

Your advertisement mentions very special rates, etc., and I note that you have new Steinways but say nothing about "Kanabes". Whether you have such a piano as we want, and whether you could offer us such prices as would lead us to consider the matter is the question. I shall delay buying until I hear from you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 5th, 1898.

R.D.M. Elsner,

State and 3rd Streets,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Sirs:

I doubt whether any of us can go to Baltimore with you.
We shall begin moving into our house after the middle of the week,
and shall be extremely busy. My daughter is getting ready to re-
turn to College. If you should get a good instrument at Harris-
cburg of the kind we want, we would come over and look at it.

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Mrs. B.B. Given,

Holton, Kansas.

My dear Mrs. Given:

Under all the circumstances I would not encourage a party from Wyandotte. The best way is to let the appeal come from that end.

It is a great pleasure to all of us to know that you are getting on so well, and that you will be with us again October 1st.

I have placed Miss Carter in charge of the small boys. She is tending down the situation not a little. It needed it. The mountain party returned to the school today.

The large boy made a successful runaway and has returned to his home. The little fellow after making the third attempt is back on our hands again, but there seems little hope of good results, and I almost wish he could make a success of it and get away entirely.

Our affairs are in exceptionally good shape, school opened this morning. Everybody at their post and in good health and spirits, except Mrs. Cook, who is in Dakota after children to be back by the 18th.

With love and good wishes from us all,

(Disted) Mc

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Chas. H. Meck,

Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Mr. Meck:

Mrs. Pratt has already concluded arrangements
for her household help. Indeed, we let our woman go, who was with
us last winter, with the distinct understanding that she should
return to us this fall, and as soon as we get into our new quarters,
while
we are expecting to have her back, so that it would be exceedingly
pleasant to have Maggie with us again, especially so to me, because
Maggie always did cook to suit me, it is not permitted by the arm-
rangements.

In regard to yourself, I do not have any clerk positions
at my disposal, and if I did have, there are so many young Indians
here now who can write nicely and correctly, and who have taken
business courses, etc., that there is little opportunity to make use
of outside people.

(Diated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 6th, 1898.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,

100 State Street,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Doctor:

Thank you for your congratulations on my promotion.
I suppose you know you can call me Doctor now also. Dickinson Col-
lege gave me the title of L.L. D. at its last Commencement.

We are continuing the fight. School opened this morning.
We have 820 odd on our lists, and expect to make it about 800
before the end of the month. The summer's work has been full of
success as usual. During the vacation we had just about 800 out
all the time. What a marvel of success that seems to be. If we
had twice or three times the number, it would have been easy to
place them, such is the good recommendation reputation our Indians
make as laborers.

Sincerely, your friend,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlsbad, Pa., Sept. 5th, 1898.

Mrs. Elizabeth Grinnell,
Pasadena, Cal.

My dear Mrs. Grinnell:

I have just asked Heath & Co., to send me
a copy of your and Joe's book on birds, and to name a rate by the
dozen.

It is most refreshing to get a line from you always, and
I never think of the West without including you and the Doctor and
your home and the dear surroundings. I was better at Pasadena,
for some cause or other, than any time before or since, and I do
so long to get away and rest. Mrs. Pratt and I are talking about
a trip to Europe in October, to be gone a month, but I question
whether we would not be a great deal better off in California and
some other points, particularly am I anxious to spend some time
at San Diego. Just what we will do is not determined, but the Ocean
voyage is recommended most.

What a grand trip Joe is having. It will do more to get
him into substantial manhood than anything else he could have
undertaken, I think.

I have tried to recall the Horace Gaylord of whom you
speak, but somehow my mind is confused about him. I hope I shall
be able to recognize him if I do meet him, but my faculties in that
line are so defective that I fear not, and that always annoys me so
much.

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Mrs. Grinnell§

Mrs. Pratt, Chanda and I went down to Cape May for three
delightful days last week. We came back to Philadelphia to make
purchases for our house and spent two days in the intensely hot
city. I was worse off than when I left home. Mrs. Pratt has suc-
ceeded in getting the house entirely reorganized, rearranged in
rooms, halls, and replastered, painted and papered, and, of course,
now it must be refurnished. We have always had a Lieutenant's out
fit and now Mrs. Pratt is jumping right square into a Colonel's
outfit. This breaks in heavy on our little savings, but I
guess it is all right.

Thank you for the compliments on my promotion. "It is an
ill wind that blows nobody anygood"; which is what I can say of
the War in Cuba. My promotion comes from the death on the battle-
field of Major Force, a gallant officer of the 1st Cav'y. I wanted
to be promoted by the retirement of some old fellow, but such is
the fate of War.

With love to the Doctor, Fordy and dear good Bessie, and
yourself, always

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 8th, 1898.

Hon. W.A. Jones,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

Miss M.E. Dissett of New Mexico writes me
asking to stand by her for an appointment as supervising teacher
of the Pueblo Day Schools. I have known Miss Dissett for eight
or nine years, and always most favorably. I believe she is entirely
capable of filling any position she, herself, is willing to under-
take. Her right views on the Indian question, and her uniform
loyalty to the principles of the Carlisle School, and her working
as a missionary and as a western teacher have always commended her
to me, and I should be very happy to see her appointed if the place
is vacated, feeling assured that her service would be entirely
satisfactory to the Government. I may mention to you privately
that she has a bitter enemy in a Miss M Silcott, principal teacher
at Sante Fe. Miss Silcott has been at quite a number of places in
the Indian Service. She was at Carlisle a year, and it was impera-
tive that I get rid of her. I very much doubt if Mr. Veits can
make his school an it ought to be with Miss Silcott as an employee.

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Miss L.L. Hunt,

Sept. Indian School,
San Carlos, Arizona.

My dear Miss Hunt:

I enclose you vouchers and check to cover.

Please be careful to have the oath administered in a way that is
acceptable to the Department. Here, if we take an oath before
a notary, we have the authority of the county clerk under his seal
that such person is a notary duly qualified. But whatever would
serve there will serve here.

The doctor says the conditions in the children are not
bad for, and that he can manage it. I note what you say about
the sad conditions around you. This gives you the opportunity
to make yourself the one oasis of the situation, and I need not
say I know you will do that.

Mrs. Pratt did receive the book, and was amused in reading it, and intended to write you, but she is a good deal like her husband, careless in such matters. She thanks you for it.

The Commissioner has promised to visit me and spend several
days, and when he does I shall talk to him about you, and give him
the points in your letter. We opened school this morning in fine
shape. Everybody back at their work except Mrs. Cook, who has
gone to South Dakota for children, and the local conditions and sur-

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Hon. W.A. Jones,

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

I send you the enclosed letter from Minnie Reed, who is from our experience with her here during the past two years one of the most sensible and best girls we ever had, and is, therefore, entitled to consideration.

Would it not be a good plan for you to write the Indian Agent and ask him what property Minnie Reed has on the reservation in stock, land, etc., and its present condition, and what had best be done with it? This would give a base to work on. I know absolutely nothing about it more than is contained in this letter.

Very truly yours,

Major 1st Cav'y., Supt.

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September 6th, 1898.

My dear Mr. Philip:

I appreciate most heartily the congratulations of yourself and Mrs. Philip on my promotion. I carried the title of "Captain" about 34 years, and it is so indurated into my own makeup, and into the minds of all my friends and acquaintances that I begin to question whether I can ever get rid of it.

However, as under it I have won my spurs, I have no antipathies against it, and do not feel at all out of place when I am still called "Captain", as I usually am.

I trust that you and Mrs. Philip are in good health, and that all goes well with you.

Mr. Henry J. Phillip,
Racoma, Washington.

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Miss M.R. Dissett

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My dear Miss Dissett:

Your letter came duly. I have been expect-
ing the Honorable Commissioner to visit me and be my guest for
several days, but the absence of the Assistant Commissioner, who
is in poor health, has made it impracticable for him to make the
visit. I have accordingly written him in your behalf, and shall
be delighted to do anything I can to further your aim.

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Carliole, Pa., Sept. 6th, 1908

Rev. J.V. Potts,
N. Robinson, Ohio.

My dear Friend;

I intended to write you earlier about your article, but it has been impracticable. This is my busiest time of the year, and my energies are just about all used to keep even with the work.

I have no objections to printing your article in the "Red Man" and making some comments upon it, as I would have to. To me, the defect in your position is that it means continued isolation.

If you segregate young Indians, who are educated and trained and made something near what they ought to be, into communities by themselves, you invite a continuation of disabilities and disasters.

The negro has scattered throughout the country. He can be found in every community, and while he has been forced into the ways and little communities by himself in every community, he still enjoys to a greater or less extent the privileges of example and culture in the communities where he resides. He meets people; he is not compelled to be a people unto himself so absolutely as your plan would result in the case of the Indian.

One of the greatest and best citizens of Philadelphia some years ago told me how a large colored community that was giving the whole city great trouble was absorbed and driven out of existence by a few capitalists, and good citizens made it their special business to get them to move and settle in different parts of the city far distant from each other.

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Rev. Potts.

-2-

We shall never make the best man we can out of an Indian,
or out of a negro, or out of any other man, until we admit him into
full relations with ourselves and give him the same opportunities.
He must become an individual man and citizen.

I return your little article to you and suggest if on fur-
ther consideration you accept of my views you rewrite it, using, if
you please, the same "Helper" article, which you will see on re-
reading is exactly on my line of thought. I have glanced over
your monograph, but have not had time to read it carefully.

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M.D. Pratt,

Steeton, Pa.

Dear Mason:

Mr. Cloud came to settle yesterday evening. He stated that he had had a Mr. Wert, a borough surveyor, take your blue print and go over it, and that he made 900 cubic yards more of removal than you did. I wish you might be able to come over here Tuesday of next week at 4:30 and meet Mr. Cloud and Mr. Wert, and let us settle up the matter.

I have been unable to turn over the leaves of your book, which I received some days ago. It is certainly a very respectable and evidently a book of some value.

About Dorothy, I think we must let her go. She has quite entirely filled her place as a student at the school, and we must not expect to get them against their will for any service.

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J.W. Parker,

Union City, Wash.

My dear John:

I am very glad to get your letter and to know of your
welfare. I think you have elected to do the right thing in tak-
ing hold of your life work now, and not attempting to continue
your education.

I believe that your success from year to year will place
you on a continuous higher footing. You have only to go at it
in a manly way, and be true to yourself always and all will come
out right.

I hope sometime that I may have the pleasure of seeing
you, even though you are far away, for I expect to visit the
Pacific Coast.

I very willingly extend the limit for the return of the
money. You will send it to me at your earliest convenience and
that will be satisfactory.

Give my kind regards to your wife and believe me always

(Dictated) Mc

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Lillian Complainville,

Grand Junction, Colo.

My dear Lillian:

I congratulate you on your appointment to Grand Junction. It is the most glorious fruit region perhaps in the whole United States. I trust that your being at Grand Junction may operate as a counter influence and in favor of Carlisle.

I enclose you check for $75 of your money, and your books
will be shipped tomorrow by freight.

With all good wishes,

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Gimbel Brothers,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen:

Some months ago I bought a chainless Spaulding. I note
that the box around the cogs is filled with what seems to be graph-
ite. During the heat of the summer, much of this has melted and
run out. Shall I refill it, and if so, do I need special material?
If I do, please send me at once a quantity.

(Dctated) Mc

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G.P. Houk,

Browning, Mont.

My dear Presley:

Thank you for your kind thought of me on my pro-
motion, but I have been a "Captain" so long that I shall probably
never get rid of the title. Thirty four years ago the 1st of
this month, I was promoted from 1st Lieut. to Captain of the 11th
Indiana Cavalry, and I have practically been Captain ever since,
for while I was 1st Lieut I was Captain by Brevet.

It is a great pleasure to me to know that you appreciate
what we tried to do for you at Carlisle. I understand, of course,
that the best efforts of most successful people are short of
perfection, but I hear enough from those who have been at Carlisle
to continually keep my courage above ebb tide. If my students
have violated the proprieties, it has always been my aim to for-
get as soon as I could, and to remember only the good. If I was
called upon now to state what is was you refer to, I am sure it
would be impossible for me to do it, and still I remember Presley
Houk and many of his characteristics while at Carlisle.

Success to you, my boy, always.

a(Dictate: ) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 9th, 1898.

Dr. E.H. Miller,

My dear Sir:

Presuming that you are an honest man, and that the
money due Nellis Kennedy would be promptly paid to her, when she
left for home I advanced her the $25.15 you owed her, so that you
owe me that amount.

I have endeavored in the past to get this from you, but
failed, using the influences Miss Bender directed. If you do
not pay it promptly now, I shall place it in the hands of some one
who will push it to a successful issue.

(Dietatüd) Mc

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Carliole, Pa., Sept 10, 1898

W.B.Freer
Supt. Indian School
Hoopa Valley, Calif.
My dear sir:

Perry Tsammwa was a pupil of this school 13 years, but several years of this time he has been taking care of himself, under our "Cuting", in the country. He has always been, so far as we knew, perfectly correct in his habits.

He has been with one of our best country patrons, Mr Rich, about a year. This morning I have a letter from this man, Mr Rich telling me of prolonged intimacy between Perry and the hired girl, which he gets hold of now that Perry is gone.

This destroys my basis of recommendation, and not only com-
pels me to withdraw that but to withdraw Perry. I have accord-
ingly arranged by telephone with the Railroad Agent at Philadelphia
that Perry be returned to me immediately, from Seattle, in order
that I may deal with him and do what I can to make things right in
this matter.

It is now so late that I think if would be impossible to send
you any one for the place who would be at all satisfactory.

I expect the Commissioner to be here to-night and spend Sunday
with me and will give him the facts of the case, so that the situa-
tion will be open for your action in Washington.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 12th, 1898.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,

Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Dear Mrs. Cook:

You have been skipping about so that it seemed im-
possible to overtake you with a letter. I had a telegram from
Rev. J.W. Cook, and arranged for two tickets at Armour, S.Dak. I
have asked for rates from both Valentine and Rushville, but will
place tickets promptly when advised you need them.

I still think it best we leave to correspondence the send-
ing in of a party from Cheyenne River Agency. Experience at Hampton
and our experiences here have all been averse to that locality.
There seems more scrofula and consumption than among any of the
other tribes. At least, that is the character of the children
I took to Hampton in the early days, and those who have come here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 13th, 1898.

Mr. Claude M. Sturm,

General Land Office,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sturm:

I have your letter of the 9th and am delighted to
know that you find yourself so congenially located and your prospects
so bright.

You are a good deal of a philosopher in the matter, and I
see no reason why you should not continue to anticipate and why
your anticipations should not be realized.

I notified the Chief Clerk today of the balance of leave due
you.

With all good wishes,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 15th, 1898.

Leander Gansworth,

Bohemville, N.Y.

My dear Leander:

I signed check today for the balance due you, $17.59, and directed Miss Luckenbach to send it to you.

We shall be greater in numbers by Friday evening than we have ever been before, and still more to come. We expect to carry about 900.

(Distated) Mc

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Mr. Albert Nash,

Thurston, Nebraska.

My dear Sir:

I have yours of the 12th in regard to the expenses of
Albert at College. The time has come, and it is due to you, to
advise you that I do not think further investment of money in
Albert's education will be profitable. His reports from the Col-
lege last year were most unsatisfactory. He wasted his time and
energies, and his conduct laterly is an abuse of your and my
confidence. He does not rise to his opportunities. Rather he
abuses them, and his influence upon the other students of this
school is such that I must not continue it. My opinion has been
to send him home as soon as he returns from the seashore. I
shall wait a week from now to hear from you again. In the mean-
time I would suggest that you write him here withdrawing your as-
sistance at College. This will, together with my action toward
him, place him just where he ought to be.

Your children all are in good health, and with this excep-
tion are very acceptable pupils.

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Dr. E.H. Miller,

625 North 7th Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:

Your letter of the 13th is not satisfactory. I have
nothing to do with Joel H. DeVictor, Atty. at Law, Byberry, Phila.
My claim is against you.

If you do not respond favorably to this within reasonable
time, I will place the matter in the hands of an attorney in
Philadelphia and force a settlement.

Your statement that you were unaware I had any claim against
you is, in the light of your own letters in my possession, a most
remarkable one. I have prepared the whole correspondence from
the beginning to send to a lawyer, but conclude to wait for
your answer to this.

(Dictated) Mo

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Carliole, Pa., Sept. 15th, 1925.

Rev. Geo. Runciman,

Verneilles, N.Y.

Dear Sirs:

I yielded to Mr. Trippe's importunities to make up a party for Carlisle, and supposed that it would largely include his bail-bust. He had a good deal more than three weeks, I should say six weeks to make up the party. Why he should have appealed to you finally, and why you should furnish more than half the number, I do not understand.

I am very sorry there are so many small ones. While we do take them 12 years and over, we prefer them 14 years and over.

I like your position on Mrs Armstrong's boy's case, and you can just stand right there. If he comes, well and good.

Last year I had a general arrangement with Brother Trippe that hereafter the Indians, to show their seal in the matter, should pay the way of their children to some to Carlisle, and I, was willing to increase our numbers on that ground. In writing and rewriting and working it up, Brother Trippe finally got me to undertake the cost from Buffalo here.

If there are really good substantial children, of good character and in good health and who have seal in the matter of education, I have always room for one or two exceptional students.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 19th, 1898.

Andrew Morris,

970 Duane Avenue,
Schenectady, N.Y.

My dear Sirs:

Your son, John, committed a foul crime against a little colored girl, and when I found it out on the 5th of May last, I sent him away from the school. He asked me to allow him to go to Onondaga, N.Y., which I did, and that is the last I know of him.

Your five dollars for his fare home is, therefore, here with returned.

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Dr. A.M. Seabrook,

M.E. Hospital,
Philadelphia, Penns.

My dear Miss Seabrook:

James Flannery was here not very long ago, but was in a sad physical condition. He has been playing in the band of some show company. He evidently thought that he would keep him here and take him into the hospital, but his conduct was such, after repeated trials, that it was not possible for me to do that. He alleged that he was, notwithstanding his condition, perfectly able to go on with his duties, and was to join some band on the road not from here. I do not just remember where. A few days ago I heard that he was at the Methodist Hospital in a dying condition, but from your letter he is not there.

We all sympathize with you in your noble work of taking care of the sick soldiers. I am pleased to believe no other hospital in the United States has better accommodation or more skillful caretakers than yours, and those poor fellows who were so fortunate as to come to you were certainly to be congratulated.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 24th, 1898.

Lyon Healy & Co.,

Chicago, Ill.

Gentlemen:

Replying to yours of the 8th and 16th, I have to re-
spectfully advise you that the rates you place on your pianos
do not induce me to consider same. While I have not yet closed,
and shall not for a few days, I can do so much better here,
and can have the choice of a variety of instruments, and new ones,
that I do not feel I am warranted in giving further consideration
to your propositions.

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My dear Embick:

I was absent when your hote came, and yesterday
morning when your agent, or some one, called asking me to go
over to Boiling Springs, it was utterly impossible. I have a
Government Indian School man here, and have had to give my time
up to him.

Our band is in a transition state, just securing new
instruments and the boys have had no chance to play together,
and only a very few of the instruments are here, so that fea-
ture was also impossible.

Regretting that I could not respond to your call, I am

Major N.A. Embick,
Boiling Springs, Pa.

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Major Charles L. Cooper,
Huntsville, Ala.

My dear Cooper:

I have been away from home almost a week now hence
delay in answering your letter.

I do not know Congressman Stone, candidate for Governor
on the Republican ticket. I am well acquainted with, and am
sure my relations are such that I could aid you materially with
the other Stone of Warren, but with W.A. Stone I fear I have no
chance of helping you. I am just a little bit afraid of the
results in our election. There is a desperate war on Quay.
Swallow carried 10 counties of the state for Treasurer, and he
has very much better backing for Governor than he had for Treasurer
and he may win. I could talk to him better than to any of the
other candidates, though I am a Republican.

You had better work the racket on Stone all you can through
other persons, and after the election if Swallow should be the
man, I could do a lot.

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Miss Edith M. Smith,

State Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Edith:

My objection to your action was based entirely upon
the unceremoniousness. Your mother's postal card, of which
you had a copy, indicated that it was her will that you remain
and that you take an entirely different course from what you
did. I had nothing from you or her to the contrary of that postal
until you left your place as you did. I did not excuse it then,
nor do I excuse it now. Such a system of procedure once estab-
lished would wreck our Outing business completely, but that is
neither here nor there. Your conduct has always been excellent
before, and I have the very highest regard for you, and can over-
look that matter.

I should be obliged to you if you could find out the name
of the boy employed on Market Street that you speak of, and let
me know whether he is a Lincoln student or not, and such other
particulars as you can in regard to him.

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Mr. McGowan,

Furniture Department,

John Wanamaker's,

Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. McGowan:

The chairs and bureau came a few days ago,
and during my absence from home. The chairs are very satisfac-
tory, but the bureau is not finished as agreed upon. You will re-
call that Mrs. Pratt was especially particular that it should be
made in perfect harmony with the bed, and she spoke especially
of the claw feet in front and the colonial style of brass handles.
You said the handles would be exactly like those on my daughter's
bureau only larger. The front and back feet are uncarved
samay and the brass handles are very modern and gaudy and stand
out from the bureau, not being at all what you promised. Mrs.
Pratt particularly objected to this style of handles. The mirror
and frame seem to be all right. We only partially unpacked, so
that we might see that part of it. The finish of the bureau
is not nearly as fine as that on our daughter's. We supposed
that it would be equal to that. It is of the utmost importance
that in putting so much in a dresser, Mrs. Pratt be entirely
satisfied. She is so dissatisfied with it that I have directed
that it be repacked, but that cannot be done until Monday or
Tuesday, owing to the press of other work here, and I will then
ship it back.

Yours truly,

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Charles H. Fischer,

1710 Chestnut Street,

Philadelphia.

My dear Mr. Fischer:

My daughter after trying over pianos does
not seem as well satisfied with the "Mason & Hamlin" as with
either the "Stienway" or "Knab". She has seen the "Stieff
a very handsome one at the agency in Harrisburg, which she has
tried and which seems to please her exceedingly well, and the
bargain I can make in exchange is a very material consideration
in its favor.

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September 26th, 1898.

Mr. Albert K. Smiley,

Lake Mohawk, N.Y.

My dear Sirs:

I enclose to you a letter from Dr. Sea-
brook, who was a teacher here years ago, and after-
wards nurse in charge of our hospital. She has done
a great deal for the Indians in her way, especially
in advancing our girls as nurses. She rather be-
longs to Mrs. Quinton's side of the house now, but
her presence at your Conference would add a practi-
cal experience, and I trust you will be able to grat-
ify her.

Mrs. Pratt and I have been planning to take
quite a trip away from home, starting soon in Octo-
ber, and have only been waiting for the school to
settle down to its normal fall work. I have stayed
here all summer and feel the need of a complete rest.
This will prevent our presence at the Conference
this fall.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 28th, 1898.

Supt. Harwood Hall,
Indian School,
Perris, Cal.

My dear Hall:

Referring to your letter of the 19th in regard to
So. California Indians for Phoenix, I have personally and urgently
urged the Commissioner not to do this. I think it was an arrange-
ment made by Hailman, and the Commissioner practically knew nothing
about it, but having been made he would naturally not change it
without some protest and good reason, which your letter will give
him. My verbal argument was along exactly the same lines as you
present, and I also added that the people whom the Mission Indians
in So. California are and could be brought into contact with were
in every respect better than the people in and about Phoenix. Since
the receipt of your letter, I have written the Commissioner to the
same effect, and urged again the suspension of the order.

Your boys are entirely contented now that school has begun.
Marguerita Shoulder has just arrived.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 30th, 1898.

To the Adjutant General, U.S.A.,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this
school under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June
27th per S.O. No. 194, Headquarters of the Army, A.G.O., August
33rd, and letter of Instructions from the Honorable Secretary of
the Interior dated September 6th, all 1879.

(Mc)

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 30th, 1893

To the Adjutant,
1st U.S. Cavalry,
Fort Riley, Kansas.

Sir:

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

(Mc)

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Carliole, Pa. Sept. 29th. 1893

Albert Mach,
Thurston, Neb.

My dear Sir:-

I have you letter in regard to Albert and have
spent days in trying to see my duty in the matter, as you know,
I must have regard for all the other eight hundred and sixty-four
students under my care.

My judgement and yours as to what makes men, probably differ. When a boy has some preparation and wastes the opportunity for higher preparation, and continuously violates his pledges, it is often the very best thing, to throw him out on his own resources, where from necessity he will be compelled to see and regret what is lost, and also be compelled to work hard to save himself. It is anything else but making an outcast of him as you seem to apprehend.

Albert informs me he has written you of an opportunity he has with a lack in New York. I wrote her to know something about the surroundings and what the butter would be, the enclosed in her reply. I have written her again more fully of Albert's qualities and indicated, if with a knowledge of these and your favor, she wished to take him, I would cheerfully send him to school. It is possible to arrange that he continue at Dickinson.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 1st 1998.

Mrs. Mary Dixon,

Pinconning, Michigan.

My dear Mrs. Dixon:-

You may depend on me to have Ernest in mind his full
measure and more because I have always felt especially kindly
toward him, and if he gets sick I shall surely advise you and
send him home if necessary.

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Seward C. Mott,

Carlisle, Pa., October 1st 1898.

Captain Police,

San Carlos, Arizona.

My dear Seward:-

I note what you say about Dr. Montezuma. We are planning to come down to Arizona about the holidays in company with very distinguished physician of Chicago, and if all goes well and I anticipate, you will see us.

(Dictated)
N.

Your friend,

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Prof. Chas. H. Albert,

Normal School,

Bloomsburg, Pa.

Carlisle, Pa., October 1st, 1898.

My dear Professor:

I have talked with Mr. Thompson about our boys stopping at Bloomsburg or going there for a game some time during the remainder of the season, and it seems quite impossible that it can be arranged. We studied our program out closely this year, and fixed it so as not to overdo. It is important that we carry it out. Heretofore, we have allowed ourselves to be persuaded to pack in extras, and always with detriment to the best result for our boys.

It is decidedly agreeable to find that our relations are so pleasant as to wish to renew and make them more intimate, but it does not seem advisable this year.

All I can say is come again.

(Dictated) Mc

Fraternally yours,

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Charles H. Fischer,

1710 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Fisher!

My anticipated purchase of a piano will in-
clude the old one in part payment. My daughter has returned to
school for the winter, so that there is no urgency about it, and
I shall simply hold the matter along until I reach conclusions.

Notwithstanding the recognition of good qualities in both
Mason and Hamlin and the Decker, there is still a strong pressure
for a Steinway.

With kindest regards to your father,

Sincerely yours,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carrie Cornelius,
Indian School,
Hoopa Valley, Cal.

My dear Carrie:

I am delighted to hear that you have gotten to
the end of your long journey safely, and find your surroundings
so pleasant. Your description of the country is exceedingly in-
teresting.

Perry got back here safely and I have him down on the low-
er farm. There is no news of exceptional interest. I have given
your address to Miss Burgess, so that she can send you the "Helper".

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Louisa Geislerff,

Livingston, Mont.

My dear Louisa:

I have yours of the 24th, advising that you arrived safely and had no difficulty in getting permit from the county superintendent to teach, and that you began teaching last month.

All this is exceedingly gratifying. I have faith in your largest success. Very properly I think you begin in the country school, but with your studious plodding disposition, I shall expect to hear that you are advanced to the town school, and the High School and so on up.

There is no news of moment at Carlisle. We are going along just as when you left.

With love from us all,

(Dictated) Me

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Mary L. Logg,

Forest City, S.D.

Dear Mary:

I have your letter of the 25th, and the stamps were
sent to the "Helper". You will get your paper right along. If
you do not, write to Miss Burgess about it.

It is a great deal better that you should not think of coming
back to Carlisle this year. You need at least a year's rest to
recuperate, but if you have made other and permanent arrangements
as you indicate, that seems to me very good.

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Carlisle, Pa.: October 1st, 1898.

Miss Francis S. Calfee,
Hackberry, Arizona.

My dear Miss Calfee:

I thank you heartily for the word you sent me about our retu mned students. Espedially am I glad to hear of students who left the school long years ago. There is always a question as to whether when they do well at first on returning home, they hold out faithful. The Lagunas have not generally disappointed us.

Please give my love to Robert Paul, and any others that you may meet, and tell them of the great pleasure it gives me to know that they are holding out faithful, and that they seek the Sunday School and religious institutions instead of the saloon and gambling places. Tell Robert that when his children are old enough, I shall be delighted to receive them if the good Father permits me to remain here until then.

Samuel Spenceer had hemorrhages, and an examination showed heart conditions that were not satisfactory. I held on to him, contrary to my doctor's recommendations, and had a later examination which indicated better conditions. Samuel now seems improving and more content. I shall keep my eye on him especially. He is more capable than the average. I trust you will write him to cheer him occasionally.

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General O.O. Howard,

Burlington, Vermont.

My dear General:

I have your appeal for Lincoln Memorial University
There are so many demands upon my purse in the lines of my own work
that I am constantly on the grind, and yet I feel that loyalty to
my great and good friend, General Howard, and above all loyalty to
Lincoln, and duty to the broad national scheme you have inaugurated,
require a special effort. I, therefore, enclose you $10., re-
gretting very much that I cannot make it ten times that. I espec-
ially rejoice in the fact that you do not intend to make it a race
school.

When are you coming to see us again? We all hope very soon.
I have read constantly of your good work in connection with the
Army.

Mrs. Pratt and I are hoping to get away from Carlisle soon
for a little rest, possibly to cross the Atlantic.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 3rd, 1898.

Joseph C. Lujan,
Co. G. 1st Volunteers,
Camp Hamilton, Kentucky.

My dear Joseph:

Thanks for your letter and congratulations that
you have entered the service to loyally stand by Uncle Sam in
his need. This means business. You evidently are not in an
Indian company, but in a company of white men. This I like, and
I trust your future may be continually along this line.

Write me again, and particularly if you get into foreign
parts like Cuba or Porto Rico, for I shall be very glad to know
what you think of the people down there, and about your service.

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated) Mc

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Mrs. Maria E. Marmos,

Laguna, N.M.

My dear Maria:

I had your letter of the 27th saying you had sent me two small blankets, and fearing that they would not be altogether what I wanted to give, I telegraphed you to send me a large one, and that I would take care of the small ones.

I enclose my check for $17, covering cost of the small ones.
They have not yet arrived, but I have no doubt they will in due time.

Thanking you for your help in this matter, and trusting you may be able to get me the large one, and that it may be here before the 9th, I am

Faithfully yours,

(Diated) Me

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Mrs. E.T. Daniel,
Vernon, Texas.

Dear Madam!

I naturally have hesitated to come in any way into the
difference between you and Dr. Daniel. I desired so entirely to
both use and help Dr. Daniel when he came here, that I here with
him far longer than I would with most any other in the same cir-
cumstances. He was fully warned that I did not want anyone who
used whiskey or tobacco, but he used whiskey apparently from the start
and was several times so much under its influence as to appear in
public in a disgraceful condition, both in the town of Carlisle
and on the grounds, and it was forced upon me by the doctor, himself,
to require that he should leave Carlisle. Had I known his habits
I would not have invited him to come to Carlisle. Had I been the
enemy to him he represents, I would have taken such action as
would certainly have removed him from the Service, instead of that
I gave him ample time to arrange a transfer, and I would not
have tolerated his conduct as long as I did, nor would I have
been as kind in aiding comfort and convenience to your household
matters and his office matters, nor would I have continued to you
the use of quarters otherwise needed. I think that this is all I
ought to say in the matter.

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Carliole, Pa., October 3rd, 1996.

Abram Lone Bear,
Agency Boarding School,
Fine Ridge, S.C.

Dear Abram!

It was pleasant to get your letter and to know that you are making yourself useful, and it is also very pleasant to know that you remember Carliole so agreeably. Carliole has always been willing to have you come back, so that it is not Carliole's fault that you are somewhere else.

Whenever you are ready to return to Carliole, and it is
satisfactory with your father and the Agency authorities, let me
know and I will provide you ticket. I let Mrs. Given read your
letter, and she sends you her love, and says she will be very glad
to have you in her care again.

Faithfully your friend,

(Diated) Me

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Carliole, Pa., October 4, 1899.

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

For quite a number of years we had at this school a bright, cheery, energetic Indian girl named Minnie Zandell. She was a kind hearted and generous and jolly in disposition as any we have had in the school. She graduated with credit, and was satisfactory in conduct while here. She was appointed to some western school, and transferred and retransferred several times. I heard good and bad reports of her, but always felt that the probabilities were her tender heart and jolly disposition was more at fault than any real event act. She appeals to me now. I enclose her letter. It may be that there is a place where she could fit in. She has had trials and difficulties. I believe in her yet. She is certainly capable. If there is a place within the range of her wishes, I wish she might have another chance.

Faithfully yours,

(Disted) Me

Hon. W.A. Jones,

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Dr. Thos. H. Breen,

Superintendent Indian School,

Ft. Lewis, Colo.

My dear Doctor:

I have been so busy arranging matters and getting things into shape, that your letter and a number of others have lain unanswered, though, indeed, there is scarcely anything to be said.

You will remember I anticipated somewhat the outcome of Richard Smith's service with you. He is a brother-in-law of Superintendent Potter at Chemawa, and quite a bad lot. If your experience in the Service had reached as many points as mine, or half as many, you would have realized how natural my expression of thanks to you was for sending so many pupils. Your neighbor at Grand Junction wrote the Department, himself, that he wanted to send a party of his band boys to Carlisle, and I was directed by the Commissioner to make arrangements for them, but immediately I corresponded about it, there was a tremendous straining and pulling back. I finally told him that if his students were so important he had better keep them. It was only at the very last that I got a part of the original party.

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I am sure you are right about the clique in the Indian Service business. Hailman was a clique from start to finish. It was so apparent that he was using the Service for his own advancement, that he actually lost his place pretty much on that account

I really do not believe that you need a pull, and that an
attempt to use political help would be unfortunate to you. I
would suggest as a friendly piece of advice, that you keep right
on the even tenor of your way, doing the best you can for your
school, as I am sure you will, and leave results to take care
of your service.

It has so far been impossible for me to get away for an absence, and I am needing it more than ever. We are most inclined to cross the Ocean and back, hoping that a good spell of sea sickness will accomplish results.

With kind regards to Mrs. Breen and yourself in which
Mrs. Pratt joins,

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 5th 1898.

Hon. W.A. Jones,

My dear Mr. Commissioner:

Replying to your letter of October 4th, enclosing letter from Capt. Mercer which is herewith returned, I have to respectfully advise you that Alice Gotehay, whom Geronimo claims as a niece, has been almost all the time throughout her 12 years here in the country taking care of herself; but this winter she is at the school. Heretofore, she has desired to remain in the country, but this year she asked to return here and we allowed her to do so. She is not bright, but a good worker. Natches' daughter, Dorothy, came here December '86. She is a well developed capable and sensible girl, and has been out from the school and taking care of herself for at least 8 years of the time since she came. Benedict Yozhe, brother of Leon Perique has taken care of himself years. I am unable to identify the sister of Tom, as no name is given. Mabel, the niece of John Loca, has been out from the school about 8 years since she came. She lives with a most excellent family in West Chester, earning $100 a year, and has been sending a good part of it to her relatives at Ft. Sill, at first in money, which it was found was not properly used, and later in the way of clothing.

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Department, and Inspector McCormick was sent here to see the chil-
dren personally, and find out if it was their wish to return to
their people. He had a private interview with each of the Apache
children and made his report. Upon that report I was instructed
to send to Ft. Sill and San Carlos certain ones who had asked it,
and was instructed to keep the others here and let them work out
their own salvation. Certain others were allowed to visit their
homes, and then to return to be under Carlisle at their own expense
if they so desired. These instructions were all carried out
in due time, and the Geronimo Apaches who remain here have been
generally entirely upon their own resources, and but for importu-
nities which have been brought by certain sentimentalists could be
dropped from my reports; but these appeals seem inevitable, and in
order that I might know of and meet them, I have retained them on
my rolls. That was a provision in the order given at the time
(see letter from Indian Office to Capt. Pratt dated Oct. 19th, 1895,
marked "Education 35234" &c.)

Quite a number of the boys and girls who signified their
desire to visit home and return to Carlisle, as the Government
arranged, failed to return. No girl returned. Of the boys who
returned, every one was greatly worried. Two of them put off their
home-going of their own motion until this summer, and then went
with the full determination to return. One stayed, and the other
returned to enter our hospital and probably lose his life as the
result of the degradation and acts which he says ( and I do not doubt
it) were forced upon him by the old Indians while at Ft. Sill. We
have five boys and five girls on our rolls, and under care, from
Geronimo's people. Several of them are promising. One of the boys

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especially, is a Senior to graduate in February. Every young Apache returning from Ft. Sill gives deplorable account of the habits and chances for being pure and right, and especially do they tell of their entire helplessness to get work, except the Government, itself, employs them.

You will note on rerreading Capt. Mercer's letter, that none of the parties, except Natches, who makes these claims, is parent of the children named. Geronimo claims a niece. Leon Periquo a brother. Tom a sister. John Loco a niece. I also invite your attention to the fact that all the people making these claims are prisoners of war at Ft. Sill; that they are held in that prison life and supported by the Government of the United States; that they are incompetent to take care of themselves, at least are so treated by the Government; that even a pleasure trip to the so-called Indian Congress is at the expense of the Government of the United States, as well as their support while there, and if the young people give up the places where they are now taking care of themselves, they return to the same condition at Ft. Sill; that except for the misconceptions of such people who write for the parents to the children and disturb them in their relations and in their ambitions to take care of themselves and be independent, these young people would be entirely satisfied, and might and ought to be dropped from all Government oversight; that while others are continually besieging the Government for additional funds to enlarge the Government Indian Poor House and continue to indurate Indians in their pauperism, I have brought these young people to their present condition of self support, English speaking, and entire friendliness and competition with the whites. My plan

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would drop them from the Government rolls, and if enlarged and prop-
only managed, would relieve the Indian Bureau of its responsi-
bilities to the greatest benefit of the Indians themselves, as
well as immeasurable economy to the Government. My trouble is
with tribalizers, whose only aim is to relegate people, capable and
pauper
self supporting, back to isolated and helpless conditions on the res-
ervations. I would also state for your information that while a
few of those that I did return to Ft. Sill have found work in the
schools or elsewhere, all under Government, none outside of Government,
none of them have made any material gain, so far as I can learn,
since their return, and the majority of those returned have droppped
into the deplorable condition of Geronimo and his whole crowd.
Geronimo's claim of white man's road&c is all nonsense, as the
expenses of their keep and the careful oversight they are under
will show. Only recently, when troops were ordered from Ft. Sill
to the front, there was a howl from the surrounding country that
great danger was eminent from Geronimo and his party, because of
the lack of force there to maintain the public peace, and a Company
of Cavalry, enroute to the front, was order back to hold the
Indians in proper subjection. If Geronimo and his people were real-
ly turned loose, and were self supporting independent people, there
might be some small show of propriety in their claims. These young
people are all of age, have chosen wisely and properly demonstrated
their right to conclude for themselves, and ought not to be relegated
to subjection or any sort of supervision or restraint by their
indigent pauper relatives. The real aim in the appeals of every
one of these people, including Geronimo, is to in some way absorb

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Carlisle, Pa., October 6th, 1898.

A.O. Wright,

Supervisor Indian Schools,
Madison, Wisconsin.

My dear Sir:

I wrote Miss Frey direct, telling her that I had your
favorable solicitations for her, but that there were no vacancies
here at present for which I could consider her. I am in the
same fix about the matron. While I am not entirely satisfied with
some of my help of this kind, I feel it would be best not to force
a change. My judgment would favor a person quite a little under
fifty years of age.

You are dodging about so much, that I have been unable to
tell just what to do in the way of writing to you. Of course,
it would be impossible to get Mrs. Sly here without Civil Service,
and her age would prevent that.

I sent you the Miss Edge information direct to Mt. Pleasant
some days ago. I am still needing about 30 pupils, so if you
happen on any good ones whom you could direct this way, I hope you
will do it.

(Diated) Me

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Carlisle, Pa., October 10th 1998.

Dr. A. N. Fetterolf,

President Girard College,
Philadelphia.

My dear Dr. Fetterolf:-

I am about to revise and enlarge my system of keeping
the record and history of pupils who have attended this school,
but wish to first study the methods used along this line in other
institutions. If you have such a system in use at Girard College,
and can conveniently do so, will you please send me a sample
record, or advise me of the method used?

With cordial regards,

Life letters sent to

Dr. James MacAlister, Drexel Institute, Phila.
Dr. J. M. Shrigley, Williamson School, Lansdowne, Pa.
Mr. Frederic P. Pratt, Chairman, Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Dr. Fletcher Durell, Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 11th, 1898.

Hon. A.O. Wright,

Supervisor of Indian Schools,
Madison, Wisconsin.

My dear Sir:

I fear I shall not be able to undertake a considerable salary for an Outing Agent this fiscal year. We have laid out about as much work as our funds will enable us to undertake, but next year if Congress works in line with me I shall feel able to have such an Agent. If Congress does not do this, and my work is to be minimized and crowded to the wall, as it has been for some time passed, and if the opponents to eastern education are maintained at the heads of western schools and agencies, I am ready to say that in my judgment the Government had better have some one else here to manage this school on its own lines.

There seems no necessity to go so far West for a person to fill the place of Outing Agent. If I can have a good salary I can get a good person here in the East. I would not need to ask for the salary you speak of to get a man that in my judgment would serve admirably. A salary of ten hundred to twelve hundred dollars will fetch a good man.

I have place for about twenty-five pupils in addition to those I have and those on the way, so that if there is a lot to be had from the Wittenberg School, or else where, I shall be glad to receive them.

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B.F. Bennett,

Farmer,

Ft. Shaw, Mont.

My dear Mr. Bennett:

Thanks for your letter and its information. I
had thought of asking you to tra safer with my farmer, but if
it involved the employment of Mrs. Bennett, I fear there would
be no use. We want a good farmer's wife on the farm, as you
know, and not a clerk.

With kind regards to you both,

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., October 11th 1895.

Secretary, Children's Aid Society,
New York City.

My dear Sirs:-

I am about to revise and enlarge my system of keeping the record and history of pupils who have attended this School, but wish to first study the methods used along this line in other institutions. Believing that the purposes of the work of your Society are similar to those of Carlisle, and understanding that you keep a record of your protégés, I write to ask for information in regard to the method you use in this record. If you can conveniently do so, I should be glad to have you send me a sample record.

With greatest admiration for the work of your Society, I am,

Yours very truly,

N.

Major 1st Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 11th 1898.

Mr. Melvil Dewey,

Secretary, University of the State of New York,
Albany, New York.

My dear Sir:-

I am about to revise and enlarge my system of keeping the record and history of pupils who have attended this School, but wish to first study the methods used for this purpose in other institutions. My Disciplinarian, Mr. W. G. Thompson of Albany, has suggested that I write to you for information along this line, and speaks of your complete system in use in the work of the University of the State of New York. If you can conveniently do so, will you kindly send me a sample record form and advise me of your methods.

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 11th 1898,

Dr. Seldon J. Coffin,
Registrar and Recorder, LaFayette College,
Easton, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

I am about to revise and enlarge my system of keeping
the record and history of pupils who have attended this School,
but wish to first study the methods used for this purpose in
other institutions. My Principal of the School Department, Prof.
O. H. Bakeless, an old LaFayette man, suggests that I write to
you for information in regard to the method you use at LaFayette
in compiling your "Twentieth Century Men of LaFayette College." If
you can conveniently do so, I should be glad to have you send me
a sample record and advise me of the method you use.

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Secretary Harvard College,

Cambridge, Mass.

My dear Sirs:-

I am about to revise and enlarge my system of keeping
the record and history of pupils who have attended this School,
but wish to first study the methods used for this purpose in other
institutions. I understand that you have long had a somewhat
complete system of this kind established at Harvard, and if you
can conveniently do so, I should be very glad if you would send
me a sample record, or advise me of the method you use.

N.

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 19th, 1898.

W. Brown,

Barrer Springs,
Kansas.

Yes. Susie arrived last night.

Major Pratt

W.W.N.

Gov't Rate, Collect.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 8th, 1898.

Capt. W.G. Speck,
Co. C. 8th Regt., Penna. Vol.
Camp Meade, Pa.

Am Informed by Adjutant

General that Private Gray's discharge has been ordered.

Pratt, Major.

"Postal" 6:40 P.M.

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Rev. M.F. Trippe,
Salamance, N.Y.

My dear Brother Trippe:

A letter this morning informs me that
Lafayette John of your Salamanca Indiana ran away from his coun-
try home on Sunday.

David Maybe, a boy from Irving, N.Y., ran off with him.
They were living near each other at Langhorne, Pa. Both of them
had bicycles. I do not want either of them again.

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

Gentlemen:

Wife and I are contemplating a short trip to the Bermu-
das. Will you please send me your time tables and all the partic-
ulars, and the best rate you can name for first-class accommoda-
tions. We think of being absent three or four weeks.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., October 12th, 1898.

Mr. William G. Spottswood,

Adjutant General's Office,

War Department, Washington, D.C.

My dear Spottswood:

Mrs. Lamason, wife of Corporal H.B. Lamason of
Company 

(Dictated) Me

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 13th, 1898.

Philip White,

Pine Ridge Agency,
South Dakota.

My dear Philip:

Your letter came July, and I am greatly obliged to
you for it, and for the information and opinions you express.
You are right, and we must keep at it until this view prevails. As
a matter of fact, I doubt if the school at Pine Ridge can ever
produce such boys as those who returned there from Carlisle.
It would make no difference if they keep it up for 100 years,
there will be practically the same results. What the Indian
boys and girls need is to work their way out from the tribe, and
into the masses of whites, to learn to be at home anywhere in the
country and take care of themselves as men and women. What do
you need of an Agent. Why should Robert American Horse, Clarence
Three Stars, Edgar Fire Thunder, and dozens of other boys like
you, be looked after by an Indian Agent. The Carlisle school has
grown greatly since you were here. We now have nearly 900 boys
and girls, though we do not get any better pupils than those who
came early in our history.

I should be glad to hear from you again.

Trusting you take the "Helper", and so get all the news, I am

Faithfully your friend,

(Dictated) Me

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Carlllele, Pa., Oct. 15th, 1898.

Mrs. Maria Marmon,

Laguna, N.M.

My dear Maria:

I enclose my check for $18 to pay for the last blanket. It arrived duly. Unfortunately, when I gave the order for the second blanket, I did not know the character of the first two, and so could not advise you, and as it was on the way when the others arrived, I let it go. It so happens that all the blankets you sent are too modern, and show the introduction of too much civilization, to suit our folks. The colors are exceptionally brilliant, etc., so that we are compelled not to use any for the purpose wanted, and I have arranged to get a very fine Apache basket, which is now on the way.

A blanket, such as you speak of, of Mexican Dazetta cloth was really what was wanted. I have disposed of the large blanket, and one of the small ones, and shall probably get rid of the other small one soon.

Thanking you for your trouble in this matter, and regretting
that it has not turned out more to the satisfaction of our people,
I am

(Dictated) Mc

Sincerely yours,

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CarliLe, Pa., Oct. 15th, 1898.

Auditor for the War Department,

Treasury Department,

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I have had pending in your office for quite a long time a claim for pay due from volunteer service, which I understand is all right and only needs attention. I should be obliged to you if this might receive early consideration.

(Dictated) Me

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Capt. Fred W. Hyde,

Depot Commissary,

Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa.

My dear Captain:

Mrs. Pratt and I will run down soon and indulge
in the luxury of once more making purchase of supplies from an Army
Depository.

I thank you heartily for the favor of the list. We see
quites a number of things of which we will care to buy a supply.

Since seeing you, I have been in correspondence about pota-
toes. Nine potatoes can be landed here from Michigan in car load
lots at 45 cents per bushel of 60 pounds. This may be an item
for your Friday's Letting.

It may be we will find it practicable to run down on
Friday.

With kind regards and trusting we may have the pleasure of
entertaining you at Carlisle soon, I am

(Dictated) Mc

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John Wanamaker,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sirs

In compliance with instructions from your Mr. McGowan,
I returned the bureau on the 3rd of October, and enclose you ship-
ping bill. The glass is retained here. The other bureau prom-
ised in ten days has not yet arrived.

(Dictated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 14th, 1898.

Hon. A.C. Wright,

Madison, Wisconsin.

My dear Sirs

I have yours of the 10th. As I have no official position in the Service which warrants my activity in the direction named, I do not see how it is possible for me to have anything whatever to do with it. It is a matter for the Department entirely, and the Commissioner knows all I know, and a great deal more. He is up your way now. Why not see him and make the same suggestion to him. The news-paper clipping you sent me, I should pronounce a fake. Old Geronimo may have said something, but the vivid imagination of some correspondent has elaborated and filled up and originated in regard to what the old fellow said about the children away at school, and Government employment for them, within a week a letter came to me through the Commissioner from Capt. Mercer, who has charge of old Geronimo, in which strictures were made on my keeping his children away for education, and demanding that I send them back. Mercer wrote the letter giving what the old fellow said. I was very much inclined to think that Mercer elaborated quite a little on what the old fellow said in that. The fact is that very much of what we see is falsehood and false sentiment, as you and I would look at it. The occasion seems to have been utilized by the correspondent to publish incidents not calculated to quiet the public mind in regard to Indians, but the rather to

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aggravate the condition in a sensational firebrand way. I
question whether there is a single item or statement made by the
correspondent that is exactly true, and the Indians' side is utter-
ly ignored. I return the clipping.

No doubt the Commissioner will be able to settle the Indian
uprising without any difficulty. We shall probably never know the
exact facts connected with the killing of Major Wilkinson and his
men, or just how much blame should be properly attached to the In-
dians.

(Distated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., October 15th, 1898.

Fred I. Hall,

Proprietor of the Journal,
Jamestown, New York.

My dear Fred:

You may ship the plates by express. We are getting
out our Red Man, and in it propose to use a number of the pictures
in connection with my report.

When order is completed, send bill to me.

(Dictated: Me)

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Carlisle, Pa., October 17th, 1898.

Warren F. Kellogg, Publisher,
New England Magazine,
5 Park Square,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Sirs,

Please send me ten copies of the New England Magazine for October, 1898, with bill, and I will remit.

(Distributed) Mc

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Hon. A.J. Wright,

Supervisor Indian Schools,
Wisconsin.

Dear Sir:

Replying to yours of the 15th advising of the burning
of the buildings at Wittenberg, and that there are students thrown out
who cannot be accommodated elsewhere, and wanting us to take them,
the only healtancy I have about it is that the class of students
we have received from this section have generally been white. I do
want to keep up the appearance of being an Indian school. If you
could furnish me descriptive lists, giving blood, etc., as per the
enclosed blank, it would be all right, or better still, when the
time comes I could send a good responsible agent from here, who
can accept of those that are right and proper.

In regard to potatoes, I have asked authority of the Depart-
ment to buy $500 worth, and shall expect the Waupaca people to
give me a quotation. I have a bid of first-class Michigan potatoes,
good keepers, at 45 cents delivered here.

I have a letter this morning from the people at Green Bay.
We are looking up our wants in regard to onions, peas, etc., and
will write them direct. Am much obliged to you for the information.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 18th, 1898.

Miss A.S. Ely,

Box 128, Mound City,

Kansas.

My dear Miss Ely:

Considering the short time Mrs. Butler has been in the office, and her limited knowledge of the Outing, she has done remarkably well. I find that she catching up on the book work, as well as keeping up with the Outing, which is a great deal. We have had a lot of trouble with runaways, etc., and often I am at a loss for the information, which you have at your tongue's end, but we are getting on, and you need have no anxiety that we won't come out pretty nearly right, and so make the best use of your absence.

I am glad you are taking such a good rest. Mrs. Pratt and I have about made up our minds to go to the Bermudas. Whether we shall go on the 5th or 20th of next month is still pending. I rather prefer to go the later date, or even later than that, so that we may be absent in the real cold weather.

We had about 200 of the Wilson College girls with us last night. They had spent the day at Gettysburg, and visited us on their way home.

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Pulconice,

Son of Tabnanica,

Ft. Sill, O.T.

My dear Friend:

I got your letter and am glad to hear from you.
Your father and mother I regarded as my good friends, and your
sister was a good friend of one of my daughters. She gave my
daughter a very tiny little Mexican dog, which lived quite a long
time, and died finally at my mother's in Indiana. I am glad to
hear of your success in raising cattle and horses, and hope you have
a good farm, and that you are training up your children and going
to give them a good education. Some time I hope to come down
and see all my old friends again. I remember you as a little boy.
It may be some time you can come and see me here at Carlisle. If
you can, I shall be very glad to entertain you, and I think it will
do you good.

Please remember me most kindly to your mother, and your
sister, if she is living, and believe me

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Carlisle, Pa., October 20th, 1898.

Clara La Croix,

Olney, Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Clara:

I have your letter and am glad to know that you
take what I say so wisely. You have nothing to lose by it,
and everything to gain. Your future is safer, and I am sure
far better by your letting such things alone just now, and giv-
ing yourself up entirely to the work you have in hand. Carry
it to the good Father daily, and he will help you, and depend
on me to do all I can for you. You know I take the place of
your father while you are with me.

Your friend and school-father,

(Dietated) Mc

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Carlisle, Pa., October 30th, 1898.

J. Wade McGowin,
Furniture Department,
Wanamaker's, Philadelphia.

My dear Mr. McGowin:

The bureau arrived, and Mrs. Pratt is now
satisfied. If you will kindly send me a bill covering all of our
purchases, I will remit by check at once. I had an itemized bill
the other day, and sent it to Mrs. Pratt. She says she re-
turned it to me, but I cannot find it.

(Distated) Mc

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Edwin Fells,

1218 South 9 Street,
Tacoma, Wash.

My dear Sirs:

I seem to be having quite a time to make any connections with the young people to come here from your section. I sent transportation for Frank Law, and then he notified me that he had a good job at Vaughn and was not ready to come, so I cancelled the order. I should be very glad to receive any students that Mr. Malone would recommend. A lot that were sent to me from Puyallup some years ago were just simply the refuse of the school. I am fighting against tremendous odds on this line all the time, so that it is refreshing to find one good and honest teacher who will send me good pupils. If John Robb can take the cars at Seattle, I will have Mr. Stephens of the Great Northern R.R. there provide ticket at any time he may say. I wish there might be a little party, and I wish there might be girls. However, I will take John, and if, in the meantime, it is thought best that Frank Law come here, I will send ticket for him also. The enclosed is a copy of my last letter to Frank.

The elements that you and I desire are practically driven out of the Service by the Civil Service scheme. In the transition they got their work in, and so are holding on.

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Paul Cook,

Troy, New York.

My dear Friend:

My trouble is not being busy, but that you do not
come down and see us, and I do not know from you half as much as
I would like. I have been in anticipation for a long time of that
promised visit. It is delightful here now. We are only an
hour from the great battlefield of Gettysburg. Luray is not
tar off, and there are many enticements outside of the Indian
School. Why not come down?

Mrs. Pratt and I think of leaving for a month about the
20th of November, and taking a little trip to Bermuda. Wish you
could go along.

In regard to those boys who were with me at your house,
Joshua Given afterwards graduated from Lincoln University; was
ordained in the Presbyterian Church, and married an excellent
white woman from Brooklyn, N.Y., and became a missionary. Af-
ter several years of successful service he died. Chespis Ross,
I do not know much about. The last I heard he was in the cattle
business in North Western Texas and quite prosperous. Tom Navajo
became a scout at Fort Wyngate, N.M., and was for some time Ser-
gent of scouts. I have not heard anything of him for several
years. Robert Stewart married one of our girls, who was a most
excellent and capable woman. They went home to the Territory
where Robert engaged in farming for some years. His wife after-

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wards died. I have not heard from him for six or seven years.
Benjamin Marshall is one of the most thrifty men in the Terri-
tory. He has large land and cattle ranches, and is altogether
a good substantial character. Harry Levin was engaged in
farming at his Agency, and doing as well as could be expected
in such surroundings. The last I heard of him was several years
ago. I am sorry I cannot give you more explicit answers to your
inquiries. We are at present engaged in getting up a better
report of our students. None of those boys graduated from Car-
lisle. Joshua Given went to Lincoln University before he grad-
uated, and the others were with us only for three to five
years each.

Very sincerely yours,

(Dictated) Mc

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