Carlisle, Penna., September 22,1899.

W. H. Spray, Supt.
Cherokee Indian School,
Cherokee, N. C.

My dear Spray:--

Your party arrived all right, and seems to be in
the main satisfactory except for the three small ones that I would
rather you had not sent, and the disappointment about girls, but your
letter explains that. I would rather, of course, have no girls than
all white ones, but it is rather bad for us to have such large parties
and no girls at all. The reducing of our proportion of girls goes on
too rapidly. Dr. Diven is just back from Osage with fourteen boys and
three girls, notwithstanding my orders to maintain proportions between
the sexes.

Those who have come in contact with your boys speak well of them

and ready.

The two half fares must be adjusted, or else there will be a
stop in my accounts.

We hold our 20th Anniversary c. the 6th of October and propose a
special all day jubilee. The Commissioner promises to be here, and we
will have a full day. Wish you and Mrs. Spray could come up.

Mrs. Pratt and I are not keeping house so we have not yet tried
your North Carolina honey, but I have no doubt it is all right, and we
thank you and Mrs. Spray for remembering us.

With kind regards to you all, I am,

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316

Mr. George T. Nicholson, P.T.Manager,
A.T. & S.F.Ry.,

My dear Friend:--

I return to you unused portions of the three
tickets you so kindly gave me for transportation between Los Angeles
and Chicago, with my warmest thanks for your favor.

I should have written you two months ago in the interests of an
old boyhood friend of mine. I think you know him. Williamson Dunn at
Los Angeles, formerly an officer in the Navy and later in the employ
of your Road and the Southern Pacific, was a boy friend of mine, living
across the street for years, back in the fifties. There is no better
stock in the Country. I knew his whole family. His father and three
of his uncles and his older brother were all in the army, his father
and two uncles, colonels, and one of his uncles, Judge Advocate Gener-
al of the Army. His older brother was a Captain in the 29th, Indiana,
and killed in the thickest of the fight at Chickamauga. His was the
color company of the regiment. Three of the standard bearers had been
shot down. He told the fourth to pick up the colors and the man flinch-
ing. It was no time for dallying. Captain Dunn gathered them up him-
self and pushed to the front, calling upon his regiment to stand their

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ground. He was riddled with bullets. This one and I were particular friends, being about the same age. Will, now at Los Angeles, was younger. He went into the navy. His record and friendships with the best officers of the navy establish him as being in every respect exceptionally capable and honorable. He offered himself and was accepted in the late Spanish war, returning to his old place as officer in the navy and was sent to Manila, where he participated in several of the naval operations. When he left the Southern Pacific Ry. they agreed on his return to restore him to his old place. They have not done so, and my old friend is waiting and longing for usefulness.

I expected to see you when I came through Chicago on my return, but I was two weeks behind time, matters were pressing here and it was on Sunday. Since coming home, there has been such a weight upon me that the matter slipped my mind. I feel mortified that I have not met the issues better and done what I promised to myself that I would do as soon as I had the chance--either write you or see you.

Captain Dunn is a graduate of the Naval Academy and can command the highest testimonials. If I could speak of him in any stronger terms I would do it, for I am entirely sure he merits all I could say for him. Is it not possible for you to give him employment in Los Angeles, where he has property and where his daughters are already established? Railroad business seems to be his ambition.

Dianatet.
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Carlisle, Penna., September 22, 1899.

Mrs. H. A. Niles,

Brothertown, Wisconsin.

Dear Mrs. Niles:--

Replying to yours of the 20th about a cornet for Herman, I find from Mr. Wheelock, that a good substantial silver plated instrument will cost $40, the list price being $50; and Mr. Wheelock thinks that this would be the best. A very fair brass horn can be bought for about $20.

We shall be glad to act for you in the purchase of such an instrument if you desire, and you could send the money to me or to Mr. Wheelock, direct, or to your son.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna., September 23,1899.

Bates & Guild Co.,

13 Exchange Street,

Boston, Mass.

Gentlemen;--

I am in receipt of your circular letter describing "Details of Building Construction," by Clarence A. Martin. Will you please send me a sample copy, and, being introductory, will ask that you bill the same at best rate. Remittance will go forward on receipt of bill.

Very truly yours,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 23, 1899.

Major Charles L. Cooper,

Mayaguez, Porto Rico.

My dear Cooper:—

I have yours of the 12th. You will know
before this that Cooney is out and I am occupying that unfortunate position of number 13. What you say about Lebo is new to me. I fear his going to the First, with station in mid-continent, may operate to keep him in. I have not been in Washington yet and seem so tied here that I don't know when I can get down there.

My store-keeper is an old retired Commissary Sergeant, dating his
service back to before the war. He is a sort of a kitchen cabinet on
these things and knows more about our seniors than I do. He has led
me to think that McGregor, Whiteside and Wells are likely to give us
vacancies before long, with several other possibilities. Hennesey
told me in Washington, a few months ago, that he expected to retire,
that he did not feel equal to field service, but I see that he has
gone to his regiment in Cuba. Something may come to us from the re-
tirement of Shafter; Young, or Chaffee may be brigadier, so I am
hoping to get out of my "13" box shortly.

I congratulate you and Mrs. Cooper on your good luck in your son's
agreeable appointment. I believe in the boys (and the girls, too,

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for that matter) following the bent of their inclinations for a call-
ing, and if the young fellow has a military trend and such earnestness,
I would hardly oppose it. I argued my boy out of army and navy very
easily, gave him a course at Lehigh, and since then he has made his
own way and is getting a higher salary than I am. How is that for an
army boy?

With kindest regards to Mrs. Cooper, I am,

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna., Sept. 25,1899.

Mr. Joseph DuBray,

Greenwood, S.D.

My dear Joseph:--

You had better consult the Indian Agents before
attempting to bring boys and girls here, as they cannot be forwarded
without their consent.

If there are suitable pupils wanting to come to Carlisle who have
the consent of their parents and the Agents, I shall be pleased to arrange the transportation for you and to have you bring them along.
Pupils should be over twelve and under twenty, of good health and of
good character and we should have as many girls as boys in each party.
We shall be glad to see you at Carlisle. Had lost sight of you.

Dictated.
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William Colombe,

Troop "I" 4th Cavalry,

Manila, Philippine Islands.

Dear William:--

A note from your sister, asking me to send the "Helper" to you, tells where you are and gives your company assignment, which I am glad to have.

I have been anxious to hear from you ever since you left the School, to know how you got through and where you were stationed.

The "Helper" will be sent to you regularly and will keep you posted about affairs here, and we shall expect to hear from you from time to time so that we may know from you first hand something about our new possessions and the operations of our Army.

We have grown a good deal this year. We now number 962 pupils, and enough coming to fill us up to over a thousand. The additions to both ends of the school building are just about completed, so that we shall have much better accommodations in the school rooms than last year. After you left us, we had quite a siege of smallpox. Thomas Marshall died. He was the first case. It was sent to him from home. Seventeen others had it, but all got well.

Do not forget to write us.

Dictated.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 25, 1899.

Hon. W. A. Jones,
Comm. of Ind. Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Jones :-

I should have said to you in my letter of urgency to get the Secretary here that I have a little scheme to carry out in which I feel sure he will take an interest and be glad to help if he once sees the school and hears the band. I feel particularly anxious to have him visit us on that account, and after he has heard the band himself and understands its merits to write to the Commissioner General of the Paris Exposition or to our Minister in France or both, asking them to call upon the exposition managers and urge what is already before them; that is, that they employ our band as one of the bands for the fair occasion. I have with strong letters of endorsement and through the Commissioner General proposed to let the band go and remain through the fair for their use if they will pay the simple expenses to and from and take care of the band while there. I am very sure that it will be a money making scheme for them and will relieve us of the burden of meeting the expense ourselves. Our boys play the finest music wonderful ly well. We are gradually wiping out our debt for the instruments. They got $375 for playing Saturday afternoon and evening at the Exposition in Philadelphia. I got a very low rate for them to and from, so our net results were about $200. The Philadelphia Press of yesterday

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speaks of them in a very complimentary way and states that 5000 people
listened to them with constant applause.

A letter or letters from the Secretary in the direction I have
named after he has heard the band and can conscientiously speak of it
with enthusiasm, I feel sure would accomplish the result and relieve
me of the burden of raising the funds necessary to meet their expenses.

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Laurie Tatum,

Springdale, Ia.

My dear Friend :-

The best way to sell your book here will be to have the books.
I enclose my check for Twenty Dollars, for which you may send me 20 copies,
and if more are needed I will write you again. It does not seem
to be a book of such general interest as to warrant my pressing it very
far upon our people. However, we can take care of 20 copies and prob-
ably more. Thank you for the complimentary copy. I am so very very
busy that I have not yet been able to more than glance through it.

Faithfully your friend,

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Col. Wm. J. Pollock,
U.S. Ind. Agt., Osage Agency,
Pawhuska, O. T.

My dear Colonel :-

Dr. Diven arrived safely with his party. He has told me some
of the difficulties and strategies in getting the children. I want to
thank you for your interest in the matter, and say that in my judgment
you are still entirely level headed. It reminds me of old times.

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Prof. M. Chamberlain,
Lawrence Scientific School,
Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Sir :-

I have asked Mr. J. R. Wood, General Passenger Agent of the Penna. R.R., through whom we supply all such tickets, to have a ticket from Old Town, Me. to Carlisle sent to you for the young Penobscot. Please do not delay in the use of it.

Referring to the postscript in your letter stating that when we have an Indian boy who I think would be likely to take advantage of a college education, you might be in a position to take care of it; I have as one of my teachers this year a graduate of our class of '96 who is by all odds one of the brightest Indians we have had. He is a full blooded Chippewa from Michigan. Since graduating here he has taken a course in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Indiana, Pa., where he was a distinguished member of his class. He got a little in debt there, as I believe in making them work out their own salvation; and being well equipped for a teacher I have given him an appointment here for this year. My principal teacher who is greatly interested in him thinks that Harvard would be just the place for him about two years hence, when he has paid his debt and accumulated something towards his expenses. He is strong, sturdy, athletic, a Christian, and has a large reserve of good common sense. His name is Elmer Simon.

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Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright,
Supt. Indian School,
San Carlos, Ariz.

My dear Mrs. Wright :-

The arrangement made for transportation "San Carlos to Carlisle" for the party you were to bring has been allowed to remain with the expectation that sometime this fall you might possibly be able to make up a party. From your last letter I judge that conditions are not yet propitious, but still think it best to hear from you before withdrawing the order. Will you please wire me on receipt of this just what the prospect is ?

The Commissioner will be here at our Twentieth Anniversary on the 6th of October, and I shall have an opportunity to talk over a number of matters with him.

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Mr. A. G. Bonsall, Secy. etc.
New Bloomfield, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Yours of the 23rd is just received, and I hasten to reply.
We have fixed upon a uniform price of $100 per day and expenses for
our band, which contains sixty members. I suppose it would be possible
to secure wagons over and back at about the same rates as we can get
on the railroad, perhaps a little lower. I fear, however, that your
date, the 28th of September, is against us. The Hagerstown Fair has
asked the boys to come for two days this week. Their dates strike
the 28th. The arrangement is not closed, but I shall hear from them
sometime during the day.

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Miss Sarah H. Leete,
103 Centre St.,
Racine, Wis.

Dear Madam :-

Your request of the 19th inst. for an apron to be sold at a
festival in October for the benefit of your W.C.T.U. work is before me.
I must decline for the following reasons :- In the first place, I think
the people of Racine ought to take care of their own local charities
and not draw upon other localities which are probably as much or more
incumbered with obligations in this direction. In the second place, too
giving of an apron to one association would of course be a small matter,
but don't you see that in establishing a precedent of that sort I am
opening a tremendous door, for there are thousands of schemes of that
kind all over the land, and if I give to one, why not to another? And
if to two or three, why not to all? And where shall I stop?

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Col. Thomas Ward, Asst. Adj. Gen.
War Dept.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Colonel :-

My plans for putting young Indians into the army were interrupt
ed last spring by the smallpox, and when that was over our forces scat-
tered for the country and home, and I went off on a long western trip.
I did not intend to push the matter very hard at first until we were
satisfied that it was a good thing to do. So far we have had very good
reports from the five young men who enlisted and were sent to Manila,
Porto Rico, and Cuba. Two others are now wanting to enlist, and I will
begin again, but may not do much at it until towards spring. When it
is certain that we are on the right track I feel that I can increase the
number rapidly until about the quota for the Indians is filled, as I
stated in the beginning.

Won't you please send me a book or manual for the examination of
recruits, so that we may examine candidates here before submitting them
to the recruiting officers.

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September 25th, 1899.

Hon. E. A. Hitchcock,
Secretary of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :-

The Philadelphia papers announce that you have declined to allow wild Indians to go to the Exposition for show purposes, and that Mrs. Quinton and her National Association will appeal to you to change your judgment.

Please allow me to urge that you do not change. You have struck down one of the greatest evils and hindrances to Indian civilization; a hindrance, because it advertises to the Indians that the white people are more interested in them in their wild state than they are as civilized, and because it keeps before the people of the United States the disgraceful fact that after more than two and a half centuries we have within our territory and even in our civilized communities people who are still savage, and alleges by implication that they are incorrigibly so, or that it will take generations to civilize them; one of the greatest evils in the way of Indian civilization, because through Wild West and other Indian show businesses and schemes there have been introduced into the Indian tribes no end

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of immoral diseases and low ideas of our American
civilization.

I do hope that sometime the great Government
itself will stop cultivating Indianism by absolute-
ly prohibiting all these practices. It would be
a real service to the Indians and a strong push in
the right direction if no Indian were permitted to
leave his reservation except in the garb of civi-
lized life, thus making it disreputable to appear
as an Indian and reputable to appear as a civilized
man.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 26, 1899.

James Miller,
South Milton,
Antrim Co.,
Mich.

My dear Sir :—

I find that your children are very anxious to remain here at school, and it is a great deal better for them to do so. It is a rule of the school that when children enter after the first of September they are to be held until after the expiration of the school term next after the expiration of the five years. This makes your children's term and next June. Another condition too is that students have a right to determine themselves after they have been here five years whether they will stay longer. Your oldest son seems to understand his own mind very well and thinks it a great deal better for his brothers and sister to stick, and certainly that is my judgment, and as the children are being advanced without expense to you and the only inconvenience you are called upon to bear in connection with their education is their absence, it seems a small thing for you not to give them the chance they desire and which is their right under the rules of the Department whether you approve or not.

The purpose of the Government is to educate the young Indians. It is perfectly evident that if the Government yields to all the whimsical conclusions of parents it will never succeed. There Must be rules and regulations to hold on to. The children are in excellent health, and doing as well as their best friends could

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept, 26, 1899.

Mr. J. R. Wood, G.P.A.,
Phil., Pa.

My dear Sir :-

When you so kindly sent me transportation for myself and daughter "Harrisburg to Chicago and return", it was on the same ticket. We went to Chicago together, my daughter going from there to St. Louis and afterward to Denver where she is likely to remain until sometime late in October. I intended to send the transportation to you and get it changed, but it slipped my mind and on my return late in August I had quite entirely forgotten that my daughter and I were on the same transportation, and when I took the train in Chicago I gave the return tickets to the conductor without noticing.

I wonder whether you would be willing to send me the additional transportation for my daughter, "Chicago to Carlisle" to be used in October. If so I will be much obliged.

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Perry Tsunawa,
Indian School,
Hoopa, Cal.

My dear Perry 1-

I received your very nice and full letter of the 5th in due time and made some use of it in The Helper as you can see. Since I returned I have had about all the writing it was possible for me to do, and that the answer to your letter has been a little delayed. Things are assuming better shape now and the school is settling down to the routine of the winter's work and we shall not always be quite so pressed.

Your letter was very interesting to all of us and written with such great particularity as to make me feel quite proud of you as a letter writer. You are certainly getting on very nicely and there is every reason to feel satisfied that it was a wise move for you to go to Hoopa Valley. I met your superintendent very pleasantly at Los Angeles and was glad to hear him speak good words for you and the other Carlisleans.

You must look to The Helper for details of news here. Write me again. With love to you from all your old friends at Carlisle, and ensuring you of our constant interest in your welfare and success,

Faithfully your friend,

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September 26, 1899.

My dear General :-

Glad to get your postal and to know that
you are back in Washington, for we want you and Mr
Eaton to come up here on Thursday, the 5th of Octo-
ber, and be with us on the 6th which is our Twentieth
Anniversary.

We are getting up a little program of a Jubilee sort to commemorate the occasion, which will last through the day. We have now nine hundred and sixty-two pupils and hope by that time to have over the one thousand we are to carry this year. The growth of the school, its standing before the country, the confidence of the Government in it, and the good it has done all call for special notice, and I want you to come prepared to make a speech.

We shall not have many visitors; it will rather be among ourselves. But Mr. Jones is to come and will bring Mrs. Jones and the children, and I am not without hope that the Secretary will come. Mr. Schurz who gave the order is still living, but his obligations stand in the way. Your official connection with it makes you just the man next to him to make the address of the day. I will arrange

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Carlisle, Penna., September 26, 1899.

Hon. W. A. Jones,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:--

I think I have spoken to you about having an agent to especially look after our boys when out from the School. The difficulty in securing the proper person under the present Civil Service conditions has hindered my bringing it up, but with our increased numbers out, something like 200 during the winter, and 400 to 500, as I expect to have, during the summer (we had just about 400 out last summer) it has certainly gotten into such proportions that it makes it important that we have a very discreet person as a special employee for that place. I could in addition, use him to send West after parties of pupils and other important duties, but that would be his principal work.

Dr. Winslow, late Superintendent of Fort Shaw School, wrote me a few days ago asking if I did not want a physician. I wrote him of our satisfaction with our present appointment and his faithfulness in our smallpox epidemic, and mentioned this outing, but said that I did not

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feel that I could ask for the place a salary such as he ought to have.
Dr. Winslow is just the kind of a man to fill that place and to great-
ly improve the conditions and make them far more successful among our
boys than they have been. It is something that I want to talk with
you about when you come up, but I thought best to write you now and
enclose Dr. Winslow's letter.

Dictated.
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Fort Peck Agency, Mont.,

Aug. 24, 1899

Major C. H. A. Scobey,
U. S. Indian Agent.

Dear Sir:-

The demands at home make it imperative that I go on to-
night, rather than wait a day longer to see you; for which I an
very sorry.

Mr. Campbell has been here for pupils for Fort Shaw, and is
still working the reservation. Mr. Meagley is just assuming the
duties of Superintendent and the situation seems to call for delay
in making up a party for Carlisle. It seems to me better to
leave that matter entirely in your hands, until the general round-
up of school children at the opening of your school. As this will
not take place until the first, and it would be sometime thereafter,
before conclusions could be reached, and as Carlisle opens at the
same time, I cannot leave Miss Smith, my teacher here.

Personally, I was quite anxious to see you, so that we might
have had an entire understanding.

It seems there are a number of advanced students now home
from Ft. Shaw, who might be considered candidates for Carlisle,
and a number of them have expressed a preference to go there;
namely Emma and Virginia Blunt, Lizzie Wirth, Lewis Morton
and Russell Harrison.

Should you find in the roundup and distribution that a party
can be formed, I will respond promptly in any way to your judgment.
If you can send some one in charge, so much the better, if not I
will send some one from Carlisle.

Our students on entering should be over twelve, and preferably
under eighteen years of age, in good health and at least of fair
moral character.

Dr Gates is visiting for himself, and I wish therefore to
express to you on behalf of Mrs. Pratt, our daughter, and Miss
Smith, my thanks for the numerous courtesies we have received from
your employees.

I leave at midnight and go direct to Carlisle.

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Dr. Merrill E. Gates,

1429 East Avenue,

New York City.

My dear Doctor:--

I have been so very, very busy and so bothered
with my poor rheumatic leg that I have not gone out of the School
grounds with any matters. I have talked with our own people, and we
should be glad to have you come and give us the lecture at such time
as would suit your convenience best and we can take care of your ex-
penses and give you $50. I thought when I saw you that I might see
Dr. Martin, of Wilson College, and possibly some of the people of
Gettysburg College and arrange something about it, as I suggested, but
there is such a pressure of these things that I feel a hesitancy in ap-
proaching these people, knowing that they, like myself, are constantly
having such matters pressed upon them.

If sometime during October you want to make your trip to Gettys-
burg, fix the time, and it will suit us at this end. You know how
glad Mrs. Pratt and I would be to have you and Mrs. Gates, and other
members of your family if you could bring them, as our guests.

On the 6th of October we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the

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arrival of the first party of students. That will be Friday. If it
would suit you to come at that time and be here on Friday and give your
lecture on Saturday, remaining with us over Sunday, we should be de-
lighted to have you, and I am sure that the little program that we
have arranged, of outdoor and indoor sports, music, various exercises,
speeches, etc, would interest you, and I should want you to take a
little time in the speech-making. As to the subject, I should feel
that you would know rather better than I what would suit best.

Yours sincerely,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

Dictated.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 26,1899.

Miss Estelle Reel,
Supt. Indian Schools,
C/c Indian Office,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Miss Reel:--

I have yours of the 18th. You know I said I
would expect you to direct me in what you wanted me to do. I fear you
are shoving me into a place where I may not do you as much service as
some other who has had more experience, but if you still think it best
to have me act as President of our Indian Department, all right; and I
shall depend on you for both suggestion and direction.

I ought to say to you that I cannot see just why we were made a
part of the National Association, and expected to talk it over with you
but somehow did not have the chance. I am dead sure that our Indian
School teachers would all be vastly more benefitted by going to summer
schools with the other teachers of the country, scattering here and
there, than by congregating and talking Indian. It would keep them
more in touch with the school systems of the country, and bring a
greater variety of experiences into the work. My teachers went, quite
a number of them to different schools here--I should say not less than

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seven different schools--and at their teachers' meetings, one after
another they have to recount their experiences and to give account of
the new thought they have received. This is big help for us.

Should the N.E.A. meet at Charleston, we could hardly expect a
large attendance; however, it is done and we shall have to look to
your experience and leadership to work out the best results.

Dr. Gates learned some--yes, a good many--things, and I think he
was cured of some sentimental notions about the Indians, and realizes
that the problem is not as near solution as he had thought.

Mrs. Pratt, Richenda and I had quite a valuable experience, and I
am not sorry for the summer, nor the results of it, though the Catholics
are giving me no end of the most vicious abuse.

Mrs. Pratt joins me in kindest remembrances. Stop off and see us
on your way East, can't you?

Dictated.
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Rev. John Bancroft Devins,
156 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
My dear Doctor:--

We should be delighted to have you give us one
of your steroptican lectures sometime before New Years; it will not
matter much when, provided it does not conflict with a course of en-
tertainments in the town which many of us will attend. These come
about every two weeks. What could you do it for?

My notion is that one of the foreign lectures, or a combination
of them would suit our children best. We have a good steroptican
and could save you the trouble of bringing yours.

Dictated.
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Miss Jeneatte M. Buckles,

Tacoma, Washington.

My dear Nettie:--

Thank you for your good letter, which is a
little piece of sunshine, just like yourself. I am so glad to know
that you work in harmony with things and that you are using your good
strong powers for advancing the interests of your School.

Do the best you can where you are, and something better will come
from it. It may be a little while in coming, but you may rely upon
it that if you do your duty faithfully every time, there will be a
change and an advancement. You have the whole spirit of the situa-
tion and you are all right. Keep right along, as you so well know
how.

I was so sorry to hear of the death of poor Nannie. I am glad
you were there to comfort and encourage her.

You know how it is just now; we are all as busy as can be reorgan-
izing for the winter. The additions to the school building are almost
ready and we shall have four new school rooms which will relieve the
crowded condition of the school.

Mrs. Pratt and all your friends here join me in sending you much
love.

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Carlisle, Pa, September 26, 1899.

Miss Mary R. Hyde,

Wars, Mass.

My dear Miss Hyde--

I have been going to write to you for days, but the press upon me and rheumatism have prevented.

On the 6th of October we celebrate the twent-
tieth anniversary of the arrival of the first par-
ty of students. We are going to have a little
program of jubilation that I am sure would be some-
what interesting to you, and I am hoping for the
attendance of some of the first students, though I
Have had no responses yet to the printed invita-
tions sent some time ago.

I want to urge that you come and be with us.
In this Mrs. Pratt and Ely-Burgess and Miss Cutler
and other of the original employees join most heart-
ily. If you can possibly come, let me know and I

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Miss Jenny Ericson,

San Juan, Porto Rico.

My dear Miss Ericson:--

I have your postal of the 13th instant and have also learned more fully of your experiences through your interesting letter to Miss Burgess.

Your experiences through the cyclone must have been awful, indeed, but I am glad to know that you came out of them all right. The annoyance about the failure to carry your baggage, as you infer, was fully compensated when you found you escaped saving your goods ruined, and this proves to be the result with many of the disappointments which come to us.

We miss you in your department. The new room is about ready, but there is no one here yet to take up the work. Miss Stewart's application and endorsements have been forwarded to the Department at Washington, and she is awaiting (with some degree of impatience, I judge from her last letter) the appointment.

All is prospering here. The School roll numbers more pupils than ever before--963--with others coming to make it a thousand. Preparation

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are going forward for the celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of
the School. A program has been arranged, including indoor and outdoor
sports, music, various exercises, speeches, etc. Some distinguished
guests are expected, and we hope to have a small number of the first
pupils with us. The whole day will be given to the affair, and we
anticipate a regular jubilee.

Mrs. Pratt and all of your friends here join with me in kindest
regards and in earnest wishes for your highest and truest success in
the new undertaking,

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Mr. E. K. Shurtz,
Ada, Ohio.

Dear Sir:--

Your application for the position of teacher in this School is received. In reply I have to say that there are no vacancies at this time, and further, all teachers in the Indian Schools are now appointed by the Civil Service Commission. It is necessary for those desiring to enter the work to take the Civil Service examination, and, having passed successfully, their names are placed on the list with those awaiting appointment, and applicants are likely to be appointed to any of the Indian Schools in the country. If you desire to take this course, you can secure the information necessary by addressing the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission at Washington, D.C., asking for the blanks which the Commission furnish.

C.L.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., September 27, 1899.

Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright, Supt.,
Indian School,
San Carlos, Arizona.

My dear Mrs. Wright:--

I believe it is possible that the contents
of a letter I wrote you from Los Angeles has somehow gotten into the
possession of Inspector McConnell. Please let me know at once whether
you received a letter from me in which I made statements about Mc
Connell.

Diated.
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Carlisle, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1893.

Hon. W. A. Jones,

My dear Mr. Commissioner:--

I enclose you a note just received from Superintendent Vieta, of the Santa Fe School, which explains itself. Is it not possible to manage in some way that inspectors and other officials who visit from agency to agency and from school to school shall be in sympathy with the work that the Government is at tempting to do, instead of being at war with it?

Inspector McConnell, when he visited me and for more than a year afterwards was most kindly, writing and urging that I could get children here and there, and apparently full of the best intentions towards us, but when he went to San Carlos Agency he at once broke up a party that was being made up there for Carlisle, and drove the children out of the boarding school, giving the Indians such talk and advice as to build a barrier against sending their children away to school and greatly injuring their attendance at the home school.

I feel as though we ought, all of us, make war against the whole spy and inspection system. It is disgusting. So far as McConnell's

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Coming here is concerned, I hope he will be sent. I will be willing
to pay his whole expenses from Santa Fe to Carlisle myself in order
to get a chance at him and see if I cannot knock some of the non-
sense out of him.

The Miss Silcott referred to was a teacher here for a year, dur-
ing which she lost three months time, and was a constant source of
trouble while she was teaching. I had great difficulty in getting rid
of her and was compelled, after I did get rid of her, to pay her sal-
ary for three months, so that out of fifteen months pay I got about
eight months of most indifferent service. She was constantly in-
triguing with other employees and with the students and was one of the
most indelicate women I ever had at the School in having large boys in
her room late at night. She should have quit the Service when she left
Carlisle. In fact, her character in all of the previous places she
served, indicated that she never should have been in the Indian Ser-
vice at all.

Diated.
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Carlisle, Penna., September 27, 1899.

Supt. Andrew H. Viets,
Indian School,
Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My dear Sirs:

I do not think, while I am in the midst of a scrap
with our Catholic brethren, who are stirring heaven and earth to make
it appear that I am their mortal enemy and the mortal enemy of the
Indian, that it would be wise for me to take Antonio Romero against
his father's wish, but with his consent, I would be only too gled to
receive him.

Opposition to our system of education--the giving to Indians a
chance to see and know and realize what it is to become a full fledged
citizen of the United States--will cure itself in time. It is so per-
fectly rational and there is such indubitable proof of its superiority
that no amount of opposition will kill it off and it is certain sure
that, sooner or later, its opponents will have to go to the wall.

In regard to Inspector McConnell. I shall be very glad to see him
here, and think that the best possible move for him and the Service
would be to send him this way. So far as I am personally concerned; I
would rather stand the expense of his transportation than to mislead him.

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coming. The fact that he talks about it, shows that he is unfit for
the place, but it seems in these days necessary, not only to establish
but to reestablish and to establish again such incompetence many times
over again before action is taken. If he comes here I shall do my
tact to give it additional impetus.

Sorry that you should have such tribulations, but you know the
good book says "woe to that man by whom the tribulation cometh." Truth
and right cannot be downed. So stick to it, old fellow, and wade
through it and it will do you good, and the service, too.

Dictated.
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J. E. Brockway,

Manager Brockway Lecture Bureau,

Pittsburg, Penna.

Dear Sir:--

I have just had a full conference with my faculty about entertainments for our School this winter and find that there is quite a voice against our taking in the entertainments which you propose giving in our town, in a body as we have done before. The disposition seems to be to let those who care to, make such arrangements as other people make, either for the whole series, or such number of entertainments as they care to attend. Nobody seems to want the whole list because, taken in connection with what we have especially for the School, the entertainment business is overdone. I propose to have a few entertainments here at the school. There are some things to be given in town which would suit us very well. We could, for instance, use your people in the day time while they are here, if the entertainers were equal to it, or if they had an evening before or after the entertainment given in town.

I wish you would send me your full repertoire of entertainments, including those that are to be given here, and let me see if I cannot

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in conjunction with you arrange to have at the School some of those
that are to be given in Carlisle, and perhaps others.

One great difficulty is that we have about seven hundred students,
and if a hundred, including teachers, go to town to an entertainment,
we have to let the other five or six hundred which remain here have
an evening off, which is sometimes demoralizing.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 27, 1899.

Miss Flora Golsh,
Valley Centre,
San Diego Co., Cal.

Dear Miss Golsh :-

I hardly know what to say in answer to your letter, yet I feel that I ought to write at once. I wrote to the Commissioner the other day about a worthy blacksmith who was put out of the service because he had quarreled with his agent. In reply the Commissioner wrote that "conditions are the same all over the service, Major Pratt, and you know it", and I do know it. There seems to be no sort of pulling together or harmony anywhere, but a constant turmoil ; and in the midst of it the poor Indians are the great sufferers, ground between the nether and upper millstones.

I don't know what I can say to give you any comfort, or what I could do to reconcile matters. You made a mistake in not having a friendly talk with Mr. Tonner. When I spoke to you of it you were very bitter, and apparently it was useless to say more. Not withstanding your opinion of him, Agent Wright seems to be a man who can both manage and be managed, and I believe if you set your woman's wit to work and make up your mind to it, that you may in some way overcome the situation and keep on in the service, if that is what you desire to do. I could not recommend any man to whom you might write who would be able to help you except the Commissioner or Asst. Commissioner.

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I am of course very sorry that you are sidetracked in any way
and wish I could see my way to do something, but it does not seem
to me that my interference would help you. I did speak to Mr. Ton
ner and he seemed disposed to be friendly to you notwithstanding
he had heard about you unpleasantly. I just gave Mrs. Cook the
fact that I had heard from you and the contents of your letter,
and she joins me in sympathy to you. Mrs. Pratt and Richenda
both wish to be remembered.

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Miss Edith Smith,
State Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Edith :--

Your letter of the 26th is before me. It is gratifying
to hear from you, and to know that you are continuing your studies
at West Chester. It is an excellent school, and situated as you
now seem to be, with no other duties than those connected with your
classes - see nothing to interfere with your completing the course
with honor to yourself and class, especially so since Dr. Philips
spoke so well of you and all the Carlisle girls last year.

I am glad you see something of Lehney. She is one of the
best girls we have ever had.

The school certainly has changed much since you were a stu-
dent here. Every year there are more pupils, and of course more
accommodations are necessary. We have nearly one thousand on the
roll now, and expect to have fully that number in a few weeks.
I take it you receive The Helper every week which gives you news
occasionally of those whom you knew while here.

With kind regards and best wishes for your success,

Faithfully your friend,

Major 10th Cavalry, Sept.

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Carliole, Pa., Sept. 27, 1899.

Rev. Joseph K. Griffis,
28 Pomona Place,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Dear Sir :-

At present we have only four Kiowa boys and no girls
from whom to select a correspondent. They are David Haddon, aged
about 14, Jonathon Martinez, aged about 17, Joseph Hummingbird,
aged 18, and Sherman Chadlesone, 18. All are in the fourth grade
in their studies. From this you can form some idea as to which
you might prefer. In my judgment David Haddon would be the most
satisfactory, being a little quicker than the others.

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Carlisle, Penna., Sept. 27, 1899

H. E. Bonsall, Sec'y,

New Bloomfield, Penna.

Dear Sirs:

Mr. Bretz, Liverman here, agrees to haul the Band,
(sixty pieces) to New Bloomfield on Saturday, the 28th of October, and
back that same evening for $40, if I loan him my big wagon, which car-
ries twenty, easily. Our boys could leave here soon after breakfast and
be there by, say eleven o'clock without difficulty, even earlier if
necessary.

I find the moon will be good at that season, and they could leave
New Bloomfield in the evening and come back by moonlight, which I
would prefer, as the next day is Sunday.

Mr. Bretz would send his teamsters with food for the animals and
lunch for themselves, and the whole expense would be $40. If they had
to stay over and come back in the morning, he would expect the teams
and men to be taken care of.

If you conclude that you want the Band, I will say, then, that we
will come over for $140, you to provide dinner and supper for the mem-
bers. I might suggest to you that you could accomplish that without
expense by letting the boys be entertained by different members of the
band, or by different citizens, as is frequently done and as was done

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Bonsall.

on a former occasion when I was in New Bloomfield, September 14, 1899, total expense need not be over $140. Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

You did not say what hours you would want them. If they get started back, say by eight o'clock in the evening, and have the moon- to the Honorable, would be no trouble.

The one best we could do by rail, would be $54, for railroad fare to and from Duncannon, but you would have to special them back to Duncannon in the evening and even if you could do that without cost for transportation between Duncannon and New Bloomfield, the expense by rail would be $14 more than by wagon.

If you conclude to take the Band, it will be important that we know as early as possible.

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Penna., September 27, 1898.

Mrs. Kate F. Butler,
648 East Capitol St.,
Washington, D.C.
My dear Mrs. Butlers--

I will write Mr. Wood at once and ask him
whether he will let me have some tickets for Indian Office people to
come from Washington to Philadelphia, October 14th, to witness the game,
and will let you know the result.

It might be well to see whether others would want to come, so that
I may know how many tickets should be provided.

Dictated.
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J. R. Wood, G.P.,

Philadelphia, Penna.

Dear Sir;--

Three persons connected with the Indian Office in
Washington asked me if they could get the low rates granted our School,
from Washington to Philadelphia for the purpose of being present at the
foot ball game between our team and the Fenna., on the 14th of Octo-
ber. There will probably be others.

Kindly advise me whether you would favor them and us by granting
such rates.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna., September 28, 1899.

M. Chamberlain, Sec'y,

Dear Sir:--

I have your letter of September 27th, and thank you
for your kind invitation to our boys. When they go to play Cambridge
they will stop at Copley Square Hotel, but their time will be spent,
as you know, in the special purpose of their trip, and I do not see how
they can go to see you. However, Mr. Thompson, the Manager, has the
contents of your letter.

I would be glad to have you make us a visit at Carlisle.

Dictated.
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Prof. Herbert W. Hart, Pres.,

National Health Society of America,
C/o The "Press,"

Philadelphia, Penna.

Dear Sir;--

I hope you will excuse the liberty I take in address-
ing you, which I am encouraged to do by a notice of you in the Phila-
delphia "Press" of last Sunday and because of my large and very pecu-
liar responsibilities in connection with my charge of this Indian
School, having about a thousand young people whom I am trying to lead
from a savage to a civilized life, and feeling an especial responsi-
bility in regard to their proper instruction as to diet, etc.

I should be pleased to have circulars for information if you have
any for public distribution, and to get from you any ideas that might
be helpful along these lines.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna., Sept. 28,1899.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lemieux,

Superior, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Lemieux;--

Your letter of the 24th instant is received.

Your son left Carlisle on the 18th of this month to take the position
of Assistant Disciplinarian at the Omaha Boarding School, Omaha
Agency, Nebraska. I am glad to tell you he was very well at the time
he left, and while with us was doing very well. I have no doubt but
he will get on all right in the work he has undertaken, and if you
address him at the Omaha School, care of Superintendent Ratliff, you
can learn further about him direct.

Very truly yours,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 29, 1899.

Mrs. Bertha StevensChrisman,
433 W. Minor St.,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Chrisman :-

I thank you greatly for your kindly note. The arrangements at your place are entirely satisfactory, as they have always been. I am sorry to seem to criticise any of our good patrons, but when we make a neighborhood matter or when an abuse has grown so that it covers pretty nearly the whole neighborhood, it is hard to do otherwise, and my judgment indicated that a letter of the kind I wrote was necessary in your district. We have always given you our best girls.

I should be very glad indeed to visit West Chester, which I have long hoped to do, but would be quite confused as to where I ought to go because of the many kindly invitations. Sometime this winter I may have the privilege of visiting the Normal and my friend, Dr. Phillips, and your home and others. I am so tied to the details of my work here that when I do have a chance to get away it seems necessary to go where I can leave all business and Indian behind. I am sure you can readily understand how this is.

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Mr. J. E. Brockway, Mangr.,
Lecture Bureau,
Pittsburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 28th seems to have quite misapprehended me. We shall not take in the course of lectures this winter, but there may be a few of our employees and possibly a few of our students to attend, though not as a body nor on the grounds of any exceptional price, etc. What I wanted was a list of your attractions traveling in this vicinity and the probable lowest price at which I could secure them, and the dates open. If this is impracticable I shall be compelled to look elsewhere and have already appointed a committee. Lists from other bureaus are in hand.

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Josiah J. George,

Onondaga Castle, N. Y.

My dear Josiah :-

I cannot tell you how much I regret to read the contents
of your letter of the 24th, and to know that you have been dis-
charged from the service and for such an offense; nor how much I
hope that your entire future will be as you propose, perfectly
clear from such things. I have no doubt about the general correct-
ness of your statement in regard to others, but that does you no
good. That others do wrong is no excuse for you. Even if all
the world went wrong and you knew what was right, you would have
no excuse for doing wrong.

Perhaps after you have been at home awhile and taken hold of
things, and shown yourself able to overcome, things may swing around
your way again, even in the Indian service.

With love to Betty, always

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Carlisle Pa., Sept. 29, 1899.

N. E. Miller, Agt.,
Monkton, Md.

My dear Sir :-

The four boys were brought here by the sheriff of Balti-
more County yesterday, and I paid him his charges for keep and sev-
vice in doing it. He claimed that some other men had made the ar-
rest than Mr. Walters and Mr. Talbot. I desire, of course, to be
fair and not to have anyone do work for us without receiving recom-
pense. If you will write me whether Mr. Talbot and Mr. Walter are
the proper parties I will see that each of you have something for
your service, as I am allowed to pay actual expenses. Am certain-
ly very much obliged to you for your activity and interest in meet
ing my request.

Dictated (F)

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Carlisle Pa., Sept. 29, 1899.

Miss Rose Duvemay,
C/o Mrs. Sumner Brosius,
Lansdowne, Pa.

Dear Rose :-

I send you your appointment as assistant matron at the
Osage Agency boarding school. It would be better for you to come
back to Carlisle and start from here, but you should at once noti-
fy the Commissioner that you accept the appointment. Do that from
where you are. I will write Mrs. Brosius today, and you should
remain with her until she is provided.

Your friend and school-father,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 30, 1899.

Mr. Andreas Maxcy,

Mesa Grande, Cal.

Dear Sir :--

In reply to a recent letter of inquiry about your son Miguel, who is in a hospital at Washington, D. C., I have the following report from the acting superintendent of the institution, which I am sure will be quite encouraging to you as it was to me :

Major R.H. Pratt,
Superintendent Indian School,
Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Dear Sir :--

I am happy to report in response to your inquiry of the 26th instant, that Miguel Maxcy has shown some slight improvement. He has recently been able to be dressed and sit up part of the day, and is taking a fair amount of food and gaining a pound or two in weight. He has gastric ulcer and has been unable to retain food. He is still depressed, but will probably recover his mind if he can be physically restored. His gastric trouble has been so severe, with hemorrhage, etc., as to make the decision doubtful between malignancy and simple ulceration. His general improvement now makes it much more probable that the latter condition obtains.

Very respectfully,

I have written your daughter at Phoenix, Ariz. giving her the contents of the above letter.

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Miss Nettie Macey,
Indian School,
Phoenix, Ariz.

Dear Miss Macey :-

On receipt of your letter I wrote to the superintendent of the hospital in Washington, where your brother is. He reports as follows :-

"I am happy to report in response to your inquiry of the 26th instant, that Miguel Macey has shown some slight improvement. He has recently been able to be dressed and sit up part of the day, is taking a fair amount of food and gaining a pound or two in weight. He has gastric ulcer, and has been unable to retain food. He is still depressed, but will probably recover his mind if he can be physically restored. His gastric trouble has been so severe with hemorrhage etc., as to make the decision doubtful between malignancy and simple ulceration. His general improvement now makes it much more probable that the latter condition obtains."

I am very sure that you will be glad as I am to have such a favorable prospect.

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Mr. J. R. Wood, G.P.A.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :—

The 6th of October is the Twentieth Anniversary of the beginning of this school. We wish to celebrate the occasion in a small way and to have with us a few of our Washington officials and some other friends who were interested in us at the very beginning. I shall be very much obliged to you if you will send me at once a dozen round trip tickets from Washington that I may make use of on that occasion in bringing these friends here, giving me the usual half rate that you allow at Commencement.

Will you not kindly advise me by wire Monday morning if you will do this, and let the tickets follow as early as practicable ?

Very truly yours,

Major 10th Cavalry Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 30, 1899,

H. A. Gross, G.E.A.,
461 Broadway,
New York,

My dear Mr. Gross :-

On the 6th of October we commemorate the close of our twelfth year. Our people have thought it advisable to have some special exercises in celebration of the event. The first party of 82 students came from Roseland and Pine Ridge Agencies, Valentine and Rushville on your lines. We sent invitations to all that are still living and I have a letter from one at Pine Ridge, Rushville, saying he wants to come. Only two replies have yet been received and they came last night and this morning. I expect tonight and Monday to receive quite a number more. These young people will come at their own expense if they do come. Please wire me as soon as you get this on Monday whether you can make a half rate for them over your lines to and from Chicago. This is only a preliminary and may not come to anything, but I would like to know from you what you can do, so that I may be prepared. In my invitation I indicated that I could get reduced rates for them.

It is short notice I know, but the affair was gotten up on short notice.

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Carlisle, Penna., Sept. 20, 1899.

Miss Eva Johnson,

Indian School,

Powhuska, I.T.,

My dear Eva!--

I am so glad to know that you have found a resting place. I have thought of you not a little since you were with us and been anxious that you should get satisfactorily located.

You will find Col. Pollock an exceptionally stirring Indian Agent, and I trust your services there may be even more pleasant than you anticipate.

We are planning to hold our twentieth anniversary exercises on the 4th of October, and on account of the two decades, we are making it something more than ordinary. General Eaton will deliver an address, we hope to have the Commissioner and possibly the Secretary, and perhaps some of our first pupils, although we are not fully sure of any yet.

We have 971 pupils on our rolls today, and will soon have a thousand.

Yes, you have got friends at Carlisle, Eva, and I hope you can

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Carlisle, Penna., Sept. 30, 1922

Arthur Two Strikes,

Rosebud, S.D.

Dear Arthur --

I can get you a half rate from Rushville to Chicago and back to Rushville, and can get you a rate of about $22.00 from Chicago to Carlisle and return. This would make it cost you about $55.00 for the round trip, from Rushville to Carlisle and back.

Wire me instantly on receipt of this if you wish me to arrange
the ticket. If several of you who belonged to the first party could
join together and come here, it may be that I could get even a better
rate. Be sure to wire me promptly.

We should all be delighted to have you with us.

Dietated.
(M)

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Sept. 20, 1929

Dear Judge McCammon:--

On the 6th of October we give ourselves up the whole day to a little commemoration of our twentieth anniversary. It is gotten up in something of a hurry. You knew us from the start. Cannot you come up and bring members of your family?

Please wire me on receipt of this, and if you can come say what transportation you will need.

Dieted.
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October 2, 1899.

My dear Doctor :-

We shall use you Saturday night, and
shall then, of course, expect you to stay with
us over Sunday. It seems quite impracticable to
arrange it before. We have a musical entertain-
ment Wednesday night and Thursday night we will
have rehearsal and preparation for Friday night's
exercises. Friday night will be our speech-mak-
ing time on account of the anniversary. As there
will be quite a number, your talk need not exceed
ten minutes. I leave the subject matter of it
entirely to your own judgment.

Mrs. Pratt and I understand all about settling
down to housekeeping and know the arduousness of
the details of it; so you and Mrs. Gates have our
sympathy. I have not been in Washington since my
return, but shall probably go down before a great
while though I hope to avoid it by the Commission-
er's coming here on Friday. Will send you a tick-
et in time.

Merrill E. Gates, L.L.D.,
1315 New Hampshire Ave.,
Washington, D. C.

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Carlisle, Penna., October 2, 1899.

Miss Elizabeth D. Edge,
Domingtown, Penna.

My dear Miss Edge:--

We have selected Alberta Gansworth as the
member of the junior class who needs the change and building up. We
send her by the 8.30 train on Wednesday morning, arriving at Downing-
town at 10.00 A.M. All feel greatly obliged to you for this kind in-
formation. Alberta needs the outing very much, and she could go to no
better place. The only regret I have about it is that you did not
include the preparatory department so that I could come myself.

With love to the girls,

Distributed.

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Carlisle, Penna., Oct. 2, 1895.

Conalesa,

C/o Mr. Charles King,

Newtown, Penna.

My dear Conalesa:--

I have your letter telling me that you want to
come back to the School. This, however, will not be fulfilling your
contract. You have gone there to remain with Mr. King through the win-
ter and attend school with the white boys and girls, and that is what I
want you to do. Some of the things we think we do not like are the
very best things in the world for us, and after you have had the year's
experience it will be worth more to you than all it cost you. Now, I
want you to do your best and see how much you can advance this winter.
Work hard and earnestly, and let the white boys see that there is
something in an Indian. You must not imagine that they do not like
you, but make them like you. You can do this by being helpful and
cheerful. Do all you can in the way of helping others about you, and
always do it cheerfully and that will make the service of double value.

I want you to try this for a month, with all the power that
is in you, and then write and tell me just how it is going. You know I
am always ready to hear what you have to tell me, and to do anything
for you in my power that is for your best good.

Sincerely your friend & School father,

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October 3rd, 1899.

My dear Mason :-

On Wednesday evening we shall have three
musical prodigies, Reuben Demarest and his bro-
thers from New York, all under twelve years of
age to give us an evening of classic music on
the piano, violin and violincello. Why can't
you and Mabel and the children come over?

On Friday we have a full day in commemora-
ration of our twentieth anniversary; in the
morning, inspection of shops and school work;
in the afternoon field sports, band concert,
and parade; in the evening some general exer-
cises, music, speeches, etc. General Eaton
will make the speech of the evening, but Judge
Riddle, President Gates, Dr. Lippincott, Miss
Hyde, and others will be here, and we hope to
have you and Mabel and the children with us
all day.

Saturday night Dr. Gates will give us a
lecture. We are not going to be much crowded
but you had better let us know what you will
do, so we can arrange.

Your affectionate father,

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October 3rd, 1899.
Rev. Dr. Lippincott,
M.R. Hospital,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

We give up the whole day of the 6th to commemorate our twentieth anniversary. The Commissioner is coming up with President Gates. Miss Hyde will be back. These are about all from outside. You were here when we arrived and helped in the start. If you can possibly be with us, do not fail. Come up Thursday evening, leaving Philadelphia at four thirty, and give us all of Saturday. If you cannot do that, come up early Friday morning. We are not making much of a fuss about it; it is mostly within ourselves, but two decades having passed the occasion seems worthy of special note. Will want you to take eight or ten minutes.

Would be very glad to have Dr. Seabrook come too if she can be spared. Though not one of the first employees, she was here very early in the history of the school.

I send you two tickets, which can be returned if not used. Wire me on receipt of this that you will come. Of course you will be our guest.

Cordially and faithfully yours,

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Carliole, Pa., Oct. 3rd, 1899.

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

My dear Brother Trippe :-

Our records show that Lyman BlackChief entered here Aug. 31, 1897 and was discharged July 6th, 1898. The statement is that he was quite deaf and was not promising as a student.

I have great respect for Elder BlackChief on account of what I know of him and on account of his other sons, and while we sent Lyman away for a reason I am willing, if he is in good health, to have him return and try it over on condition that his father set him down here at the school, and with the understanding that if after another trial we find it useless to continue school effort on him, he will take him home.

Hoping this will serve your purpose, I am

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Carlisle, Penna., October 3, 1899.

W. J. Leahy, G.E.P.A.,

305 Broadway, New York City.

My dear Mr. Leahy:---

You kindly secured for me transportation
Chicago to Denver and return for my daughter, Nana, in June last, good
until the end of September. She did not return at the end of Septem-
ber, being persuaded to stay over to see the festival of mountain and
plain, and for some other purposes, until October. She sent me her
ticket and asked if I could not get it extended. I sent it to Mr.
Sebastian on the 26th ult., asking him to extend it for me. It has
not returned. Perhaps he does not care to make the extension.

Very truly yours,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Penna., October 3,1899.

Mrs. Laura A. Dandridge,

Kean's Canyon School,
Via Holbrook, Arizona.

My dear Mrs. Dandridge:--

I am glad to get your letter and especially
glad to know that you and Mr. Dandridge are together again. I did not
mean by any act of mine to separate man and wife, and felt sorry that
nothing better could be done at the time.

I congratulate you on the change in your spirits after becoming
acquainted. The experiences will do you both good, and I am sure after
your long service at Carlisle you can satisfy any ordinary management.

I shall be delighted if among you you can see a way to let us have
some good Moque children. A trip of a party of their children out into
the world beyond their mesas and their immediate surroundings would do
the whole tribes a lot of good.

We are chuck full--975 pupils on our rolls, of whom about 625 are
present at the School, and enough more coming to raise us above a
thousand. The health of the School is excellent, elegant weather, and
everybody happy.

With kind regards to you both,

Your friend,

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Dr. Gray,
221 George Street,
York, Penna.

My dear Doctor:--

On Friday, the 6th, we commemorate by some spe-
cial exercises, the twentieth anniversary of this School. General
Eaton advises me that you are near to us and thinks that if your fam-
ily conditions are not too serious, you would avail yourself of the
opportunity to visit us. I should be glad to send you transportation,
and Mrs. Pratt and I will be delighted to have you as our guest.
Please advise me at once whether you will come.

You could come over in the morning and return the same evening,
leaving here at six o'clock, and be in York at about eight o'clock, or
better still, stay until morning, and be back in York early.

Our speaking, special music, etc., will be in the evening. The
forenoon will be for general rambling around the School; the afternoon
field sports, Band, dress parade.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs will be here and give a talk.
General Eaton, Dr. Gates, formerly President of Amherst; Dr. Lippin-
cott, formerly Chancellor of University of Kansas, and just a few old
friends from a distance and a number of our local people who were
interested in us from the beginning. Please advise me at once.

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Mr. William O. Cornelius,
Oneida, Wis.
My dear Mr. Cornelius:--

I got your telegram. I know that your boy and oldest girl have been here a long time. They are good pupils and are going to be a credit to you and us.

It is against our rules to send children home because of sickness in the family. We have 975 pupils, you can understand that if we would allow sickness in the family to be a reason for sending children home, that some of these would be on the road all the time, because there is no family that is free from sickness, neither can we allow an allegation of a probable death of a member of the family to operate as a reason. In nineteen cases out of twenty the children going home would be of no possible avail either to the sick or to the well or to themselves. It is a trip that costs considerable money, and brings no commensurate fruit; therefore, the rule is good and wise. In almost all cases when allegation of severe illness is made, persons are not so well, and before the children could have gotten home, they are on the way to recovery.

While I sympathize with you in your affliction, and pray that it may not be so serious as you apprehend, I trust you will be able to understand that there is wisdom in the course that has been ordered to govern us under such circumstances.

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Carlisle, Penna., Oct. 4, 1899.

Queen & Company,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Gentlemen:--

Some eighteen months ago I saw one of your most powerful new field glasses in New York and was contemplating a purchase. Later an army friend told me I could get one through the Army at the regular contract price, which was very much less than the price named by your man. I bought one through the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, but it was made by Messrs. Bausch & Lomb, at Rochester. I took it West with me this summer, and from the top of Pike's Peak attempted to make out objects at a distance and was greatly disappointed in its long range properties. An old field glass which I have carried for many years revealed objects far better. I wrote to Bausch & Lomb about it, apprehending a defect in the construction. This was their highest power glass. I have only my recollection of the power of your glass but it was very much superior to the ordinary field glass. If you have any printed statements in regard to it, I shall be glad to receive them.

What I wanted was the most powerful little glass I could get, for often in my Westرن travels it would be of great convenience to me, particularly if it were light and compact.

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Carlisle, Penna., Oct. 4,1899.

Russell Whitebear,
Troop "F" 5th Cavalry, U.S.A.,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

My dear Russell:--

I am very greatly obliged to you for your long
letter of the 23rd of September. It gave such a good account of your
army life that I read it to the School and have allowed Miss Burgess
to use a good part of it in the "Helper."

While I am sorry that you are disappointed with your army life, I
like your philosophy in standing by your gun and making the most out
of it. The experience, I am sure, will be invaluable to you, and the
holding on to your principles right straight through the whole time of
your enlistment will be a grander experience.

We read about the great storm, and as you know, our people con-
tributed a great deal for the relief of the Porto Ricans. They are
certainly very much better off belonging to the United States than they
were belonging to Spain.

You do not give me the names of your company officers nor of the
officers of your regiment. I should be glad to know who they are.

If you have a chance, speak to Major Cooper. He and I were offi-
cers of the same regiment thirty years ago and until very recently, and
he will be glad to meet you as one of my boys. His station is at
Mayaguez.

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No more of the boys enlisted after you five until yesterday five
others enlisted: John Ortago, Grover Cleveland, Uriah Goodcane, Joseph
Flying and Reuben Shoulder.

We pass our twentieth anniversary day after to-morrow and shall
have quite a little time--some field sports, dress parade, music by
the Band, speeches, etc. The School has grown this year and now num-
bers 973 pupils. The health is good, and everything moving along
nicely. The additions to both ends of the school building are just
about completed, so that we shall have much better accommodations
in the school rooms than we had last year.

Do not forget to write me occasionally as you promised.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., October 5, 1899.

Mr. F. E. Walters,

N.C.Railway Company,

Corbett, Md.

My dear Sir:--

I have asked Mr. Miller, the Agent at Monkton to deliver the whole fifteen dollars to you for yourself and Mr. Talbott. I trust this will be satisfactory. I supposed it was a joint arrangement--that the Agent receiving my message and acting for me had given the message and thus aided somewhat in the matter, and the three of you could adjust it. There is no allowance made by the Government for this service, but I have a little charity fund which I sometimes use in that way and it was from this fund that I sent you the amount. The charges of the Sheriff and his assistants were so high that that was all I could think of asking the Government to pay. Had you brought the boys right here as I desired, it would have saved me quite a good deal of money, and been better for you and Mr. Talbott. However, I trust this last disposition will meet your views and resolve the differences.

Thanking you and Mr. Talbott for your services, I am,

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Carlisle, Penna., October 5, 1899.

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 O. S., 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 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Miss Josephine Foard,

Laguna, New Mexico.

My dear Miss Ford:--

John Uyya was a thoroughly good boy throughout the whole of his school life at Carlisle. He never drank, was never caught in any of the irregularities so common to boys. He was not bright--could not keep up with his classes well and had far more country experience than the average Carlisle student. I believe he would learn the business you propose very well, and easily. Whether he has the business tact to manage, would be somewhat questionable. I think it would be entirely more practical for us to find a more suitable one among the students already here, and this would save you the transportation. I would suggest that you talk to Col. Robert Marmon about it. Using his judgment and ours here, we may arrive at the party. I should hardly be willing to bring John back at Government expense for that special purpose.

I am glad you can speak so well of our boys and girls. Many of them are at work in other schools, doing remarkably well. I have three of the Laguna students in my office. Frank Hudson, who after graduating took a commercial course, is one of the nicest and most correct penmen I have ever had; and he has a national reputation as a football player, although that may not recommend him to you. Annie Kiwuni had

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a course in Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, and is the short-hand
and typewriter for my Assistant, Mr. Standing. Annie Morton is most
useful as assistant to the Clerk in the outing department.

I should be extremely sorry to learn that John Uyya has broken
his long good record at Carlisle, if he has, in the way you mention.

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Mr. N. E. Miller, Agent,

Monkton, Md.

My dear Sir:--

Please turn the additional five dollars over to Mr. Walters for himself and Mr. Talbott and I enclose you an extra five dollars which you need not mention to them, for yourself, in order that you may not be disappointed nor feel that I want services of this kind for nothing. I do this as a personal matter to you. The fifteen dollars that I sent before was not from any Government funds. But your best way will be to hand the other five dollars to Mr. Walters as I said and make no remarks about this last.

Please send me an acknowledgement.

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Malcolm W. O'Dell,

Teacher, Martinez Day School,
Walters, Cal.

Dear Sir:--

I have your letter of September 25th and note what
you say about being back in the service. Just now, and probably for
this year, our corps of help along your line is full. If a vacancy
should occur, I will be glad to consider you in connection with it.

Your wife can take both the teacher's and kindergartner's exami-
nation and be placed on the eligible list for each, as I understand
the rules of the Civil Service, and this, I should think would double
her chances towards securing appointment.

Very truly yours,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

Dictated.
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Scott Crane,

Custer, Mich.
My dear Scott;--

I have your letter asking to come back to Carl-
lisle. You were twenty-three years of age when you left here in Novem-
ber, 1896. That was three years ago and you are now twenty-six. It
seems to me that your age warrants you in remaining out of school and
struggling with the situation. You are now past the school age. The
best way would have been to remain here while you were a pupil, then
no fault would have been found, but now if I took you back there
would be fault found because of your age.

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Penna., October 7,1899.

Edward Little,

Rosebud, S.D.

My dear Edward:--

When I received Arthur Two Strike's letter the time was too short to attempt to make any arrangements for you to come to Carlisle for the Anniversary, but now I want to say that at the end of February our Commencement will occur, and I would be greatly pleased if quite a party of you who first came here would save your money and come to that. I am sure that I could get you a very low rate--I believe that I could get you a half rate from your home to Carlisle, taking it in time. I have asked Arthur to talk to the others about it and you can do so also, and see if you can't accomplish it.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Penna., Oct. 7, 1899.

Daniel W. Milk,

Naper, Boyd Co., Neb.

My dear Daniel:--

When I received Arthur Two Strike's letter the time
was too short to attempt to make any arrangements for you to come to
Carlisle for the Anniversary, but now I want to say that at the end of
February our Commencement will occur, and I would be greatly pleased
if quite a party of you who came here first would save your money and
come to that. I am sure that I could get you a very low rate--I be-
lieve that I could get you a half rate from your home to Carlisle,
taking it in time. Talk to the others about it and see if you can't
accomplish it.

Faithfully your friend,

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Pa., October 7, 1899.

Supt. Frank Terry,

Fort Belknap Boarding School,
Harlem, Mont.

My dear Terry:--

The Commissioner was here yesterday and I had
a good, square chance, and after a little talk with him I broke the
ice and now feel sure your matter will be adjusted. He seemed to think
at first that he knew all about it, but he certainly changed his mind
radically before I got through. He said he feared that it would be
impossible to reinstate you in the old place, and wanted to know what
kind of a supervisor you would make, or a superintendent for a larger
school. I told him that I did not feel able to decide about the qual-
ities of a supervisor. I always decline to give an opinion in regard
to the appointment of persons over me--as supervisor, superintendent
of schools, inspector, special agent or commissioner. I certainly felt
that you were equal to the duties of a larger school.

He asked me how I thought you would do at Flandreau, and I thought
the best way about that was to submit it to you, for I knew you to be
a man of such honor as not to push yourself to such duties as you felt
you were not equal to. He said he certainly would write you soon, and
that he would, as soon as he could, mend matters for you, and author-

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Terry.

ized me to get an expression from you concerning the superintendency
of the Flandreau School, at which there will be a vacancy shortly.

I am sure the Commissioner feels disposed to give you Flandreau
if you yourself feel you are equal to it and would care to have it.

Now, my dear Terry, I do not feel that I know you well enough to
advise either you or the Department. I feel that it is a matter you
ought to determine for yourself, for your success or failure in a
school like that must be entirely in your own hands. I have stood for
your Christian character and integrity and your earnestness of purpose
and desire to do the Indian good.

Please let me hear from you about Flandreau very soon.

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Carlisle, Penna., October 7, 1899.

Russell Ratliff, Supt.,

Indian Boarding School,
Omaha, Nebraska.

Dear Sirs:

Replying to yours of the 2nd, stating that Stephen
Guitar is asking that Henry be sent home at the end of his five years,
October 20, 1899, I have to advise you that the Department made a rule
early in the history of the School, that if pupils entered any time
after the beginning of the School year (September 1st) they should re-
main the five years for which they came, and that such five years should
not be counted to have closed until the end of the School year follow-
ing their five years at Carlisle. There has been no revocation of it,
and we have followed this rule ever since.

We have endeavored always to get our students in during July and
August, or at the close of the schools on the reservations, in May or
June or whatever time they close, but Indians persistently work
against their children coming from the Agency schools and will hold on
to them until after the beginning of the school year a month or two,
and often three, and it is to break up this inconsistency on their
part that the rule was made. Henry Guitar, therefore, is not entitled
to return home until the end of June next, and even at that time if he

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himself concludes that he wants to continue his education beyond that
time, the rule made for us at the Department is that the student should
have the right to decide to remain longer at the School even though the
parents objected. Will you please explain this to Mr. Guitar.

I am glad you like John Lemieux. He is a steady, plodding fellow
with excellent purposes and I believe you will grow to like him better
the longer he stays with you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 7, 1999.

Arthur Two Strikes,

Rosebud, South Dakota.

My dear Arthur:--

When I got your letter, the time was too short
to attempt to make any arrangements for you to come to Carlisle for
the Anniversary, but now I want to say that at the end of February our
Commencement will occur, and I would be greatly pleased if quite a
party of you old fellows who came here first would save your money and
come at that time. I am sure that I could get you a very low rate--I
believe that I could get you a half rate from your home to Carlisle,
taking it in time. Talk to the others about it and see if you can't
accomplish it.

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Carlisle, Penna. Oct. 9th, 1899.

Dr. W. P. Wilson, Director General,

Phila. Export Exposition,
Phila. Penna.

My dear Doctors:

Complying with your request that I send you the lowest figures for which the Carlisle Indian Band may be engaged for one week at your Exposition I have to say that after conferring with our Superintendent, Major R.H. Pratt, we have concluded that the lowest figure that we can give is $3,500.00 for one week.

We find the actual expenses of the band, 60 strong, will amount to over $800.00 consequently we would barely make two dollars per man per day. I hope, however, the figure will not prove too high for we certainly would be highly gratified to secure one week's engagement at your Exposition.

I should like this engagement to be in November so that I can work up some characteristic Indian pieces which seemed to please so well last Saturday. If not convenient, however, any time will suit us.

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Carlisle, Penns., October 9, 1899.

A. K. Stilley.

Lake Mohonk, N.Y.

My dear Preind...

Presuming upon the experiences of the past and
your usual invitation to the others of my corps of helpers, I let my
Assistant Superintendent, Mr. Standing, who has been with me from the
beginning and who is an Orthodox Friend, and Miss Burgess who has also
been with me from the start and is a Hicksville Friend, go to Mohonk this
year to represent Carlisle.

Mr. Standing has never been to Mohonk, and is a veteran of nearly
thirty years in Indian School work. Miss Burgess has likewise had
long experience, having been a teacher under her father when he was
Agent of the Pennsylvania, quite a number of years before Carlisle was es-
tablished. She is the Editor of our School Papers.

Very truly yours,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Penna., October 10,1899.

C. M. Sensesman,

Mechanicstown, Penna.

My Dear Sirs:-

There is so often a "slip 'twixt the cup and the
lip," that I must tell you to postpone the announcement of the Indian
Band's departure for Paris in anything that you may do. I have no
objection to your dedicating your music to the Indian Band, plain
and simple, but to announce that they sail for Paris is quite another
matter. If you wait until after they have sailed for Paris, it will
be all right. It will also be impossible to furnish you picture of
the full Band which will go to Paris, because of the possibility of
change at the very last.

Very truly yours,

Dictated.
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Carlisle, Pa., October 10, 1899.

M. A. Embick,

Boiling Springs, Pa.

My dear Embick:--

Thank you for your congratulations. You say that I builded better than I knew, but I want to say that the consummation of my inceptions are tremendously further off than I expected when I began. I supposed that one half of this time would have made the people of the United States acquainted with the possibilities of Indian education and civilization, and that the whole work would not only have been understood, but consummated by this time.

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Carlisle, Penna., October 10, 1899.

Hon. W. A. Jones,

Lake Mohonk, N.Y.

My dear Friend:--

A letter from Terry, at Fort Belknap, tells me confidentially that the State water right, under which the Government is constructing the irrigating canal on the Belknap Reserve, has been taken out in the name of Luke C. Hays, not as Indian Agent, but as an individual. Terry says he does not call in question Hays' purpose, but he does question the propriety of spending so great an amount of Government funds in a system constructed under a water right in the name of a private individual. Under the laws of Montana, after a system is constructed, not a drop of water can be taken out without the consent of the owner of the water right.

I suggest you have this matter looked up and see if it is all right. My experiences with Hays and his present Clerk at Crow Creek, Agency, when I was Chairman of the Sioux Commission ten years ago would lead me to be very careful in looking after his performances where the Government's moneys are involved. When I have opportunity, I will tell you those experiences.

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Carlisle, Pa., October 11, 1999.

Miss Zenia Titbetts,

C/o Miss Elizabeth E. Edge,

Downingtown, Penna.

Dear Zenia:

Miss Barr reports that Fred is not sick, that since he came he has been to the hospital two or three times only for headache. Fred seems a little indiscreet in the care of himself during wet and cold weather. I find he has no disposition to pay any attention to rain.

In regard to your going to the football scrap Saturday, Mrs. Pratt and I expect to go down on the morning train, leaving here at 8:30 and come back as soon after the game as we can. It would be better for you if you went to the game in the care of somebody who understands Philadelphia and could get you about. Mr. Thompson will provide you the tickets and you had better send to him at once. Let him know how many tickets you want.

Very sincerely your friend,

Dictated.

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