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Carlisle, Pa., June 9, 1902.

C. A. Maxwell,
Bond Building,
Washington, D. C.

To: dear Maxwell ;

Your circular letter of April 28th came during my absence and
is only just before me. I hate to undertake any lobby work with Con-
gress in my own interests and fear it is now entirely too late. What
can a committee be the bill before and who would be the best senators or
so be members for me to write to ?

Yours truly,

Carlisle, Pa., June 9, 1902.

S. O. Louisa Longfinger,
Versailles, New York.

To: dear friend ;

Your son Legeman came here in 1899 and is not entitled to go home
until he has been here five years. It is not practicable therefore
for me to send him now. I can assure you of his good health and good
progress and believe you will be entirely satisfied with the results
when he has finished.

Very cordially your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 9, 1902.

Samuel Brushel,
644 N. Eleventh St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Samuel :

I have your letter advising that you are well into your treatment and feel encouraged. I have sent Mr. Johnston my check for fifty dollars this morning and will be prepared to meet your board bills whenever they are sent in. While I do not agree with you about the money to spend (there are plenty of hats here and you could have been supplied with all the things you needed before leaving, and so saved your money, which ought to be saved), still I regard your feelings in the matter and send you herewith a check for three dollars in addition to what you took.

Trusting your improvement will be both satisfactory and rapid,

I am

Very faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, pa., June 10, 1902.

Hon. W. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

You spoke to me once about John R. Hughes, blacksmith at Fort Lewis. It looks very much as though we were going to lose the services of Mr. Harris, who has been with me more than twenty-two years. His sight is greatly impaired, one eye possibly gone entirely. He is now in New York getting the best skill he can find to work upon him. He has been absent from his duties now about six weeks, but it is the first time during his entire service that he has lost any time on account of health.

What would you think of Mr. Hughes for Carlisle now ? I enclose you a letter from him which is a good deal of a jumble; still there are many things in it worth my reading and as I think worth yours also.

I had from a Catholic bishop sometime ago a newspaper clipping about your Standing Rock affair, and was led to read all the "Outlook" articles thereon. Dr. Abbott's course seems very strange to me. Have the long suffering Government and its abused officials no claim for consideration ? I wrote the Bishop that I could not on the face of it agree with the position taken by Dr. Abbott, and that the forty-eight million dollars spent for the support and training of the Sioux ought to be taken into account and stand for something.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, pa., June 10, 1902.

John Loran,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Sir :

Peter 's name is on the home list, as I wrote Mr. Kingsbury,
and he will leave here about the first of July when the others go.
He has made very good progress here and is no longer a little boy.

Yours very truly,

Carlisle, pa., June 10, 1902.

Mr. Asa Sk,
Akron, New York.

My dear Sir :

Your son Grover has not been in good health for some time. He
is up and around and not in any immediate danger, but my school phy-
sician thinks he would better go home. I have therefore entered his
name on the home list to leave here with others going in his direc-
tion about the first of July. Grover has been a good boy and has
made very good progress, but could have done better had his health
been better. The doctor says he has lung disease.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 9, 1902.

Mrs. Katie Webster,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Webster :

I regret that your letter of May 13th was not answered earlier.
It was misplaced and search was made for it, but it has just now
come to light.

Your daughter Lydia has not been here five years and I have
therefore not put her name on the home list. She is in the country
having gone out last fall; she attended public school all winter,
but is now receiving wages, and has arranged to remain out till next
fall when she will return to Carlisle and go to school here. She is
doing very well, and a visit home would not be in the line of her
interests. She could not help her sister if she were to go, and I
fear the effect on herself would be disappointing.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 10, 1902.

Mr. John R. Hughes,
Hesperus, Colo.

My dear Sir :

Your letter of last March came during my absence and is only now
brought to my attention. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
spoken to me several times about you, wishing that I might have you
at Carlisle. My present blacksmith seems to be losing his eye sight.
He has been absent from duty now about six weeks and is at present in
the city to consult an oculist. Should he fall ill, as I fear he
will, I should like to consider you for the position of blacksmith.
The salary is $800. The duties are largely teaching the boys to iron
wagons and carriages, but he also has the agricultural implements
for two farms and the shoeing of the horses and mules to look after.
If I make a change I am especially anxious to secure a man who is
competent in horse-shoeing. Somehow, the blacksmiths of these later
days seem very deficient in this most important branch of their du-
ties.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, pa., June 10, 1902.

Gen. H. C. Corbin,
Adjutant General of the Army,
Washington, D. C.

Dear General :

The enclosed clipping and letter from one of my Indian boys, a full-blood Osage, (not an Apache) who enlisted two years ago under your authority, may interest you. He has risen to the rank of First Sergeant of his company. Two others have become corporals. You will thus see that I was right in my assertion that the Indians distributed in the army would succeed and so they would in civil life if distributed and given a chance. I fear, however, indurated Bureau management which constantly ministers to tribal aggregation and has no use for any device which it cannot utilize to that end will succeed in preventing any material outside opportunities for many years to come.

Very respectfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 10, 1902.

Mr. Wesley Jacobs,
Moraviantown,
Ottawa, Canada.

My dear Sir :

Your daughter Louisa for some time has not been in rugged health and my doctor has recommended that she be sent home. She attends school and has lately improved very much, but still is not very strong. As she is in the junior class and would probably be able to complete our course and leave the school with a diploma I would keep her until it is not for a recent order of the Department requiring that we dismiss all Indian children having not more than one eighth Indian blood. Her home being in Canada also renders it inadvisable for me to continue her.

Louisa has made very good progress in school and leaves with a good record. Please let me know the station to which you wish her sent, and the line to be used through Canada. Unless it is very near the border I can pay her way only to Buffalo or a point on the Grand Trunk this side of Port Huron.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 13, 1902.

John C. A. Kelly,
"The Copeland",
9th St. & Kans. Ave.,
Topeka, Kans.

Dear Sir :

I must insist that your opportunities are better away from an
Indian school than they can possibly be in the best Indian school in
the country. If you came here it would be part of my duty to get
you out into wider opportunities beyond the school. There are plenty
of preparatory schools connected with the colleges all over the land
which it seems to me you could enter without trouble. I have no dif-
ficulty in finding places for my students where they can work for
their board and clothes and attend such institutions as they are
fitted to enter. What I do for a great many you ought to be able
to do for yourself, and I have no doubt you can do. It takes only
push and persistency.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 13, 1902.

Mrs. George Paquette,

Pierreville, Quebec.

Dear Mrs. Paquette :

I have your letter of May 19th in regard to your daughter Blanche Newell. Blanche has been here nearly six years and is of course due to return home this year. Before receiving your letter I had placed her name on the home list, but from our previous correspondence I understood that you preferred to come for her. I have a letter from you written in 1900 stating so. It is not at all necessary for you to do this, as Blanche can easily make the trip alone or in company with any other girls that may be going in her direction. However, I shall not be able to pay her way further than the United States border on this is a Government school and meant only for Indians having their homes in the United States.

Blanche's record has been very satisfactory and you will find
she has made very good progress in school and household affairs.
Please notify me at once what railroad point you wish her sent
to.

Yours truly,

How would it be to send Blanche to Hogansville, N. Y., with
the girls who return there? We use Nyando and Helena as railroad
points. Please let me hear from you promptly.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 13, 1902.

Mrs. George Paquette,

Pierreville, Quebec.

Dear Mrs. Paquette :

I have your letter of May 19th in regard to your daughter Blanche
Newell. Blanche has been here nearly six years and is of course due
to return home this year. Before receiving your letter I had placed
her name on the home list, but from our previous correspondence I
understood that you preferred to come for her. I have a letter from
you written in 1900 stating so. It is not at all necessary for you
to do this, as Blanche can easily make the trip alone or in company
with any other girls that may be going in her direction. However, I
shall not be able to pay her way further than the United States bor-
der so this is a Government school and meant only for Indians hav-
ing their homes in the United States.

Yours truly,

How would it be to send Blanche to Hogenburg, N. Y. with
the girls who return there ? We use Nyando and Helena as railroad
points. Please let me hear from you promptly.

Carlisle, Pa., June 13, 1902.

Rev. Jason R. Kappanadze,
Phillipsburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have yours of the 9th instant relative to visiting the mem-
bers of the Greek Church at this school. In reply I have to advise
you that at present only one of these children is at the school,
the others having gone to the country for the summer under our out-
ing to live in white families and learn the ways and life of the Amer-
ican people. They are scattered through Bucks, Berks and other coun-
ties of southeastern Pennsylvania. We often allow our students to
remain in country homes during the winter where they can have good
public school privileges, and at this time it is too early to tell
how many of the Greek Church people will return to Carlisle in the
fall when the changes are made. It is probable however that most
of them will come in. Inasmuch as there is but one of these chil-
dren here now, Peter Debrevolsky, a small boy, I suggest that you
wait until fall and then see them .

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Carlisle, Pa., June 13, 1902.

Mr. Albert E. Smiley,

Mohonk Lake, New York.

My dear Friend :

I sent you yesterday morning Tiffany Bender, one of our real good boys from Nevada. He belongs to the Washoe tribe. I believe he will fill the place as you explain in your letter better than anyone else I could send you. He is very modest and has high ideals and a taste for the beautiful. He fills his place in the band remarkably well but has never been a soloist. My band leader says he will sure twenty-five or thirty duets which James and Tiffany can learn to play, so as to be, as he thinks, somewhat useful to you in that line. Tiffany is also a good reciter and I suggest that for some of your evening entertainments you ask him a sufficient time beforehand to enable him to brush up, and let him recite one or two of the pieces he has given here at the school. We believe him to be absolutely reliable.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 13, 1902.

Mrs. Simon W. Metoxen,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Metoxen :

Amelia came back to the school in December 1900. She is therefore not entitled to return home until 1905 unless she graduates before that time. It is impracticable for me to yield to your appeals and as we are here and know the conditions and you do not see Amelia and do not know the conditions, our better knowledge must prevail. Amelia is in excellent health and there is no cause for any anxiety. In the fall she will return to the school and take up her work here. It is my duty, and I cannot avoid it, to keep her here and push her forward unless her health should break.

I am sorry there should be anything to make you feel uncomfortable or cause you to anticipate evil, but my duty is plain as I have said to you before, and I must continue to hold the reins. If Amelia writes you differently from this she does what she is not justified in doing.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 13, 1902.

D. C. Doxtater,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear friend :I regret exceedingly to hear that you are not well,
but it is not practicable for me to send your boy Chauncey home as
you ask. Sickness at home has not been allowed to prevail as a rea-
son for the return of children, because if it were our school would
soon be depopulated. Chauncey only came last fall and is therefore
not entitled to go home for four years. He is well advanced in
school and if he pushes he ought to graduate before his time is up.

As soon as he graduates he can go home, whether his time is up or
not.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 13, 1902.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

Your mention of Miss Collins in your letter leads me to send you
a copy of her letter to me sometime ago and my reply thereto. She
has always been a good deal of a boss in Sioux matters. She bothered
us a good deal with her interference when I was cut with the Sioux
Commission in 1889 trying to negotiate for a strip through the rec-
ervation. She seemed to know just what the Indians ought to say to
us; in fact, we realized in some of the speeches made by the Indians
that it was Miss Collins and not the Indians we had to negotiate with
quite a number of times at Mohonk she has absorbed the situation.
Once I came near quitting the room and Lake Mohonk too because of
Dr. Gates' ruling and the manner of it when I wanted to say a word
and he wanted Miss Collins to speak. Gates apologized and I accept-
ed it. She has always been a moving force with the Indian Rights
people and I feel sure is now.

It is quite a relief to know that Dr. Abbott is not responsible
for what "The Outlook" said. That one fact disturbed me more than
anything else about it. The position taken by "The Outlook" was so
contrary to the Doctor's general attitude that it alarmed me.

I have long thought of making a further point against the Sioux
by showing what the Government has issued them in the way of seeds,
agricultural implements, harness and all farming apparatus year by

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year since 1877 and a summing up of all they have produced. I could
get their productions from the Indian Office Reports, but could not
get there the cost of the seeds, implements, etc. Is there not a
concentration in one of the departments of such things that would
give me this information year by year for the last twenty-five years
so that I could write something up that would indicate the absurdity
of the situation 9 Years ago I showed up Bishop Hare's convocations
wherein he called them from their homes and their farm patches at a
season of the year when they should be giving the closest attention
to them, to meet at some remote agency and the Government issued them
rations and large equipment for the trip and they came together for
a week. The Bishop took up a collection, sometimes getting as much
as a thousand dollars, but the actual loss to the people in the neg-
lect of their work and their homes, their cattle and general inter-
eests far exceeded their contributions to the church and they and the
Government both suffered in this loss. There are no real Christians
among them.

If you could let one of the clerks make me up a showing for the
whole period I should like to make use of it, and make that the co-
casion for hammering Mr. Kenna's chicanery.

Since writing you about Hughes, I asked Miss Laird who was at
Fort Lewis just before coming here and who knew Mr. Hughes there,
how he did, and she says the old man is undoubtedly crazy. She
says he was always writing just such long letters to Supt. Breen, and
while an excellent blacksmith and she believed he would do well for
us a short time, she was sure it would not be very long before he
would begin to make trouble here.

Sincerely yours,

Carlisle, Pa., June 14, 1962.

Mrs. Maggie Jordan,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Mrs. Jordan:

I do not think it well for parents to send their children money. We furnish all the clothing needed, and while it is plain it is sufficient and comfortable. Most of our children go to the country in the summer and earn money. Rose will remain here this summer, but there will be nothing that she really needs in addition to what is issued. A very little money sent her would do no harm, especially as she will not be earning any, but I do not like to have the children looking to their parents for spending money. I try to teach them habits of economy and it is a difficult thing to do when they are so generously supplied from home.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 14, 1902.

Mr. Wm. O. Coffey,
Cloquet, Minn.

Dear Mr. Coffey :

I have been investigating the case of your children. It appears
that you live where you could send them to the public schools and
that you have the means to do that. If they came to me it would be
my greatest object to get them into the public schools here and there
in Pennsylvania, so that they might not be classed as Indians but as
pupils of the public schools with no Indian reservation about it. I
do this every year for hundreds. Last year our number out in the win-
ter attending the public schools was nearly four hundred. It is the
very best thing for young Indians. Later in life they will need to
compete with white people and if they learn as children to compete
with white children they will be better prepared for the future
than they would be if brought up among Indians only. Under all the
circumstances I think it would be far better for you to push your
children out and forward them in the white schools where they are.
Let them pass through the public schools regularly and then you can
feel sure when they get out to struggle for themselves the chances
for success will be in their favor. We have a very large body of In-
dians living on reservations who are entirely unable to educate their
children except in the schools the government provides for them and
they are the ones we should look after first. I say this to you
with the greatest kindness, and as I believe with the highest inter-
octs of yourself and your children at heart.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 14, 1902.

Mr. Louis Jaxson,

Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter about Philip, but cannot send him home as you
ask. He came only last August and, as he and you understood was to
remain four years. On his request he was sent to the country, but
to still a member of the school and will return here in the fall when
school opens again and go on with his studies. Mr. Kingsbury who has
been here, and Mr. Terrance and others from your neighborhood can
probably explain our outing system to you. It is really the best
part of the school, for it throws the boys and girls out among white
people where they can learn what is required of those who must make
their own living. It trains them to independence, and if there are
a few unpleasant things connected with the experience, they are only
such as will build them up and make them equal to the difficulties
they are sure to meet when there is no one to look after them and
they must shift for themselves. I am sorry if Philip is dissatis-
fied with the school, but if he does his part there will be no occa-
sion for him to feel thus. He is in good health and his patron re-
ports very well of him.

Yours sincerely,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 14, 1902.

Joseph Washington,
C/o Addison Miller,
Richmond,
Northampton Co., Pa.

Dear Joseph :

I send you a letter received from your mother, asking for money.
If you wish to send her a little, and it seems proper that you do if
you can spare it, let me know how much you want me to send and I
will attend to it. Four dollars I think would meet the need. Please
return your mother's letter to me so that I may write her.

I am glad you are getting along so nicely. With best wishes,

 faithfully your friend,

June 14, 1902.

Sept. H. R. Pearls,
Russell Institute,
Lawrence, Kans.

My dear Mr. Pearls :

I am very sorry I shall again be unable to be
with you on your commencement occasion. The accu-
mulation of duties at this season of the year makes
it utterly impossible. Great success to you.

Yours fraternally,

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Carlisle, pa., June 14, 1902.

Mr. Frank Leroy
Gresham, Wis.

Dear Mr. Leroy :

I am very sorry to learn of your wife's sickness and the need
you have for Lucinda's presence, because as matters stand I am not
at liberty to send her to you. She came less than two years ago and
like all who enter Carlisle she is not due to return home before the
expiration of five years. We do not accept students for a shorter
period. Lucinda is a good girl and has done very well. In the
spring she asked to go to the country, and as she is a willing espouse
able girl we found her a good place. Her arrangement is for the summer and she receives good wages. So far as we know she is quite contented in her country home and the people like her. To break away
now would be to throw away opportunities that she is not likely to
have again. From her advancement in school I conclude she has had
very poor opportunities hereafter, and having her interests at heart
I could not let her give up and go home before the time when she is
regularly entitled to go. In the fall she will come back to Carlisle
and go to school again unless she prefers to remain in a country home
and continue her studies in a public school. Many of our pupils do
this every year, some of them making more rapid advancement among
white children than they do at Carlisle where they have only their
own race to compete with.

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Carlsbad, N. J., June 14, 1902.

Miss Eliza Nauwegaesic,

Mackinac Island, Mich.

Dear School-daughter :

I send you two admission blanks which please have your cousin fill out for her children. Return them to me at once so that if everything is right, they can come with the boys about whom I have been in correspondence.

Some time ago I sent you one of our new Carlisle booklets addressed to St. Ignace, Mich. If you have not received it, it is no doubt waiting to be called for.

We have been home nearly six weeks. Our trip was very instructive in many ways, but we were all glad to get back.

With kind regards,

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

Carlisle, Pa., June 14, 1902.

Mr. Fred P. Hall, Pres.,
The Journal Printing Co.,
James town, New York.

Dear Fred :

We are just about out of envelopes for mailing our booklet.
Please send me as soon as you can two thousand more like the first
lot ordered.

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Carlisle, pa., June 14, 1902.

Conaleana,
C/o Mrs. H. I. Search,
Roelofs, New Jersey.

Dear Conaleana :

I wrote Dr. Jackson about you some time ago and just now have
his letter. He says if you can meet him in Seattle July 6th or 7th
he will arrange for you to get the rest of the way. If the "Bear"
has gone north before that time he will arrange a place for you to
stay at one of the reindeer stations until the boat goes next spring.

You would better be very careful of your money to help pay your
expenses from Seattle. Miss Ely will arrange for you to come to
Carlisle in time to leave here about July 1st.

With best wishes,

Faithfully your friend,

June 14, 1902.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
General Agent for Alaska,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Doctor :

I have yours in reference to Conaleana, and will arrange that
he meet you in Seattle at the time you desire. So far as I now know
I shall be at home all next week and will be glad to see you before
you leave for Alaska.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 16, 1902.

Mrs. Lillie Williams,
Lewiston, New York.

Dear Mrs. Williams :

I find that a letter was addressed to you several days ago, but
yours of the 13th just received shows that an error was made in the
address, the name being written "Mrs. Lizzie Williams", Unless we
have different advice from you Cinderella will be ticketed to Niagara
Falls. I am unable now to tell just what day she will leave here,
but you will receive notice in time to meet her. Our transportation
funds for the year being very low, we are not sending students home
before about the first of July. She will travel with other girls
going to New York.

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Carlielle, Pa., June 17, 1902.

Philip Bigtree,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Sir :

Charlotte Bigtree and Charlotte Cook asked to go to the country in the spring before your letter was received and were allowed to go. This necessitated their forfeiting their right to go home this year and they understood so. They are doing nicely and have made very good progress during their five years here. The course they have chosen seems to me to be the wise one for them or I should not have allowed them to go out.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 17, 1902.

Charles K. Robinson,
U. S. Commissioner,
334 Brisbane Building,
Buffalo, New York.

Dear Sir :

Replying to yours of the 14th in reference to Lucy Jimeson, daughter of Jonathan Jimeson of Basom, New York, I have to advise you that Mr. Jimeson sent his daughter to this school Feb. 13th, 1901, to remain five years. We do not accept students for a short-period. There is probably no change in conditions since that time except the passage of the law which has given these Indians a considerable sum of money per capita. This operates as an epidemic among them and they are stirred from centre to circumference, and there is no end to the demands, and changing and shifting to get at the moneys. Claim agents of all sorts are on hand to disturb and distress the situation. Parents are so afraid they will not get hold of the money belonging to their children that they are over-ride their promises and obligations in all directions.

The Government undertook the education of Lucy Jimeson on the intercession of the father and his promise that he would let her remain five years. Of course if she had good school privileges at home she never ought to have come here. Being here for a stated term I must hold the child here until that term is completed. This agreement vacated, I should need to vacate every other agreement on a like appeal. I am importuned by those living among and having the oversight of these Indians, who have their best interests at heart,

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not to allow any of the children to return to their homes, but to
continue them as long as possible under our system of instruction
and training, and the experiences of more than twenty years in deal-
ing with those people warn me these friends of the Indians are right.

It will be impracticable for me to return Lucy until her time
has expired.

Very truly yours,

Carlisle, Pa., June 17, 1902.

Mr. James H. Sheffer,
217 N. Bedford St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter in regard to a vacancy as blacksmith
here, I have to advise you that under the law we have to apply to
the Civil Service Commission. If the Commission has no blacksmiths
on its lists, examinations will be held to obtain a person to fill
the place. This is the regular way. It is not possible for me to
make any selection, and the place is not yet vacant.

Very truly yours,

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be glad to facilitate the purposes and business of
your reorganized company among insurance men, as I
am able to do, in return for what you may be able
to do in Mrs. Allen's case, which seems to me one of
the hardest I have ever known. Had my sister let me
know about it twenty years ago, as she might have
done instead of continuing the payments, from my
knowledge of this kind of insurance I might have in-
terfered to save her this large outlay. I presume
she has paid you over four thousand dollars on these
five one thousand dollar policies. I should
be glad to hear from you at once.

Enclosed is an introduction from our State In-
surance Commissioner which I had intended to present
to you. I had intended also to get an introduction
from both Senators Platt and Hawley of your state,
who are friends of mine.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 18, 1902.

Mrs. Rose Isaac,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Isaac :

From your letter I cannot make out who your son is, as we have
no one on our rolls by the name of Albert Isaac. However, unless he
has been here five years he is not due to return this year, as we do
not accept students for a shorter period. Without more definite
information as to the person you are inquiring about we cannot give
a report of him.

Yours very truly

Carlisle, Pa., June 18, 1902.

Mr. Joseph C. Hart, Supt.,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Sir :

Prepaid order from Mr. Gross, G.E.A. of the C. & H. W. is
received this morning for the ticket, Green pay to Carlisle. Check
for $13.98 has been sent Mr. Gross to cover, and you can remit
here. Enclosed find order and letter of Mr. Gross.

Yours very truly,

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Rev. W. O. Westin,
130 Calhoun St.,
Charleston, S. Car.

Carlisle, Pa., June 18, 1902.

Dear Sir :

Indian children from reservations are eligible for admission here if between the ages of twelve and eighteen years, when forwarded by the Indian Agent or other Government official having charge over them, but we cannot accept any that are not enrolled at some Indian agency. Good health and good character are of course required.

Yours very truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

Carlisle, Pa., June 19, 1902.

Lieut. General Nelson A. Miles,
Commanding the Army,
Washington, D. C.

My dear General :

I am sorry to say that as Miss Wolcott is not on the Civil Service list I am entirely barred from giving her appointment. The new Civil Service organization is not allowing anything irregular in the service.

I did not go back to the Willard after breakfast, but returned home Monday afternoon.

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 18, 1902.

Mrs. Rosario Fernandez,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

Dear Mrs. Fernandez :

I have your letter in regard to Julio and your desire that I
do what is best for him. I am sorry to say his habits and inclina-
tions are of such an order as to make me doubtful of accomplishing
much; but we are doing what we can to correct these faults, and
hope by the end of his term here he may very greatly improved. I
have heard no rumor of preparations on his part to run away. The
place I think is far too comfortable a home for him to leave volun-
tarily.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 19, 1902.

Dear Sir :

I was in Washington Monday and talked with the Commissioner about you. While he is favorable to your reappointment he said it would be impossible inasmuch as you have been out of the service more than a year and so have lost your Civil Service standing. To reestablish that it will be necessary to take an examination and get your name on the eligible list, and then let it come over to the Office from the Commission when a call for blacksmith is made. If your name was among the highest three it would of course be one of the first sent over; but the whole machinery of the thing seems to block my way and as I need help immediately I fear I shall have to depend entirely upon what the Civil Service Commission sends me and go ahead. |

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Carlisle, Pa., June 19, 1924

Miss Laura Jackson,
14 E. 16th St.,
New York City.

Dear Miss Jackson :

I think you would better come right to Carlisle and begin your trip from here. It will be a great deal better for you to gather up the ends of things here before you do any visiting.

I trust your vacation has beneficial to you.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 18, 1902.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,
209 Christian St.,
Wallingford, Conn.

Dear Mrs. Cook :

I was in Washington Monday but failed to do all that I had in-
tended in the way of inquiry, and your matter was one that I over-
looked. Mr. and Mrs. Mason of Jamestown, New York, Mrs. Pratt's
brother and sister-in-law, have been with us ten days and just left
today. As I have been kept up nights quite a little I am rather off
base.

I am sorry to hear of your mother's illness and trust her im-
provement is continuing.

Things are getting very quiet about the school. In a couple of
weeks the home-goers will be off, and then the place will be still
more quiet.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 19, 1902.

Miss Elnora Janison,
Philadelphia Hospital,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Elnora :

I have just read your letter of June 15th, and I must say it
occasions me great surprise. Your going to the hospital was entire-
ly your own selection. You have passed bravely through the proba-
tionary period and are accepted as a pu il nurse. The way is open and
your opportunities good. It is not easy to make arrangements for
our girls at these hospitals. There are so many applicants for the
places that hospital people do not care to take Indian girls. If
you fail me I shall have harder work to get another Indian girl in
that hospital, and if it spreads that Indian girls are so fickle and
do not know their minds from one day to the next it will not be long
until all the doors will be closed to us, and it will be an impor-
bility to do anything in this line in the future. If you have not
the stamina to stick to your work I must myself direct that you keep
on. You have already spent four months in preparation and that is
quite a long time to throw to the winds as you propose. Stand by the
ship, ; that is my decision about it.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 18, 1902.

Wm. B. Preston, Mayor,
Mackinac Island, Mich.

Dear Sir :

I have yours covering application for admission of Reuben and Edwin Boyle. One of my recent graduates, Miss Eliza Nauwegaesic, has written me about other children and if we accept of them when we hear from her again I will arrange transportation for all at one time.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 19, 1902.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
General Agent of Education for Alaska, etc.,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Doctor :

We shall expect you at Carlisle on the 26th, and I will contrive
to be at home.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Samuel Brushel,
Seaspray Cottage,
171 Ocean Ave.,
Atlantic City, N. J.

Dear Sam :

I am perfectly willing to have you stop at any time and we can
arrange to give you a place. From what I understand of the matter
you are at liberty to stop whenever you feel yourself so far cured
as to see the end of it yourself, which seems to be the case now.
If I am correct, let me know at once whether you prefer to return
here and go out from the school or to go to your place from where you
are. The place you filled last year has been given to someone else,
as we thought you would not be able to take it and the man could not
wait long; but there are other places and Miss Ely will assign you
as soon as she knows when you will be ready. Of course in a short
time they will all be supplied as farmers must have their help right
away. Advise us at once the time you will be ready to make a move
and we will take care of it.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Oscar B. Hodgkiss,
Sisseton,
Roberts Co., S. Dak.

My dear Sir :

Please fill out and return to me at once the enclosed blank,
having your boy do that part which belongs to him, and when received
I will make the necessary arrangements for his admission.

Yours truly,

Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Miss Celinda King,
C/o Dr. W. P. Melcher,
Mt. Holly, New Jersey.

Dear Celinda :

As you are a senior and will pass out from the school in Febru-
ary next you are not really entitled to go home this year under the
rules, and it is not wise on your part to desire to go. Stick to it
and close out the business while you are here, and then you will not
need to return.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Mr. Sam B. Davis, Supt.,
Indian School,
Rapid City, S. Dak.

My dear Davis :

I thank you for the very unique and handsomely gotten up program of the closing exercises at your school. It is most creditable in execution and exceptionally appropriate and becoming.

With kind regards to Mrs. Davis, and with best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Miss Dora Davis,
Worth, Ark.

Dear Miss Davis :

I am sorry to have to tell you in reply to your letter of inquiry that we cannot accept of persons having only a little Indian blood, nor do we receive Indians unless they come from Indian agencies. They must belong to some tribe and be under the charge of an Indian agent. These rules bar out you and your friends.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Miss Mary H. Richardson,
353, Carlton Ave.,
Brooklyn, New York.

Dear Miss Richardson :

No move had been made in regard to a Domestic Science Teacher's
examination until Monday last when I was in Washington and brought
the matter to the attention of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
He asked me to state what qualifications such a teacher should have
and I wrote him yesterday giving the information. He thinks the Civ-
il Service Commission will immediately advertise and hold an examina-
tion, as there are now four positions of that kind in the Indian ser-
vice, one at the school at Phoenix, Arizona, another at Haskell
Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, another at the Indian school at Chemawa,
Oregon, and the one at this school.

Sincerely yours,

If you are in Harrisburg, come over and see me.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Charles L. Adams, Supt.,
Clarack Mining Co.,
Spanish Ranch, Cal.

Dear Sir :

If the young man you speak of is a full Indian and can establish that fact and the tribe he belongs to, he is entitled to admission as a student here, provided he is between the ages of twelve and eighteen years, in good health and of good character; but if he is away from Indians, as I understand he is from your letter, and among white people where he can attend the public schools, that is the best place for him by far. Urge him to stick to his place and contend with white people. If he prepares himself in the public schools he will be able to meet and contend later with our people in the affairs of life.

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Carlisle, pa., June 20, 1902.

Miss Naudo Walcott,
1327 Fourteenth St.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Walcott :

When General Miles spoke to me I understood him to say you were
on the Civil Service eligible list, and so encouraged him to think I
could arrange to use you here. His letter since advises that you
are not yet under the Civil Service, and this makes it quite impos-
sible except it would be for very temporary uses from the last week
in July to the end of August when my stenographer advises she would
like to be absent on annual leave. I shall need help at that time
and have no doubt with your equipment you could serve us satisfac-
torily; but as you have already arranged for that time it seems hard-
ly worth your while or mine to consider it further.

Regretting that I cannot control matters so as to have your ser-
vices, I am

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Mrs. Mary B. Wolfe,
Indian School,
Santa Fe, N. Mex.

Dear Mary :

Howice begged to go to the country, saying she wanted to stay
here. She was constantly asking to go out, and finally with my ap-
proval Miss Ely sent her to a good home for the summer. I do not see
how I can break the arrangement. We have placed every available girl
and boy and would have nobody to fill her place or Harry's. I wish
the correspondence had been begun earlier and you had pressed it
harder; then I should have kept both children here in spite of their
wishes and sent them home. When they come in in the fall I will
send them home for a visit if you say so, but I cannot change the
summer arrangements now. It would encourage too many similar cases.

They are both well and happy and are getting on very nicely.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Brother Kingsbury :

Charlotte Bigtree and Charlotte Cook both decided of their own
accord to remain another year and asked to go to the country. As
they are both good girls and it is worth their while to do that,
places were found for them and they have now been in the country
some weeks. Rose Arquette seemed a little doubtful in health and
my doctor at first thought she would better return home, but his late
judgment is that she should remain, and I have so marked her. She is
not sick, but a little slow and hard to understand. She is improving
in that respect, however, and next fall I think will get on more
rapidly in school.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 19, 1902.

Mr. A. B. Jones,
Shawnee, Okla.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter about Roy Kickapoo and Joe Murdook and the desire of their relatives to have them come home for the summer. In reply I have to advise you that these boys are in the country under our outing, they are not due to return home by reason of expiration of term, for they have been here less than three years, and we do not accept students for a shorter period than five years. They are both doing well, earning money for their own use during the year, and the money the relatives propose to spend for their transportation would be worse than wasted if used for that purpose, for the reason that it would take the boys away from opportunities and place them under influences and conditions entirely contrary to their further interest and progress.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Levi Levering,
Indian School,
Fort Hall, Idaho.

Dear Levi :

In regard to the band uniform sent you, it was one that the tailor had indicated would fit, according to the measurements you gave. It was one of those made for the band when preparing to go to Paris. You understand of course that it happened we had a surplus of one, but had no other, and I could not have one made for you except at a price. The one sent you as I remember no charge was made for. It is all we can do to keep our own boys supplied with clothing and we cannot undertake to make for former students. We did you the greatest kindness we could and if the suit did not fit it must have been due to a mistake of the tailor's. It was nobody else's that I know of. Am sorry it is of no use to you.

Faithfully your friend,

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June 20,

2.

Mrs. Minerva A. Miller,
Red Springs, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Miller :

I have your letter of June 17th and am surprised that you have not received my message. I enclose copies of letters written to your nephew, Samuel Miller and to the Indian Agent. Your letter of March 14th was held pending answer from the Agent, but he did not reply to my letter. I therefore wrote Samuel answering both your and his letter together, asking him, as you will note, to explain the situation here to you.

I regret very much not to be able to favor you in this, but it is quite impracticable for me to yield to your urgency. If I sent Peter home now I would immediately be besieged by other parents in your vicinity urging distressing reasons for the return of their children, and to be consistent and fair I would have to yield to them also; parents from other sections would do the same, and soon the school would be broken up, and its usefulness at an end.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 20, 1902.

Mr. Noah LaFleshe,
C/o Mrs. Margaret Diddeck,
Pender, Neb.

Dear Friend :

As you desire it, I have placed Ida Mitchell's name on the home list
to leave here about the first of July with other girls going in her
direction. To what point do you want her ticketed? Please advice.

Yours truly,

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June 20, 1902.

Mr. John Merrill,
Bena, Minn.

Dear Sir :

Your daughter Nellie is entitled to go home this year, and as
you desire it I have arranged to send her with others going in her
direction about July 1st. Unless otherwise advised, I will ticket
her to Bena, Minn. You will be notified when to meet her.

Nellie has done very well and made very fair progress.

Yours very truly,

She received your letter with the money this morning and will
use the money as you suggest.

June 20, 1902.

Frank Parker,
Akron, New York.

Dear Sir :

Your daughter Carrie will leave here with other home-goers about
the first of July, and I will notify you just when to meet her at
Akron. She has done very well and I trust her education may be con-
cended as you indicate.

Yours truly,

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Quannah Parker,

Fort Sill, Okla.

Dear Friend Quannah :

As you desire it I will send Laura and Esther home, leaving here
about July 1st, ticketed to Ft. Sill, Okla. unless I am otherwise
advised by you. Both girls have done well, Laura being now a junior
and Esther only a class behind. I regret that Harold is so low,
and trust the hospital people can help him.

I will notify you when the girls will reach Anadarko.

Sincerely your friend,

June 20, 1902.

Mrs. Mary Palsano,

Laguna, New Mex.

Dear Mary :

I have your letter about Andrew, but cannot change conditions
now, as I informed you in my former letter. Andrew went to the coun-
try and is getting along very well. That he knew would hold him
here another year. However, if you wish I will let him go home in
the fall when he returns to Carlisle after his obligation is complet-
ed. This is the best I can do for you. If you want him to come home
then, write me and I will arrange it.

With kind regards,

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June 20, 1902.

Mrs. Emily Jackson,
Red House, New York.

Dear Mrs. Jackson :

I am arranging to send Luther home, as you desire, but it is a serious detriment to him. He is getting along nicely in his country home, and the interruption in his progress is greatly to be regretted. I will notify you when to meet him at Red House.

Sincerely yours,

June 20, 2.

Mrs. Mary Foadry,
Akron, New York.

Dear Mrs. Foadry :

I am arranging to send home your two sons Lyman and Harrison,
as you desire. They will leave here about July 1st, ticketed to
Akron, and you will be notified when to meet them.

Sincerely yours,

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Peter Bissonette,
Henderson, S. Dak.

Dear Friend :

As I wrote you June 10th, I had placed your daughter Lottie's
name on the home list. She now comes to me and begs to be allowed
to keep on with her schooling. She says she is in good health, and
she looks it. As the Government permits students to decide these
matters for themselves after their term is completed, I have recon-
sidered and in accordance with her request marked her to remain an-
other year, and trust this will be satisfactory to you.

Sincerely yours,

Rev. John M. Watson,
Hillside, I. T.

My dear Friend :

Let me know at what station you wish transportation placed for
Laura Secondyne, and I will arrange to have it ready either early
in July or at any time prior to the first of September that you in-
dicate will suit best for her to come.

Yours very truly,

June 21, 2.

June 21, 2.

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Geary, Okla.

Dear Friend :

Your daughter Minnie is very anxious to go home this year, and as it seems impossible for her to make further progress in school I have concluded to let her go. She asks to be sent to Darlington, stating that her sister lives there and will meet her, and she will go from there to where you are. As she can have company all the way to Darlington, I will send her there unless you advise otherwise. The home party will leave about the first of July. I will advise Kish Hawkins just when to meet Minnie.

Yours very truly,

June 21, 2.

Mrs. Nancy Wolfe,
Cherokees, N. Car.

Dear Mrs. Wolfe :

Your daughter Lizzie is in the country and is doing nicely. Her time is not up, as she came in the spring of '98 for a five year term. It is therefore impracticable for me to send her home as you ask. Education is the one important thing for her now and no barrier or discouragement should be placed in her way.

Regretting that I cannot comply with your wishes in this matter,
am

Sincerely yours,

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June 20, 1902.

Mr. Louis Keshena,
Keshena, Wis.

Dear Friend :

I have your letter and am very sorry indeed not to be able to
send Frank home now as you ask. He went to the country this spring,
knowing that by doing so he obligated himself to remain for another
year. However, I agreed that after he had completed his obligation
I would allow him to return home, which would be about the middle
of September. He has made a contract for a specified time, and I
have no one now who could be sent to take his place. It is therefore
impracticable for me to send him earlier than fall.

Sincerely yours,

June 20, 1902.

Mr. David Schanandoah,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Sir :

Your son Isaac brings me your letter to him and I have con-
cluded to send him home as you desire, although I regret that his
opportunities here close so early. He will leave here about July
1st with others going to Syracuse. You will receive notice in time
to meet him there.

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June 23,

Miss Eva H. Smith,
324 S. Eleventh St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Eva :

I wrote to Mr. Wood, the General Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania road for rates for you and Carrie. The letter went to his assistant and I am sorry to say that he declines to grant the request. I know of only one thing remaining for you to do, and that is to go to Mr. Wood with May when she goes for her ticket. I think that he will furnish you with a rate when you explain to him that your position with May's. I hope he will give you the benefit of a reduction and that you will reach home in safety.

Please remember me to Robert and Ada when you see them.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 23, 1902.

Mrs. Lillie Williams,
Lowiston, New York.

Dear Madam :

I cannot send Cinderella home until the parties go, which will
be early in July. She will then go to Niagara Falls, and we will no-
tify you in time to meet her there.

Yours very truly,

Carlisle, Pa., June 23, 1902.

Miss Jennie Ordway,
Neyaguez, Porto Rico.

Dear Miss Ordway :

I thank you for your kindly note about our booklet and note what
you say about Marie Castro. I am glad to read her letter. She is
nicely placed and is certainly doing far better than she would have
had I sent her to Mrs. Etzioni's. She has since written me thanking
me for sending her where she is and not allowing her to go with the
other girls. Arrangements are practically made to send her to the
Bloomington State Normal School in the fall, and when the matter is
fully arranged Marie will know all about it.

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Carlisle, pa., June 23, 1902.

Mr. Edward S. Johnson, Pres.,
1033 Spring Garden St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have two letters from Samuel Brushel in both of which he urges that he understands the situation now and is sure he can go on and effect a cure, and so wishes to stop any further expense. He asks to take one of our summer outing places. If he returns this week I could hold a place for him. After that our lists are closed. He has his ticket and if you agree with him that he will be able to go on and complete the cure himself, I wish you would send him to Carlisle not later than Thursday of this week so that he may reach his place before the close of the week.

You can have the bill for his board sent to me and I will remit at once.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 24, 1902.

Miss Elizabeth D. Edge,
Downingtown, Pa.

Dear Miss Edge :

Since my message to you through Daisy Wasson asking you to write
me personally just what was the matter with Julia Tsaitkoptka and
what reason you had for not wanting her I have read Miss Jackson's
report on the subject and find that she has fully explained therein,
and any further message from you is unnecessary.

I am very very sorry that Julia's industrial abilities are not
keeping pace with her other qualities. Of course we have our duty
to perform in connection with her in trying to educate her up to a
complete rounding out. As I have in the school room a special teach-
er to bring up backward students I must institute some special means
to educate Julia up to what she should be in this particular. It
is possible if she fully understood why she was sent away from you
it would accomplish something towards changing her and I believe I
shall have to let her know the facts. In her talk with me about it
a few days ago Julia expressed the greatest regret that she had been
sent away and blamed Miss Jackson for doing it and seemed to under-
stand it was because you wanted it. She showed the nicest sense of
pride about it for she said, "Of course if Miss Edge did not want
me I would not want to stay there, but I liked it there and if she
wanted me again I would be glad to go."

Trusting that the girls you now have are quite satisfactory and

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Carlsble, Pa., June 24, 1902.

Hon. Thad. M. Mahon,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :

I have yours in regard to Miss Harn. She had to be dropped be-
cause of a reduction in the force. I note what you say, and while
there does not seem any immediate prospect I will have her in mind
in case of a vacancy.

Carlisle, Pa., June 24, 1902.

Mr. E. H. Colegrove,
Black River Falls, Wis.

Dear Sir :

I have years of the 20th instant advising that you have accept-
ed your appointment as teacher in this school and that you will re-
port for Duty before August first. Under another cover I send you
a copy of our late catalog.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 24, 1902.

Mr. Karl R. Bentsen,
Hartland, Wis.

Dear Sir :

Under another cover I send you a copy of our late Carlisle cat-
alog giving information in regard to course of study, etc. School
does not open till September 1st. You can report any time prior to
that date, and my principal teacher will assign you to the grade
you will take charge of and install you in your duties. A furnished
room will be provided and you will board at the Teachers' Club on
the school grounds. The prices are $3.00 a week for the first four-
teen weeks, after that $2.50 a week. Please advise me when you will
be ready to report for duty.

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June 24, 1902.

Rev. James B. Wasson,
154 Nassau St.,
New York City.

My dear Doctor :

The reason I telegraphed you was that I have
been writing something in answer to a dispatch from
St. Paul which appeared in The Tribune covering an
assertion made by former Commissioner of Indian Af-
fairs Morgan that Archbishop Ireland and Senator Han-
na had entered into a conspiracy to forward the inter-
octs of the Catholic church in a way that would have
a political influence on affairs. The thing is ab-
surd and I want to say so and to say something about
Morgan's baneful influence on the Indians, and if
possible have it printed in the Tribune. Now that
you are off the Tribune I hardly know what to do
about it. Please advise me.

I trust your leaving the Tribune has been in
your own interests, though it loses me a friend from
there that I count a real loss.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1902.

Editor, The Tribune,
New York,

Dear Sir :

In the Tribune of the 25th of May is a dispatch from St. Paul stating that Ex-Indian Commissioner T. J. Morgan alleged at the Baptist Convention that Archbishop Ireland and Senator Hanna had entered into political conspiracy and Indian schools are to be used in the interests of the Catholic church.

What are the facts ?

All the Catholic church asked was that it might have the same privileges at all Indian schools it now and always has had at the Carlisle school, i. e., the privilege of giving religious instruction to the Catholic children attending the school. In the very beginning at Carlisle all the pastors of the town including the Catholic priest were invited to give such attention as they thought best to the children coming to the school from parents belonging to their particular churches. There were Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Catholic and other missionaries at work throughout the Indian field and the Indians coming under their influences were usually the most discontented with, and inclined to break away from the old life, and to aid these progressives seemed to be a special duty of both church and state. Carlisle is a Government school, and the Government is nonsectarian. The Indians were the wards of the Government, the Government had encouraged all the churches to work among them on their

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reservations and there was no reason in the best interests of the school why there should be less liberty to help them religiously at the school than on the reservation. The local churches including the Catholic all promptly responded to this invitation, and through all the twenty-two years of the school have welcomed our young people into their congregations and Sunday-schools, and the different parents including the Catholic priest have visited them on week-day even-ings, giving such instruction as they thought best. This has been in no way detrimental to the pupils or the school, but instead has been great help to what the Government was otherwise doing through the school. These privileges and services at Carlisle conceded, invited, and used from the beginning, were in full flow while Morgan was Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and he did not object then. Why should he object now ?

If any man ever had greatest opportunities to do the proper thing for Indian civilization, that man is T. J. Morgan. He took charge of the Indian Bureau at a time when all things were ripe for rapid and right progress. The Indians were largely educated up to the idea of learning the white man's ways in actual competition with the white man in the white man's communities, which is the only complete as well as by far the quickest and cheapest way. The public generally had accepted this idea; but General Morgan, inspired by baneful reservation and short-sighted Indian Rights influences and associations, became reactionary and announced that the best way to give the Indian the white man's education and civilization was to continue to send it to him on his reservation. His plan would get civilization into the Indian by keeping him away from civilization; would detribalize him

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by educating him in tribal masses; would build the courage, push and
ability of America into the Indian by continuing to keep him away
from Americans and under the alienizing influences of tribe and res-
ervation. To accomplish his purposes he at once began and vigorously
built up through his four years' control a most un-American, class,
and race perpetuating system of tribal and home schools. Morgan con-
colved, published, and nourished the pernicious idea that inasmuch as
the people who had moved in and were living near the Indians claimed
they were discommoded by them, they were the proper ones to receive
all benefits accruing from any expenditure of the public moneys for
Indians, as though that had anything whatever to do with the success-
ful accomplishment of Indian civilization. His constant cry was,
"The public school system among the Indians", which he announced was
to begin with the primary school and end with the college. Towards
the accomplishment of this he bent his every energy and resisted ev-
ery contrary suggestion. That the real public school system in which
all races and conditions might struggle together under equal oppor-
tunities, when compared with his system of race and tribal schools
which prevented all competition with the other masses and limited the
Indian to purely Indian contact, was as different as day is from
night, he seemed unable to understand. He sought and obtained ex-
traordinary increase of appropriations from Congress for his various
projects, influencing votes for appropriations by establishing schools
in legislative and senatorial districts in the west among and near
the tribes, and engineering what was practically bribery of the Gov-
ernment by getting western town and land boomers to donate sites for
schools for which the Government would enrich the town or land com-

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pany by expending large money for buildings and school plants with
all the contingent perpetual expenditures for running the same. He
was suffered in every way in all his projects except the college. When
he asked Congress that certain sections of land from every allotted
reservation be set aside to create a fund for Indian colleges Con-
gress halted.

Morgan succeeded in foisting upon and in committing the Govern-
ment to his scheme of race and tribe building schools, and this is
the real weakness of the present Indian school system.

As a result, the present Indian Commissioner, Mr. Jones, is de-
nouncing the schools and claiming that they are not doing what the
Government has a right to expect.

The present Indian school system applied to any one nationality of
foreigners emigrating to America would continue them foreigners in
this country indefinitely.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1902.

Mr. F. E. Pratt,
P. O. Box # 506,
Pittsburg, Pa.

My dear Sir :

I have been so busy ever since coming to Pennsylvania that it
has been impossible for me to give attention to family matters. My
father's father had a brother living near Philadelphia and in the
late 30's he came east to see his brother and died there. I have
never been able to find my relatives. He had another brother who was
Governor or Lieutenant Governor of Maryland many years ago, but I
have not thought it worth while to follow up that lead. I have the
genealogy and branches of the Pratt family, but neither my grandfa-
ther's nor my father's name appears therein. Sorry I am unable to
help you in your research.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1902.

Mrs. L. P. Daniel,
1227 Thirteenth St. N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Daniel :

I have your letter of yesterday and can assure you that my let-
ter to Senator Penrose would not do you a particle of good. For some
reason my influence goes a begging for anything in Washington unless
directly connected with the interests of this school, and I have no
disposition to be turned down continually. If the facts in your case
do not secure for you what you want, anything I could do would be en-
tirely useless. If anybody in authority thinks my opinion in any
matter of sufficient weight to ask for it, I shall very cheerfully
give it; otherwise I do not intend to make my appearance on the scene
any more.

Regretting that I cannot help you,

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1902.

Miss Dora S. Dutton,
Holland, Mich.

Dear Miss Dutton :

Your note from Bryn Mawr, Cal. and Holland, Mich. received. Yes
today someone was giving me about the same information your letter
brings of your responsibilities, change of location, etc. You are
certainly entitled to a good deal of commendation for sacrificing in
your brother's behalf, and the experience I have no doubt will be of
value to you.

Things have gone nicely at the school. We have almost depop-
ulated it by sending out children; seven hundred eighteen out today.
When we get rid of nearly a hundred home-goers ten days hence we
shall have a less number here than we have had for fifteen years.
There are some six changes among the teachers for the ensuing year
and I am getting men instead of women in their places.

With kind regards and best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 25, 1902.

Mrs. Annie Thomas Lillibridge,
503 Sixteenth St.,
Denver, Colo.

My dear School-daughter :

Both Mrs. Pratt and I are glad to get your little note of con-
gratulations and also to hear of your welfare.

We did not get the best enjoyment out of our trip because there
were so many things connected with it that were not pleasant. Since
we are at home again we all feel somewhat better. I can feel quite
a material improvement myself, although I am not at all well yet. I
think a few months in and around Denver would be a fine tonic for me.
Do you know you are not far from my daughter Marion ? She lives at
1540 Corona St., and will I am sure be very glad to know you are in
Denver. If you continue to reside there you will doubtless see some
of us this summer or fall. We must get a sight of that part of our
family once a year always.

With kind regards to your husband,

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pany by expending large money for building and school plants with
all the contingent perpetual expenditures for running the same. He
was favored in every way in all his projects except the college. When
he asked Congress that certain sections of land from every allotted
reservation be set aside to create a fund for Indian colleges Con-
gress halted.

The present Indian school system applied to any nationality of
foreigners emigrating to America would not only sap their manhood,
but would continue them foreigners indefinitely though living in
this country.

Yours truly,

See 137.

Revised - See next page.

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June 26, 1902.

Mr. James Martin,
News Editor, The Tribune,
New York City.

Dear Sir :

I have your note of the 26th that you have my
letter to Dr. Wasson and will print four hundred
words. I had already written about a thousand words
covering what I want to say and would prefer that
it went in as one. The real answer to what Morgan
said be contained in about the four hundred words
you allow, but on reading I think you will consider
the other important enough to go in too. The Tri-
bune has been printing something that a man named
Bus, from Southern California says on the Indian
question, which I have not seen. If you knew Rust's
career as an Indian agent and why he had to leave
the service you would probably hesitate to use his
opinions. Morgan and Rust worked together.

This note of course is personal.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 26, 1902.

Mrs. Margaret Jones,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Jones:

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 27, 1902.

Mr. John R. Hughes,

Hemperus, Colc.

My dear Mr. Hughes :

I have your several letters of June 18th. Since writing them
you will have received mine of the 19th, from which you will know
that you have been out of the service beyond the time, and inasmuch
as there are eligibles already on the list of blacksmiths it is not
likely the Civil Service Commission will hold an examination, it be-
ing one of their rules not to do so until the eligible list is ex-
hausted.

I have nothing to do with the conditions at Fort Lewis, though
of course I understand something of the situation; but you can readily
see that so superintendent of the Carlisle school my efforts must
necessarily be confined to its welfare, and the superintendent has
much as much as he can properly attend to at home. I am very sorry
you should spend so much of your time unnecessarily in writing me
these long details.

I return the papers as you request.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 27, 1902.

Mrs. Bessie Cully,
Sasakwa, I. T.

My dear School-daughter :

Your letter of Jan. 12th was laid aside soon after I read it to give place to pressing business matters just before commencement, and nothing after another has followed since my return from Europe to stay writing. I was glad indeed to hear from you and know of your family.

Mrs. Pratt, Rickenback, and I spent ten weeks abroad, visiting Rome, Cairo, Jerusalem, London, Paris, and many other points of interest. On the Mediterranean and in England, and returned home almost two months ago. We had many wonderful experiences both pleasant and otherwise. You have probably read of them in The Helper. Mrs. Pratt wrote a number of letters for the paper while we were away.

Carlineo has grown and prospered greatly since you were here, and we have added and enlarged many buildings. I send you one of our latest books which will show you something of how we look now and what we do. Just at present our school is very small, scarcely three hundred on the grounds, but our country number is larger than every other in the state at any one time, seven hundred eighteen being out.

There are still a few among the employees who remember you, Missutter, Miss Burgess, Miss Ely, Miss Nellie Robertson, and several others. With kind regards and best wishes,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 27, 1902.

Miss Bessie E. Gotholda,
700 W. Gold Ave.,
Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Dear Bessie :

I was so busy just before leaving on our eastern trip that I did not answer your letter written in January, although I was glad to learn of your welfare and the news you had to give about other Carlisle students.

We enjoyed our trip in spite of many unpleasant features connected with it, and brought home a number of views of the places we visited, so that we may all have some benefit from the trip. We were glad to get back and under our own roof again. I found plenty to do immediately, and have kept at it ever since.

Just now we are in vacation with only about three hundred on the grounds, the smallest school at any time for fifteen years that we have had, and the largest number in the country at one time, over seven hundred. Your brother John is at the school. He has been getting along very nicely in school.

With kind regards to yourself, Julia, and others of our people you may know.

Faithfully, your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 27, 1904.

Miss Susie Henni,

White River, Ariz.

Dear Susie :

It seems very good to have a word from you as to your doing.
I am glad you like the booklet. I had several thousand printed for
distribution and thought the graduates would appreciate the remind-
ment.

We are all well at the school, those that are left. Seven hun-
dred eighteen are in the country, and after the home students are off
the family will number scarcely two hundred, less than it has been
at any time for fifteen years.

The family at Steelton are over to see us occasionally. The
children are well and have grown quite a good deal since you knew
them.

I trust you are getting on nicely in your work and treat you will
have a pleasant and profitable vacation.

With kind regards to those you may meet who were former, of

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 28, 1902.

Mrs. George Paquette,
Lake Mahopac,
Putnam Co.,
New York.

Dear Mrs. Paquette :

In order to reach you Blanche will have to pass through Jersey City, and I suggest that you meet her there. If you will let me know several days in advance just what time you can be in Jersey City we can send her there when you direct . I can wire you in care of the ticket agent, Pennsylvania Station, Jersey City what time she will be on, so there will be no mistake.

Blanche is not going away because of any disposition on our part to send her. She is young and could very profitably spend a number of years in school. If you intend to continue her education I think it would be well to leave her right here. However, she is entitled to go home and I cheerfully send her if you wish that.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 27, 1902.

Rev. M. F. Trippe,

Salamanca, New York.

My dear Brother Trippe :

I have made up my mind that if you people up on the reservation
cannot stave off appeals for the return of the Lincoln children and
they come to me direct about it I will send such children home at
the time I get the appeal. I understand your position quite entirely
and of course agrees with you.

Cordially and faithfully yours,

The following is the list of those whom I have arranged to send
the girls
this week, probably Wednesday evening, reaching their various homes
Thursday morning. The boys will follow a day or so later.

| Amelia Kennedy | Gowanda, N. Y. | Berdina Seneca | Irving, N.Y. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Jane Scott | | Gleennie Waterman | |
| Flora Jameson | Red House," | David Maybee | |
| Luther Jameson | | Lawrence Jamison | |
| Grover Skye | Akron, N.Y. | Frank Mt. Pleasant, | Sanborn, |
| Carrie Parker | | Webster Lee | Corydon, Pa. |
| Lyman Poodry | | Cinderella Williams | Niagara Falls, N.Y. |
| Harrison Poodry | | Eunice Williams | Lawton's, N.Y. |

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Carlisle, Pa., June 28, 1902.

Mrs. Elizabeth Sundown,
Akron, New York.

Dear Mrs. Sundown :

I had not arranged to send your boy home, thinking you would
consider it wiser to let him keep on while he is so small and push
his education. If you demand his return I shall of course send him
to you, but my judgment is he would better remain in school and un-
der school discipline for several years. Please write me again.

Yours very truly,

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June 23, 1902.

Mr. J. C. Nolan,
309 Omaha Bldg.,
134 Van Buren St.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Mr. Nolan :

After quite a little correspondence with vari-
ous members of the "Celtic" party and repeated talks
with my lawyer, it seems quite impracticable for me
to undertake a suit. Being in Pennsylvania I could
not manage it very well except through the United
States court and that would cost in the neighborhood
of five hundred dollars. It would also take consid-
erable attention and time, and I have already had
more worry and correspondence in regard to it than
is good for me.

Mr. Fletcher, whom you will remember as the lane
young man in an invalid's chair, has written me as
often as anybody and is the most tenacious. His
last letter indicated that he was ready to bring suit
himself, and really that seems the only way to reach
the matter. As he is in New York he could do it much
better than anyone else, and I have assured him of my
cooperation all along. All the facts including the
condition of the boat when we went aboard should cer-

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tainly be made public. I had thought very strongly of writing a letter covering all the points at variance, and sending it to a considerable number of excellent people who were members of the party and suffered from the negligence and misrepresentations of Mr. Clark, and see if they would join me in signing it.

Mr. Clark's Masonic endorsement was obtained by a trick. Certainly not a fourth of the members of the Masonic Order aboard ship were present at the meeting when the resolutions were adopted, and it seemed to me that at least half of those present opposed them; but the presiding officer pronounced them passed and the mover, who was also a tool of Clark's most probably, persisted in trying to get a unanimous favorable vote. The more the resolutions were discussed the more it appeared that the larger proportion of those present were against them, but no one who voted for the resolutions would reopen the matter and it was allowed to pass as one action of the Masons. It now turns out that the so-called "Mother Lodge" of Jerusalem is a fake affair originated and used by Clark for just this purpose. They obtained a charter from the Grand Lodge

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of Canada, but that charter was taken away more than
a year ago because the lodge proved to be destitute
of principle and was nothing but a common beggar.
It secured from the Masons on the "Celtic" I ven-
ture to say several hundred dollars. When I come
to think of it, there was not one single solitary
evidence either of a meeting place or record of an
official character presented to us that would in-
dicats they had a real lodge. The whole was exposed
in our Pennsylvania Masonic paper, "The Keys tone"
in April and May when news reached this country of
our "Celtic's" being hoodoed by them.

When Mr. Fletcher notifies me he has taken ac-
tion in this matter I will let you know.

My beef this year went at one cent higher than
last to Swift & Co. Swift and Armour were the only
blenders.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 28, 1902.

Rev. W. O. Kingsbury,

Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Brother Kingsbury:

If your people up there would take hold and send the two runa-
ways back it might have a deterrent effect and reestablish things.
If they don't and the boys are allowed to go Scott Free, it will have
the contrary effect. If some of your principal men will arrest them
and notify me they have them and will bring them to Carlisle I will
pay the expense.

I am arranging to send home the six girls, Lizzie, Addie and
Lydia Terrance, Lucentia Billings, Christie White, and Nancy Thomp-
son, leaving here Monday morning. They should reach Nyando at nine
Tuesday morning, July 1st. The five boys will follow probably Tues-
day on the same train. They are Peter Loren, John Terrance, Thomas
Laughing, Peter White, and Frank Cook. If you can please have some-
one send word to the various families.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 28, 1902,

Mr. Robert C. Bellville,
Secretary's Office, Comm. of Public Instruction,
Trenton, N. J.

Dear Mr. Bellville :

I am pained beyond expression by what you tell me about Joseph.
I have sent a ticket for his return and will do what I can to punish
him when I get my hands on him. It is perhaps better on account of
publicity that he return here for punishment.

We have sent to the country every available student, and it is
not possible for me to supply you with another boy now, but shall be
glad to renew our relations when we are in a position to do so satisfactorily.

Yours very truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mr. Samuel Hopkins,
Marlow,
Marshall Co.,
South Dakota.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter about your two children, Heuben and Hannah.
As they have not been here the full period for which they entered the
school I have not arranged to send them home this year. All pupils
come for five years, and we do not take any for a shorter term.

Both children are in the country for the summer, where they have
good food, healthy employment and receive wages for their work. They
are getting on nicely, their country people like them, and all is
running smoothly. In the fall they can return to Carlisle and attend
school here unless they prefer to remain out and go to public school,
and this often advances them more rapidly than to attend here.

Yours very truly,

Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mrs. Susan Brown,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Brown :

On your continued urgency I am arranging to send home
your son Joe with the party leaving here Thursday night. He should
reach Syracuse about noon July 4th.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Dear Mrs. Jackson :

Your son Luther James leaves here Thursday evening, the 3rd,
with other boys going to Western New York, and should reach Red House
the next morning, Thursday, the 4th.

Yours truly,

Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mrs. J. Mishler,
Nanekagen, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Mishler :

Your boys leave here Thursday evening, the 3rd, and should
reach Spring Brook Saturday evening.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mrs. Lorinda Jamison,
Red House, New York.

Dear Mrs. Jamison :

Flora leaves here tomorrow Wednesday evening and should be in
Red House, Thursday morning, the 3rd.

Yours very truly,

Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mr. Z. Lewis Jamison,
Versailles, New York.

Dear sir :

Your son Lawrence leaves here Thursday night, the 3rd, and should
be in Irving the next morning before noon.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mrs. Emily Lyon,

Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Lyon :

Your son James Lyon leaves here this evening with other boys
going to Syracuse, and will reach there about noon Friday, the 4th
via the N. Y. C. R.R.

Yours truly,

Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

David Schenandoah,

Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Son :

Your son Isaac leaves here Thursday evening, the 3rd, and should
reach Syracuse about noon Friday.

Yours truly,

N. Y. C. Depot.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mrs. Emily Thomas,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Thomas :

Eli leaves here Thursday night with other boys going to Syracuse
and should reach there the next day noon, the 4th.

Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mr. Hawley Hill,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Sir :-

As I advised you some time ago through Mrs. Pierce I am sending home your son Howard. He leaves here Thursday night with other boys going to Syracuse, and should reach there before noon Friday, the fourth.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mr. King Scott,
Gowanda, New York.

Dear Sir :

Your daughter, Mary Jane, leaves here in company with other
girls going to western New York, tomorrow Wednesday night and should
reach Gowanda the next morning, Thursday, the 3rd.

Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1902.

Mr. Philip Waterman,
Irving, New York.

Dear Sir :

Your daughter Glennie leaves here tomorrow Wednesday night
in company with other girls going to Western new York and should
reach Irving the next morning, Thursday, the 3rd.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1902.

To Whom It May Concern :

This certifies that Miss Beckie L. Goodyear has been an Assistant Seamstress in this school since Dec. 1st, 1897 and that during the whole period she has rendered efficient and most satisfactory service.

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1902.

Editor, "The Keystone",
239 Dock St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I am sorry to say I am already so overloaded with newspapers that it is impossible for me to subscribe for another.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1902.

Mr. A. B. Odell, Prin.,
High School,
Oshkosh, Wis.

Dear Sir :

I have an unsigned letter from Oshkosh which may have been written by you or Mr. Simmons, the Superintendent, asking for information concerning this school and its graduates, and other printed matter. I send you under separate cover a copy of our late booklet and some other reports and addresses of mine.

If you are not the writer of the letter, please turn the material over to Mr. Simmons.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 2, 1902.

Miss Lillie Secchia,
Fujita,
Laguna, N. Mex.

Dear Lillie :

I send you one of our Carlisle booklets with pleasure. In regard to Hardy and Howice, I have already written your sister at Albuquerque that as both of them had gone out to country homes of their own desire and were fixed for the summer, I could not make a break; but that when they come back in the fall I will let them go home for a month if that will please their father and mother and then they can return to Carlisle.

Give my love to your father and mother and tell them I am sure they will be greatly pleased when they see what progress the children have made.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30, 1902.

To The Adjutant,

15th Cavalry, U. S. A.,
Manila, P. I.

Sir :

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of this
school under 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 In-
terior dated Sept. 6th, all in 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., June 30, 1902.

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 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 In-
terior, dated Sept. 6th, all in 1879.

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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TELEGRAM

Martin Escacerga,
Geddes, S. Dak.

Meet Maggie at Geddes, Wednesday evening, July 2nd.

Pratt. Lt. Col.

W. U.

June 30.

TELEGRAM

Mrs. Margaret Diddock,
Pender, Neb.

Meet Ida Mitchell, Pender Wednesday afternoon, July 2nd.

Pratt. Lt. Col.

W. U.

June 30.

TELEGRAM

Rev. Kingsbury,
Hogansburg, N. Y.

Six girls arrive Nyando, nine Tuesday morning, July 1st. Boys arrive
Wednesday.

Pratt. Lt. Col.

W. U. about noon.

TELEGRAM

Quannah Parker,
Fort Sill, Okla.

Meet Esther and Laura, Fort Sill, Saturday afternoon, July 5th.

Pratt Lt. Col.

Night W. U.

July 2.

199

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June 30.

200

John Merrill,
Bena, Minn.

Meet Nellie, Bena Thursday noon, July 3rd.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

Night, W. U.

TELEGRAM June 30.

Oliver La Croix,

Santee Agency, Neb., via Springfield, S. Dak.

Meet Mary Mitchell Springfield, Wednesday afternoon, July 2nd.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

Night, W.U.

TELEGRAM

June 30.

Mrs. Louise Amoor,

Keshena, Wis. via Shawano.

Meet Jane Marie Shawano eight Tuesday evening, July 1st.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

W. U. about 2.00 P. M.

TELEGRAM

July 2.

Solomon Lawrence,
Fountain, Mich.

Meet Sara and Tonkin Davis at Fountain Friday evening, July 4th.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

Night, W. U.

TELEGRAM

July 2.

Kish Hawkins,

Darlington, Okla.

Meet Minnie Zallowager, Fort Reno 8:40 Saturday night, July 5th.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

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TELEGRAM

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
Occidental Hotel,
Seattle, Wash.

July 3,

Oonaleana reaches Seattle tomorrow night, Friday via Gt. Northern.

Goes to Occidental Hotel.

Postal 9:12 A. M.

Pratt. Lt. Col.

TELEGRAM

Rev. James Miller,

South Milton, Mich. via Rapid City. Mich.

Meet Nettie Rapid City Friday evening, July 4th.

Day.

W. U. 9:30 P. M. Day message.

July 2,

Pratt. Lt. Col.

TELEGRAM

July 2.

Jacod View,

Dale, Okla.

Meet Angeline at Dale Saturday evening, July 5th.

Night. W. U.

Pratt. Lt. Col.

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Carlisle, Pa., July 3, 1902.

Mrs. Nancy Halftown,
Irving, New York.

Dear Mrs. Halftown :

Frances is a junior and it is so much better for her to keep on with the course and graduate, which she can do in about twenty months. Under our rule juniors and seniors are held to do that, unless their abilities are such as to make it seem out of the question to reach the graduating point. Frances is capable and it is greatly to her interest to go on to the end. She is living with Mrs. Pratt this summer and we all think a great deal of her, and feel sure you will be entirely satisfied at the last that you allowed her to remain.

Sincerely your friend,

Carlisle, Pa., July 3, 1902.

Mr. Oscar D. Hodgkiss,
Sisseton,
Roberts Co.,
S. Dakota.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter of June 30th in regard to your son. Miss Robertson, one of my graduates, now an employe at the school, goes to her home at Sisseton this summer, and will return about the middle of August. I wish you would open correspondence with her and she can bring the boy in. I will make the necessary arrangements for his transportation through her.

Yours truly,

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