Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 4, 1901.

Miss Annie Kephart,
Doylestown, Pa.

Dear Miss Kephart :-

I want to thank you for having charge of a class of boys in which there is an Indian treated like the other boys. This is the true method. If on our part we will simply quit making distinctions between Indians and others, the distinctions will soon disappear. The general disposition everywhere is for some kindhearted person to gather all the Indians within reach into an Indian class in some Sunday-school, and this becomes an embryo reservation right there in the Sunday-school. The church with all its profound doctrines to the contrary is the greatest race and class builder in the world. The public schools are far in advance of the church in this respect. There the Indian goes into classes on his attainments.

Such help as yours I feel most grateful for.

Sincerely yours,

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 7, 1901.

Peter Chatfield,
Elba, Mich.

Dear Peter :-

I have asked that a ticket to Carlisle be placed with the agent of the Grand Trunk R.R. at Elba to be delivered to you on your call. It should be there within a day or two, and I trust you will use it promptly.

-3- Major Cooper.

ered, it would have great weight. Mr. Smith, as you know, is a Pennsylvanian by adoption and a Philadelphian, and as brilliant and influential in the cabinet as any member in it.

Faithfully yours,

Major Charles L. Cooper,
Fort Grant, Arizona.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 7, 1901.

Frank Hudson,
City Deposit Bank, East End,
Pittsburg, Pa.

Dear Frank :-

I wish you would look up this man if you can; see him and
his children. Find out whether he is a good man; is he doing right
and are his children respectable and proper children to be admitted
here. Please return the letter with your answer as quickly as possi-
ble. Mr. Lee lives on Bingham St. between 15th & 16th Sts.

Dicated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 7, 1901.

Miss Pasquala Anderson,
C/o Mrs. J. Carroll Hayes,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Pasquala :-

I enclose to you an appointment as teacher in the Indian School at Oraiba, Kean's Canon, Ariz. If you accept the same, and my judgment is that it would be good for you to do that, you would better notify the Commissioner of your acceptance, also Mr. Burton, the superintendent, and come here at once. You can keep the oath of office and take it when you get back to Carlisle.

P.S. - If you accept, please telegraph me so at once, in order that I may arrange for someone to take your place at Mrs. Hayes's.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 7, 1901.

Isaac Fielder,

Cheyenne River Agency, S. Dak.

Dear Sir :-

On Dec. 24th I wrote you at Chilocco and have been waiting for your answer. If you received my letter you know the conditions. Information I have about you from the agency and elsewhere is not favorable to you; you are called a school tramp. Still, if you can bring yourself to accept the conditions of my letter in real earnest I shall be glad to place a ticket to Carlisle with the railroad agent at Gettysburg, S. Dak. to be delivered to you. If you have not already written, wire me on receipt of this what your intentions are, "Yes" or "No".

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 7, 1901.

Isaac Fielder,
Indian School,
Chilocco, Okla.

Dear Sir :-

On Dec. 24th I wrote you and have been waiting for your answer. If you received my letter you know the conditions. The information I have about you from the agency and elsewhere is not favorable to you, you are called a school tramp. Still, if you can bring yourself to accept of my letter and its conditions in real earnest I shall be glad to place a ticket to Carlisle for you with the railroad agent at Chilocco or Arkansas City. If you have not already written, wire me on receipt of this what your intentions are, "Yes" or "No."

Dictated (T)

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 5, 1901.

My dear Armstrong :-

When your very full and most acceptable letter came the other day it gave me very great pleasure, and as I read and reread it, I appreciated more than ever the privilege I had of knowing you and counting you one of my friends when gentlemen of my own cloth were dead again me. Another feeling came into my heart about it, and that was one of envy. I envy you your clean-out skilful presentation of a case, and the steady nerve that enabled you to do it all yourself in such neat penmanship. My days are so full and my brain so pulled hither and yon that I am compelled almost exclusively to make use of my shorthand and typewriter assistant. For this you will excuse me, I am sure.

I have not yet had time to read the pamphlet and newspaper clippings you sent, but will do so soon and then return them. The full text of my letter to Bishop Hill together with his letter to me, and one from another colored man to the editor of our town paper are herewith. If I had given more thought to the preparation of my paper to Bishop Hill it would have contained other things that I am sure you would agree to fully.

The extract you give from Col. Richard Henry Lee's address in 1894 is as truthful and righteous a presentation of the subject as could be made, and judged by the results in comparison slavery was the most humane and colossal civilizer and Christianizer of a savage

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race that the history of the world has ever developed. Slavery took
care of the negro. Freedom is killing him. Which is the criminal ?
Slavery made him obey God's law and earn his bread by the sweat of
his face. Freedom is teaching him to defy that law, making him a
loafer. You can go into the town of Carlisle at midnight, and usual-
ly find negroes in parties of two to a dozen loafing about the streets
and laughing loudly. The condition increases. In this town they must
not only have special schools, but demand to be taught by their own
people. These conditions which are not exceptional make the future
seem portentous to me. In politics, two wards of the town are forced
continually to give special consideration to the negro vote, which I
have in a general way, is handled not on principle but by money.

Some years ago I found that my own teamster who votes in town and has
a little property there was letting politicians pay his taxes for him
and voting accordingly. I talked with him about it, and I think
changed his habits. Intelligence and character are the essential el-
ements in our system. These are acquired qualities, but intelligence
does not necessarily mean education. In the old days the slave often
initiated his master, and those that were close to Master were often
surprisingly intelligent and exceptionally polite. Now that source of
taking on qualities is gone. They are thrown back upon each other.
That the conditions are worse in many (not all) respects, cannot be
denied. Too ready northern sympathy and help educationally alone
throughout the south, and building up for them special educational
institutions better than those enjoyed by the whites in some localis-
ties has helped on race hatred wonderfully. From my observation, the
Christian church with its wonderful doctrines of the brotherhood of

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man and the fatherhood of God, and that we are all created of one
flesh, etc., is the most outrageous class and race hatred builder we
have. Putting my children out into homes and bringing to bear the
same influences that operate so favorably to americanize foreigners
is full of experience along these lines. Wherever there are several
in the same neighborhood and they gather in the same Sunday-school
there is invariably a local Indian agent, so to speak, appointed and
the pupils are formed into a class in one corner, becoming a verita-
ble Indian reservation in the Sunday-school. If they go to church
there are pews set aside for them and someone appointed to look af-
ter them. Of course the person who looks after the Indians is an ex-
ceptionally good character engaged in the Lord's work and entitled to
favorable notice in consequence. The public schools do better. There
they are sent into classes and pushed forward on their attainments.
The two questions, i.e., the Indian and the Negro are in no sense a-
kin, and yet Hampton Institute at Old Point Comfort, Va., has played
the Indian and negro so well that in twenty years they have obtained
in donations not less than five hundred thousand dollars, all because
they have had an average of about one hundred twenty-five young In-
dians there. Working a race problem pays. I was detailed first to
Hampton by special act of Congress, but could not bring my conscience
to allow me to stay there and give my name to their purposes.

Copies of my little paper, containing editorials, etc., will show
you how I feel towards my duties here; and you as well as anyone I
know can realize that it has not been four years war, for a seven
years, nor a nine years war to me, but has lasted now a full twenty-

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 7, 1901.

Mr. B. H. Warner, Chairman,
Civic Division, Inaugural Parade,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :—

On receipt of your invitation and the blank for information I concluded we would undertake to come to Washington provided I could get free transportation. This is confidential rather than official. I at once began operations and am hopeful of success, so that I may have in the parade about the same delegation we had four years ago, i.e., 200 cadets divided into six platoons of sixteen files or thirty-two cadets each and a band of forty pieces. I will know in the course of a few days, and if successful will then send you the information desired in regard to the number of divisions, names of commanders, etc. My notion is that instead of arming them with implements of industry as before (though I could easily do that, having the outfit on hand) I would provide each cadet with a small flag and arrange that they go through some interesting flag drill while on the march or when standing still.

Very truly yours,

Dictated (P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 8, 1901.

Prof. Edward F. Bacon,
State Normal School,
Oneonta, New York.

My dear Doctor :-

I thank you for the quite full article so favorable to Carlisle; but there is one section of your letter, the fourth, which is so radically different from what have been my views all these years that I wonder where you could have gotten it. The article in the New England Magazine covers my position quite fully, but the opinions have been mine for thirty years and more; that the Indian should be allowed to develop with the people with whom he must compete for the good things of life, I did and do object to the coupling of the Indian and negro problems, but that is all, As the Indian is to compete with the white man industrially and every other way for the good things of our civilization he will become most competent to compete by receiving his education entirely, if such a thing can be made possible, with those with whom he is to compete. I argued in favor of these positions in the late sixties and early seventies, and when the and Indians were to leave for Florida I had no expectation of going with them; in fact I had asked to be relieved from further Indian duties and had been assured I would be sent with my regiment to Texas; I urged General Sheridan that every opportunity be used to bring the Indians into relations with the white people so that they might learn more quickly than in any other way the language of the country and the ways of the people. All the time I was in Florida I encouraged in

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every way possible the fullest association between the prisoners and the whites. Hampton was the only institution that would open its doors to my Indian prisoners when I was trying to find a place for them. I wrote to something like a dozen of our agricultural and other schools, but was rejected everywhere. Finally they started in at Hampton, and I went with them; but a little experience showed me that they were entirely different from the negroes, and that the Indian problem, which was a simple one relating to only about 250,000 people, would solve itself quickly if the right means were used and the Indian brought into contact with the white race. I therefore asked to be relieved from duty at Hampton although Congress had passed a special act detailing me there. I wanted not to keep the Indian away from the schools of the white man, but to push him into the white schools. Since I have been in a position to send Indian children into the public schools I have done that persistently. The system was begun with the beginning of the school and has really been the best feature of the Carlisle school. I am sorry you obtained a contrary notion and cannot understand how it happened. If I could have my way about it I would break up every Indian school and send every Indian into schools with our own people.

You did not see the best part of Carlisle, which is the three hundred young Indians we have out in the public schools in this and adjoining states.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 8, 1901.

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

My dear friend :-

I have agreed with the management of the Buffalo Exposition to let our band go there and play four weeks in July and August. The band has never had a thoroughly skilful leader, one entirely competent in the technique and finer qualities of band development, I have therefore entered into an arrangement with Mr. J. B. Ettinger, leader of the First Brigade band in Philadelphia, who the best musical critics tell me, is as competent an instructor and leader as can be had. He is to come here Mondays and Tuesdays and Fridays and Saturdays, making two round trips weekly, Philadelphia to Carlisle, and I am to provide his transportation in addition to what is for me a very large salary; but I am anxious that our band shall reach the highest point of development for the Buffalo Exposition, in view of the fact that South American and other states specially participating in that exposition have many Indians to deal with, and what we can do with them musically and otherwise will be a showing of very considerable moment.

Is it not possible for you to give me transportation for Mr. Ettinger to come here twice a week beginning Thursday afternoon of this week and closing with the band's going to Buffalo about the 20th

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 8, 1901.

Hon. Thomas R. Bard,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Senator :-

Supt. Hall, who has charge of the Indian school at Perris,
Cal., urges me to solicit your interest in an increased appropriation
for the Riverside School. I should say that I visited the Perris
school twice; that its location and facilities are abominable. The
only good reason for having non-reservation schools is to get the
Indian children within sight at least, and if possible into actual
contact with our own people. There was nothing but barrenness at Per-
ris, and the conditions have not and do not warrant the expectation
of anything but barrenness around it, notwithstanding all the influ-
ence that owners of land thereabout bring to bear to the contrary.
At Riverside there are good water privileges and an industrious com-
munity with all the best things of our civilization well planted, and
all in constant sight and touch with the new school. Mr. Tonner, the
Assistant Commissioner, who made a most thorough investigation of the
site and of the whole subject, enthusiastically told me he thought it
the best location for a non-reservation school that could be found.
I feel sure the matter has the hearty support of the Indian Bureau,
and that ought to be sufficient, no matter who opposes. The Indian
Bureau, after all, has to do the work and when it does wake up and
favor something outside the reservation its efforts ought not to go
for nothing.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 9, 1901.

Director-General Wm. I. Buchanan,
Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, New York.

Dear Sir :-

I am very greatly obliged to you for yours of Jan. 7th en-
closing Mr. Wheelock's letter and your telegraphic answer, both of
which are returned herewith.

I have had a difficult job in handling Mr. Wheelock and you have
helped me greatly. Your course has settled the case exactly as I
would want it settled. Mr. Wheelock having declined, I have engaged
the most skilful band leader I can find. Mr. Ettinger is the leader
of the First Brigade band, N.G.P., Phila. Eminent musicians assure
me there is no better instructor nor more successful leader in the
United States. He has just been here to test the merits of our ag-
gregation and assures me he can present at the exposition a musical
organization that will rank high entirely on its musical productions
irrespective of race considerations. I expect to furnish you better
music than the Carlisle band has ever produced, and to merit the con-
fidence of your action.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 9, 1901.

Major John Jensen,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Ponce Agency,
White Eagle, Okla. Ty.

Sir:-

Louis Macdonald, a young man belonging to your Agency and formerly of this school, was a member of our band when they had the Paris trip in prospect, and was trained for the purpose of taking part in that trip which however fell through, very much to the boy's disappointment.

I am now called upon by the Managers of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo to fill a four weeks engagement with the Carlisle School Band, taking part of July and August and would like to have Louis if he is so minded to come back and take his place for a while

for this purpose. I will furnish him transportation both ways and pay him a small salary during his stay. The band will be under the training and leadership of one of the best musicians in the country, (not Mr. Wheelock,) and it will add very much to Louis's musical ability and future usefulness for band purposes if he could have this training. Will you kindly see him and present the case for his consideration and as early action as possible.

Dictated A.J.S. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 10, 1901.

Miss Ednorah Nahar,
Charlestown, Mass.

Dear Miss Nahar :-

I have kept your note for several days until I could get
the facts in reference to our commencement, and know better what to
do. Your coming here on the 21st inst. would be ahead of time for
commencement work, as none of their pieces are yet written. If you
could come between the middle of February and the first of March it
would be all right. The students could commit their orations without
any training, and drill in delivery be left for you to attend to
entirely. It is probable there will be seven to drill, and I should
be very glad to have you take them in hand. If you conclude to come
Jan. 21st, let me know at once and I will arrange that a ticket be
sent you; or if you find it would be convenient to come by or before
the first of March and continue with us, that would suit me better.

My son will be addressed, Mr. M. D. Pratt, Steelton, Pa.

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Carliola, Pa., Jan. 10, 1903.

Miss Fanny Riebinkow,
Newtown, Pa.
Dear Miss Riebinkow I-

After a great deal of thought about it and noting the results for a long time I have determined if possible to entirely break up the gathering of our boys in Indian classes in Sunday-schools and churches. Such a course only emphasizes the reservation idea and omits that it must be continued even though the Indian is transferred to civilized surroundings.

Mr. Thompson, who is my outing agent this year, a most good-natured, is now in Newton; and I have written him specially about this and had given him his instructions before. I am sure this will be quite a disappointment to you, but I am sure your good, good will see the progress of it and that you will cooperate without hiccups in helping to accomplish this. It is singular that the Church will declare all one of its foundation principles that God is our God and of persons and that we are all created of one kind, and that we resolve itself into the greatest race will have organization in the world. Yes such is the case. The public schools under the Indian boys and girls in our regular classes, without reference to the fact that they are Indians, but the church, which is so necessary to make a civilizing life. It is to be in Carliola, so it is to be a fairly every day place where we plan our meetings. I want to bring it up here, and am doing what I can in Carliola.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 10, 1901.

Mrs. M. E. Ashenfalter,
#6 Church Ave.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Madam:-

I have your letter of the 9th in regard to more tailoring work from the school. In regard to this you must understand that the tailoring that we place out in town is not as a regular custom but only when we are not able for our own shop to supply the requirements of the school. The work is therefore necessarily irregular.

At the present time our stock of clothing has reached a place where the need of additional present help from town does not exist. The placing out of work is therefore suspended as you were informed by Mr. Standing until the school again required it.

I of course appreciate your situation but the case is as stated and there will be no more work until our necessities require it. The corps at the sewing-room is full with no prospect of additional help being required there.

Diotated A.J.S.(M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 11, 1901.

Lottie Hilton,
C/o Mrs. S. D. Walton,
Berwyn, Pa.

Dear Lottie :-

Your mother has written me twice lately in regard to you,
and is very anxious to have your monthly reports and letters. These
have been going to your sister Olga, but you may hereafter address
your monthly letter to your mother. I trust you will also keep up
your correspondence with your sister. She has your interests at
heart and I am sure her letters will always be helpful to you.

I am very glad to have the excellent reports Mrs. Walton and
your teacher send about you, and trust they may always be as good.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 11, 1901.

Dear Miss Nahar :-

Since writing you yesterday it has come to me that I am not
in a position to undertake any additional expense this year; in fact,
that I must cut down expenses closely in every way I can in order to
pull through with the money I have. I must therefore withdraw the
arrangement to have you come here at this time or any time before the
first of July, when our new money is available.

I may add that I am expecting to go away from home to be absent
some months, and I would rather be here when you come.

January 11, 1901.

Amzi Smith,
Chief, Senate Document Room,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :-

My boys are in a turmoil of debate over the Nicaragua Canal. Won't you send me any reports or documents that will help them to understand and discuss both sides of the Isthmian Canal question?

Hope you are well and that you had a good
time fishing the past season. I have staid
right here; haven't caught a minnow, but am look-
ing forward.

Yours sincerely,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 11, 1901.

Mrs. Mary Hilton,
Juneau, Alaska.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter of Dec. 30th in regard to your daughter Lottie, and have given directions that her monthly report and letter again go to you. Lottie has never been prevented from writing you whenever she pleased, but her monthly school letter was to go to her sister. This was arranged on her sister's request, and as I understood justly so, Olga being to a great extent responsible for Lottie's coming here.

In regard to Lottie's conduct, it has always been very good em-
ployed for some slight discontent and annoyances arising from that,
which I understood was due to letters from home. She is in a very
good home near Philadelphia and attends one of the best schools in
the vicinity. Her teacher reports that she is especially diligent in
her studies and a very lovable child. You can communicate with her
at the address given below, and I trust you will encourage her to do
her best. I write her today.

Lottie Hilton,
C/O Mrs. S. D. Walton,
Perwyn, Pa.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 11, 1901.

Miss Olga Hilton,
Sitka, Alaska.

Dear Miss Hilton :-

Referring to your letter of July 21st and my reply in re-
gard to Lottie's correspondence, I have today ordered that she resume
the monthly letters to her mother, which have lately been going to
you instead. This change has been made on the importunity of the
mother, who feels much aggrieved that Lottie's regular letters had
ceased. Lottie is in a good country home, goes to an excellent school
and the reports we have of her both from her country mother and her
teacher are very good. The occasional letters from her mother,
counteracted by yours which I am confident are always in the line
of encouragement, will not be sufficient to materially disturb her.
Lottie is to write to you also, but her school letter is to be ad-
dressed to her mother. Her address is given below, and I should be
glad to have you correspond with her pretty regularly.

Sincerely yours,

Lottie Hilton,
C/O Mrs. E. D. Walton,
Hartlyn, Pa.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 11, 1901.

Supt. E. A. Allen,
Seneca Indian School,
Seneca, Mo.

Dear Sir:-

Replying to your inquiry of the 8th inst., in regard to a
set of carriage harness with breeching, 1-1/4" traces and collars etc,
I have to say that our price for such a harness without breeching,
made of best oak-tanned leather with nickel mountings is thirty (30.00)
dollars at Carlisle. With the breeching in addition, considerable
more material and labor would be involved, making the price for a first
class harness thirty-five(35.50) dollars and fifty cents, f. c. to at
Wyandotte. If you should give us your order, please give exact size of
collars required and we will send you as good a harness as our shop
can produce.

Dictated A. J. S. (M)

Copied in C. J. Bork

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 11, 1901.

Mr. B. H. Warner, Chairman,
Committee on Civil Organizations,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose to you your blank filled out, covering our trip to Washington. It is now arranged that we shall leave here at 3:00 in the morning and reach Washington at 7:45. We will want to leave there at 7:20 in the evening and be home at midnight.

There will be 250 in all. Our band, I am sure, will be one of the best in the parade, and our 200 cadets marching in six platoons of sixteen files front or three companies of thirty-two files front, or in columns of four, as you desire, each student with a small American flag, going through some flag drill on route, will, I am sure, form a satisfactory feature in the parade. I shall not be able to march with them myself, but expect to be there and see them start right, and hope you will give us as favorable a position as you can.

If possible, I would like four reviewing stand tickets for myself and family.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 11, 1901.

Mr. Henry Williams,
Saganing, Mich.

My dear Sir :-

I have your further letter of Jan. 5th. While I am sorry
for the conditions you urge, it is impracticable to give you other
than my former reply.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 11, 1901.

George T. Tyrrell,
Bandmaster, 10th U. S. Cavalry,
Santiago, Cuba.

Dear Sir :-

Your application is too late for consideration. A few days
ago I entered into an agreement with Mr. Ettinger, leader of the
First Brigade band in Philadelphia, to begin on Wednesday next.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 12, 1901.

President Willis C. Hawley,
Willamette University,
Salem, Ore.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose statement from my principal teacher, Prof. O. H. Bakeless, in regard to the standing of Frank Beale, as requested by your letter of the 7th inst.

Dictated(P)

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 12, 1901.

Mr. M. K. Jacobs,
964 Strong St.,
Schenectady, New York.

Dear Sir :-

It is impossible for me to increase the number of small pupils at this school at the present time. We have many more of this class now than our curriculum and system warrent. I am therefore unable to favor you by taking your younger children.

Ligated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 12, 1901.

Hon. Thomas B. Kennedy,
Pres. C. V. R.R.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

I have yours of yesterday advising of the favor in moving
our cadet corps to Washington for the inaugural parade, and wrote you
my thanks.

I note that you say you told Mr. Prevost there would be about
200. I said 200 cadets and 40 to 50 in the band, making 250 in all,
and we have organized on that basis. However, I can cut the force
down if it becomes necessary, but if you can take the whole number I
would like four passenger cars and a combination car to carry our
food, so that we may be at no expense for that.

Yours very truly,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

Dictated(P)

Isaac Fielder,

Arkansas City, Kans.

Ticket to Carlisle will be with railroad agent, Arkansas City with-
in day or two.

Pratt. Major.

W. N. 3:05 P.M.

Jan. 11, 1901.

TELEGRAM.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 14, 1901.

Mrs. R. E. Dunlap,
Leslie, S. Car.

Dear Mrs. Dunlap :-

On your further urgency and recommendation that I accept
Lucy George, I have concluded to receive her, but inasmuch as you
recommend others I will delay placing transportation for her until
I hear from you again in regard to them.

Let me know the proportion of Indian blood of each. If they are
satisfactory in this respect and you can see that guardians consent,
I will place transportation for them at such time and place as you
name. It is imperative that we maintain the semblance of an Indian
school. I am constantly criticised because such a large proportion
of the students are white. White fathers living among the Indians
should take care of their progeny as well as other white fathers do.
The government of the United States should not be burdened with their
education and support.

Students must be over fourteen and under eighteen.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 14, 1901.

Rev. L. M. Lawrence,
Iroquois,
Erie Co., New York.

My dear Sir :-

In regard to paying the expenses of someone in charge of
a party, it is our habit to pay transportation and incidental expenses
of an escort one way for a party of five or more, and both ways for
ten or more. For a party of twenty or more I can pay the expenses of
two escorts both ways.

As we have been disappointed in getting students from other pla-
ces, I am willing to accept a party of ten from your section, at
least half of whom shall be girls; but they must come within our age
character, and health limitations, i. e., the boys must be over four-
teen and under eighteen; for the girls I am willing to lower the age
limit, but under no circumstances can I accept any under twelve, and
all must be of fair character, at least. The fact is, we cannot use
industrially such small children. By transfer from Lincoln Institu-
tion we last year received about eighty students, a large proportion
of whom are under age, so that we are overburdened with that class.
One boy is six years old, quite a number are seven, and so on. I
tried to get Supt. Lincoln of the Orphan Asylum to relieve me of them
and let me take larger ones instead, but it was not within his range
to do that.

Should you make up a party and Albert Snow proves healthy and

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otherwise all right, you can include him; also Lydia Lay of whom you
speak. At thirteen the girl will come within the limitations I have
named, but the boy of eleven will be too young. I assure you I am not
less interested and in sympathy with these people than you are, but
am compelled from the very nature of things to keep th em balanced
as nearly as possible. In making up your party you can add some from
other reservations. Brother Trippe at Salamanca wrote me recently
three
about from the Tonawandas. Will send you the means to get them
to Buffalo, and give directions in regard to the business when you no-
tify me. Will also provide transportation, Buffalo to Carlisle.

In regard to Bertha Pierce, I am very sure with her knowledge
she would have no difficulty in getting a good place and good wages
outside the reservation if she were minded to exercise her household
and culinary abilities; or she might easily find employment in some
good dressmaking establishment for she is also proficient in that
line.

I will write to Mr. Scott, as you suggest. The trouble was that
Robert's death was very sudden and unexpected, occurring on Saturday.
He was not buried until Monday afternoon. To send the body home
would encourage appeals from parents in every like instance. Of course
that would not amount to much to New York, but I have to consider
Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and even Alaska as coming within the range
of a precedent.

Thank you for the invitation for our people to your mission
home.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1901.

Charles Dickens,
San Carlos, Ariz.

Dear Charles :-

I have your second letter in regard to Grace, and will send her your letter, so she will have your messages and her parents' at first hand. She came here Sept. 23rd, 1899 for five years, so you see she will not be due to return home for some time.

Do you know anything about Henry Nah-ta-ko-ka, who went to his home at San Carlos from here last summer ? He was one of our band boys.

With kind regards,

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1901.

J. B. Krause,
Sanatoga, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

On the 11th inst. I sent you copies of my annual report for 1900 and 1899, as requested in yours of the 10th.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1901.

Mr. N. S. Bone,

Crow Agency, Mont.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter asking that your son Henry be sent home now because he has been here four years. I must advise you that Henry came here Feb. 21st, 1898, for five years. You will therefore understand that I cannot send him home now. The rules of the school would not allow me to do that. Unless pupils themselves need the change on account of their health, they remain the full five years. This is very necessary in Henry's case, as he is now past twenty, and the government does not care to enter pupils older than that, so that he should have every chance and encouragement to continue. He is in our class of harnessmakers, working half a day and going to school half a day, and is getting on well.

Your letter appears to have been written at Porcupine, S. Dakota, while your home is at Crow Agency. I therefore address you at Crow Agency.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1901.

Mr. King Scott,

Gowanda, New York.

My dear Mr. Scott :-

Your boy went into the hospital on Friday and died Saturday. My school physician wrote you but you probably did not receive the letter until after Robert was dead. He was buried in our school burying-ground Monday afternoon, the funeral services being held in the school chapel conducted by Rev. Dr. Mosser, the Methodist minister in Carlisle, all students being present. A stone will shortly mark his grave, suitably inscribed.

I understand, of course, your fatherly desire to have the body sent home, but it would have been unsightly and very offensive after having lain in the grave so long, and while I sympathize very greatly with your desire, it was not practicable; and after all, David's course in mourning seems the more proper. Having done all we can for or to death and failed, and the life being taken away by the Great Giver of all Life, it would seem that that was the end, and we ought to go about our affairs without hurting ourselves and others by still having attention to our sorrow and loss. My father's body lies in California; my mother's in Ohio; one brother's in New Orleans, and a brother and sister lie in Indiana. A perfectly proper service was held for Robert at the time, one I think which would have gratified you had you been present. If I sent your son's body home I ought to gratify parents in far away Alaska, Oregon, and Washington. They now

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er ask it, and I trust your own good judgment will at least eventu-
ally be satisfied with what was done.

Sincerely your friend,

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1901.

J. L. Bryant,
Whittier, N. H.

Dear Sir :-

We have no catalog of the school, but I send you copies of
my last two annual reports which contain what is usually embraced in
a catalog. We do not issue a list of students. They change from
year to year, and as each year's list numbers considerably over a
thousand, it is impracticable to publish them. I enclose also copies
of several of my addresses on Indian education, and a late number of
our weekly school paper.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1901.

Mrs. Sarah V. Crow,
Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear School-daughter :-

I have your letter of Jan. 7th asking about a trunk and box
of picture frames which you say you left at the school. I have been
making inquiry, and Mrs. Brown who is in charge at the Girls' Quar-
ters in the absence of Miss Jackson, reports that they cannot be
found, though she has looked in every store-room and advertised the
matter to the girls. Mr. Kensler knows nothing of them, and I fear
they were not marked, and in the change of matrons in the last two
years were scattered or lost. I will keep the matter in mind and if
either is found will notify you. What was your arrangement about them
when you left ? It is unfortunate that you did not send for them ear-
lier.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1901.

Felix Scott,
Tunesassa, New York.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter of Jan. 10th, complaining that I have treated you badly. It appears you do not know the facts of your brother's death. I have written your father fully. Robert went into the hospital Friday and died Saturday. Nothing the doctor could do for him was of any avail. He immediately wrote your father, but it seems he did not receive the letter promptly. Robert was buried here on Monday afternoon, the Methodist minister from town conducting the ceremonies, at which all the school were present. We never send the bodies of students home, and when your father's telegram came it was too late, the funeral having been two days before.

I have no recollection of your application for admission to Carlisle. If I refused you it was on account of health or age qualifications which were not satisfactory, or because information I had of you was not favorable. There was a period last year when we were so overcrowded that I was compelled to refuse a great many who sought admission at that time. If you were one of these, and dropped the matter without another effort, I have no answer to make. Your letter would indicate that you were able to look after your own interests and in that case independence and self-support far more to your advantage in every way.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1961.

Mrs. Marion W. DeLoss,
Indian School,
Fort Defiance, Ariz.

Dear Mrs. DeLoss :-

Your Xmas eve letter which of course did not reach me till
some time after, contains so much of common interest that I have
passed it over to Miss Burgess, who will make use of it. Glad to
know you are getting well settled, and hope as you become accustomed
to the climate your lungs may be benefited.

Miss Jackson started out on her country visits last week, leaving Mrs. Brown and Miss McArthur in charge at the quarters. Things are running on as usual. Grippe has been prevalent here as it has been everywhere, but at present we have no serious cases on the grounds. Our first snow to cover the ground came last evening, but I fear will not remain long.

Christmas festivities here were conducted somewhat differently
this year in the girls' quarters, the distribution of gifts being on
Christmas eve instead of Christmas morning. Most of the teachers were
away during the holidays. It was rather unfortunate that the ice
melted a few days before vacation began; still the pupils managed to
have a pretty full week, with the various church entertainments in
town and sociable and other amusements at the school.

Miss Miles brought and sent in fifteen pupils, and a party from
Nevada which arrived the week before Xmas added eight to our numbers;
but we have not reached the thousand mark, and it is somewhat prob-

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Carlisle, Pa., July. 17, 1901.

Honorable Knute Nelson,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Senator Nelson :-

In the Indian Appropriation Bill approved May 17th, 1882, Page 86 of "United States Statutes at Large, 47th Congress, Volume XXII ", there is a clause giving $150,000 for educating Indian children outside the tribes, part of which reads as follows :-

"And also for the placing of such children, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of such suitable white families as may in all respects be qualified to give such children moral, industrial, and educational training for a term of not less than three years under arrangement in which their proper care, support, and education shall be in exchange for their labor."

Practically these same words have been in every Indian Appropriation bill since, and if you remember, for I think you were then in the House, this object was one of the reasons urged upon Congress for the establishment of non-reservation schools. I remember that in my answers to your incisive inquiries I stated that it was easy of accomplishment on a large scale. I was influenced to say that by my experiences in Florida, at Hampton, and here. I do not believe the Indian Bureau has made one single solitary effort to make use of that clause, but has always used all the money appropriated by that section for the other purposes named in the section. You will find it in the last bill under the clause providing money for transportation of children to and from reservation schools. What Congress has desired can and ought to be done at every non-reservation school, from

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some better than others; but every school ought to do everything possible along this line, for it is making use of the essential influence of actually living among white people.

How would it do to introduce an inquiry, to stir things up on this line and help to make the management move along, as follows?

"The Secretary of the Interior is hereby requested to inform the Senate in detail just what has been done and is now being done by his Department through the schools in placing Indian children out in families, for which the means have been provided in every Indian Appropriation Bill including and since 1882, under that clause which says,

'And also for the transportation of Indian pupils from all the Indian Schools and placing them, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of such suitable white families as may in all respects be qualified to give such pupils moral, industrial, and educational training, under arrangements in which their proper care, support, and education shall be in exchange for their labor.' "

If you can get answer to this question in time, or if you cannot get answer in time, it seems to me there should be in the Indian Appropriation Bill a clause as follows :-

"All non-reservation Indian schools and such reservation schools as are able, shall send their pupils out to work on farms, at trades and other occupations and in families during vacations, and during the public school sessions shall also keep as many out in suitable families attending public schools, as they may be able to satisfactorily arrange for; and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall report to Congress in detail each year the number of pupils each Indian school has been able to place out at work and the number it has been able to keep out attending public and other schools."

The facts are that the Department has not pushed the non-reservation schools, and they have made no attempt along this line. Each school has been a law unto itself. Scarcely anything has been done at Hankell, which is one of the most favorably located of all our schools for that purpose, because in that part of Kansas and in Iowa there are many Quakers who would gladly and sympathetically take Indian youth into their families and place them in the public schools. This feature is the most profitable part of the work at Carlisle, and

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would be at other schools if the management would only take hold and get at it. I understand that a number of schools are urging larger appropriations. I think if you, knowing all the facts and being on the Indian Committee, would antagonize these appropriations until Congress was informed what these schools were doing on this line, and should succeed in withholding appropriations for improvements for a year on that ground, it would wake up the situation in a way which would be most healthy, and none of the schools would suffer materially from such delayed help. Give them their regular appropriations, but withhold the increase they ask for improvements, and make them feel that Congress intends its provisions shall not be a dead letter.

I am ready to make a detailed showing of Carlisle from the very first. I have always reported on it, and urged it, and claimed it as the very best help to Indian youth within my control. You can yourself readily see that it is so. Shipping Indians off to a non-reservation school and keeping them all together as Indians even in a good school is not a material advance on the reservation methods, and that was well understood in the beginning. The bottom fact is the Indian Bureau is not anxious to do anything that seems to look toward a disintegration of the tribe or the Bureau.

The fact that eighteen years under the declared desire of Congress has passed with almost no result is sufficient to warrant a little Congressional impatience. Such inquiry and amendment cannot be otherwise than helpful to the whole cause.

I enclose slips covering both the inquiry and the amendment.

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Carlisle Pa., Jan. 17, 1901.

Miss Emily S. Cook,
Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Cook :-

I have not yet received my leather bound copy of the In-
dian Office Report for 1899. Won't you please have one sent me ? I
will also be obliged if you will send the writer a copy of the report
for either 1899 or 1900.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1901.

Mrs. Mary Miller Dodge,
Harlem, Mont.

My dear School-daughter :-

I have your good newsy letter of Jan. 13th and am greatly
obliged to you for it. Such letters do me good. I do not regard your
anxiety about your brothers and sister as cranky in the least. Am
glad always to know what the relatives of the children desire, and
will endeavor to carry out your wishes. Four, five, or six months
in the commercial college in town would do your brother a great deal
of good whether he becomes a clerk or not. With the knowledge of bus-
iness he would get in such a course he would be fitted better for any
vocation he might choose afterward than he could possibly be without
it, and as there is still plenty of chance for him to undertake it,
I am glad he wants to do it, and will encourage him. In regard to
the other brother, I will see what he prefers, and will do the best
I can for him.

I am sorry to say that Mattie, while in excellent health and
bright and capable, is not as wise as she ought to be. Her tenden-
cies are not the best. You can do her a great deal of good by writ-
ing her often in a sisterly way and giving her sisterly, motherly
counsel. A teacher, of all others, should be of the very best char-
acter, as you know.

An very glad to know you have worked yourself up in art. Your
neatly written and well expressed letter shows that you have not
failed to grow since you left Carlisle. This is as it ought to be.

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Your work must be intensely interesting. To see those under our care develop from day to day is the most valuable reward for effort that a teacher can have, and when one takes those who are so much in the dark and leads them forward into a broader and brighter life, it is doubly interesting.

We are having a specially profitable school year. The graduating class is the largest in our history. I cannot say that it has brighter or prospectively more capable members than former classes, but there are a number of bright young people among them.

A number of improvements have been made since you left the school that I know would please you, and I am hoping you may visit us some time ; would be especially glad if it could be at commencement.

For the general news I must leave you to the helper-which, of course, you have every week.

With kind remembrance to your husband, I am as ever

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1901.

Mrs. Mary J. Phillips,
Box 256,
West Liberty,
Muscatine Co., Iowa.

Dear Madam :-

Your letter asking for information in regard to this school
has been referred to me by Mr. Orr of the "Valley Spirit", Chambers-
burg, Pa. for answer. I send you today such printed material as we
have on the subject, consisting of copies of my late annual reports
giving statistics of the school, copies of several of my addresses,
a book of pictures of the school, and pamphlets; also a late copy of
our weekly paper, "The Red Man and Helper". I trust from these you
can find the information you are seeking.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1901.

Randolph G. Hill,
C/o T. F. Smith,
Wycombe, Pa.

Dear Randolph :-

While I was sorry to hear you were carrying a revolver for which there was not the slightest necessity, I am glad you gave it up so promptly to Mr. Thompson. You perhaps do not know that there is a civil law against people carrying pistols.

In regard to your discontent, it seems to me high time you learned to make yourself contented in whatever you have to do. You have been at Carlisle a long time, have given some trouble by violating the rules, and as you are entitled to quit Carlisle at the close of the school year in June next you ought to make up your mind to quit with a good record, for whatever you may think about it now you will look back upon your school days as the most profitable of your life, and will regret your misconduct not a little. Scores of boys who have behaved badly here have written me afterward that after getting away they had seen their mistakes and regretted that they had not used their time better. I had a letter just the other day from one of the girls who graduated four years ago, saying the same thing.

We do not send students home between times unless there is some great emergency of health, or something of that kind. The regulations require you to remain here until the end of June. Then I will send you home, and if you do well between this and that time you can go home with a good record.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1901.

Warren F. Kellogg, Pub.,
5 Park Square,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir :-

Have you a few more copies of the April number of the "New England Magazine," 1895 containing the story of Carlisle? I used all that were sent me, retaining only a few to lend to those who ask for an account of the school, and have loaned these few until I have now only one copy left, and it is about worn out. If you have any more, please send them to me with bill. Or, if you have no more and have the plates that go with that article, what would you let me have them for? If you have the stereotype plates and would sell them to me, or could strike off a quantity so that I might have enough to last a while, that would help. Unfortunately, I have no good account of the school. We have been too busy to get one up, and the one in your magazine is the best that has been published.

Please let me hear from you promptly.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1901.

Dr. Merrill E. Gates, Sec.,
Board of Indian Commissioners,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Doctor :-

Replying to yours about Mrs. Emma Stocks Jenkins, of Kirkwood, Mo., from what you say about her I should be very glad to count her among our corps of helpers, and have no doubt that in time there will be a chance by which I can bring that about if she is otherwise eligible. There are very few places that I can control. The Commissioner has been kind enough to let me manage the matrons somewhat, I making temporary appointments which he has prolonged. Your estimate of Mrs. Jenkins leads me to believe she would make an excellent matron for my girls, and I am fearful that the lady in that position at present will have to give up on account of her health. She is the last member of her family, all having died of consumption and it is plain she is on the road. One of the assistant matrons is an Indian who has taken a short-hand, typewriting, and business course with special view to getting an appointment in the service at clerical work, and is here only temporarily. If she should succeed in getting an appointment of that kind, her place would be vacant and I would be very glad to try Mrs. Jenkins there because it would be in direct line for the other place. The salary is $600 with furnished room, light, and heat. Board costs $2.50 a week after the membership fee of $7.00 is paid.

I should be glad to have Mrs. Jenkins write me. I ought to know
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cy among my teachers' force, the Commissioner I am sure would allow
me to appoint someone temporarily, but as there are so many eligibles
and teaching is not regarded in that technical and special light, es-
pecially here, that matrons are, there would not be so much certainty
about it. However, we have sometimes overcome that by letting the
party take the examination while at work here and enter the service
in the regular way; then be assigned here.

I enjoyed Agent Applegate's visit here very much, and as you say
thought of the trout constantly. Had a letter from Asbury at Owyhee
Nevada telling of the trout fishing there. He says three of them
caught three hundred twenty-five in a few hours, and in the season
they can simply load up a wagon with sage hens in a short while; that
he was one of a party of three that killed seven deer in the course
of a day, etc., etc., etc. I wrote him that he would probably see
me there the coming season, but that my confidence in his statements
would be established by experience.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1901.

Bertha Henry,
C/o Mrs. Prickett,
Flora Dale,
Adams Co., Pa.

Dear Bertha :-

I have your letter delivered by Miss Miles, and am glad to
know from her that you are doing well. Your letter shows much im-
provement, and leads me to believe you have a very good teacher. Your
country home and country home I know are excellent, and I should
despair of you if you did not do well there. Work and study are good
for you. Hard work and hard study are better, they are the best
helps you or anyone can have, and it is encouraging to hear from you
that you are beginning to realize this.

We are getting on nicely here. The ice is good again, greatly
to the satisfaction of the pupils. The skating pond is, as you per-
haps know, just below the laundry and dining-room. Work, school, da-
ily drill, etc. keep everyone busy, and we have had a number of good
entertainments this winter to keep the weeks from being too much a-
like. On Saturday night we had a concert by six colored people from
Philadelphia, and a few evenings before a concert given by two blind
people.

Expecting the same good report of your progress and improvement
in every way, when I hear from you again, I am

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1901.

Mrs. Eva Kirsch,
El Paso, Texas.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of Jan. 8th I find we do not have
an assortment of photos, such as you speak of. We have many photo-
graphs of students, taken while here, ranging in price from 12 to 35
cents each, but I do not understand that these are what you want.

I send you today a number of prints of graduating classes of re-
cent years, and of one or two former students on separate sheets. If
these will serve your purpose you are welcome to them free of charge.

I also send you a copy of our little souvenir book giving pictures
of the school.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1901.

Miss Debora Plumer,
Germano,
Harrison Co., Ohio.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of the 17th inst. I send you today
copies of my last two annual reports together with pamphlets, copies
of addresses, etc. We do not issue a catalog.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1901.

Mr. James Lynd,

Bossko, S. Dakota.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of recent date in regard to Thomas
and John Walker, Thomas is attending commercial college in Carlisle,
and has given up industrial training for the present. He spends half
the day in school here, and the other in the college. This business
course of course is at his own expense, and costs between three and
five dollars a month, the amount varying according to the stationery
books, etc. required. Thomas has been paying this personally, and no
doubt has asked you for remittance on this account.

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Dear Miss Golsh :-

Your letter with calendars for your pupils arrived duly and I sent all to my matron to give to those who were entitled to them. Most of them are in the country this year, Marie Subish being the only one of the girls present, and Abel Subish and Carlos Pico the only boys. From them I got the names of the others and have sent to the following:-

Rose Nelson, C/o Mrs. A. Gallager, Moore, Pa.
Everesta Calac, C/o John Comly, 413 Walnut St., Jenkintown, Pa.
Zenobia Calac, C/o David Lukens, Swarthmore, Pa.
Christine Mojado, C/o C. L. Comfort, Jenkintown, Pa.
Pilipa Amago, C/o Dr. J. G. West, Kemblesville, Pa.
Louis Subish, C/o David McNair, Richboro, Bucks Co., Pa.

Frank Mojado and a number of others have gone home, and this seems a full list, so far as I have been able to find out, of those who were your pupils. The one remaining calendar I will give to one of the other California girls who knows you, Felicita Lugo, if that is all right to you.

I am sorry there has been such a long delay in attending to the matter, but I put it in charge of one of my ladies and your letter was misplaced, and I have been waiting for it to turn up, so that I might have your correct address. On Mrs. Cook's suggestion, I address this in care of Mr. Hall at Perris, and ask him to forward to you.

You will be pleased, of course, to know that the girls and boys are doing well. You will no doubt hear from them personally.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan, 31, 1901.

Mrs. B. F. Hartzel,
Chalfont,
Bucks Co., Pa.

Dear Madam :-

I send you today such printed matter as we have concerning
this school and Indian education generally, consisting of copies of
addresses, annual reports, and several numbers of our school paper
containing historical sketch, etc., this in compliance with your re-
quest of the 17th inst.

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Carlisle, Pa ., Jan. 21, 1901.

Miss Elis N. Mitchell,
101 E. 5th St.,
Reno, Nev.

Dear Miss Mitchell :-

Indians belonging to any tribe in the United States ex-
cept the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory, regularly under
the care of an Indian agent, over fourteen and under twenty years of
age, in good health and of good character, are entitled to be admit-
ted here as pupils. When recommended by the agent or school super-
intendent I provide the necessary transportation for them to come.
We are anxious so far as we can to keep the semblance of an Indian
school. Mixed bloods crowd us a great deal. Full bloods are not
nearly so anxious to come; consequently we must watch quite a little.
I should know the proportion of Indian blood. I enclose a copy of my
last report in the only form yet printed.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1901.

Miss Elizabeth F. Brophy,
Sanborn, New York.

Dear Miss Brophy :-

I have an arrangement with the railroad people by which I
can furnish you a half rate ticket from Buffalo or such point on the
W. N.Y. R.R. as will be convenient to you, or from Elmira or Canan-
daigua, and shall be glad to have you come with your Tusecorora prote-
ge as our guests on that occasion.

I hardly know what to say about Lester Henry. He ran away and
came back of his own accord. I allowed him to remain on strong prom-
ise that he would not repeat his action; but there seems to have been
some pull on him from somewhere that he could not resist. I should
hesitate to try to get him special privileges anywhere. He ought to
do well. His brother was a faithful student and did very well here,
but I am sorry to say his sister has been a source of trouble.

Commencement this year will be on the 13th and 14th of March.

Fraternally yours,

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Miss Martha Owl,
Indian School,
Hoopa Valley, Cal.

My dear Martha :-

Yours of the 7th with the enclosed ten dollars just reached
me this morning, two weeks after it started. I suppose it was so
long in coming because it was registered; that always takes longer.
Thanks for the remittance, which has been credited to your account.

All experience is valuable. That which is the strangest and
most trying is the most valuable, and I believe you are having just
the kind of experience to fit you for something in the future, and
that you are to be congratulated.

All goes well with us here. Commencement looms up only about
seven weeks ahead, and of course everyone is on the qui vive, espec-
ially the seniors. With cordial good wishes, and kind regards to
Supt. Freer and all the Carlisle contingent,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 1901.

William White Bear,

Pine Ridge, S. Dak.

Dear William :-

I have not forgotten you though it has been many many
months since I heard from you. Glad you have been busy all the years
since you left the school, and to hear something about the other
boys, Peter Chief Eagle, Henry Old Eagle, Andrew Knife, and the oth-
er boys.

We have made many changes since you were with us, of which you
have no doubt read in The Helper. There are few if any of your old
schoolmates left. This year we will have the largest graduating
class Carlisle has yet sent out. Commencement will take place in a
bout seven weeks; consequently this is about the busiest season in
schoolrooms and shops. About 250 of the boys are to be in the in-
augural parade in Washington the 4th of March. This includes the
band which is going through some hard practice to fit it for that oc-
casion and an engagement at the Buffalo Exposition in the summer. So
you see we are doing much the same as when you were here, though much
progress is noticeable from year to year. We have today 975 on the
rolls, quite a number of whom are in the country.

With kind regards to those you mention, and others of our pupils
whom you may meet, and to yourself,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jun. 22, 1901.

W. A. Stumph,

202 E. Pomfret St.,

Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Madam:-

Replying to your inquiry in regard to sewing from the school,
I have to say that there is not any being put out at present. We have
had considerable done in town during the last year, but have now stop-
ped for a while as our supply of made up clothing has accumulated some-
what. I do not see there is any prospect of work for you from the
school any time in the near future.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1901.

Mrs. Mary Redford,

Pendleton, Ore.

Dear Mrs. Redford :-

Replying to your letter about not wanting your brother Mike
to work, I have to inform you that this is an industrial school and
all students are required to work half a day and go to school half a
day. The boys work at some trade under an instructor, or at outside
work which is healthful and good for them. There are no people in the
world who need industrial training, and the determination and expe-
rience that the Indians do. The pupils here do not usually object to
work, but realize that it is a privilege and a blessing.

As I wrote you in the fall, Mike ran away and was brought back
to the school in September. Since his punishment is over he has ap-
parently settled down to make the best of his opportunities here, and
but for your interference would be doing all right. He is well, and
I trust you will encourage rather than hinder his progress.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22, 1901.

John Mishler,

Namekagon, Wis.

My dear Mr. Mishler :-

Years ago it was found that the disposition on the part of
the Indians to require that their children be sent home in case of
sickness in the family was so great as to make it necessary for the
government to issue an order forbidding the use of that plea as a
reason for returning children. Not only parental sickness, but grand
parents, brothers, and sisters were tried as reasons to demand chil-
dren's return. It was seen that if such a condition was considered
sufficient reason in one case it would have to be in another case,
and so in all cases; in nine out of ten cases it was found to be un-
necessary as the sick person got well, the expense of transportation
was heavy and the loss of school opportunities and interest on the
part of the pupil was considerable. I am therefore under the neces-
sity of telling you that under the orders I cannot send your boys
home as you desire. Of course I have great sympathy for you and your
wife in your difficulties. As a matter of fact, the boys could not
do the mother much good, and they are being equipped for their future
life in a way that will enable them to succeed much better than if
not educated up to a good standard, and all this is being done at the
expense of the government; and while I am unable to send them to you
now, there are good features about it for both you and them, which
you ought and I believe will be thankful for. John is making an ex-

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ceptionally good record now. He did not get on very well at first,
but has changed very greatly for the better. If he went home he
would be disturbed in all this and probably knocked out and it would
be a disaster to him. The other boy does not get along quite so well
but does fairly, and should be continued at any sacrifice on your
part. Stella will be entitled to go home immediately after commence-
ment the 14th of March. She will then be a graduate, and I shall be
very glad to send her at that time.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22, 1901.

Mrs. Cordie Tallchief,
Irving, New York.

Dear Mrs. Tallchief :-

I have had my doctor examine your daughter Mary, and he pronounces her constitutionally weak, and recommends light work and a little time in school, with plenty of time for play.

Mary was sent to the Medico Chi Hospital in Philadelphia from her country home, where her treatment was not surgical but medical. She was there about six weeks, returning to the school Dec. 24th. As we have a good hospital and facilities to look after anyone in Mary's condition it does not seem wise to send her home. The doctor's recommendation will be carried out, and I am sure she will grow stronger. She is about with the other children and I have given orders that she be closely watched. In case she should get sick I will advise you, but do not fear that.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1901.

Moses Hamlin, Jr.

Alanson, Mich.

Dear Moses :-

I have asked that a ticket to Carlisle be placed with the railroad agent at Alanson to be delivered to you, and trust you will use it promptly. The ticket should be ready about the time this letter reaches you.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1901.

Isaac Seneca, Jr.

Versailles, New York.

Dear Isaac :-

I doubt very much whether you can get a position as blacksmith in the Indian service. The government has changed its mind very greatly about employing Indians and sending them back, and I am glad it is doing so. The Indians have grown to think they must all have government positions until it has become a great burden on the Office and is not working well. So many have been appointed who are incompetent. If I were you I would stick to business where I was or go into some other town. You will grow more and prosper better in the long run by this course than if you went into the service.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1901.

Miss Elsie M. Hoffert,
1022 Green St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Miss Hoffert :-

The best days to visit the school are Mondays to Fridays
inclusive during school hours 8:30 to 11:30 and 1:10 to 4:00. There
are no rules or regulations to interfere with the fullest observation
of any feature or department you may care to look up.

Dictated(P)

January 22, 1901.

The Literary Digest,
30 Lafayette Place,
New York.

Gentlemen :-

Thank you for the notice of my views
in No. 3, Page 62. It will certainly help the
cause.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1901.

Miss Mary G. Carnahan,
Lajas, Puerto Rico.

Dear Miss Carnahan :-

Replying to your letter of the 12th inst., I must advise
you that all future movements of pupils will be managed through Dr.
Brumbaugh, Commissioner of Education, San Juan.

Dictated(P)

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1901.

Emanuel Powles,
Troop "G", Fifth Cavalry, U.S.A.,
Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont.

Dear Emanuel :--

Glad to get your letter of the 20th and to understand your
meanderings and circumstances. The U. S. Army has ever had such op-
portunities to see the world as now, so that you are very fortunate
so far as that is concerned. You have already had an experience in
Porto Rico, and now you have gone from there where the climate is al-
ways warm, to Vermont where the temperature at this season is often
far below zero. It takes sturdy fellows to stand that, but I have no
doubt you are equal to it.

If you have further opportunity to go to the Philippines, and I
anticipate you will, that will also be very helpful. The reorgan-
zation of the army will begin at once, and those regiments that are
regularly organized like the Fifth Cavalry are very likely to be
called out first. If you keep your eyes open and observe things as
you go along it will broaden and enlarge you wonderfully, and if you
avoid the vices of drinking, etc. so common among soldiers, you will
come out of each experience stronger, and worth a great deal more to
yourself and the world than you possibly could otherwise be. You
would find it a good plan to keep a diary of each day's events.

I am always glad to hear from you, and have ordered "The Helper"
ment you. If you let us know where you are each time you move, it

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will follow you wherever you go, to the Philippines or elsewhere.

We are getting near the close of another school year. In less
than two months commencement will be upon us, and a large class will
pass out. We have had a good year so far, with things in our favor
generally. We are waiting for the return of some of our soldier boys
and will give them a warm welcome if they come with honor, which
will be so in your case anyhow, I have no doubt.

Hope you will write me your experiences from time to time so
that I may let the many readers of "The Red Man and Helper" know
something about them.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1901.

Mrs. John Mishler,
Nauvogon, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Mishler :

I have your letter of Jan. 20th, written before my letter to your husband could reach you. Having explained the situation fully in that letter, I have nothing to add. I do very greatly sympathize with you in your sickness, but for the reasons given an unable to decide otherwise.

Trusting it will not be too late when Stella returns, I am

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1901.

Mr. W. H. Cornman,

33 South Pitt St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

I have yours of the 22nd inst. in regard to the non-payment of tax by George Snyder, an employee of this school who resided in town.

In reply I have to say that I do not see that any obligation rests upon me in the matter; Mr. Snyder stands on the same plane as any other citizen, and whatever your usual methods are in such cases will probably be effective in his. Mr. Snyder receives only a small salary and I know had a long period of sickness to contend with about a year ago.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1901.

Rev. J. H. Leiper,
2315 N. 20th St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Brother Leiper :-

Thanks for your letter and for the article in the "Lutheran
Observer" which I read with great interest. I appreciate most high-
ly your warm approval.

I have your daughter in mind, but things have settled down to
such a satisfactory basis that I fear there is no immediate prospect.
I would suggest that she apply to the United States Civil Service Com-
mission, Washington, D. C. to take the examination for matron or as-
sistand matron in the Indian School Service. I feel that in time this
would give her a place, and then she could be transferred which would
stop all cavil.

In regard to what you say about the enemies of Carlisle, I am
having quite a new experience. From being my bitterest opponents and
abusers, the Catholic church has become excessively friendly. They
have sent four sisters up here to work among the colored and poor peo-
ple in town, but their special charges are the Catholic pupils in the
Carlisle school. The sisters take the hours the priest formerly used
dividing the pupils into classes, and are very enthusiastic in their
work. The priest here and dignitaries of the church were never op-
posed to me, but always friendly, and have silenced my enemies in the
field; so that I begin to fear I am going to be greatly overloaded
with Catholic children. This will be a new and rather difficult is-

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1901.

Torey Pesueh,

Trenton, New Jersey.

Dear Torey :-

Your letter of Jan. 22nd shows me that you have settled
down to good steady work and are contented and happy, and I am very
glad you followed my advice. Things often take on a gloomy aspect, and
it depends upon ourselves to drive away discouragement, as you have
done. Your letter is much better written than your former letter
was, and that tells me of your progress.

We are pretty well here, and busy of course. The ice is thick
enough again to furnish skating, and girls and boys spend every min-
ute available on the ice. Glad James Dickson is getting on well too.
Give him my regards, and believe me

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1901.

John Kawi,
Laguna, N. Mex.

Dear John :-

Your letter comes just as I am starting to Steelton to be
with my son on his thirty-sixth birthday. Glad to hear from you, even
if you do not say much about yourself. I see you have been working
in the railroad shops, and that is well. Work is the best thing in
the world to keep people out of mischief.

We are getting on nicely at the school. Commencement is only a
few weeks ahead, and all are busy, especially those who are going to
graduate. The class will be the largest we have yet sent out. The
boys are drilling regularly, and will take part in the inaugural pa-
rade in Washington the fourth of March. You were here four years ago
and took part then, if I remember rightly.

The health of the school is reasonably good. We have had rather
a strange winter so far. Have not had one good snow, and the ice has
not been good for skating more than two or three days in succession.
My rheumatism still troubles me some, and I think I shall get away
as soon as I can for a rest. That is what I need.

With kind regards to any Carlisle friend s you happen to meet,
and best wishes for yourself, I am as ever

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlielle, Pa., Jan. 24, 1901.

Miss Julia Tsaitcopta,
C/o Miss Edge,
Downingtown, Pa.

My dear Julia :-

I have had your letter for more than a week and intended to write you personally, but my time is so filled and conditions such as to make it a matter of some difficulty to take up the pen, that I resort to the use of Miss Peter to answer your very nice letter.

I want to assure you first that it was a great pleasure to have a letter from you and especially such a full one, telling me about yourself. I was very glad that Miss Edge could take you, because I place Miss Edge's home at the top of all our homes for Indian girls and usually let her select whom she wants. I never send her a girl she is not willing to undertake; you were rather new here and not very well known, so that your name would not likely have been among those selected, and I was greatly pleased when she said she was willing to have you come. It has turned out just as I believed it would; you are pleased and Miss Edge is pleased, and that insures the best results. That you are getting on well in every way in your efforts to gain knowledge and in your building up of moral qualities, and also in increasing your stock of physical ability, is to me most gratifying. The little details of your life at Downingtown are exceptionally interesting to me. What a beautiful new world has been opened to you by going there and how happily you respond to it all ! I anticipate that you will make as much improvement under the kindly instruction and training of Miss Edge as any girl she has had, and that

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is saying a great deal.

I see you inherit some of the admirable qualities of your father
He was among those who surrendered to me in the Wichita Mountains one
day I think in January or February, 1875. Mahaunte, Lone Wolf, and
Double Vision were the old chiefs; among the young ones were Awlih,
Zoton, your father, and some others. Sometime if you remind me of it
I will tell you the story of the surrender and that evening, which
will greatly interest you. Under orders from Washington I had to
stand by and see almost all these men put in irons, and instead of
fastening the chains with locks they were riveted together by the
blacksmith as there were no regular shackles to be had. Then they were
under my care in the old ice house and the guard house at Fort Sill
until April when I took them first to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, and
from there to Florida. Your father was always one of my special boys
He was quick to learn and manly and independent in his ways, which
attracted me. I remember one time in the old fort I lost something
out of my office. I was sure it could not have gone out without some
of the Indians knowing something about it because the office door was
nearly always open and in sight of the men, and they had every chance
to go and come through it while I was away. When they were in line I
I told them about the loss and said I did not believe the article
had disappeared without some of them knowing something about it, and
insisted very strongly that they speak up and tell me where it was.
Your father spoke up while I was making these strong statements and
said, "Captain Pratt, may be so you lie". I said, "Tsaitcopta, you
walk right over to the other side and stand there." He walked over
and stood where I told him and when I went over to talk to him about

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it I found that in his limited stock of English he had meant to say
"May be you are mistaken". He meant to deny for himself and all the
others the charge I was making that some of them had gone to the of-
fice and stolen something. This was a position I liked to see him
take, defending his own character and that of his fellow prisoners.
Your father was a great favorite with Mrs. Carruthers and was her
first choice to take with her to her home at Tarrytown. She after-
ward took two others, Cheyenne boys, but they were sent to Hampton
after being with her a short time. Your father only was retained.
Mrs. Carruthers was one of the best of women, and was remarkable in
her knowledge of the Scriptures, so that your father became very pro-
ficient in a knowledge and use of the Bible. He never was a regular
student at Carlisle, but on his way back to the agency he stopped and
spent some time with us as a visitor. All of us who were here then
remember what excellent English he used when talking in our meetings,
and how wisely he spoke on religious matters. I have been thinking
possibly I could arrange to have him come and see us sometime.

I am glad, Julia, you had the courage to think for yourself and
were not guided by the Indian who tried to give you a bad impression
of Carlisle. Very often small things change the direction of one's
life for better or worse. I believe your life is greatly bettered
because you exercised a little strength of character.

In regard to music, I will take that up when the time comes and
will certainly be able to help you in some way, so that you may grat-
ify your desires.

Give my love to Coogidlore, and believe me always

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Carliole, Pa., Jan. 23, 1901.

Mrs. Gertrude Leidig,
Allen, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Leidig :-

I saw your brother-in-law yesterday and told him what I thought he could do. Of course I cannot speak authoritatively, but I am sure it would be much better for you if you can see your way to accepting the position at the K&W school. That would give you a chance to demonstrate your ability through the probationary period as you would have to do in any case, and as I think your appointment tells you. Whether declining the appointment at K&W will endanger your present civil service claims or not, I cannot say; I certainly know it is not an advisable thing to do if it can be avoided. My suggestion to your brother-in-law was that if you feel compelled to decline, you write the Department a fuller account of the circumstances, and indicate your willingness to accept if your chances are imperiled by declining; and state that you will decline and hold over until the situation with you is relieved if that will not work unacceptably.

The positions at this school are all filled at present and I have no prospective vacancies, so that I cannot encourage you to hope I can give you a trial here at this time.

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Jan. 25.

Thomas F. Smith,

Minot, N. D.

Miss Barr with Jeff left here Wednesday evening. Due Minot eleven tonight.

Pratt, Major.

W. U. 8:50 A.M.

Gent. rate. Charged.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 16, 1901.

Russell Whitebear,
Troop "F", 5th Cavalry,
Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

Dear Russell :-

Having received no response from you either to my letter of
June 14th or later letter dated Nov. 7th, in regard to your debt
of $25.52 here, I take it for granted that they miscarried. The fol-
lowing is a copy of my second letter :-

"On June 14th I wrote you in regard to a balance against you
here of $25.52. You remember you had heavy hospital expenses, amount
ing to nearly $40.00 which were charged to you, and have never been
fully paid. The government does not pay such bills, and the matter
therefore awaits your settlement. Is it not possible for you to meet
this, if not all at one time, say in two or three payments of $8.00
or $10.00 a month until the amount is covered ? I am very anxious
to close the account, and as you receive your money regularly and
have few expenses you ought to be able to settle soon. Please ad-
-vise."

The debt has been decreased by 50 cents, so that the balance a-
gainst you now is $25.02. This 50 cents came from an envelope marked
"Prize" which was found with your name on it.

I should be pleased to hear from you on this subject at as early
a date as practicable.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1901.

Miss Jean Wilson,
Mr. Elsmore,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Wilson :-

Replying to your letter in regard to yourself and Miss Patterson, unfortunately we are full with entertainments for the year. We raised quite a sum of money and then arranged for as many entertainments as would consume the amount raised, and as our people were very liberal on the matter I do not feel like asking them for further contributions.

In regard to the town, we have never been able to get anything out of it. They absolutely patronize nothing I bring to the Indian school to help materially. I may get the best talent there is and the most noted, but the town will not stand by me at all. They are always glad to have me stand by them in everything they undertake; come out here and sell tickets a great many to our people. I am therefore only able to undertake what I can carry myself, and as I have explained we have a full measure for the year.

With kind regards,

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 26, 1901.

Mr. R. E. Cotter,
Pineville,
Bucks Co., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Albert Brown is here and tells me he left the pistol under
a box having some clothing in it in your attic. I wish you would get
it and send it to me by express at once. If you do not find it there
let me know the particulars.

Diated(P)

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 26.

Robert Bruce,
C/o E. R. Nagel,
Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Did you get James Wheelock's letter ? Shall I have R.R. Agent Cheyenne deliver you ticket to Carlisle ? Wire answer.

Pratt, Major.

W. U. About 10:00 A.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 28, 1901

Miss Edncrah Nahar,
C/o Dr. Waite,
113 E. 31st St.,
New York City.

Dear Miss Nahar :-

Your letters came to me from Charlestown, Mass., and I wrote you there twice on Jan. 10th and Jan. 11th, but received no reply. My first letter advised that your proposition to come here about the 21st of January was too early to help our students; that about the first of March would be a better time. My second letter stated that on account of the school finances I should have to withdraw from the first, or from any expectation of having you here during the current fiscal year. I find that the prices paid by the Department for many of our supplies, together with the extra expenses that have come upon us, have run our appropriation down so close for the fiscal year which ends June 30th, as to make it necessary that I cut the corners everywhere in order to get through.

My letter of Nov. 23rd addressed to you at 148 W. 73rd St., was returned to me Saturday from the dead letter office. It had been sent to Lake Pleasant, Mass., C/o Mrs. Ed. Severn; then to Worcester, and finally reached me as stated, in the same mail with your last one, not dated. The ticket was in the letter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 28, 1901.

Miss Sophia Schrader,
1508 Brown St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter of Jan. 26th, I cannot tell of
course what letters Mrs. Livingston is showing. I did endorse her
system to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs quite heartily on the
strength of what my sewing women here said about it, but in none of
my letters to Mrs. Livingston, of which I find three, is it materially
endorsed. She may have obtained a copy of my letter to the Commis-
sioner in Washington. I know nothing about her or her affairs. She
appeared before the convention of Indian school people in Los Angeles
in July, 1900 and my ladies who were present thought so well of her
system that on their endorsement I allowed her to come here for two
weeks and demonstrate in the sewing department the benefits of her
system, and on their recommendation I wrote favorably of it to the
Commissioner. Am very sorry if anything I said in Mrs. Livingston's
favor led you into trouble. The lady who has charge of my sewing
room is considered the most proficient in the service and she unhes-
itatingly approves of the system.

Mrs. Livingston has just been here. She says she is carrying on
business in Philadelphia and offered to place half a dozen Indian
girls who have been trained, in profitable employment in dressmaking,
but we have no use for her services in that line.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1901.

Marian W. Parmenter,
Northboro, Mass.

Dear Madam :-

I send you today in compliance with your request of the
25th inst., a number of copies of annual reports, addresses, etc.
which we have for distribution; also several late copies of our
school paper "The Red Man and Helper" which give something of the
present situation.

We do not issue a catalog.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1901.

Mr. Wm. J. Palmer,
Colorado Springs, Col.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your request of Jan. 21st, I sent your letter
to the printing office, and it is now returned to me with a note
saying that the papers were sent you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1901.

Joe C. Thomas,
Indian School,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your inquiry in regard to John W. Thomas, I
have to advise you that John ran away from his farm home Sept. 9th,
and was dropped from our rolls Sept. 18th., and we have no knowledge
of his whereabouts.

(P)

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1901.

H. E. Eder, Mgr.,
Tallapoosa, Ga.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 25th inst., I do not know
of any Indian word spelled "Wahmetah", and think it must be a perver-
sion of "Juanita" which is Spanish or Mexican and the feminine for
"Juan" or "John". In the song the name of the Indian maiden is spelled
"Juanita".

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1901.

M. M. McWalter,
Fall Brook,
San Diego Co., Cal.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 20th inst. in regard to Adella Ma-
gee, I have to advise you that it is impracticable to send students
home before the expiration of their five years' term unless their own
health should make that necessary. Adella is with Janet F. Eastlake
at Lansdowne, Pa. this winter where she attends public school with
the white children of that community. She is getting on well; we have
reports of her every month. You understand of course that, although
she is in the country she is under the supervision of this school. We
consider our Outing one of the best if not the best feature of our
school, as it sends the pupils into good homes and good schools where
the advantages for progress are much greater than they could be in
any purely Indian school. In the summer pupils have opportunity to
earn money sufficient to supply them with such reasonable and person-
al wants as they may have. Adella is not at present in need of money;
however, if you wish to send her a little, it would be better to make
it payable to me for her. That is the safest way, and the money will
then be placed to her account on our books, and she will have the use
of it.

While at the school Adella took mandolin lessons, but did not
evince any particular talent in this direction. She does not seem to

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Carlisle, Penna. Jan. 30th 1901.

Mr. F. DeGremer,

Green Bay, Wis.

Sir,

I have your letter 28th, also bill of $21.35 against Hyson
Hill dated Nov. 23rd 1900.

In reply would say that Hyson has no money at present, but is
working and earning money and as soon as he is able to pay, your
claim against him will receive my attention.

W.H.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 30, 1901.

Mrs. E. R. Griest,
Flora Dale,
Adams Co., Pa.

Dear Mrs. Griest :-

Margaret is just now talking with me before starting home
at two this afternoon by way of Washington, New Orleans, and across
Texas and Southern Arizona to Temecula, after which she will have a
ride of forty miles.

She speaks so kindly of your treatment of her and of your beau-
tiful home that I want to thank you personally for your kindness to
her which is a kindness to me and to the school, and to assure you
that if you should want another Indian girl at any time I shall be
only too glad to send you one. You understand, of course, that where
my correspondence amounts to many scores of letters daily I must com-
mit the reading and writing of many of them on the routine matters
of the school to my helpers. If you should want to write me person-
ally about any matter, write "Personal" on the envelope; then I will
get it, and you can be assured of my personal attention.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1st, 1901.

To The Adjutant,

10th Cavalry, U. S. A.,
Manzanillo, Cuba.

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 September 6th, all 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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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.C.O., August 23rd,
and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the In-
terior dated September 6th, all 1879.

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1901.

Albert Nash,
2521 Naudain St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Albert :-

I had your letter of the 26th several days ago. Glad to
see you have gotten on so nicely with your work and to hear of your
ambitions.

In regard to giving you office work here, I am sorry to say the
limitations put upon us by the Indian Department make it practically
impossible for me to handle the independent work that I used to man-
age so easily, and we have been compelled to get on with the regular
 helpers provided under the orders of the Department. Your proposi-
tion to train in athletics comes at the wrong time. The training in
that department, as you know, has to be done now as the contests oc-
cur in the spring; so that at the time you could come there would be
no further need in that line for the year. I doubt very much wheth-
er we will have anything of a running team. Baseball and football
seem to be about the extent of the prospect so far this year.

We shall of course be glad to see you here for a visit.

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Mr. Horace Nicolar,
Oldtown, Me.

Dear Sir :-

I have yours in regard to Frederick, and must remind you
that Frederick came here for five years. He is very satisfactory as
a student and is himself satisfied. His health is good and there is
nothing in the conditions to warrant a change from the original ar-
rangement.

Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1901.

C. W. Dimick,
216 Washington St.,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir :-

Miss Burgess hands me your letter to her dated the 28th.
I am responsible for "The Red Man" and for the article in question.

We have been unable to get confirmation of the claimed origin
of Antonio Apache. The authorities at the two Apache agencies affirm
he is an impostor. A good way will be for Antonio to establish his
record. He is young enough to be remembered by plenty of the old In-
dians.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1901.

Mrs. Kate Washburn,
Irving, New York.

Dear Mrs. Washburn :-

I have your letter of Jan. 19th, and am very sorry indeed to hear of your failing health. Your boy is here under my care, and I shall do all in my power to train him for usefulness and self-support, and I am sure it will be some relief to you to know that he is receiving what will fit him to meet the difficulties of life, which were you to live, you could not prevent from coming to him. With the prospect you speak of before him, it is especially fortunate that he is inclined to make use of his opportunities, and is getting on well.

I do not see how I could sendVaughn home for vacation, as you ask. He came here as all others do, for five years, and we do not allow pupils to go home in the meantime unless their own health makes that necessary. If I let him go home for the reasons you give, it would open the door for numerous other requests from parents in your neighborhood, who would insist that their reasons were quite as good as yours. I am forced every year to deny many requests similar to yours, and I am sure that your good judgment will convince you that while I would gladly accede to your wishes were it practicable and for the best interests of the boy himself, I cannot do so, but must consider the matter on all sides and with reference to other parents and the school.

Very sincerely yours,
R.T. Arbeits

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1901.

Mr. S. Ball,

Klamath Falls, Ore.

My dear Sir :-

Jesse seemed very determined when here to take his sons and Joseph home. His oldest boy, Clayton, since running away in the fall has not been well, and my doctor advises that we let him go home on account of his health. I have therefore agreed that he go with his father; but the younger son Seldon, and your son, who were pronounced to be all right, cannot go on that ground. I suspect Jesse will take Clayton with him when he returns from Washington.

Your son Joseph has been doing very well since brought back to the school, and I shall keep him here unless the doctor at any time thinks his health is not firm enough to continue. Am glad to have your expression in favor of his staying and trust you will so write Joseph. There is no reason why he should not get on rapidly and gain a fair education here, and as the government covers the entire expense and there is no hardship connected with it except that he is not at home, it seems you are entirely right in the way you look at it and Joseph also ought to see it in that light. Jesse seems to be a little obstinate.

Shall be glad to hear from you occasionally and assure you of my special interest in helping Joseph along. The transfer of the boys to any other school would simply be an encouragement to disobedience

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Oscar T. Taylor, Sec.,
Committee on Law and Insurance,
Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, New York.

Dear Sir :-

I acknowledge receipt of contract for our Band. Two con-
certs a day properly executed will be as much as I feel willing to
let them undertake regularly, and was what I contemplated in under-
taking the arrangement. If it is intended to put them out in street
parades very much, it would be a serious objection, and I ought to
know about how much of that kind of work is intended, and should want
to add to the third clause the following words :-

"Provided, however, that all music furnished by said Band for
occasions other than the before mentioned afternoon and evening con-
certs, shall be considered extra service, for which the Band shall
receive additional pay, amount of said additional pay to be in some
proportion for the extra service, as the sum hereinafter mentioned
as pay for the regular service."

From what I have heard I judge that the Exposition is not to be
a Sunday affair, and that Sunday will be a day of rest. Please in-
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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1901.

Mrs. Garwood Ferris,
820 Montgomery St.,
Jersey City, N. J.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to your letter in regard to Indian music, I send you under separate cover Dennison Wheelock's "March", which please return as it is the only copy my daughter has. The only two pieces that have been published may be had from Harry Coleman, 228 N. 9th St., Phila. Miss Alice Fletcher's book "Indian Song and Story", made up of native music, etc. published by Small, Maynard, & Co. Boston, Mass. would perhaps be useful to you.

In regard to Zitkala Sa, she was a pupil of Prof. Gruenberg of the Boston Conservatory. She showed much talent in music, and her own words tell about what she has accomplished in that line.:-

"I go now with the Band, not as a master of the art I love, but only to show just how far along 1900 finds the Indian in music."

She plays the music of the masters.

The Indian Band did not go to Paris; it was understood that unless the money could be raised by concerts in the United States, there would be no trip; but the newspapers learning of the project, published the enterprise as a settled fact.

It is now arranged that Carlisle Band furnish music at the Pan-American exposition in July and August.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 2, 1901.

Mr. R. B. Griffin,
Loomis,
Okanogan Co., Wash.

Dear Sir :-

I have just talked with your son and daughter. Your son is quite anxious to go home, and that is his right, but the rules do not permit me to send him until the close of the school year which will be at the end of June next. Ida announces her determination to stay. The rules made by the Department permit students at the expiration of their school period to remain at the school if they so desire, and this would apply in her case as going home would apply in Tommy's. Ida is anxious to give herself an advanced education, and as we have relations with the public schools of Lansdowne, Pa. where our girls have done exceptionally well, passing through a higher curriculum than we have at Carlisle, I have at Ida's request made arrangements for her to go there, live in a family and go to school. She has grown to be a stout, healthy, sensible girl and deserves every opportunity.

Both she and Tommy are in excellent health and have made most satisfactory progress.

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Article, Pa., Mar. 6, 1991.

Miss Ednerah Maher,

113 B. St., 96,

New York City.

Dear Miss Maher:-

Your letter of the 4th inst., in regard to coming to the school to assist in preparing the graduates for their speeches comes to hand in the absence of Colonel Pratt. In reply I have to say that it is too late now to take the matter up. It would not be wise to change those who are to make speeches from the instructors who have thus far been preparing them. I think therefore we had better drop the matter for the present.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 6, 1901.

Mrs. Kate Sockbeson,
Oldtown, Me.

Dear Madam:-

I have your letter of March 4th in regard to Ada. What she told you about our not complying with telegraphic messages was perfectly correct. I note what you say about our rights and your rights in the matter, but we take no action in these cases until all facts are before us. When pupils enter this school, they come at the expense of the government for a term of five years unless they graduate sooner. There is no promise made to release them before that time for any reason whatever. Of course we recognize that there are circumstances which seem to make it right to break the general rule in special cases.

I have received information that satisfies me that your case is one of these and therefore if nothing prevents, she will leave here a few days after our commencement which is the 14th of this month. You seem to be on in your ideas of vacation which does not begin until the end of June; commencement simply passes out one class and moves the others up. She should be here to find her place in the new class, and return to it Sept. the first.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 6, 1901.

Rev. F. W. Merrill,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Sir:-

A letter came to hand delivery from Mrs. Marion Archi-
quette making the statement that the child was distressed with
sickness and in urgent need of the assistance of Libbie Archiquette
who is at this school. We have to be slow in complying with these
home requests, otherwise the school would be broken up completely;
but there is a point of course, beyond which opposition to home duties
should not be carried. I will thank you very much for information
in regard to the exact conditions in this case and your advice as
to what ought to be done about Libby returning. We object to pupils
going home except at the regular time when it can be avoided.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 6, 1901.

Mrs. Ruth Shaffner-Etnier,
4512 Osage Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Mrs. Etnier :-

Very sorry to find that I missed you so closely when in
Philadelphia the other day. I did not have time to go out to Osage
Avenue and had no expectation of your being at the hospital at that
time. We certainly hope to have you with us at commencement and
there will be no difficulty about accommodations right at the school.
You belong to us and we shall be very very glad indeed to have you
with us while here. Write me as soon as you can how many railroad
tickets to send. I think there will be quite a number of patrons and
others coming up on the train leaving Philadelphia at 8:50 Wednesday
morning. Dr. Seabrook was hoping to bring an Australian lady with
her. Hope you will all be able to come.

Not absolutely certain yet whether the Colonel will be able to
be with us; probably not.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 6, 1901.

Mrs. Emily Jackson,
Redhouse, New York.

Dear Madam :-

Your letter of the 4th inst. in regard to a pass to come
to Commencement has been received. We have no passes to send, but
when people make request in time we can get them tickets at half the
usual rates, to be paid for here. If you really intend to come I
can have a ticket for you, Warren, Pa. to Carlisle and return, the
round trip costing about nine dollars. If you want a ticket telegraph
me at once and I will send .

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 6, 1901.

Mrs. Jane W. Hutchinson,
333 Quincy St.,
Brooklyn, New York.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to yours of the 2nd inst., I know of no articles
or books written by any Indian students of this school or any other
Indian school. The January, February, and March numbers of the
"Atlantic Monthly" of last year contained an article by a young In-
dian woman, Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons) formerly a teacher here,
but now at Roxbury, Mass. There is also a story of hers in the March
"Harper's Monthly". Both articles however present a somewhat distort-
ed view of conditions. Mr. Francis LaFlesche, an Omaha Indian now
living in Washington, D. C. has recently sent out a book called "The
Middle Five", a story of Indian boys at school. Dr. Chas. A. Eastman
occasionally writes articles on Indian subjects, but he was not a pu-
pil here. At present he is agency physician at Crow Creek, S. Dak.

We do not issue a catalog, but I send you today an assortment
of reports, addresses, etc. which we have for distribution, and from
which I trust you can get the information you desire.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 7, 1901.

Rev. J. M. Lawrence,
Irequois,
Erie Co., N. Y.

My dear Sir :

I send you herewith 16 round trip tickets, Elmbro to Carlisle, worth $5.69 each, and one ticket Buffalo to Carlisle and return, worth $9.96. All are good to return Saturday March 16th. Those who use these tickets can pay for them here at the school, and those unused you can return. I have written Isaac Seneca to apply to you for a ticket.

In regards to profiles for next year, we can take that up later. It
would be difficult now to tell you anything definite.

Hoping to have you and our Indian friends with us, I am

Yours very truly,

P. S. - Admission tickets to the exercises will be given at the office on arrival here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 8, 1901.

Miss Elizabeth Brophy,
Sanborn, New York.

Dear Miss Brophy :-

I enclose two tickets of admission to the grounds and school exercises for yourself and whoever you bring with you. We have no more tickets Buffalo to Carlisle, but I have asked the G.P.A. of the Penna. R.R. to place two tickets at Buffalo to be delivered to you on your receipt, and you can pay for them here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 8, 1901.

Mr. C. C. Kutz,
N. Hanover St.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

You remember the substance of our conversation the day we
were together in Judge Henderson's office and I tendered you on be-
half of Col. Pratt a check for $20,000 in payment for the farm bought
of you. As promised, I communicated at once with Col. Pratt in re-
gard to the differences and received his reply by wire and subsequent-
ly by letter. I communicated the same to Judge Henderson and he in
turn informed your attorney, Mr. John Hays.

Col. Pratt says he is under no obligations to you in the farm
bargain for anything but the $20,000. He acknowledges your right to
the twelve trees promised, and stated also that he would do what was
right in regard to the current year's taxes. Aside from that he will
not admit of any claim whatever, either for interest or the corn crop.

I send this to you direct so that I may be sure you are informed
as to just how the matter stands, and that settlement rests on your
acceptance of the proffered price.

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Caylisle, Pa., Mar. 8, 1901.

Mr. Harry T. Hayes,
Rena, Ave., 3rd & B. Sts., N.W.,
C/o Hotel Belvidere,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 7th inst. in regard to visiting this school at commencement time and will say that we shall be pleased to have you here. I will also say that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs mentioned the fact of your being in Washington to me yesterday and I said to him we would be glad to have you come up. Therefore if you will see him and tell him of your wish, he will look after you and provide tickets.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 8, 1901.

Mr. Edgar S. Manning,

House of Representatives,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Sir:-

Returning from Washington last night I was apprised of
the action of the House of Representatives in regard to the invi-
tation to commencement exercises. I had no expectation of the accep-
tance being general but intended it to be individual and so worded
my letter to you. I also stated the necessity of limiting the at-
tendance on account of the size of the hall and do not see now just
how to adjust the affair without giving offense, but in some way the
attendance must be limited. I wish those to come who especially
desire it and regret that it is necessary in any way to limit, but the
conditions are unavoidable. We will endeavor to do the best that
can be done under the circumstances. I will consult with Senator
Miller of our town and will advise you later of results.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 8, 1901.

Hon. W. A. Jones,

Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir::

On reaching home I find a letter from Mr. Hayes, Nez Perce, asking tickets for himself and friend. I wrote him that you had mentioned them yesterday and the fact that they would probably like to come, and they could call on you for tickets. Mr. Bradford also met me in the hall and intimated his wish to come to Carlisle and I referred him to you. I do not just now recollect whether I mentioned this to you at the time or not.

I called on the railroad agent, Mr. Studd, and asked him to arrange the usual through car to Carlisle and I presume it will be done. Could I trouble you to let me have by Tuesday morning a list of those who are coming from your office, so that assignments of rooms can be made. Should you desire more tickets, please wire me as I have several left.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 8, 1901.

Col. Thomas B. Kennedy,
Pres. Columbia, Valley R. R.,
Chamberburg, Pa.

Dear Sirs,

Referring to conversation over phone this morning in regard to the Legislature being present at the commencement exercises on the 15th, I have to say that Mr. Manning did not manage the matter at all in accordance with my letter which was to make the acceptance of an individual action for those who desired to come. However it has been done the other way and I do not now see how to adjust the difficulty to avoid a large number coming, but an consulting with Senator Miller in regard to the matter. Tickets will be sent and distributed at Harrisburg so that no one need be admitted to the train unless showing admission ticket to the school grounds. I had no expectation at all of such action as the Legislature has taken, and would be very glad of anything that you can do by means of the train arrangements in holding the number down. Will write again later. I expected only a few, who would come and go as other travelers.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 9, 1901.

General John Eaton,
"The Concord",
Washington, D.C.

Dear General:-

I have your letter of the 8th inst., and
enclose herewith two tickets for the use of your
guest and Mr. Quincy Eaton. I am informed this
morning by General Miles that he has been ordered
to Cuba and will not be able to be with us as ex-
pected on Thursday next. I have therefore asked
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to make the
presentation of the diplomas. You can entirely
suit your own convenience as to what train you
come on, but I have asked that the usual train
arrangements in a through car be made and presume
it will be granted.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 8, 1901.

Supt. L. M. Compton,
Tomah, Wis.

Dear Sir:-

Replying to yours of the 4th inst. in regard to an Indian
for Band Instructor I have to say that we have canvassed the matter
but do not think of any one who would suit you. There would prob-
ably be several at the close of the band's contract at the Buffalo
Exhibition. If anything turns up that seems to be right for you,
will advise you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 8, 1901.

Mr. Joseph Blackbear,
Seger Colony, Okla.

Dear Friend:-

Your letter of Jan. 20th was received and I note what
you say about quitting government work and going to farming. That
is right if you will stay by the farm, but do be in earnest about
this. I think it would have been good policy for you to stick as
long as you could and accumulated some money. I hear so much cri-
ticism on the Indian boys and girls for their instability, wanting
to change to something else all the time. When you get started,
do not let this be your fault. We are very close to commencement
and pass out a large class. Hoping that yourself and wife are
quite well, I am,

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 9, 1901.

Rev. J. H. Bradford,
G/o Indian Office,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

Enclosed herewith find my check for $6.20 in payment for
the lunches on the 4th of March. Had I understood the arrangement
I of course would have paid the bill on the spot but the parties
intimated that the pay part was all cared for by the Inaugural Com-
mittee. We did not really need the lunch; it was rather forced
upon us but the hot coffee came in very nicely. I regret unwittingly
we have seemed to take more than was intended or asked. Please ex-
plain the matter fully to Mr. B. H. Warner and that we appreciate
just as fully what the committee did for us.

I have mentioned your wish to come to Carlisle to the Com-
missioner and as it has been the custom for some years to leave
the matter in his hands, I must do so at this time. Hoping however
that you will be present with us, I am,

very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 9, 1901.

Col. Thomas B. Kennedy,
Pres. Cumberland Valley R. E.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

In my letter of yesterday I said that I was in consultation with Senator Miller in regard to the legislative trip. I have today met with him and representative Myers of our county and they both appreciate the situation and recognize the mistake made by Mr. Manning and have agreed to limit the number to two hundred for the House of Representatives and fifty for the Senate with a very few extra tickets for reporters etc. I am to have a special admission ticket printed for them which they undertook to distribute to those who will come, and make it plain that admission is only by the ticket. With any transportation arrangement they may desire, I have nothing to do, but if there is a special train for them I would suggest that these tickets might be used as train tickets, being punched on the way up and used again on the return trip as well as for admission to the hall. These gentlemen acknowledge that the scope of the invitation given was plain and that it is simply a case of bad management on the part of Mr. Manning. The number mentioned will not overdo us at the hall. very seriously.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 9, 1901.

Mrs. S. I. Wilbur,
1719 Fifteenth St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Wilbur :-

I enclose a half rate ticket, Washington to Carlisle and
return, and ticket of admission to all the exercises. Those boring
from Washington will leave on a through train about 7:45 A.M. Wed-
nesday, arriving here at noon. Accommodations will be provided at
the school.

I send also a card of admission to the exercises.

P. S. - The ticket at half rate is $4.29, but that can be settled
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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 11, 1901.

Rev. John Griffin,
Bason, N. Y.

Dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 8th in regard to attending commencement this year on the 13th and 14th and regret that you did not make your application sooner. We are not able to issue free passes but are granted for this occasion a half rate ticket. These tickets have to be sent for to Philadelphia: then sent from here to the party asking for them. There is not now time to do this. I have therefore to say in your case that perhaps you have a clergyman's privilege of a half-rate over your local road. If you can get here, we can get you back to Canandaigua or Buffalo on good terms. Willard and Alberta Gansworth both graduate and it will be very pleasant to have you here. Come if you can. We will take care of you when here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar., 15, 1901.

Mrs. Lizzie Washington,
Cherokee, N. C.

Dear Madam:-

Replying to your letter to Colonel Pratt in regard to
money to your children, I have to say that Joseph has $20.17 to his
credit in the bank here and that we do not allow students to run
their accounts below twenty dollars. He has no need of money and
all his clothing are supplied from the school. When he begins to
earn again he will have spending money. The same thing is true of
Rachel only that she has not so much money to her credit. All the
money is handled over when the pupils leave the school. If we were
to let them have their money just as they fancied, there would be
so much thing as saving.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 15, 1901.

Mr. J. W. Beers,
Marysville, Pa.

Dear Sirs:-

I have yours of the 14th in regard to an Indian girl and in reply I have to say that the making of these arrangements could not take place until after the close of the school year, and you will hear from me again in due time. I will say however that the number of applications already received is probably far beyond what we will be able to supply.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 15, 1901.

Mr. Moses D. Printup,
Santsbury, New York.

Dear Sirs,

We have been so extremely busy for the past few weeks that we have not had time to write you all the letters and others were laid aside. In regard to your boy's going to the country, I do not yet know what arrangement has been made if any. He has asked to go and his request is on file with others to be attended to when the time comes. This country experience is good for the children, and most of them are very eager to go, for they do not earn a little money for themselves but they learn many things of work which we have not the facilities to teach at the school. It is a past of the school course which all students are expected to go through with at some time during their five years here, and I cannot promise to make an exception in the case of your son. It would really be an injustice to do so. Places are selected suitable to the strengths and age of the boy, we send someone out to visit them and are very particular to get monthly reports from those with whom they are placed in regard to their health, conduct and progress. When you understand about it, I do not think you will object.

Col. Pratt is away and your letter therefore comes to no effect. Attention. On his return this matter will be brought before him for his consideration.

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Carliels, Pa., Mar. 15, 1901.

John K. Cooper,
And Light Artillery,
Battery "P",
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :

Replying to yours of March 3rd, I think the best place to apply for such information as you ask is at the Smithsonian Institution or the National Museum in Washington. Some of the officers in either building I think can direct you to the proper department. There are seventy-five to eighty tribes and sub-tribes of Indians, and many different languages, so that your request should be more specific as to what language you expect to learn.

I sent you some days ago an assortment of printed information in regard to this school and Indian education in general, from which you may get something.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 18, 1901.

Mr. Archie McIntosh,
San Carlos, Arizona.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter to Col. Pratt finds him away from home and therefore comes to me for attention. In regard to your son Donald, I have to say that he graduated with the class Thursday last and tomorrow leaves for Arizona via Washington. Donald is in good health. He will have a ticket for San Carlos and will probably reach there on Saturday the 23rd.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 18, 1901.

Miss Emily S. Cook,
C/o Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Cook :-

Referring to your letter of the 15th inst. I find that the package you speak of was forwarded to the Commissioner Saturday. The handbag is now in my office and will be mailed to you today. Repairs I see are completed. No pay is necessary for this little job.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 18, 1901.

John Frost,

Big Timber, Mont.

Dear Friend John :-

Your letter to Col. Pratt finds him away from home and therefore comes to me for attention. I note what you say about your sister, and we would be glad to have her, but I cannot say about coming before July 1st, for the reason that our transportation money is nearly gone. After July 1st it will be all right. Is there not someone else from your district that she could come with, and so travel safely? Write again soon and tell me your railroad point and whether your sister is in good health or not.

I am pleased to see you are keeping up your progressive spirit and that you are helping on the good work all you can. We should be pleased to have a visit from you next fall, or what about bringing your sister and some others to school early in the summer? Let us hear from you again.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 18, 1901.

Neal Monoahsy,

Fort Sill, Okla. Ty.

Friend Neal :-

Your letter to Major Pratt finds him away from home and so
comes to me for attention; but you make a mistake in calling him "Ma-
jor". He is now Colonel Pratt; so next time you write be sure to
have the title right.

We are just through with our commencement and have had a busy
time, but everyone seems pleased. I am sorry indeed to hear what you
say about Harold Parker. I notice from your letter that you realize
you made a mistake last fall; that your conduct was not what it ought
to have been. This often happens when young people get home and get
to thinking about things, and I hope in the future your conduct will
make amends for what has been wrong in the past.

Let me hear from you some time again.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 18, 1901.

Mrs. James C. Pisk,
32 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Madam :-

Your letter of the 7th inst. to Col. Pratt find a him away
from home at Hot Springs, Ark. I therefore answer in his stead.

In regard to the question you ask about the Navajo who has left
his money to found a dispensary, we know nothing except the newspaper
items, and are not able to connect the incident with anyone who was
a student at Carlisle. Items often appear in the papers that are al-
most without foundation or otherwise incorrect. The thing itself is
not impossible as there are a few Navajos who have considerable pos-
sessions. Should anything definite come to us in regard to it, I
shall be pleased to inform you.

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Mar. 19, 1901.

Mrs. Margaret E. Rhoads,
Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Rhoads :-

I have your letter of the 16th inst.
and am pleased to know that your daughter and
Mrs. Alsop enjoyed their visit to Carlisle. In
regard to the tickets, we had intended to pay
for them as for guests of the school, but if you
prefer to make settlement, the cost was $3.70
each.

Thank you for your invitation to call. I
hope sometime to do so. I never pass Bryn Mawr
without the most kindly remembrances of Dr.
Rhoads both for what he was to me personally and
to the Indian work in general.

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Alle, Pa., Mar. 18, 1901.

Juan A. Jacquez,

Laredo, N. Mex.

Dear Sir:-

Replying in the absence of Colonel Pratt to your letter of the 4th inst. I, in regard to the return home of your daughter Delphina Jacquez I have to say that according to the regulations of this school, she is not due to go home until the expiration of her five years term provided her health continues good as it now is. We do not receive any pupils for a three years term. It is always five years unless they graduate sooner; in that case of course graduation is the end. Mr. Bledsoe has no authority to make such arrangement as three years and we have no knowledge that he did so. Your daughter therefore has two years yet remaining of her term.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 19, 1901.

Dr. D. L. Pierson,
944 Marcy Ave.,
Brooklyn, New York.

Dear Friend :-

Glad to know you and Mrs. Pierson enjoyed your brief visit here. At any other time we could have attended to your baggage and saved you the trouble you had in that respect.

Miss Burgess has sent you the photographs and other material asked for, and I enclose bill for same. Your name has been placed on the mailing list for "The Red Man and Helper" and back numbers will be sent as you desire.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 19, 1901.

Prof. F. E. Downes,
Prin. Dickinson Preparatory School,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

This will be handed you by Willard Gans-
worth who with Lon Spiehe, recent graduates of
this school, desire to enter the preparatory school.

These boys are peculiarly situated in that they
are members of the band and have to put in a good
deal of time practicing with their instruments, and
therefore only want to take such studies as will
help them towards next year's work, but still leave
them time for their band practice.

Will you kindly find out from them just what
they want to take hold of and advise me if you can
arrange with them satisfactory. The expense will
be cared for by Col. Pratt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 19, 1901.

Miss Jennie E. Pauley,
Perkamen Seminary,
Pennsburg,
Montgomery Co., Pa.

Dear Miss Pauley :-

Your letter of the 16th inst. to Colonel Pratt making ap-
plication for a position as teacher in this school, comes to me for
attention. I am not able at present to state whether there will be
any vacancies in the teaching force this coming summer. If there
should be, however, they will undoubtedly be filled in the regular
way either by transfer from other schools or through the Civil Ser-
vice Commission.

If you desire to take up work in the Indian service you might
make application to the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.
take the examination, and after getting your name on the eligible
list you would probably receive an appointment, though not necessar-
ily or likely at Carlisle.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 19, 1961,

Miss Pearl Walker,
C/o G. B. Mellor,
West Chester, Pa.

Dear Friend:-

I have your letter of the 16th asking to stop going to school before the time is out. I have considered your request but do not see it right to grant it for the reason that if we were to do it to you, other girls would be asking, and think they had as good a right as you, and as we must be fair to all by treating all alike, it would not do to grant your request.

I was pleased to see you looking so well and hope you enjoyed your visit at Carlisle.

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Carliole, Pa., Mar. 20, 1901.

Mrs. L. C. Lark,
1435 North 10th St.,
St. Louis, Mo.

Dear Madam:-

Your letter of the 15th inst., to Minnie Nick has been
handed to me by her with a request that I answer it. Minnie states
that it is not her wish to leave this school at present as she is
getting well along in the upper classes and wishes to complete her
course. The promotions for the year have just been made and she finds
herself so that graduation and a diploma do not seem so very far dis-
tant to her. She says also that her sister Bessie is better off
here for a while than she could well be anywhere else as she is a
child who needs to be firmly held.

As the girls are therefore satisfied and doing well I
suggest that it would be the part of wisdom on your part to encoun-
age Minnie to complete her course. I note what you say about not
being well, but the money that you propose to spend for Minnie's
transportation would certainly procure you the needed household as-
sistance for quite a while. I will say however that the sending
home of any students other than graduates is a matter that will not
be taken up until the end of June.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 20, 1901.

Rev. F. W. Merrill,
Oreida, Wis.

Dear Mr. Merrill:-

I thank you for your letter of the 11th inst. As the Archiquette matter has remained quiet since then, I have not raised the question and very much prefer not to for the reason that the make up of the home list has not been touched yet and will not be for something like two months. If, however, there is no urgency, it is preferable that the future of each pupil be taken up and considered at one time. I note what you say about the brother of Wallace Denny but Wallace has not mentioned the subject and we are positively ashore on transportation money until the beginning of the next fiscal year, July the first. I have not as yet examined the record as to when Wallace's time will be out; if at the end of June, he will of course be free to determine his own course at that time.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 20, 1901.

Mr. George Martin,
Park Rapids, Minn.

Dear Sirs,

Your letter to Colonel Pratt finds him away from home for quite a while. I therefore answer it for him and tell you a little how we are getting on at Carlisle.

Off reading your letter I see you had quite an experience at farming but get on better as a blacksmith. You talk about starting a show of your own. Several of our boys of late have been doing this and made quite a success; one on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin and two in New York in partnership making five and six dollars a day right along. I gather from your letter that though you were off the track sometimes at Carlisle that yet on the whole it was beneficial to you being here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 19, 1901.

Mr. Reuben Sholder,
Troop E., 2nd. Cavalry,
Matanzas, Cuba.

Dear Reuben:-

Your letter of the 9th inst. to Col. Pratt finds him away
from home in Arkansas where he has gone to try to get cured of the
rabies, so I answer it for him.

We are just through with our commencement week and had a nice
time; the weather was very good; the class was a large one, thirty-
seven altogether. Quite a number are staying at Carlisle or going to
other schools for a higher education. You say you would like Guy
Brown to write to you. He left yesterday for his home being one of
the graduates. His address is Brown's Valley, Minnesota. Perhaps
you can write to him there.

You will be sorry to hear that we have news of the death of
Robert Emmet who went to the Phillipines. He was on his way home
and died on the transport of dysentery. We were all very sorry to
hear it as Robert was a fine boy. For the last few days here we
have had weather just like spring; winter seems to be over and in
about a week the first party goes to the country. We had a visit
from Joseph la Flamboine last week, and Paul too is making quite a
little stay at the school being on invalid furlough for thirty
days. We hope you are keeping well and doing well all the time.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 23, 1901.

Miss M. Violet Brothers,
Hatteras,
Dare Co., N. Car.

Dear Madam :-

Replying to yours of the 13th inst. I return the clipping
enclosed and think best to give you the name of the third and first
young women represented, omitting the second which you have marked
"first choice" for the reason that information you may receive from
either of the others is likely to be more reliable than from the one
omitted. The first is Miss Dolly Johnson, a member of the Oage
tribe, now at her home at Pawhuska, Okla. Ty. The third is Miss Mary
Moan, an Alaskan, now a teacher in the Sitka Government schools, Alas-
ka. Both are bright young people and have spent the greater part of
their lives in contact with those of their own race, and should there-
fore be able to give you information along the lines you wish.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 21, 1901.

Supt. H. W. Spray,

Cherokee, N. C.

Dear Mr. Spray:-

Another letter comes to hand this morning from John Powell and wife in regard to the return home of their two boys, Moses and Stancill Powell. A similar letter came a month ago or more. I told them in reply that the matter would have to be adjudged by Colonel Pratt or his return. He has not yet come back from Arkansas, but I think will be here by the first of April, and then as soon as he can get around with other things attended to, this matter will be looked after. I cannot say of course what action he will take, but will like to have Powell understand the circumstances. He seems to be very peremptory in his demands, but Big Jim on the other hand says that he had full knowledge of all that was going on at the time.

I hear this morning from the Colonel that he has lately been making decided improvement, is stronger and in all ways feeling much better.

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Carlisle, P., Mar. 22, 1901.

Mr. Elizabeth Lay,

Lawton's Station, N. Y.

Dear Madam:-

I have your letter of March 20th in regard to the return
home of Kelly Lay but am not able to give you any satisfaction in the
matter for the reason that Kelly came here under a sort of a special
arrangement made by Major Pratt and explained in the letter of which
I enclose you a copy herewith. Our school does not let us until the
end of June; therefore no promises can be made you in regard to
his coming home this summer.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 15, 1901.

Mrs. Richard paul,
President, "Travelers' Club,"
625 E. Franklin Ave.,
Minneapolis, Minn.

Dear Mrs. Paul :-

Your letter of Feb. 18th to Col. Pratt came after he had
left for Hot Springs, Ark., where he is now taking treatment for
rheumatism. Mrs. Pratt after reading your letter sent it over to
the office asking that it be answered from here as she was just then
on her way to the train. We have just passed through our sommence-
ment season and the extra correspondence and office work is respon-
sible for the delay in sending you the material asked for. I send
today an assortment of annual reports, copies of the Colonel's ad-
dresses, and other printed material we have for distribution, and
trust it is not too late for your purpose.

Mrs. Pratt desired to say that both she and the Colonel remem-
ber you very well and are glad to hear from you. Your letter will
be kept for the Colonel's return.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 23, 1961,

Mr. John Gregory,

122 E. 28th St.,

New York, N. Y.

Dear Sirs:

I regret to have to inform you that your brother who came
to this school to make some phonographic records early in the week
is considerably under the weather. He had a very bad cold when he
came which he called grip but kept along with his work until yester-
day when he had to give up and is at present under the Doctor's
care in the school hospital. The Doctor does not as yet give any
definite diagnosis of his case but thinks it will probably be a week
before he can be about again. He will have our best care while here.

Very truly yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 25, 1901.

Miss E. Evilly Perry,

Emerson, Neb.

Dear Miss Perry:—

I have your letter of the 15th inst., and also now have by
me your letter of March 6th which until now has been overlooked. I
note all that you say in your letter and your desire for the posi-
tion of Assistant Matron at this school, and in reply have to say
that there is no present or prospective vacancy such as you desire.
I think however it quite possible that by application to the Com-
missioner of Indian Affairs if you have the qualifications and you
say you have, that you might get an assignment at some other school.
Our changes at Carlisle are not at all frequent and I cannot give
you any hope of a position here. My first supposition was that you
were an applicant for admission as a student and answered your fath-
er's letter accordingly, but I now understand the case thoroughly
and give you the answer herewith,

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 25, 1901.

Rev. L. F. Jones,
Juneau, Alaska.

Dear sir :-

In the absence of Colonel Pratt your letter in regard to Jessie Abbott comes to me for attention. Note has been taken of your desire to have her continue the full term at Carlisle, and it has been arranged that there be no interruption in her school work this year. Later, when she is more advanced in her studies, a winter outing will be advantageous to her. Many or our girls and boys gain more rapidly when attending the public schools because they come in contact with the quick minds of white children. Jessie is doing nice ly, and we shall give her the best chance possible to forward herself in her studies.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 25, 1901.

Mr. Stanley W. Boretree,
Aguadilla, Porto Rico.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 19th ult. to Colonel Pratt came to me
for attention in his absence, but on account of pressure of work was
laid aside. I am glad you have such good reports from Rodriguez Lo-
pez. He is getting on nicely, as are all the Porto Ricans here.
There is no drug department at the school, and it is therefore not
practicable to give him training in that line, but we have a well e-
quipped printing office and tailoring department. The printing of-
fice I think was his choice.

In regard to accepting other pupils from Porto Rico, Colonel
Pratt has a semi-official understanding with the Department that al-
lows him to take a limited number in addition to those now enrolled,
but Dr. Brumbaugh is to make all selections, apportioning them from
the various districts. The Ponce district is already well represented
and it is therefore desirable that those to come in the next party
be chosen from the other districts entirely, although there have many
applications from the families of those now with us. The matter be
ing the hands of Dr. Brumbaugh, I refer you to him direct.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 25, 1901.

Mr. Jacob Zellweger,

Geary, Okla. Ty.

Dear Friend :-

Your letter to Col. Pratt in regard to your daughter Minnie
comes to hand in his absence, but will be brought to his attention
on his return. In the meantime I will say that the matter of home
going students has not yet come up. When the time comes, your letter
will be considered and you will be advised of whatever action is de-
cided to be the best for Minnie. Her case is peculiar. Until this
year her reports have been uniformly good. The "Charlie" referred to
in your letter is probably Charlie Bent, who comes from your neigh-
borhood. It is not our custom to send boys and girls home together,
and Minnie can travel very safely alone or in company with other girls
who may be going in her direction. Home parties are not sent until
the end of June or the beginning of July, and there will therefore
be time to communicate with you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 26, 1901.

Chief Thomas Williams,

Sanborn, N. Y.

Dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 21st about the return home of Theodore Williams. In reply I have to say that the matter of ending the term of any students before the expiration of five years does not rest with me but with Colonel Pratt who will be at the school in the course of a week or so, and your letter will come before him. But on looking at the record I see that Theodore entered August 29, '97, therefore making only four years out of five. I do not apprond therefore that Colonel will consider your application favorably.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 26, 1901.

Mr. Thomas H. Mackey,

Niobrara, Nebr.

Dear Sir;

Your letter of the 19th inst., in regard to the return home
of Mary Mackey has been received. In reply I have to say that it is
nearly three months before the students will be going home by reason
of expiration of term and the list has not yet been made up. Your
letter on request will be kept in mind.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 27, 1900.

Mrs. Mary McHenry Cox,
C/o Lincoln Institution,
11th & Pine Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Cox:-

Mr. Thompson returned on Monday night with George Peak in good shape and I wish to thank you for your action and management in the matter.

George is not a bad boy but uncertain in his moods. He is a little dissatisfied here because while his grade would have entitled him to graduate, his period at the school would not. He came in from a western school and has been with us about a year, whereas we do not grant the diploma to any one who has not been under Carlisle training for nearly two years. He understands the situation and seems now to be reconciled.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 27, 1901.

Mr. H. W. Gibson,
Gen. Secy., Y.M.C.A.,
Lancaster, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 26th inst. to Col. Pratt finds him away
from home and therefore comes to me for attention. In regard to the
use of our band on the evening of April 13th, I have to say that the
band is now in excellent condition and will be available on that date
on our usual terms, viz., $100 per day and expenses. We can get a
round trip rate to Lancaster for the band on this occasion of $1.65,
the band membership being about forty-seven persons.

I may add that the band has been reorganized within the past
few months and under the best of instruction and leadership is now
equal to the requirements of any occasion.

If you desire the services of the band on the occasion mentioned
let us hear from you as soon as possible.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 28, 1901.

Mr. Moses Shongo,

Brant P. O.,

Erie Co., N. Y.

Dear Sirs:

On the 15th inst. I wrote you in reply to your letter to Mr. Pittinger in regard to coming to Carlisle to join the band and placed a ticket for your use at Lawtons Station; not having heard from you since then I have to conclude that you do not wish to enter into any arrangement, and therefore withdraw the offer made at the time and the ticket order.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 29, 1961.

Mr. J. H. Wise,
Bairour, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

Your letter of the 27th inst., to Col. Pratt in regard to
renting the Middlesex farm has been received and will be brought to
his attention at once on his return, which will be Saturday the 30th.
I am not able to give you any information until that time.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 29, 1901.

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

Dear Sir :-

Your letter of the 28th in regard to the return home of
John Reinken to hand. In reply I have to say that this matter has
been receiving attention here and I think John is to come in from the
country by the 1st of April or very soon after and await arrangements
for his return home, provided that seems the thing to do when all the
circumstances are considered. Will advise you further later.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 29, 1901.

J. A. Mathews,
Pawhuska, O. T.

Dear Sir :-

I have yours of the 60th inst., in regard to the return home
of Walter Mathews. As you say, he has been here about a year and a
half, but the term for which pupils are received here is five years
from date of entry unless they should graduate sooner. I know of no
arrangement different from this in the case of your brother. He is
therefore not at liberty to return home except by special arrangement
with Colonel Pratt who will be home next week.

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Carlisle, Pa., Mar. 29, 1901.

Mr. H. W. Gibson,
Gen. Secy., Y. M. C. A.,
Lancaster, Pa.

Dear Sir:-

I have yours of the 28th inst., engaging the band for April 12th. We have no printed advertising matter but I send you the program and a few particulars in regard to the make up of the band.

In regard to the care that the band will require, that will depend on how much service you have for it and the time they will need to reach Lancaster. If you have this determined and let us know, we can tell better about this.

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Carllisle, Pa., Mar. 30, 1901.

Mrs. Harriet Stockwell Converse,
450 W. 20th St.,
New York City.

Dear Madam,

Replies to your letter of the 28th inst., I have to say
that Angus Jacobs came to this school from Lincoln Institution, Phila.
June 29th, 1900. We do not accept students for a less period than
five years. Under this condition Angus will not be due to return
home this year as his mother expects, and her desire to keep him in
school (as quite in line with his interests and our rules.

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Carlisle, Pa., Apr. 1, 1901.

Mr. Alexander Upshaw,
Genoa, Nebr.

Dear Alexander:-

Your letter of Mar. 2nd. comes to me on my return home
from a long absence. I find that when the Assistant Commissioner
was here at commencement time, Mr. Standing brought your letter to
his attention and both he and Mr. Dortch read it and have knowledge
of your case. They made the statement that you had not been dis-
criminated against but that reduction was a necessity and that your
position was one that was abolished. I do not therefore see that
there is anything more for me to do in your case as the officials
at Washington have the information which you desire them to have.
They intimated without any promise that if possible another position
would be found for you. I would recommend however that you keep
away from the Crow Agency. The last thing you would want to do would
be to go back there; pursue your fortunes elsewhere.

From your letter it seems as though you have the knowledge
and ability requisite for success as a dairy-man, and I would think
well of your adopting that as a specialty that will always be useful
to you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Apr. 1, 1901.

Mr. Albert Nash,

Thurston, Nebr.

Dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 24th inst., in regard to the re-
turn home of Joseph at vacation time. In reply I have to say that
Joseph's time will be up and if you wish him to, he can return home.

I will say however that there is nothing like sticking to
a thing when you are at it, and Joseph is developing very nicely
both physically and mentally and I should be sorry to have his edu-
cational career stopped where he now is. You know the danger of home
visits and I will ask you to give his best interests your further
consideration, and let me know what your wishes are.

I value very much what you say in appreciation of the
training so far given to your children.

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Carlisle, Pa., Apr. 1, 1901.

Mr. E. Benson,

Unalaska, Alaska.

Dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 20th inst. in regard to the re-
turn home of your boy John. I also remember your correspondence of
last year and note your statement that the Assistant Secretary of
the Interior informed you that the matter was left in my hands. I
have just had an interview with John in my office and find him to
be in good health and growing; also that he is progressing well in
his studies. He entered here about three years ago in the very low-
est department, and has now reached schoolroom No. 3. This progress
in so short a time shows very good mental capacity. Talking over
the matter with him of returning to you, I find that your life is
spent pretty much aboard ship, and that you cannot by having him near
you give him anything like the advantages that he now has. He him-
self says that he wants to stay here and continue his studies and
asked whether it would be possible for you to visit him here some-
time instead of recalling him home.

For my own part considering all the circumstances, I urge
you very strongly not to deprive the boy of his wish to continue his
education now that he has the opportunity. I will therefore take no
action looking to his return unless I hear from you again. Of the
money that you sent, he has now about $30.00 left, the balance having
been used for various necessities on his account not covered by reg-
ular school funds.

Very respectfully,

Lt. Col. & Supt.

Lt. Col. & Supt.

Did. A. J. S. (M)

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