In comply with

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

Carlisle, Pa., March 20th 1895.

This will certify that Mr. Paul Nicolai, a student of Dickinson College, gave an interesting and instructive talk on Russia before our School on the evening of March 19th, 1895.

(Dictated)

Capt. 10th Cavalry., U.S.A.,
Superintendent.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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

Carlisle, Pa., March 26th 1896.

Rev. S. Tada,

41 East 69th Street,
New York City.

My dear Friend:-

I have over 200 Japanese slides. I will very gladly loan you as many as you want but I doubt very much if you want all. Shall I pick them out for you? Would it not be convenient for you to run down and make the selection for yourself?

I am very sorry you were not here to witness our commencement.
Fully 2500 people were in our gymnasium at the closing exercises.

Mrs. Pratt and my daughter join in kindest remembrances.

( Dictated )

N.

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In reply w:

Carlisle, Pa. April 2nd 1895.

James M. Pratt,

326 Camp St.,

New Orleans, La.

My dear Mat:

Thanks for years of the 26th. I am glad to get the
word about mother which corresponds with all that I believe about
the case.

We shall be glad to get the pictures of the children and to
also have the picture of their mother.

As I said before please keep us posted about your plans and
be sure to pay us a visit on your way to New York.

Dicated to N.
N. K.

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa. April 2nd 1898.

Capt. George Lohoy, Brown,

Whipple Barracks, Arizona.

My dear Brown:

I have your second letter about the Pimas. By answer to your first letter I think gives the situation. If what I saw in Washington and Young's talk, etc., amounts to anything he is Intended during the present administration and no charge will be made. He, however, said he would be open for a job as soon as Cleveland went out of office so he would know the other follows would have control. I am sure, if you could have your way, you could do all that you anticipate, but with the elements now in the Indian Office you would have the same old strike there. Smith is another Catholic and he simply takes charge of Armstrong's unfinished business. Besides the other influences that have gone into the Division's would not be in sympathy. Plainly I think you should keep out of it, until there is a change.

Dicated to N.
H. K.

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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR DEPARTMENT

Car, isle, Pa., May 9th, 1895.

Mr. J. C. Weems,
Dundee, Ellensburg City,
Maryland.

My Dear Mr. Weems :-

The pressure I am under in preparation for a prolonged
absence makes it quite impractical for me to deliver an address
at your closing exercises on June 6th, as you desire. I thank you
for thinking of me in such connection.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 9th, 1895.

Mr. Jas. R. Banforth,
2101 Spruce St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My Dear Sir :-

Want of time prevented my calling upon you when I was
in Philadelphia at the time I saw Dr. Miller.

I shall be in Philadelphia again next week and will then
see you. In the meantime I am anxious to settle the immediate
future of our daughter, and having several points in view, would
be glad to know what rates you can make for me. Shall be glad to
receive your circulars.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 10th, 1895.

William Fletcher,
Darlington,
Okla. Ty.

My Dear William :-

We have a number of Carlisle wagons of the old kind that I can sell you for $55.00, and you pay the freight, which would be from $20.00 to $25.00 to Darlington.

I am making now a wagon with Concord springs on the side and lighter springs on each axle, with three seats, wagon much stronger and better than our former wagon, which I could sell for $75.00 and you pay the freight. The freight would amount to about the same. We would be very glad to send you one if you wish to try either kind.

I am very glad indeed to hear from you after so long a silence. I have often wondered why William did not write to me. It has been pleasant to hear occasionally through others that you are getting on and doing well.

The Carlisle School is greatly improved over what it was when you were here. We have steam heat in all the buildings and electric lights, so that there is scarcely any danger from fire, the steam engine being in a separate building. Our rooms are fitted up so that they are much more comfortable. We have a splendid

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gymnasium, school-rooms that can't be beat, and all of our accoutrements are far better than in any other Indian school. The general health of the school never was so good as it has been in the past year, so that I think you are entirely right in standing by Carlisle as being the best school for the Indians.

As we go about among the tribes, we find that our students stand the highest. There are some of them employed by the Government, more of them employed by the traders and others who want Indian help. There are more of them that are successful farmers, and as we have stood by the Indians for the last sixteen years and have done more for them than any other school, it is right that they should stand by us and send us the best of their children.

I send you a magazine which gives an illustrated article about the school. We are getting out a little book containing fifty-five pictures of the grounds, buildings and children, schools and shops, and when completed I will send you one of them.

Am glad to hear from you always, and should be very glad indeed to have you visit us at Carlisle. Can't you plan to be with us on next Commencement in February ?

Faithfully Your Friend,

Capt. 10th Cavalry, U. S. A.

(Dictated)

Supt.

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In reply to:

Miss Helena Patterson,

Versailles, N. Y.

My dear Helena :-

I am greatly relieved to receive your postalcard of yes-
today, telling me of your safe arrival at home.

Now I trust you will make it your special business to get
well and strong, so that we may see you back here in the fall, able
to take up your school duties with new vigor and ardor.

Faithfully Your Friend,

Supt.

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa., May 10th, 1995.

Frank S. Shively,

Davisville, Pa.

My Dear Frank :-

It was a very great pleasure to me when Mr. Standing returned yesterday and told me how hearty you were looking, and what excellent health you are enjoying. I am glad that after your long sickness you have come out of it so well. I enjoyed your nice letter and am glad you could be present to see Dr. Seabrook graduate. I intended to go down myself but found that it was not possible for me to leave.

I trust you will have an excellent summer and return to us in the fall, ready to take up your work in good shape.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Miss Annie Lockwood,
Indian School,
Santa Fe, N. Mex.

My Dear Annie :-

Sometime ago Miss Ely spoke to me about your being ready to come back this year. Mr. Standing had also spoken about it.

I am ready to arrange for your return now or at any time that seems best. It will be just as well I think for you to continue where you are until about the opening of school in the fall, so that your returning good health may be completely fortified. In the meantime you had better talk to Col. Jones and tell him that it was the arrangement when you went home that when you recovered, you should come back to Carlisle.

Please remember me kindly to Col. and Mrs. Jones and Miss Egan.

The Carlisle outing is bigger this year than ever. We have 411, and the number will reach the 500 mark before the middle of June. We have had generally very excellent health at the school this year. Just now the face of Nature is beautiful and fresh with the leaves and flowers of Spring. As I write, the rumblings in the air indicate a rain which cools and refreshes us.

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You remember Marion, my daughter. She and her husband
and their three children are visiting us from Denver. Richenda is
still at school near Baltimore, Md. I am thinking seriously of
spending a few weeks in the mountains in Colorado with Mr. Mason
and some others; perhaps in the latter part of July and the first
part of August. I need rest very much.

Give my love to the other returned Carlisle students,
and believe me always

Faithfully Your Friend,

(Dictated)

P.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 10th 1895.

Capt. W. H. Clapp,
Acting Indian Agent,
Fort Berthold, North Dakota.

Dear Captain:-

I have your further letter of April 25rd, and feel called
upon to make additional reply.

You say: "I deem it to be impossible, but only because Congress
will not sanction it and enact the necessary laws. In every other
sense it is practicable, and would in the end be economical, but the
average voter will not think so; and hence the Holmans and the
member from Way Back will not vote for it. Whenever you can get
the legislation necessary, I will assist in carrying out the plan
with all my heart."

I claim your cooperation. Go back to the Indian Appropriation
Bill approved May 17th 1892. You will find that Congress provides
for the care, support and education of children outside of the
tribes in the regular school systems of the states. You will also
find provision for placing Indian children in good white families
with the consent of their parents, and an appropriation of $167,000.
made for these purposes. Follow up the bills from that time to this
and you will find practically the same provisions. Then if you will

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look into Indian management as I have from year to year since that
time, you will find the fault is not with Congress, but is depart-
mental and administrative through the Indian Office and its agents
in charge of the Indians, manipulating against the wishes of Congress.
The influences that have led agents and consequently the Department
to this opposition you know well. Tribalizing and reserving is
destructive to civilization and almost a complete barrier to any
individuality, but it pays other people and combinations and hence
the continuance.

The opposition of Holmanism was only an episode. The Indian
bill for this year and next, notwithstanding this episode, like
the previous bills for the last thirteen years contains the
declaration of Congress in a special appropriation sufficient to
make a good beginning along the line of disintegration which you
and I are agreed is best.

You say whenever I can get the legislation necessary, you will
assist me with all your heart. This legislation has been in all the
bills for all the years, because of my influence, so that I may safe-
ly say that I have the legislation, and I feel enough confidence
in Congressional good sense to say that when these appropriations
are fully utilized and it can be shown that additional means and
legislation are necessary, they will be forthcoming.

Indian sentiment, like all other sentiment, is a thing of
origin and growth, subject entirely to the influences in which the

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Indian may be placed. If the Indian is continued wholly under the experiences of tribalism, he will not grow up a sentiment against that. And, on the contrary, if he is placed under an individualizing and civilizing influence and association, his sentiment in favor of becoming civilized and individual will develop, and hurtful tribal sentiment will die.

While returning to the tribe and its imperious and hurtful influences is most deplorable, I think your opinions in regard to the extreme hurtfulness and deplorableness of even that, are not fully warranted. I have many evidences that returned students are working a revolution of sentiment in the tribes.

I doubt very much whether your observation, or the observation of any other one person interested in the elevation of the Indian is at all as wide as mine. And though there may be some among the students returned from eastern schools that have dropped back to the blanket, there are none whatever, so far as I know, whose condition warrants the extreme statements of being worse than before so industriously published against returned students. My conviction, therefore, is that even though the beginning of the disintegration of the tribes hoped for is not reached through eastern schools, such schools yet form by far the brightest outlook and point the way to what is absolutely essential to the civilization of the Indians.

I want to thank you, Captain, for the very courteous and full expression of your views, and am,

N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 10th 1895.

Sumner S. Riggs, Asst. Indian Farmer,
Darlington, Oklahoma.

My dear Sumner:--

It does me real good to get a letter from you now and
then. You have such a breezy, good way of telling all the news both
about yourself and others. Your very letters show that you are a
man of push and energy and business. Somehow there is a party of
you Cheyennes and Arapahoe boys that fill my heart with gratitude
whenever I hear from you or think of you: Richard Davis, Paul Good
Bear, William Fletcher, John D. Miles, Kish Hawkins, Abe Somners,
Caspar Edson, Doty Seward, Jesse Bent and others. All I can say to
you is to push ahead, and, as Agent Miles used to say, "push hard."
Be true to yourselves, and you will be true to your duties to the
Government, your people and the world, and the Good Father above
will continue to bless and help you.

I must leave to "The Indian Helper" the duty of giving you
the Carlisle news. I can only say that if you were here today
looking out of my office window upon the campus, beautiful and rich
in a carpet of green, the trees just leaved out fresh, you would say

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"Well, Carlisle is a beautiful place", and I know you boys and girls must say, "It is a good place. It has been good to me; it has helped to make me a better man, stronger, and made me able to cope with the great white race.."

I wish some of you would plan to be with us next February at our Commencement. Now I should like to have a hundred of our former students **come in on** that occasion. I hope the day is coming when I may see that many or more at each annual commencement.

With best wishes to you, and with kind remembrance to the returned students and my friends among the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, always

Faithfully Your Friend,

Capt. 10th Cavalry, U. S. A.

Supt.

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in reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 10th 1895.

Mrs. Louise Hayworth Pilcher,
White Rock, Utah.

My dear Mrs. Pilcher:-

I turned your letter over to Miss Shaffner, who has charge
of the girls, and directed her to write to you and also to several
of our returned girls asking them to write to you. I trust you will
get something that will serve your purpose from them.

My notion about it is that the greatest friend of the Indian,
either girl or boy, man or woman, is the one who will break down the
barriers between them as individuals and the good people of civiliza-
tion and who will work to destroy the ties that bind them to tribe
and language; and the greatest enemy the Indian has, whether it be
agent, contractor, missionary or other, is the one who inaugurates
and carries out plans that defeat these purposes.

I believe in making the tribal and reservation condition so
intolerable that the Indians as individuals will seek to escape from
it; and I do not believe in any sense under any pretence whatsoever,
in making the tribal conditions more comfortable or pleasant, for
there is no help either to true manhood or womanhood resulting.

With these views, you can readily understand what I would and
would not favor.

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In reply to:

Mr. Fisk Goodyear, Chairman
Comm. Decoration Day Parade,
Carlisle, Pa.

My Dear Sir :-

Our organizations are practically destroyed by the out-
ing, and by Decoration Day will be in a much worse condition.

Our band boys this year are going to be out in the country largely
so that I fear that it will not be practical for us to attempt to
join your parade in any organized form.

However when you get out your programmes, if you will
advise me, and it is possible for us to send a detachment, I will
do so.

Supt.

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in reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 13th, 1895.

Mr. Chas. F. Jenkins, Editor"Farm Journal,"

Phila., Pa.

My Dear Friend :-

I shall plan to meet you in the Broad Street Station a
little before 5:23 on Thursday afternoon, the 16th inst.

I shall be in Philadelphia tomorrow on business, go to
Washington tomorrow evening and return to Philadelphia Thursday
evening. It would perhaps be as well in view of my business for
me to remain in Philadelphia at a hotel after the meeting. However,
if it suits you just as well I will leave that open.

Supt.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 13th, 1893.

Mr. Fred Dick, A. M., Prin.,
Normal & Preparatory School,
Kittredge Bldg.,
Denver, Colo.

My Dear Sir :-

So far as I see now, I can meet your wishes on any date
that you may fix between the 13th and 21st of July inclusive, ex-
cept the special time that I am to read a paper before the National
Association, Dept. of Industrial Schools.

If you placed the date immediately after the adjournment
of the Association and before the 21st, there would be no conflict.
Shall be very glad to serve and very willing to accept of such
compensation as you may care to make, which will assist towards my
expenses for the Convention, and shall be especially pleased to talk
upon my Western subject to a Western audience.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlsle, Pa., May 14th, 1895.

Miss Fuji Tsukamoto,
3350 Walnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

My Dear Friend :-

One of the views was injured when it started, but
not sufficiently to disable it, so that you are alright. I
am glad they afforded you the service you desired.

Be sure you visit us at Carlisle before you start for
the Flowery Kingdom.

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To my leave v.

Carlisle, Pa., May 14th, 1895

Mr. V. S. Hillis,
Office, Supt. of Ind. Schools,
Washington, D. C.

My Dear Mr. Hillis :-

The trip to the West by party has been abandoned
for reasons which I need not detail. Otherwise I should be
very glad to consider your desires for Mr. Amende.

(Dictated)

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In cagly to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 16th 1896.

P. S. Stuart, Chairman,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

I have your letter of the 13th enclosing complimentary
tickets for the Concert to be given in the Opera House Friday, May
17th, and I thank you for the courtesy of your attention. I regret
that I shall be away from home Friday evening and so will not be
able to attend the concert.

N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 18th, 1895.

Mr. Chas. F. Jenkins, Editor
"Farm Journal",
Philadelphia, Pa.

My Dear Mr. Jenkins :-

Mrs. Pratt gives me your message. My expenses down and back were $7.50

I was very sorry not to see you at the meeting and have a little talk, but now that we know each other, I trust we may become better acquainted.

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., May 16th, 1895.

Dr. James Marvin,

Lawrence, Kansas.

My Dear Doctor :-

It is most agreeable to receive your kindly note of the
14th, and get your appreciative sentiments.

I wish you could plan and be with us at our next Commencement
in February. I should like to have a word from you during the ex-
ercises and have you witness the occasion.

I am getting out an illustrated book containing sixty repro-
duced photographs, which I think will go a great way to still fur-
ther tone down the opposition, and create a sentiment for better
influences for the Indians. When out, I will send you a copy.

I am always glad to hear from you.

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In reply to:

John Lonsley,

Round Lake, Wis.

Dear John :-

I am very sorry to hear that Esther is not getting better. I hoped that her returning home would be the means of staying the disease and that she would really. She is such a bright good girl that I was particularly anxious that she should recover and return to us. However, if we do the best we can, we must leave the rest to the Great Ruler.

I am getting out a little book which will contain sixty reproduced photographs of the school. It will be out in three or four months, when I will send you a copy.

With love to Mother and to you, my dear school son, I am

 faithfully your friend,

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In comply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 21st 1895.

Miss Daisy Dixon,

Haskell. Indian School,

Lawrence, Kansas.

My dear Miss Daisy:

The invitation to your graduating exercises at the Lawrence High School come to us here at Carlisle telling us of your progress and success, and we heartily congratulate you.

Thanking you for your remembrance of us and wishing you happiness and success in all the great school of life, believe me,

Your friend,

N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 31st 1895.
H. B. Sharman, Corresponding Secretary,

80 Institute Place,

Chicago, Illinois.

My dear Sir:-

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["239", "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.\nINDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.\nOFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.", "Carlisle, Pa., May 22nd, 1895", "Miss Susan Dillwyn Wharton,", "910 Clinton St., Phil., Pa.", "My Dear Miss Wharton :-", "Man like, I put your letter in my pocket and did not hap-\npen to feel in that pocket until now, so that your request has been\nneglected. I am sure you are entitled to a great apology.", "I send you two short accounts that have been put out at dif-\nferent times, and also a copy of The New England Magazine, which\ncontains an illustrated article on the School. My regret about\nall of these is, that they do not notice those silent friends like\nMiss Longstreth who helped <u>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 22nd, 1895.

Mr. Theo. J. Dimitry,

New Orleans, La.

Dear Sir :-

I owe you an apology for delaying to answer your letter,
but it was unavoidable because of my absence.

I am not able to give you information in regard to Indian
names you ask for. My experience has been that the Indian tribes
from whom the names are derived, are generally unable to explain
the meaning of such words as have been utilized in naming our
mountains, rivers, valleys, towns, states, etc. because of the
change in pronunciation. I have repeatedly tried it and as often
failed. The names usually came from the tribes that inhabited the
region at the time the name was given, and I have often tried to
learn the meaning of these words but without success.

Major J. W. Powell, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, D.C. is by all odds the best authority on these subjects we have. He has large compilations from almost every Indian language spoken within the United States. If the point is material, I suggest you appeal to him.

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In reply to:

Ida La Chapelle,

Indian School, Santee Agency,
Nebraska.

My Dear Ida :-

Your spectacles came this morning and have been forwarded
to you by mail. You did not say exactly what you wanted, and Mr.
Ryan had to guess at it except that he selected them in accordance
with your prescription, which is herewith enclosed. The price is
$6.00, so that you will have to send me one more dollar.

(Dictated)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa. May 22nd, 1895.

Mr. Jno. Sinclair,
1 Broadway, N. Y.

My Dear Mr. Sinclair:

One of my lady employes is a delegate to the great international Congress of W.C.T.U. in London next month. We wish to send our daughter Nana with her. Nana is not in good health. There is an opportunity for them to go through England and Scotland and take a trip to Iceland. They wish to leave New York on Saturday, the 1st of June or about that time, and will return to England en route home from Iceland about the 1st of September.

They want second cabin passage, having heard of as low a rate as $25.00 one way for that in the best steamers, but do not know which ones. Having no experience I am unable to help.

As offices of some of the steamers may be in the same building with you, and the case is emergent, I hope you may be willing to step in and secure passage tickets with State-room, and the very best rate obtainable and so venture to trouble you, busy man though you are.

If round trip tickets at a more favorable rate are available by the same line returning, they would buy those in the start, and would be able soon after arrival in England to inform the Steamship Company of the date on which they would return.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Mr. Chas. S. Ryan,

Bay View St.,

Ravere, Mass.

My Dear Sir :-

Absence from home and a multiplicity of duties have prevented my answering your letter of the 13th earlier.

(Dictated)

P.

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Mr. Thos. A. Culhaney,

Marietta, Pa.

My Dear Sir :-

Yours of the 12th should have been answered days ago, but
I have been absent and extremely busy.

It will be quite impracticable for our boys to enter into an
agreement with you for the 4th of July, as you propose. The team
will at that time most likely be broken up.

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Lida Conaput,

West Grove, Pa.

Dear Lida :-

I should have answered your letter long ago, but I have
been away from home and so extremely busy that I could not.

I know just how you feel, my dear school-daughter, for I have
had the same experience myself, but it does not last and it is not
dangerous. It is best for you to overcome that feeling now while
you are young, for when you are older it will be more difficult.
Make up your mind to be brave and good and strong and to do with
your might what you find to do right where you are, and in time a
change will come, and with it greater happiness.

You do exactly right to please your country friends. If you
keep yourself occupied with your work, you will think less of Car-
lisle and your homesickness for Carlisle will gradually go away.

Is not this a beautiful season of the year ? How green and
fresh everything is- how delightful to the eye; how pleasant to
breathe the pure air; how wise and good of the Great Father to give
us this pleasant change after the severe winter with its cold and
suffering to many. Just so, my dear daughter, there will come by
and by a change to you by return to Carlisle, that will be just as
agreeable. Cordially and Faithfully your School-father,

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Disbrow & Company,
Cor. 19th & Derry Sts.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Gentlemen:-

Replying to yours of May 15th, I have to inform you that
Mr. Wheeler of Baltimore has not applied to us for information
about the 100 H.P. water tube boiler. When he does, I shall take
pleasure in saying a good word for it, which I can conscientiously
do.

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Rev. Geo. Runciman,

Versailles, N. Y.

My Dear Sir :-

I return Bertha Pierce's letter, for the privilege of reading which I am very much obliged. The insight I can get into my students' minds by such privileges, is most helpful, and certainly the sentiments expressed by Bertha are encouraging.

Bertha's letter is herewith returned to you.

Supt.

(Dictated)

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Rev. M. S. Foutch,

Belle Fourche, S. Dak.

My Dear Sir :-

In view of the fact that both you and your wife wish em-
ployment, it will be to your advantage to get into the service in
a smaller Indian school than this with a view of a superintendency.

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COPY TELEGRAM

Carlisle, Pa, May 22nd, 1893.

F. B. Church,

Wellsville, N. Y.

Message received. Very well I place myself in your hands.

R. H. Pratt,

Sent Collect

via W. U. at 11:13 A. M.

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., May 23rd, 1895.

Margaret W. Hawley,

Northumberland, Pa.

My arrangements for the ensuing year covering
the ground of your specialty, are all made.

If you care to go into the general Indian service, I suggest
that you write to Dr. W. N. Hailman, Supt. of Indian Schools, Wash-
ington, D. C.

Yours very truly,

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Carlsbad, Pa., May 28th, 1945.

Dr. Jas. E. Pilcher,

145 Gates Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.

My Dear Captain :-

The pictures and photographs are duly received. It is all right. I simply wanted some snap views for an illustrated book I am getting out, and you had just about what I wanted.

Am sorry your plans did not work satisfactorily to you.

In reply to:

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

Mrs. Zeno K. Peare,

40 Charter Oak Place,
Hartford, Conn.

My Dear Friend :-

I am truly obliged to you for the complimentary letter
in regard to Isabella and Carlisle's efforts for the Indian. Such
endorsements bridge over some of the hard places admirably.

I am placing out so many of our students this year that the
numbers at the school will be very limited, but I think I could
use Isabella and give her $15.00 or $20.00 per month if she can
be come down here for that. Please advise. We shall be delighted
to have her with us.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
INDIAN SCHOOLS SERVICE
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

Carlisle, Pa., May 24th, 1895.

Mr. Levant L. Mason,
C/o Mrs. H. L. Pickard,
Delphi, Ind.

My Dear Levant :-

I have been intending to write to you for several weeks,
but things did not shape themselves so as to enable me to speak def-
initely and I have delayed from time to time on this account.

I have had in mind what you said in a recent letter about mak-
ing one more trip West with me. Now it is fairly arranged that I
go to Denver early in July and that Guy Stevick with two or three
Denver friends and I go back into the mountains in Western Colorado
hunting and fishing. Guy thinks that if Fred Hall should go, his
brother living in Denver will be of the party, but there will be
a nice party of agreeable gentlemen somewhat younger than you or me
but quite companionable for us, and it was this that I wanted to
write to you about.

I can get remarkably low rates from here, and would suggest
that after your return, you plan to come here and go with me. You
will have the rarest trout fishing sport you ever had in your life
and may be able to kill a deer, antelope or even an elk. I must
get away from the wear.

The people up in Allegany County are having a centennial

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bration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the settlement of their county, and have appealed to me, claiming that I am the most distinguished native, to be present and deliver an oration. I have tried to saddle it on Senator Teller, of Colorado, formerly Secretary of the Interior, but the committee will not admit that I am right about it. So under their persistence, I have agreed to go and take Laura, and had hoped that we should find you at home in Jamestown, and could take a little run over there and perhaps a day down the lake, when we could talk over the western trip more fully. You did not say when you would return, but you say you will be in Chicago about the 30th, from which I conclude it may be possible you will be in Jamestown at the time of our visit.

Now, my dear Levant, I do want you to join me in this western trip. I am sorry I had not outlined to you before, but was waiting for information.

We should be very glad to receive the copies of "Puck", "Truth", "Judge", etc. for our reading rooms.

Marian, Guy and their family are with us, all in excellent health. They return to Denver on the 7th of June. Laura and Nana are fairly well. Nana is somewhat troubled with nervousness, and we have just planned a trip for her to England, Scotland, Ireland, and Iceland, in company with one of our ladies, and they will sail the first of June, to be absent until the first of September. We hope a great deal from the sea voyage for Nana.

Faithfully Yours,

In reply to

Mr. F. B. Church, Chr. Comm. etc.

Wellsville, Pa.

My Dear Sir :-

I wired you on the 22nd, placing myself in your hands. Though I still think it strange you select me when Mr. Teller, and surely dozens of others also, are far more entitled to preference, I must not decline, for I have long desired to see the land of my nativity, and as unsought by me, such an agreeable opportunity offers, to do so would be "flying in the face of Providence".

My long absence and entire lack of intermediate knowledge of the county, make it necessary for you to furnish me materials and indicate the line of the address. This your Secretary advised would be attended to by your Committee.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 24th, 1995.

Chas. F. Jenkins, Editor
"Farm Journal",
Phila. , Pa.

My Dear Friend:-

I have yours of the 20th covering check for my expenses.
Thank you. I would like very much to meet you and other members
of your Committee for a good square talk on the Indian work, and
if practical for you to fix a date in the near future on which I
could have a talk with you, I would make it convenient to come to
Philadelphia for that purpose. I think I could place before you
some matters that would at least interest you and perhaps open a
way for your energies.

(Dictated)

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In reply to

Carlisle, Pa., May 24th, 1935.

Mrs. M. R. Sage,

Leonia, Bergen Co., N. J.

My dear Mrs. Sage :--

I have looked through our files and I am unable to find the references you gave. It is possible they have been filed under the names of the persons who gave them.

Please advise me, and I will look for them further.

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In reply to:

Dennison Wheelock,

Oneida, Wis.

My Dear Dennison :-

I send you a set of our outing blanks as you requested.
In a fortnight I shall have a book with some sixty reproduced
photographs of the school, selected by Mr. Standing, Miss Burgess
and myself, with an account of each and an account of the school;
which will probably be very interesting and helpful to you. I wish
to send one to each of our returned students as a Carlisle memento.
In the meantime I have directed that a quantity of photographs be
sent you.

I quite agree with you about the whiskey law. It was so twen-
ty-five years ago in the Indian Territory. Deputy marshals filled
the country and were hauling men to Ft. Smith two hundred miles
away, and very little ever came of it. The court never materially
punished the men who sold the whiskey, but the marshals got their
fees and the Government money was distributed. From two to ten
days confinement and a fine of ten dollars was the usual dose.
Sometimes I risked my life to capture these men, and naturally was
disgusted with the result.

I congratulate you on being called upon to get up such a big
show, because I know it will be well done.

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In reply to:

JamesOCowتا,

Cherokee, N. Car.

My Dear Friend :-

I have your letter of the 21st. My doctor reports today that Mattie is materially better and is improving. She has been quite low and at times her condition was very unfavorable. There is no pain nor present symptom of danger. Her appetite is good, she is cheerful in disposition and we all feel there is reason for great hope. Still it is a condition which may prove fatal at almost any time. She is receiving the best treatment and nursing, and we are guided in our treatment of her by the joint advice of several physicians.

It would be impossible to remove her now. I was in the hospital a little while ago and she was sitting up and seemed to be in the best of spirits. She can stand on her feet but cannot walk.

If it were at all practical I would be only too glad to send her to you. I feel that in time we shall all be rewarded for our great care.

Sincerely yours,

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

American Horse,

Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.

My Dear Friend :-

I heard about your arrest and thought at the time I could
see what was the cause of it. There has been altogether too much
disposition on the part of the marshals and their deputies to make
money instead of to execute the law. My whole army experience has
shown that the execution of the whiskey law was limited to getting
fees. Seldom if ever was a man materially punished. However, my
friend, the time has come when it seems as though there must be a
change. The Indians are in close contact with the whites everywhere
and the old tribal customs will have to give way to the laws and
regulations established for the government of the white race. Of
course it should be done decently and in order and in such a way
as to carefully protect the interests of the women and children.

(Dictated)

P.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 25th, 1895.

Rev. F. H. Wright,

Darlington, Ind. Ky.

My Dear Friend :-

You will be able to get the best information about our
returned boys from some of those employed at the Agency. Leonard
Tyler, Kish Hawkins, Paul Good Bear and others. The chances are
that one who has been home quite a while would serve your purpose
best, as he would be more in line with the people and would have
broader observation of the situation; but you will find quite a
number of really good fellows to greet you and forward your pur-
poses.

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To reply to:

Gen. J. F. Boyd, Supt. C.A.B. R.R.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I am greatly obliged by the kindly attention of your fa-
vor of yesterday advising me of the Secretaries of The Navy and
War passing near us. I telegraphed at once to the Sec. of War,
urging him to stop off at the School, and should he reply favorably
I will at once notify you.

If you get any information favorable to the stopping over of
the Secretaries to see us, I will be greatly obliged by having it,
in order that I may arrange for their entertainment.

(Dictated)

P.

Supt.

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Joseph T. Chisholm,

Bisbee, Arizona.

Dear Sir :-

I have yours of the 20th, asking information in regard
to the Apache desperado"The Kid" when he attended this school.

I herewith enclose copies of our school paper which will indi-
cate to you the true situation. I have never been able to trace
the origin of the lie, but it has been most industriously circulated
and crops out occasionally even now, notwithstanding there have
been ample contradictions through the public press.

(Dictated)

P.

Supt.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 25th 1905.

The Hammond Typewriter Co.,
116 South Sixth Street,
Philadelphia.

Gentlemen:-

Your Special Representative, Mr. J. E. Colket, called upon me several weeks ago to present the advantages of your typewriting machine, and after a second visit sent me one of your machines for trial. We have had the machine for a week and have tested it thoroughly but do not feel that it will meet our needs. I therefore return it by today's express.

Thanking you for the courtesy in sending the Hammond machine for trial,

Yours truly,

N.

Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt.

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Dr. Jas. R. Danforth,

2101 Spruce St., Phil., Pa.

My Dear Doctor :-

Mrs. Pratt and I have taken the matter under careful ad-
visement since the receipt of your letter, and notwithstanding the
very material addition to the annual expense, we have concluded to
send our daughter to you for next year.

I am greatly pressed in my affairs and have such a multiplicity of expenses bearing upon me that I have great difficulty in making ends meet. Until two years ago Congress gave me $1000. extra pay ; but my fight for my cause and trouble with the Catholics led to the loss of this. $500. will not, as you readily understand, cover all the expense. We estimate that there will be more than $100. additional in other directions. If you feel entirely comfortable in taking our daughter at the sum named, you may enter her on your list for next year.

Mrs. Pratt and I were very greatly pleased to meet Mrs. Danforth, and were very sorry not to have met you. However, that will come later, as we are visitors in Philadelphia quite frequently.

Fraternally Yours,

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In reply to

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., May 25th 1898.

Crosscup & West,

911 Filbert Street,
Philadelphia.

Gentlemen:

There is too much of the <u>Indian</u> in the cover picture. I would move the large tepee a little more to the left side, cut out the other two, the horses and the other figures and give a níwa, plain little house and home scene, representing <u>native</u> life, a modest, happy civilization. Drop the flag over the young man in civilized costume. The bow and arrow and feathers will emblem the uncivilized native: the flag stands for civilization.

When I returned home I found that my pictures which I depended upon for the Indian camp scene had been loaned to a surgeon in the army; so I telegraphed to Soule and had a number sent you direct. When you have finished with these please return them to me.

The part proofs of the book are here, and I will return them to the printers direct today.

Please send me another proof of the cover picture fixed as I suggest.

(Dictated)
N.

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To the order of:

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 25th, 1898.

Miss Lucy Walker, Directress of Nurses,

Presbyterian Hospital,

30th St. & Powelton Ave.,

Phil. Pa.

Dear Miss Walker :-

Flora has so persistently held out against going back, and seems to be under such dreadful apprehensions in regard to it, that I have finally told her that she must then resign. Accordingly, you have herewith her resignation.

I am ordinarily capable of considerable influence with my young people, but I must own that this baffles me. I think she had better drop the matter entirely now, and if her mind changes, take it up at some subsequent period. She takes about a year at least, but still insists that she wants to become a nurse.

Supt.

(Diluted)

P.

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., May 24th 1895.

Hon. Daniel S. Lament,
Secretary of War,
Washington, D. C.

Am advised you pass Carlisle Sunday evening. I urge you use
the delay between trains in visiting Indian School. You step from
cars onto our grounds.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., May 24th 1895.

John Sinclair & Co.,

1 Broadway,

New York.

Take room 65 Campania June 1st, New York to Liverpool only.

Check by mail.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 27th, 1895.

Chauncey Y. Robe.

Santee Agency, Nebraska.

Dear Chauncey:--

Your letter reached me three weeks ago and I was
very sorry to hear of the fire you had had at Santee. What
is to be done? Are you going to rebuild the School? We
have rather expected to have another letter from you telling
us of the outcome of the disaster.

I trust you are finding your work satisfactory in every
way.

Carlisle moves on about as usual. You have the school
news from the Helper, and I cannot add to that. We are
continuing to send pupils out to the country and our number
here grows less each day.

With greetings to you and Ida from us all,

N.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE.
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

Carlisle, Pa., May 27th 1895.

Miss Annette Suison,
% Mrs. M. Noe.

Jenkintown, Pa.

My dear Annette:—

Miss Hunt writes you the true condition of affairs at San Carlos, which indeed but represents the condition at almost all of the agencies and as such I used the letter in the Helper knowing that Miss Hunt would not object. I am glad that you realize it all now and feel with us that it best for you to stay east. I hope you will never go back, for your only salvation is to keep away from these degrading influences. You are a sensible girl and I knew you would come to look at it all in this way.

It is very pleasant to me to hear that you are getting on so well. I am proud of you.

Your friend and school father,

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 28th 1893.

Eugene Takhacheur,

Suffield, Conn.

Dear Eugene:-

It is better for you to attend to your money matters
yourself. You are a man of affairs now and can attend to your own
interests better than anyone else. It might be well for you to
write to the Commissioner and tell him what the Agent wrote you
about your claim having been sent to Washington.

I am glad to know that you are so well occupied, for in work
lies our greatest safety. And if we do our work well we will have
no difficulty in finding something to do.

Summer is upon us and our Cumberland Valley looks very
beautiful in her robe of green. The crops look well and we hope
for a good harvest.

The School news you have from the Helper.

With best wishes from all of your Carlisle friends,

N.

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Carlisle, Pa., May 28th 1895.

Jennie D. West,

Wolf Point, Montana.

Dear Jennie:-

We often think of you and the other girls who have gone out
from us and it is always a pleasure to hear from you. I am glad
that you still miss Carlisle, and I hope that you will continue to
miss your School life so much that you will come back to us. Do not
allow yourself to be satisfied with any other purpose than that of
returning and going on with your education. As the time approaches
for you to return write and tell me if there are any others who
wish to come with you.

Miss Shaffner and Nana leave us for Great Britain this week,
and from there they go to Iceland. They will return in September
and we can expect to hear some interesting accounts of that far away
country.

The Helper gives you the School news and I cannot add to that.

With best wishes from us all,

N.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., May 28th 1895.

Mrs. J. Roe Young,

Pima Agency, Sacoaton, Arizona.

My dear Mrs. Young:-

It was very pleasant to receive a letter from you and to know that you look back upon Carlisle with so much pleasure. We were very glad to have the visit from you. From your descriptions Mrs. Pratt and I have gained a great desire to visit Pima Agency, and although it does not seem probable that we shall be able to do so in the very near future, we hope to accept your kind invitation sometime.

It was too bad to have your school so disturbed while you were away and I appreciate your annoyance.

I regret to hear of Mr. Young's illness but trust that by this time he is quite recovered.

Many of our pupils have gone out for the summer and our number here at the School now is small in comparison with the number you saw here. Each year the pupils appreciate more the advantages of this outing and each year we receive more applications for our pupils than we can fill. I wish that you might have made a visit out among some of our patrons and seen this phase of our school work

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Carlisle, Pa., May 28th 1898.

Cleaver Warden,

Darlington, Oklahoma.

Dear Cleaver:-

Your letter was very welcome, and I hope now that you
have broken the silence that you will write to me from time to
time. I want my boys to know that I am always interested in their
welfare and I am always anxious to have them write and tell me of
their affairs.

It was a great pleasure to have the visit from you. I was glad
to take you by the hand and look into your face and see that you
were so manly. I feel proud of the young men who are standing for
the right. I know just what difficulties you have to fight against
and it is therefore that I have such anxiety for you all. The world
is open to you and I would that the young Indian men and women
could break away from the degrading influences and go forward in
the helpful influences of our American life, instead of being
hindered by the reservation life. Now that Oklahoma is open and
you have progressive life around you the Indian Territory will have
to broaden.

We are just printing an illustrated book, giving scenes from

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the Carlisle School, and when it is finished in a couple of weeks
I will send you one. I hope you will show it to your friends and
explain about the School.

The School news you have from the Hesper, and I cannot add so
that. Many of our pupils are out on farms and our number here at
the School grows less each day.

The boys are much interested in ball now and last Saturday
they defected Lehigh University at Bethlehem. You will remember
that Mason went to Lehigh and Jim Given is there now. It was quite
a victory for the boys and they were very jubilant about it. The
score was 3 to 4 in our favor, - a close game you see.

With best wishes from us all at Carlisle,

Always faithfully your friend,

N.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 28th, '96

Miss Lucy Walker, Directress of Nurses,
Pres. Hospital,
Phil., Pa.

My Dear Miss Walker:--

I think it more than likely that Flora will ask to
return to you after six months or a year.

(Dictated)

P.

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

Carlisle, Pa., May 28th, 1895.

Mr. Joel H. Du Bose,
Huguenot, Ga.

Dear Sir :-

We do not deal in Indian relics. You might find a
market with the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, by writ-
ing to Prof. J. Brown Goode, Asst. Sec. at Washington, D.C.

Dictated.

P.

Supt.

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Carlisle, Pa., May 28th, 1896.

Charles F. Jenkins, Editor
"Farm Journal," Phil., Pa.

My Dear Friend :-

I will be very glad to meet the members of your sub-committee on Indian matters on the 8th of June. I believe very material results may ensue.

Noting that you are going to England, I make mention that
my daughter, in company with Miss Schaffner who is matron of
our girls, sails on the Campania on Saturday next, to be pres-
ent at the World's Congress of the W.C.T.U. in London, and
thereafter they take a trip through Scotland and Iceland
and back through Ireland, reaching home by the first of Sep-
tember.

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

E. A. Burnes,

Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I have yours in reference to the Stopper & Fisk
Orchestra Entertainment Monday night. A number of our employ-
es will be present, but our students who are now here are
generally out of money, so I do not think it well to encour-
age their going. Should any ask to go who have the money, I
shall of course give them permission.

(Dictated)

P.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL

Miss Emma R. Gutelaus,

Pyramid Lake, Nev.

My Dear Miss Gutelaus :-

The trip of our party has been abandoned, and the members
have selected their own various routes for the summer.

I would be glad to visit you as you suggest, and talk with the
Indians when they come for their rations, but just now I do not see
how it is practical. It may be that I could see them in the end of
July or some time in August, as I expect to be in Colorado. If you
should remain there and the needs of making up a party should seem
to call upon me to come there to do that, I should endeavor to make
the trip while so near. The better way would be for you to make up
a party and bring them in as I suggested.

Mr. Hargrave, of the other Nevada Agency, has asked my permission to bring in 15 or 16 of his brightest pupils, and I have the authority and am making the preliminary arrangements. Why could you not join parties ?

In regard to the summer schools, I can hardly advise you. One
of the Indian summer schools is at Sioux City, and another at
Tacoma, and you seem to be half way between. You would enjoy a
visit to Tacoma greatly. I was there last year. The Pacific coast

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is quite a wonder land. Should you come east with a party, and
wish, you could easily take in one of the many watering place summer
schools, possibly with our own teachers.

I suppose you know from Miss Schaffner all about her contem-
plated trip with my daughter to England, Scotland, Ireland and Ice-
land. They leave on Saturday on the Campania, to return about the
1st of September.

Supt.

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In reply to:

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

Mr. J. G. Carroll,
Alaska S.S. Co.,
Seattle, Wash.

My Dear Sir :-

A combination of hindrances got in front of my arrangements to take a party to Washington and possibly to Alaska, and that trip is abandoned. We had arranged that about twenty of us would go.

(Dictated)

P.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 28, 1895

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
Sitka, Alaska.

My Dear Doctor :-

Since writing you our trip was abandoned, I have
yours informing me that you intend to leave Sitka before we
would have been able to start from Seattle. Therefore it
seems all the more proper that our trip is off for this year.
When I go to Alaska, I want Dr. Jackson to be there.

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In reply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Robert. A. Mc Fadden,

Andover, Mass.

My Dear Robert :-

Thanks for your kind words about the New England
Magazine received several weeks ago. I have wanted to take my
pen and have a little talk with you, but matters have pressed
upon me so much that I have procrastinated until now.

I want you to come to Carlisle this fall, and if you can
abandon your usual system of rushing to do so, quietly and
calmly give us all the talks you will. I trust we will have
a full school to greet you any time after the 1st of October.
You know how welcome you are in this, one of your homes.

I have a fatherly interest in your present affair and am
so glad that matters are culminating. You have had a long
season of preparation somewhat like Moses' first experience,
and ought now to be skilled in all the learning of the theolo-
gians. You have drawn in a good deal of hard practical expe-
rience in different wildernesses also, so that I am fully of
the opinion that your field is to be a wide and most useful
one. I will write Dr. Buckley today. May be I could get Mr.
Dana too. What think you ?

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In reply to:

Mr. W. G. Thompson,
80 Washington Ave.,
Albany, N. Y.

My Dear Thompson:--

I have your note of safe arrival and your family news. The trip to West Point and Springfield are in line and the right thing.

Our boys thrashed Hutchinson 4 to 3, in a ten inning game. Hutchinson made a home run and won the game.

Your horse is getting on all right. I sent him in to the doctor's and had his foot fixed, and am giving him good care and some exercise. He ran wild with me at first, but I can now turn him somewhat to my liking, and hope before many days to be complete master.

My regards to Mrs. Thompson.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 28th 1895.

Dwight Sherman,

Decatur, Burt Co., Nebraska.

My dear Friend:-

I have your letter about your children and am sorry that
you have been at all concerned about them. You can be assured of
our watchful care of them.

You have evidently a wrong impression of our "outing system."
We are very careful in the selection of homes for the pupils who
go out under the outing system, and in all cases the pupils are
treated as members of the family and not as mere servants. Then
none of the pupils go out who do not themselves wish to go out and
make special request to go. They have the benefit of the home
life, the change of diet and the outdoor life which they could not
get so well here at the School and their knowledge of English and
many other things is greatly forwarded. Eddie and Gertrude both
made special request to go out and were allowed to go. They are both
in two of our best homes and you need have no fear of their working
too hard. Indeed Eddie is too small to do much work and plays more
than he works. However they have doubtless written you themselves.

As I wrote you before Warren Davis has not been strong since

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he came. He has not been sick, and he seems to be getting stronger each day, he has a good appetite and is always ready to play. We think that the regular school life will help his health.

In regard to the pupils who wish to come here and about whom
you write. Please write me more fully about them. We cannot take
girls under 12 and boys under 14 years of age, and they must be in
good health and their parents must give their consent to their
coming. If they can meet these conditions I will arrange through
the Agent for their transfer.

Your friend,

Capt. 10th Cav'y., Supt.

N.

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In comply to:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT,

Carlisle, Pa. May 29th, 1895.

Alfred T. Edgell, Sec. & Treas.
Novelty Box & Printing Co.,
12th & Willow St., Phil., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I return the proofs for book. There are yet six pictures
coming from Crosscup & West and the cover. The cover is promised
on Friday and the pictures on Monday next. As soon as I have the
proofs, I will send them to you with the information I wish to go
with each.

(Dictated)

P.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., May 24th 1905.

Miss Lydia L. Hunt,

San Carlos Agency, Arizona.

My dear Miss Hunt:-

Your letter reached me some weeks ago, but I have been
crowded with business matters and so have delayed answer.

I was glad to hear that you were relieved of your discontents
and that your work was therefore running more smoothly.

There is a strong force at work to incite the Indians against
sending their children east to school, and we are made conscious
of this opposition at every point. However, Carlisle is well
established and we are constantly receiving applications for new
students. We are getting out a little illustrated book of the
School, and this will present us in a telling way. I think, to
both our friends and enemies. But the work is inadequate, and
disease, degradation and death are making rapid strides.

In regard to my getting you transportation for your vacation
trip, I regret that I am unable to do this for you. I have just
had word from the Railroad Company that they cannot furnish tickets
at special rates to us from the west. There is a railroad combine.
I am therefore unable to do any better for you than you can do for
yourself.

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Annette sent me the letter you wrote her about going home. It was so graphic a picture of the reservation conditions that I took the liberty of using it in the Helper, omitting names, believing that you would not object under the circumstances. Annette now seems quite happy to remain east and away from the evil influences you depict. She is a womanly girl and is doing remarkably well.

Mr. Campbell was east and made a strong showing of his case to the Secretary, who ordered his reinstatement in the eligible list. Before this order was issued, however, another superintendent had been installed at Sisseton, and Mr. Campbell and his family are now at Browns Valley, a small town near Sisseton, awaiting an appointment.

Miss Shaffner and Nana expect to sail for Liverpool on the "Campania" on Saturday next. Miss Shaffner is a delegate to the World's Convention of the W. C. T. U. to be held in London and Nana goes for the trip and needed rest. They will spend a month in Great Britain and then with Miss Shaffner's friend, Miss Ackermann, they will go to Iceland, returning home about the first of September.

Marion and her family are now making us a visit and our home is cheered by the voices of the children. Marion and his family were with us for Sunday and the seven grandchildren were very happy together.

With greetings from us all,

N. R. H. PRAAT

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COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., May 25th 1895.

J. F. Boyd,

Chambersburg, Pa.

Thanks for your letter and telegram. Wired Secretary
last night asking him to visit us. On receipt of his reply will
advise you.

(Signed) R. H. Pratt.

COPY TELEGRAM.

Carlisle, Pa., May 29th 1895.

Crosscup & West,

Wire me when to expect proofs of other pictures and cover.

(Signed) Pratt, Capt.
Sent via "Postal," 10.50 A. M.

Govt. rate, chgd.

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Christie, Pa., May 31st, 1895.

Rev. C. Tada,

41 E. 69th St., N. Y.

My Dear Friend :-

I send you by express 50 more slides as you request. I am very glad to do anything I can to forward your interests.

Mrs. Pratt has undertaken to prepare a paper for a club of ladies to which she belongs, on "The Triumph of Japan", and I would be glad to have your expressions for her use and particularly glad if I might get expressions from some distinguished Japanese and prominent missionaries in Japan on the subject. When you are writing home it may be you can secure something that will be useful and valued by Mrs. Pratt; if so, I would be obliged to you.

We are all so glad that the war is over, and that little Japan has had such a complete triumph, for the whole civilized world recognizes the great value that emerges to civilization and progress in China. I quite entirely agree with you in regard to the attitude of Russia. There is possibly, in spite of our fears and aversions a benefit to emerge to the world generally in giving to Russia a good Pacific terminus for her great Siberian Railway.

By daughter Nana sails tomorrow at 11 o'clock on the Sunard

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Steamer Campanie for England, Scotland and Iceland. She is in Room
53, and I am very sure that if you receive this in time tomorrow
morning and can make it convenient to go down to the steamer to see
her for a moment, she would be delighted to see you. She will not
return till September. Miss Schaffner, who has charge of our girls,
is her companion.

Faithfully Your Friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., May 31st, 1895.

Mr. W. H. Winship,

Port Alleghany, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

I have questioned a number, and find that the average is above that named by you as yours, but I am unable to tell you anything about the prospect for appointment. These matters are all in the hands of the Civil Service Commission. I cannot give you any information whatever in regard to the prospect. I know those who have passed very high on the list who have been waiting for many months for appointments.

You will of course stand the best chance by allowing your name to be registered for all the districts. There is little or no chance of being appointed here at Carlisle, for the reason that we are practically full.

Hampton Institute in Virginia is not a Government school, so that there is no possibility of your receiving an appointment there through the Civil Service. It is a contract school and provides its own teachers.

(Dictated)
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Carlisle, Pa., May 31st, 1896.

Edwin L. Chalcraft,
717 Williamson St.,
Seattle, Wash.

My Dear Chalcraft :-

I had a talk with Supt. Hailman about you, and the result
was some considerable feeling. Now I believe and wish to satisfy my
own mind if I am right that Rakestraw made use of the confidence
you reposed in him if you did as you intimated and showed him the
letter I sent you, which you returned to me.

I had a letter from Rakestraw not long ago in which he was ex-
cessively kind and complimentary. If you showed him that letter
and he made use of it with Hailman, that did the business. Rake-
straw knew it would, and gave it the necessary turn. But a differ-
ent judge and jury are forthcoming.

I shall not be at Taconie as things now look. I should be glad
to take the fishing trip with you, but have planned to take one in
Colorado with my son-in-law.

About the employment; positions you name are filled by persons
who have been here quite a number of years. I am carrying one ex-
superintendent of schools, who has had a case something like yours
and have been carrying him for nearly eighteen months. The Depart-
ment refuses to appoint him and I carry him on my irregular force

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and they have not yet refused to allow his salary. From the amount
of feeling exhibited by Dr. Hailman to me, you may expect to be
hounded. All this of course is confidential.

Yours faithfully,

Carlisle, Pa., June 1st, 1995

James Charlton, C.R. & T.A.,

Chicago & Alton R.R.,

Chicago, Ill.

Please wire me best rate you can name Chicago to Denver,
Colorado over your line Union Pacific connection for two passengers.
Tickets wanted the last of next week.

R.H.Pratt.

Western Union.
Gov't. rates.

Sept.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 1st, 1895.

Dennison Wheelock,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Dennison :--

I am waiting to hear from you about an incoming party.
Be careful that you keep in touch with the Agent in making up the
party, and that the Agent understands that the parents give their
consent.

Parties are offering from many different directions, and I
must know something about what to expect. I wish to get in all the
expenses connected with outgoing and incoming students on our '95
appropriation, as I have quite a surplus with which to do this.

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In reply to:

Mr. L. L. Mason,
C/o Henry Penfield,
5757 Madison Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Levant :--

I have your letter from Delphi and write you at once to say that the time for our gathering for the celebration in Wellsville is the 26th and 27th of June, and I wish to be off for the West early in July; at least I am due in Denver on the 13th of July and the Supt. of Indian Schools very much desires that I shall be present at the Indian School Convention at Sioux City July 1-6; but you are to be home in good time, so that we can have a full conference about it before starting.

Now I am more than anxious that you accompany me on this trip. Guy has a number of letters from which I judge we will have a royal good time. We are to go out on White River in the Western part of the state, some forty miles or more from the Railroad. At a ranch we can get very good accommodations for $10.00 a week, and at another ranch 10 miles up the river, which is also suitable, we can get accommodations for $7.00 a week.

The hunting is excellent, but it is too early in the year. The laws of Colorado will not permit that, but the trout fishing is

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very fine, and the mountain air is what I am after.

Yours faithfully,

in reply to:

Mrs. Nona Pratt,

Legansport, Ind.

Dear Nona :--

I send you my check for $16.00(fifteen dollars) covering
the month as usual.

We are in excellent health and have Marian and Guy and their
children with us. Mason, his wife and children are also with us
today. Richenda is home from school and Nona sailed on the Campania
for England, Scotland and Iceland today, to be absent until the 1st
of September.

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in reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 1st, 1895

Robert A. Mc Fadden,

Andover, Mass.

My Dear Robert :-

Thanks for your note of the 29th ult. You can have your
word with Dr. Buckley whenever you desire, for I have written him.

About Mr. Dana; I will endeavor when in New York soon to see
him and talk the matter over.

We shall be ready for you at any time you select, and you
shall have as full an opportunity as I can get you to take.

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in reply to

Dr. W. N. Hailman, Supt. Ind. Schools,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

I hereby certify that Mrs. Julia Wheelock, née Powlas, is a graduate of this school, class of 1889, and that in both character and ability, she is entitled to the favor of the Department for such position as she is capable of filling in the Indian School service.

Capt. 10th Cavalry.

(dictated)

P.

Supt.

Received in Official Letter Book. Therefore not indexed here.

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In reply to

Rev. Dr. J. N. Buckley, Editor
"Christian Advocate",
New York City.

My Dear Doctor :-

I want to book you now for our Commencement in the end
of February next. I want you to come over if you can and give us a
lecture on Tuesday, stay with us over Wednesday, and give a brief
address of fifteen or twenty minutes to the hosts that gather at
our Commencement exercises Thursday.

For the lecture I can pay you, but I shall hope that you can
give it to me for $75.00. Dear Doctor, I feel sure that I can prom-
ise you as good an audience as can be gotten together in this re-
gion. We always have members of Congress and officials from Wash-
ington. Next year we shall have an unusual number of visitors from
Washington, because the new Congress is more in sympathy with us
than the present one.

I write you early, so that I may be sure to forestall any pre-
vious arrangement. The last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday or
taking in the beginning of March will be the days. I can tell you
more definitely later on.

Cordially and Faithfully Yours,

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Carliole, Pa., June 3rd, 1895.

Dear Henry :--

Guy and Marian with their children are here and about to return to their home in Denver on Friday next. They want to take two of my Indian girls back with them as helps. Their tickets to and from Chicago were by way of the Union Pacific to Kansas City and the Chicago & Alton to Chicago. I want to send the girls with them and can get a half rate between here and Chicago. On Saturday I telegraphed Mr. Charlton, of the C. & A., asking him to name the lowest rate for two passengers Chicago to Denver by the C. & A. and U.F. He sent me the enclosed telegram. This is about $2.00 more than the regular rate from Chicago to Denver by other routes, as I am informed by those who have recently travelled it, and roundabout should be less than the direct route. However that does not matter; what I want is two first class tickets from Chicago to Denver at the very lowest rate that can be had, so that the girls can travel with Guy and Marian and help with the children.

As there is a cut in rates on account of the Conventions in Denver, I do not see why Mr. Charlton should send me such a telegram, and why he should not give me the low rate.

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Will you not kindly take this letter, see him personally and lay the matter before him for his further determination, and wire me the result? If on account of lower rates on other roads, I shall have to send the girls over other routes, I shall do so, but it will be a great favor to Guy and Marian to have the girls with them to help take care of the three children.

I make the suggestion that there might be scalpers' tickets by that route that could be had. If you are very busy, perhaps Levant could look after it. It is important, as you can see, that I know immediately, so that I can arrange with one of the other lines if Mr. Charlton continues obdurate.

I shall hope to hear from you by wire on or before Wednesday noon.

With love to you and yours,

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in reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 3rd, 1895.

Miss E. L. Patterson,

Ft. Defiance, Ariz.

My Dear Miss Patterson :-

Thanks for your letter of the 27th in regard to the chil-
dren for Carlisle. The law just now requires the consent of parents
and the law for the next year requires the same thing, so I do not
see how we can get children from any point without their consent.
However, there is much more liberality growing up in the minds of
parents, planted very largely, I think, by the Agents. Whether or
not the opposition is also due to the Agents, I am unable to say,
but it is so in some cases. Parental consent can almost always be
gained if the Agent is "built that way."

I know all about the arrangement you speak of, and it is a very
excellent one, inaugurated by the present Superintendent, Dr. Hail-
man.

Should you succeed in persuading the six or any part of them to
come to Carlisle, I shall be very glad to make the necessary trans-
portation arrangements, and should the whole six come, and you your-
self wish to bring them, I will arrange for you to come in charge.
All your old friends will be very glad to see you here at Carlisle.

I had thought of being at the Institute at Sioux City, but it

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comes immediately after the close of the fiscal year, when we are
trying to close up the present year's business and open the business
of next year, and our contracts for coal, lumber, and such supplies
as we purchase here, are to be attended to, and I am a good deal
put to it to see just how I am to get away. I attended all the
Institutes last summer except the one at Chilocco, which Mr. Bakeles
attended.

I have a great desire to be entirely free from all school mat-
ters for at least a month if possible, and am planning to be at the
National Teachers' Association on the 13th of July, when I am to
talk on "Industrial Education for the Indians", and also to address
the Colorado State Teachers' Association. After that, with Guy and
a few friends, I am proposing to go back into the western part of
the state on the White River, and do some good resting and fishing.

I am getting out a little book which will contain sixty of our
reproduced photographs, and will send you one in a fortnight or so.

We have with us at present Guy and Marion, Mason and Mabel and
the seven grand-children. Richenda has just returned from school
near Baltimore. Nana sailed on Saturday morning on the Campania
for Liverpool, to be absent until September 1st in England, Scot-
land, the Shetland Islands, Iceland and Ireland. I hope the long
voyage and complete change and rest will do her good. She is troub-
led with nervousness, probably of typewriter and over-work origin.

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In reply to:

Rev. Dr. Jas. Stuart,

Lovedale, South Africa.

My Dear Doctor :-

You remember that you left with me your check for $200.00 stating that you would want other things from America, that you would like to have the money here and have me act as your purchasing agent. The articles you bought of us amounted to $82.43, including the freight to New York, leaving a balance of $117.97 with us. This I placed in an envelope and put in the bottom of my money drawer under other papers, and there it has remained awaiting your orders. $100.00 of it I put into a 3% certificate, so that you have some small interest on the amount. The matter has not come to my attention but once or twice since then, owing to the fact that my mother's affairs have been in the hands of my daughter, and she understood that the money was to lie there until we heard from you.

I am not tired of keeping your money, but write this as a reminder, feeling that it has escaped your memory that you had this amount in my hands.

How are you and Mrs. Stuart? Do write me something from your far-away home. Did the goods reach you all right? I received a liberally illustrated and most intensely interesting and valuable

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story of Africa, but no intimation of the sender. I have suspected it came from you. If so, I want to say how very grateful I am to you for it. It has opened our eyes to the possibilities more than anything we have yet found about "The Dark Continent".

We are all well. Our affairs are going on very well. The last two years have not been less prosperous than any of the previous. I am anticipating much for the ensuing year, as we are now receiving almost all our pupils from the home schools who have been somewhat acclimated to the school-room, and have had a sufficient start to demonstrate that there are more than ordinary possibilities for them.

Mrs. Pratt, our family and all the school join me in most cordial remembrance to both yourself and Mrs. Stuart.

Yours Fraternally,

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Supt. W. H. Winslow,

Ft. Shaw, Mont.

My Dear Friend :-

Thanks for your kindly note about the New England Maga-
zine. I will send you before many days a copy of a little book we
are getting out, containing some sixty reproduced photographs of our
school, which I trust will be interesting and helpful to the whole
school work as a demonstration of the possibilities.

What summer schools do you attend this year ?

(Dictated)

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Is it please to:

Mrs. H. S. Ellis, Sec. etc.,

1235 N. 13th St., Phil. Pa.

My Dear Mrs. Ellis:-

I want to thank you most cordially for your very kindly note. The influences seem interminable, yet I feel just now that the dawn of a better condition is near. The country is waking up to the real facts and I have great faith in the righteous judgments of the general public of our dear home land. The great trouble is to get the facts well before the people.

The school papers will be sent to you direct.

(Dictated)

P.

Supt.

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in regard to.

Mr. J. L. Maynard,

Fillmore,

Allegany Co., N. Y.

My Dear Sir :-

Mr. Church advises me that you are to deliver the histor-
ical address at the celebration on the 26th and 27th. He has asked
me to speak and advises that you can supply me with some matter
that will enable me to better understand the situation and be some-
what prepared for the duty imposed upon me.

I should be very glad if on receipt of this, you would at once
forward me some printed matter on the County, which I could use
without interfering with your address, and at the same time not
cause you too much inconvenience. As I have been away from the
county for 49 years, and not acquainted with anyone in the County so
far as I know, I am entirely at a loss in considering what I ought
to say.

I shall hope while in the county to see my native town of Rush-
ford, and may possibly meet some one who knew my father and mother.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., June 5th, 1895.

Charles A. Dana, Editor

"The New York Sun", N.Y.

My Dear Mr. Dana :-

I do not know if you have followed the course of this school. If you have, you may know that we have a very large institution here, and that annually we graduate a detachment of young Indians at about the grammar grade of our public schools, with a knowledge of some trade.

I have repeatedly thought I would like to have you visit us, and would be especially glad to have you present at one of our Commencement occasions. I know you are a tremendously busy man, and yet even you must have some relaxation, and I have wondered if you would not find that in a visit to us at our next Commencement in the end of February, 1896. We use the last Wednesday and Thursday of February. I write you now, so that if possible I may forestall other engagements and get you to make the visit and remain with us the full two days, and make a brief address during the graduation exercises. I would of course, take good care of you both en route and at the school. I trust that I may hear from you before very long, saying that you will be with us.

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Is it please to:

Sarah Nelson,

Maud, Pa.

Dear Sarah :-

A letter has come to me from your aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Tehee containing $20.00, saying you were to come home on that.

I fear you have been writing to your aunt in a way you ought not to do. If you wanted to go home this summer, you should not have gone to the country. It was your right to stay here and go home with the party at the close of the school year. You yourself determined to go out to the country and to stay here at least another year. It is not right for you to try to break your agreement, and you know that. I have sent the $20.00 back to your aunt and told her it was wrong to send the money. When you do go home you can go at the Government expense.

Your Friend and School-father,

P.

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to reply to

Carlisle, Pa., July 20, 1895.

Enos Graham,
Algonac, Mich.

Enos:

You plunged into trouble by running away from your place,
without seeking a regular means for remedying whatever complaint
you had to make, and now I cannot help you out. If you want your
clothes, you must come for them.

Your friend,

(G)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., July 29, 1895.

Capt. A. E. Woodson,
Acting U. S. Ind. Agent,
Chey. & Arap. Aoy., Darlington, Ok.

Sir:

A letter comes to hand from Frank Harrington, a Cheyenne, living at the Centerment, formerly a pupil of this school, asking that such an endorsement of him as we can give be sent to you to aid his application for work.

In regard to Frank, throughout his career here he was a faithful and industrious boy, of uniformly good character and conduct. He has had a good deal of experience farming among the Pennsylvania farmers, and when at the school, worked in the Carpenter Shop. In scholarship, he is only fair, but as a man, I can recommend him for any employment that comes within his capacity.

Diplated. (G)

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Carlisle, Pa., July 29, 1895.

William Small

6 West Market St.,
York, Penna.

Dear sir:--

Enclosed find my official check #32136, for $17.00, in payment for your work in retinding a number of school-books--for which you signed our pay-roll some time ago, while here,--also my personal check for $41.50, in payment of the enclosed bills, which please receipt and return.

(G)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., July 29, 1895.

Mr. William Silas,

West DePere, Wis

Dear Sirs:

Your letter of July 26, in regard to your son working in the country, has been received. He went to the country this spring, his pay at first was $6.00 per month; in June it was raised to $8.00 and in July there would be another raise, so that the matter of compensation will be all right. It is nearly always the wish of the boys to go out during the summer and earn a little money. It is also the rule of the school that they shall do it when we can spare them, for the experience that they get out of it. They of course look at the money. We look at the experience.

All the pupils who are away from the school, are now being visited by the visiting agent, and if he finds anything wrong, it is reported. Of course the country period is now drawing to a close, as September begins school again. You may rest easy and be satisfied that the boy is looked after all right.

Bistated. (0)

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Carliole, Pa., July 31st, 1895.

Charles F. Largent,
Thomasville, Ga.

Dear Sirs,

Your letter of 24th inst., inquiring about an Indian--
War Horse, said to have been in attendance at this school, received
No such person has ever been at Carliole, and he must be an impostor
if he represents himself as having been a student here.

I send you some printed matter which will give you some
idea of our work.

(a)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., August 1st 1895.

To the Adjutant-General, U. S. A.,

Washington, D. C.

Sir:-

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

My address for the next month is as above.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

Capt. 10th Cavalry., Supt.

No.

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in reply to:

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

Carisle, Pa., August 1st 1895.

To the Adjutant,

10th U. S. Cavalry,

Ft. Custer, Montana.

Sir-

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

R.

Capt. 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Pa., August 1st 1898.

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

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

1428 Arch Street, Philadelphia.

Sir's

Hereewith enclosed please find forage requisition in
duplicate for my two private horses for the month of August 1898.

N.

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Penna., August 1st, 1895.

Prof. O. R. Bareless,

Cans Indian School Convention,

El Rano, Oklahoma.

Dear Friends:-

Your note of the 24th ult., from Tacoma, received. I
have followed up such letters as you have given as to the prospects
for incoming students, but I will confess that the outlook is not
bright. You may be able to find something more tangible at
El Rano. We have had some applications from the Sac & Fox AGENCY,
and if there should be a representative from there at the confer-
ence, push the matter all you can. I think you will meet more of
our students at El Rano than at any other point, and it looks
as though we ought to get some students from that section of the
country. You will probably meet Mr. Sager, Richard Davis, Kich
Bowling, and many others who were educated at Carlisle, and are
now commanding some influence in their homes. I do now know of
any place where we should be more favorably received than among the
tribes of that part of the Indian Territory.

As soon as you can after reaching El Rano, write as to
any indications therein to. Can't will be at home by that time

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In reply to:

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

Carlisle, Pa., August 1st, 1895.

Benjamin Green,

or G. H. Beaumont,

Jerison, Pa.

Dear Friends:--

I have your letter about your going home to receive your money, and also one from Mrs. Boss Bluejacket, on the same business. I suggest another course in regard to this money that will be just as effective and more economical. Write a letter addressed to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, stating who you are, what the money is, that you object to its being paid to your father or any one else, and wish it retained in the U. S. Treasury until you are 21 years of age. As I understand it, you would not be able to draw it personally until you are of age. At any rate that is the usual order in such matters. Send the letter here, and I will forward it to the Commissioner with a certificate that you are Benjamin Green, and the one entitled to the annuity. This, I think, will stop the payment to any one else and secure it to you. Do it at once.

Your friend,

Mistated. (9)

Asst.upt., in charge.

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Mrs. Boss Elsie jacket,
Vinita, Ind. Ky.

Dear Madam:--

Your letter of July 27th, in regard to Benjamin Green,
has been received. Benjamin understands the situation and is
meeting it in a way that I think will stop the payment to any one
else of his money. Can you tell me who will make the payment?
What Agency is he considered to belong to, and just when will the
payment be made?

Distributed. (6)

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,
OFFICE OF AGENCY OFFICER.

Carlinle, Penna., August 1st, 1895.

J. W. Davis,

P. O. Box 281,

Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir:--

Your letter of July 30th comes to hand in the absence of Capt. Pratt, who will not return to the school for probably a week yet. The letter will be brought to his attention at once on his return.

In regard to the subject matter of the letter, I am not able to speak explicitly as regards this year. The situation last year seemed to be rather favorably reported on by students who had returned from the Crew Agency. Capt. however may be better quoted, and will write you.

Distributed. (G)

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Carliole, Penna., August 1st, 1893.

Prof. F. W. Clark.

Dept. U. S. Geological Survey,
Washington, D. C.

Srr:

I forward you herewith Bills of Lading and Invoices for the
shipment of cases and exhibits to Atlanta from this point, via the
Richmond and Danville system, loaded in Cumberland Valley car #508.

I expect to leave for Atlanta about August 15th, and will
bring a useful mechanic with me--but not Mr. Gardner; his services
are necessary here in connection with a new building going up.

Please send the two tickets, and oblige,

(G)

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In reply to

Carlisle, Penna., August 7, 1895.

Gen. J. F. Boyd,

Supt. Cumberland Valley R. R.,
Chambersburg, Penna.

Dear Sirs--

Your letter of August 6th, in regard to an excursion party
about the 27th of this month, has been received. Capt. Pratt is
away from the school at present, and possibly will not have re-
turned by the date indicated.

You understand that during the vacation months, there is
very little of interest at the school, and this summer we are more
broken up than usual. If however, you care to make this a stopping
place for the party, they, of course, may be interested in seeing
what there is, and we shall be glad to have you call.

Dictated. (G)

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In reply to:

Carlisle, Penna., Aug. 8, 1995.

Supt. St. Francis Hospital,
Trenton, N. J.

Sir or Madam:--

I am informed that an Indian boy, Fred Hare, one of our
students who was living with Mr. E. N. Ely of Yardley, has been
received into the hospital under your care, sick with Typhoid Fever.
I had sent a nurse to Mr. Ely's, but he had arranged for his ad-
mission to the hospital, which seemed perhaps the best thing under
the circumstances. I desire however, to be informed occasionally
and fully of the progress of the case. So far I have heard nothing
although he was admitted, I think, on Saturday, the 3rd inst.
Please write me at once.

Dictated. (C)

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