May 4, 1904.

Col. O. B. Simmons, Supt.,
South Mountain Camp Sanatorium,
Mt. Alto,
Franklin Co., Pa.

My dear Colonel :

Since my doctor was up to see you we have returned three of
our worst cases of tuberculous trouble to their homes on the demands of
their parents, and I begin to fear that it will not be practicable for
me to hold on to such cases without entirely disregarding the requests
from their home people, which in case of fatal outcome would put me in
a very unfortunate position. I should have written you before, but had
to go over to Perry County yesterday which took the whole day. On Mon-
day I was otherwise occupied. I am real sorry you are so far away on
account of getting supplies to and from the camp. The Department has
authorized me to do this, provided there is no expense against the
Government connected with it. If it were on the line of our South Houn-
tain road I could handle it perhaps better; and I have wondered whether
it would not do for me to take one of the vacant houses on a vacant
mountain farm about Pine Grove, and keep it in shape both summer and
winter and try it here. I want to see Dr. Rothrock and talk that over
with him before I make any further movement. This would enable me to
send out and back, and have my doctor visit the camp daily if necessary,
and to keep the whole movement more under my control.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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May 4, 1904.

Eera Sheldon,
Genesee, Idaho.

My dear Sir :

When your son Arthur graduated here he could have gone home
at once, and nobody would have said aught against it. Of his own motion,
so far as I know, he wanted to stay here if I would send him to Dickin-
son College. I agreed to that, and started him in at the school, pay-
ing his tuition to the end of the school year.

I find that the general passenger agent here is instructed to
give him a ticket to Genesee, Idaho, and furnish him a small sum of
money, which is an evidence that he intended to take "French leave".
In all such cases the passenger agent operates through the superintend-
ent, as the parties who wish the youth at home ought to do. This sort
of underhanded work, as you can understand of course, is detrimental to
the whole school and ought not to be practiced; and when graduates are
parties thereto, it looks still worse. I repeat : Arthur had every
right to go home after graduating. He need not have stayed a minute.
But if under any circumstances whatever he agreed to stay it is his
duty to do so. To violate that and to violate it through a trick, is
a very bad start. I have instructed the passenger agent not to give
him the ticket and money and told him that he cannot go home until the
close of the present fiscal year; but I fear he will, from his temper
about it. However, I shall stand right at that point.

I write this for your information, and believe that if you
understand what is for the best interests of your boy, you will not be

a party to his intentions.

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May 3, 1904.

Miss Augusta E. Penfield,
4 Briggs St.,
Salem, Mass.

My dear Augusta :

The Civil Service Commission supplies, as your letter indicates that you know, our librarian and there is no way by which you could get into the Government service except through the award of that Commission. They hold examinations spring and fall for all the various positions when their lists are not full; and from these lists those who stand highest are selected. My librarian left me on the 13th of April, and I of course asked to have her place filled. That has been done by the assignment of Miss Beach from one of the libraries in Brooklyn, so that there is no chance for you here now. I would suggest that you write the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., stating that you are a librarian and would like to take the examinations and get into the Government service; and your name being on the list for one year after you have passed, may offer to you an opportunity that would suit you. When you are once in the service, it is an easy matter to be transferred; so that in case you are in the service at some point and I want a librarian here, I could ask for you and you could ask to be transferred to Carlisle, and that would be done.

I have been greatly pleased to know from Levant that you are so successful in your work, and if we had taken it in

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May 4th, 1904.

Mrs. Nancy Hill,
Trenton,

Erie Co., N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Hill :

Maggie's name is on the home list to leave here about
the first of July. I have marked her to go to Akron. Is that
the railroad point that you wish her sent to?

May 4th, 1904.

Mrs. J. Van Kirk, Treas., etc.,
Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Mrs. Van Kirk :

Since last year I have had so many personal obligations
thrust upon me and prospectively so many more that I do not see
how I can, in justice to other interests, go any further in the
line of donating until things take a different shape with me. I
am very sorry not to meet your expectations.

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May 5, 1904.

Dr. Lemuel G. Moss,
13 W. 35th St.,
New York City.

My dear Doctor :

My plan is to go over and stop at one of the hotels
over Sunday. I like to treat myself to this sort of thing
occasionally, and will probably go to the Manhattan which cannot
be far away from the Madison Avenue Church. I do not know exactly
where it is.

I send you a copy of about what I intend to say at the
meeting.

Sincerely yours,

May 5, 1904.

Gen. L. A. Matele, U. S. A.,
1706 "Q" St.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear General :

I find that you can get accommodations, in-
cluding board and one of the best rooms, in either
of our two most desirable hotels - The Wellington
and Mansion House - for ten to twelve dollars per
week; other rooms accordingly.

I should be glad to have you for a neighbor,
after all the years.

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May 5th, 1904.

Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,

Hogansburg, N. Y.

My dear Brother Kingsbury :

Your letter shows that you have grit in the matter and are anxious to work it out. I intend to remove the obstructions and give you every chance; and we will try to do our part at this end. I will have tickets to Carlisle placed with the agent at Massachusetts Springs, deliverable on your order from time to time as you may call for them; and I will pay the expense of arresting any runaway boys, that of the officer for bringing them in and a reasonable per diem expense for the service; and we will see what comes of it. If the movement can be made to produce apprehension and inconvenience there, that will have a restraining influence, all right.

There is this to be said about new students, and I must say it to you confidentially : The Catholics here are approaching upon their liberties and giving me trouble in their instruction to their young people. I told them in the beginning that if we could not work smoothly together, I would eliminate the Catholic element from the school. I have made complaints to their higher authorities, and they indicate modifications and press me not to do that. The Catholic section is proportionately too large, and I should not hesitate to fill up this year with Protestant children if I could do that and not take any Catholics. That would still further modify their imperiousness.

You understand now that there will be transportation placed for you or anyone you may send, to bring runaways back to Carlisle, and

-2- Rev. Kingsbury.

it will be deliverable to you at such times as you may call for it,
until I countermand the order; and that I will pay a reasonable expense
for bringing the runaways back. Now if you can manage it at that end,
go ahead. I think, however, that the parents and people there ought to
be made to feel the discouraging influences of such antics as their
children cut up.

I enclose to you a letter from the policeman and constable at
Massena which explains itself. I cannot find that we have had a Frank
Terrance here. It may be a Terrance by another name.

May 4, 1904.

Mr. Benuto Molido,
Arlington,
Riverside Co., Cal.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 28th of April, I have
placed the name of your daughter, Claudia Molido, on the home
list, to leave here about the first of July, in company with
other girls.

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May 6, 1904.

Levi J. Burd,

Browning, Mont.

Dear Sir :

Your brother Iza has made as good progress as could
be expected, having advanced a grade each year since he came here.
He is not entitled to return home until the close of the next
school year when he can go without any hindrance.

You speak of his being in the country all the time. He
has been in the country each summer since he came, and here at
the school every winter except last winter when he remained out
and went to a school with white children, which is even better
for his future than being here where all are Indians.

I am sorry that the rules will not permit me to accede
to your request, but am sure that the final results will more
than justify any sacrifices that have to be made at his home.

May 7, 1904.

Mr. Sinora Hicks,
Mushroom Ranch,
Gold Creek,
Elko Co., Nev.

My dear Mr. Hicks :

Polly has already gone to Philadelphia to be with a
very nice family and go to the seashore for a few days, which will
be an excellent experience for her; much better than staying here
at the school, as she told you desired. She herself signed to go
to the country. Students are not forced to go out; but Polly's
signing was an expression of her desire to go, and we carried it
out.

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May 6, 1904.

Mr.H. W. Littlefield,
129 S. 5th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter in regard to additional insurance. My
situation now is the same as it was when I wrote you before.

I was very sorry to miss the opportunity to honor General
Gregg, and intended to go down with others until the last moment, but
it was not practicable. I was glad to see by the papers that the
General was so kindly recognized.

Very truly yours,

Col. & Supt.

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May 7, 1904.

Mrs. Christine Smith,
R. F. D. # 5,
Syracuse, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Smith :

Col. Pratt directs me to say that it is not possible,
under the rules of the school, to send Maggie home this summer.
Arrangements are made for our girls during the summer, either
to remain at the school or go to the country under our outing
system; and none are returning to their homes, except on account
of their own poor health, until the term for which they came
has expired.

Maggie is doing better in school, I believe, than she
has at any other time since coming, and it would be a misfor-
to do anything to check her progress. I trust you will look
upon the matter from the standpoint of her welfare.

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May 6, 1904.

Miss Jean D. Surrounded,
Crow Creek, S. Dak.

Dear Miss :

I have your letter asking to come here to school. It
is important that all applications should come through the Indian
agent. If you go to your agent and ask him to request that you
come here, and your record is all right, we should be very glad
to provide transportation to Carlisle for you at such time as it
would suit you to come. I enclose to you an application blank
filled
which should be carefully out, if you desire to be admitted under
this arrangement.

TELEGRAM.

May 7. 1904.

Rev. Osgood E. Herrick,
Chaplain, U. S. A.,
Ebbitt House,
Washington, D. C.

Your letters. Shall expect you Tuesday. See my letter.

Pratt.

POSTAL 8:10 A. M.

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May 9, 1904.

Mrs. G. S. Evans,
141 Park Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Madam :

I am in receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, ask-
ing that your son be admitted to the Carlisle School. We are
not accustomed to taking students from Chicago. The opportu-
nities for education in the public schools there are excellent,
and it is not presumed that any Indians such as we receive are
living there. If your son is entitled to the benefit of an
Indian school, please state upon what grounds ; and further con-
sideration will be given the subject.

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May 10, 1904.

Miss Jennie E. Sequisse,
Industrial Training School,
Sitka, Alaska.

Dear Miss Sequisse :

I telegraphed Mr. Kelly just now that I would receive
a party of your young people, and we will try to arrange it for
you to come in. I shall be very glad indeed to have you make use
of Carlisle to forward your education.

May 10, 1904.

Miss Maggie Hamilton,
Industrial Training School,
Sitka, Alaska.

Dear Miss Hamilton :

I have just arranged that Mr. Kelly make up a party
for Carlisle, and shall be very glad to invite you as
one of his party. We have no more satisfactory students among
our number than the Alaskans.

kindly your friend,

Col. & Supt.

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May 10, 1904.

Mrs. A. F. Reynolds,
510 Tremont Temple,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Mrs. Reynolds :

I have your full letter about Marietta Lemar.

The trouble is that she is already in a Government school.
If the authorities of that school wanted to transfer her to Car-
lisle, it would be very simple; but if they did not want to trans-
fer her - and the chances are that they do not, because the rules
of the Government have placed such impediments in the way that we
are finding it very difficult to keep up a supply of students - it
would cause trouble. The Indian Bureau has put more school accom-
modations on many reservations than they have children to fill
them. They then appointed school officials and demanded that the
schools should be kept full or else the officials would be dis-
charged. No better means of producing enmity against the non-
reservation schools could be adopted; and that is the result.
If it can be arranged any way that we can receive the girl here,
I shall be very glad to do it, provided the authorities give pur-
mission.

Very truly yours,

Col. & Dept.

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May 11, 1904.

Mr. Joseph LaRoeque,
# 6 E. 56th St.,
New York City.

My dear Friend :

I have found a pair of dark bays, well matched, six
years old and weighing eleven hundred pounds apiece, which seem
to be in perfect condition. They carry themselves nicely. The
owner claims they are good for eight to nine miles an hour, and
he will sell the pair for six hundred dollars. They are clean
limbed, tract well together and are remarkably well matched in
color and size. Both hold their heads high, even when not check-
reined. I call them an exceptionally good pair. The owner claims
that they are easily driven, do not shy at trolley, automobile or
cars and that they work well singly; also that one of them is
quite a lady's horse. I have every confidence in this man's rep-
resentations, as he is as good a horseman as we have in this region
and has bought most of the horses that I have used at the school
during the last twenty-five years. I would suggest that you either
come over and make us a little visit, and see them yourself, or
send someone in whom you have confidence.

The horse show that I expected to attend in Virginia,
does not occur until the middle of June.

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May 12, 1904.

Mrs. John Crosbie Brown,
36 E. 37th St.,
New York City.

Dear Mrs. Brown :

I have at last secured a drum for you, and enclose
you a copy of Ralph's letter. It is not the kind of a drum
that I anticipated it would be, and you don't have to keep it
if you don't want to. I sent Ralph the three dollars to cover.

Very sincerely,

May 12, 1904.

Dr. J. T. Rothrock,
Commissioner of Forestry, etc.,
Mt. Alto,
Franklin Co., Pa.

My dear Doctor :

The conditions at present make it inexpedient for me
to move in any way along the lines of my intentions, either at
Pine Grove or here. Whether matters will clear up so I shall
be able to do so later, is a question.

Very sincerely,

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May 12, 1904.

Mr. Edward Rogers,
Law Dept.,
Univ. of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minn.

Dear Edward :

As you know, we have Bemus for assistant coach. Frank Hudson had applied for the position of coach, but I wrote him that he ought by all means to stay where he is. He is getting a good salary and growing right up in his business. But I stated to him that if he could give us a little time during the early part of the season, I thought perhaps we would like him for another help, hoping that he could teach some of the boys the cunning "toe-twist" he has. I had no reply from until this morning. He says now he can give us two weeks of his vacation period, if the proposition is still open; and it would be the first two weeks in September. Don't you think I had better let him come and help us? It seems to me he can do a whole lot to stimulate the boys and perhaps give them very valuable instruction. Please write me at once.

Sincerely yours,

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May 12, 1904.

Mr. Frank Hudson,

343 Lehigh Ave.,

Pittsburg, Pa.

My dear Frank :

I have just written to Edward about your coming early
in September to be an additional help in coaching the team. I
feel so entirely sure of his wanting you that I think you can
count on it with certainty. I would say the same for you that
we have for Bemus, that is, at the rate of $200.00 a month and
found. We will pay your expenses here and back and take care of
you while here. If this is satisfactory and Edward does not ob-
ject, of which I will inform you as soon as I hear, you may con-
sider the matter settled.

Sincerely your friend,

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May 12, 1904.

Mrs. J. V. Haughton,
47 Allen St.,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Madam :

We do not make up our list of entertainments until
September. If your Honolulu students were in this vicinity,
and their performance did not cost us too much, we should be
pleased to consider an engagement; but we do not pay any
considerable prices for our entertainments.

Very truly yours,

Col. & Supt.

May 12, 1904.

Steve Aiken,
Barker Creek, Mich.

My dear Sir :

Under our rules neither of your daughters are entitled
to go home until next year, when both will be allowed to go.
They are well and doing well, and I feel assured of your satis-
faction when you come to know the good results of their being
here.

Col. & Supt.

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May 13, 1904.

Mrs. L. R. Woodward,

Arago,

Coos Co., Ore.

Dear Mrs. Woodward :

It is just as I feared. Sosipatri was only planning to
accomplish her purpose and get home when she went to you; however, I
entirely
think you will be justified in resorting to strong measures in order
to prevent her going home. So far as my information comes, and it is
of the best, there is nothing but destruction for her there. Dr. Jackson
Alaskan
himself talks freely about it. We have a girl here who is so bad,
and has been so ever since she came that I must get rid of her. I refer
to the matter to Dr. Jackson and he says he sees no other way but to
send her home. She has a father who is in all probabilities entirely
responsible for her qualities.

Time and again, good, strong, best intentioned girls,
far stronger than Sosipatri, have been just as confident in their abil-
ity to meet the issues, have gone home and gone to the bad - to places
not anywhere near as difficult as her home.

I return Mrs. Newhall's letter.

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May 13, 1904.

Dr. L. Webster Fox,
1304 Walnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Doctor Fox :

Col. Pratt just before leaving for Gettysburg this morning
for the day, instructed me to write you saying that one of our young
men, Louis Flores, who is suffering with his eyes, is recommended by
Dr. Diven to be sent to you. We would like to send him early next
week, say Monday, if convenient to you.

Juliette Smith, who was down three weeks ago, says that you
wish her to report again at the hospital next Friday, the 20th. Is
this correct ?

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May 14, 1904.

Mr. W. T. Zeigler,
Gettysburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I find our Band is not obligated for Decoration Day, and,
although it is quite reduced on account of band boys to the
country and not up to its usual excellence, I believe we could
make a very fair appearance with thirty members. Should you
wish the Band to come and be willing to entertain them while there,
I am sure the railroad company would give us free transportation;
and I would be glad to have the boys enjoy the outing and have
the privilege of hearing the President. So that if you have no
other arrangements and want them, let me know at once. I can
take the matter up with the Reading people, or you can from there;
either will, I am sure, bring what we want.

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May 14, 1904.

Mr. Wm. H. Underwood,
Lords Court Bldg.,
40 Exchange Place,
New York City.

Dear Sir :

I have had your letter for quite a number of days.

I have been exceedingly busy owing to the exceptional conditions at this season of the year; and also, I wished to be as mature as practicable.

Both your daughter and the Doctor have arrived at the
years of discretion. That, to me, counts for a great deal. There
is no prejudice against the Indians in such matters, as far as I
know. I recall a very great many instances within my experience
of marriages between the races from both sides, that have been
apparently as happy as any other marriage within my knowledge. The
wife of my present assistant superintendent, who is a college grad-
uate and a graduate in law as well, is one of my own Indian girls,
graduating from us in the early nineties. There are three super-
intendents of Indian boarding schools whose Indian wives are grad-
uates of Carlisle. Two of my Indian boys, one a superintendent
and another, principal teacher, have white wives; and a very con-
siderable number of my former students - young men - have married
white wives; and a larger number of white men have married our
Indian girls. Miss Blanche Goodale, a poet writer of no mean dis-
tinction, is the wife of Mr. Charles A. Eastman, a Sioux Indian.
They have four very handsome promising children. Mrs. Cook, now
my outing agent in charge of the girls and formerly a teacher here

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for quite a good many years, is the widow of Rev. Charles Cook,
who was a Sioux Indian and missionary to his people. Mrs. Cook
has a son about fifteen years of age.

I was talking this morning with the Rev. Osgood E. Herrick, one of our oldest and best known Army chaplains and who served for fifteen years as chaplain at Fortress Monroe, about the people of Virginia. We have several Army officers and a number of Army officers' wives who trace their lineage back to Pocahontas with great pride. Mr. Curtiss, who has been representing the Tobacco district of Kansas in the House of Representatives and who has been and is now a prominent candidate for Senator, is an Indian; his wife is white. Among the so called civilizing tribes of the Indian Territory, there are hundreds of intermarriages both ways: and many whom I have met were most delightful people.

I have thought much on the lines of your suggestion as to whether I would be willing that my own daughter should marry an Indian. It never has and does not now present itself to me otherwise than, that if the man had the moral, intellectual and other qualities necessary, I should not feel that the fact that he was an Indian was a ground for objection.

I have for many years had a high regard for Dr. Montezuma because of his straying qualities. It was at my suggestion that he went to Chicago and settled down to practice his profession. I gave him $100.00 a month and his quarters while he was there, and he has been a very successful physician. He would have no trouble whatever to get the same salary at any time in the same practice, either as an agency or a school physician. He could come here if he wanted to; but I have decided him

(3) Mr. Underwood.

to make a success of life and demonstrate that an Indian can
go out from his people and become a perfectly acceptable citizen
and professional man in our densest communities. If my in-
formation is correct, Dr. Montezuma has accomplished that result.
Ever since his return to Chicago he has had an office at 100

State Street, and nothing has moved him from there. He tells me
that he has been making something more than a living. His
associations and his church standing all indicate him to be a
Christian man, and his conduct while here confirms that.

Sincerely yours,

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May 14, 1904.

Rev. Edward Marsden,
Saxman,
Ketchikan, Alaska.

My dear Edward :

The Indian Bureau seemed determined to stick
thirty-two hundred dollars on me - the expenses of my going
to Alaska and bringing in your party; but Congress made it all
right, giving us even more money than I asked. I am still in
a tangle with them, and I am hesitating to go forward for a
little while. I hope before long to have everything settled.

Faithfully your friend,

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May 14, 1904.

Miss Annie Goyitney,
146 N. Market St.,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dear Annie :

In regard to getting into the St. Louis grounds, I don't see how payment will be avoided. They don't have any free passes, and payment in some form will certainly be expected. In October or November next, there will be a chance to go with the school, when I will make arrangements to cover.

If you find you can make up a party, even though a very small one, I shall be only too glad to arrange for your return expenses.

I congratulate you on your good attainments and marks, but it is nothing more than we all expected of you. It is Mrs. Pratt's intention and mine to be at commencement with you, unless something unforeseen happens.

Faithfully your friend,

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May 14, 1904.

Miss Mary E. Dissette,
Santa Fe, N. Mex.

My dear Miss Dissette :

I hesitate very much to receive students from
Seboyeta, fearing I may fall under the comment of the two super-
intendents in charge of the school mat ters in New Mexico.
After talking it over with Mr. Allen, it seems best for me to
decline for the present from doing that, and if I should receive
them later, to do so after some distinct understanding with those
superintendents.

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May 17, 1904.

Mr. R. W. Sharp,
641 State St.,
Camden, N. J.

My dear Friend :

My dear Friend :

Replying to yours in regard to our Band, I must advise you that for the summer we are letting the band scatter and the members go to the country to earn money. Most of them will not return until the 15th of September, and of course they would not be in shape by the 18th. You can see, therefore, that it is quite impracticable for us to even think of your proposition.

Yours truly,

Col. & Supt.

May 17, 1904.

Harpers' History Club,
16 E. 17th St.,
New York City.

Gentlemen :

I have the Makers of History and hold them subject to
your order. I shall not want them. If I do not receive instruc-
tions from you within a few days as to what to do with them, I
will send them to you at the above address.

I return to you herewith your payment card.

Very truly yours,

Col. & Supt.

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May 17, 1904.

Steven Glori,
Care R. L. Beans,
Yardley, Pa.

My dear Steven:

I have read the letter of your friend, C. M. Pendleton and herewith return it to you.

Your great object now should be to make yourself as capable an American as you can. No present money is worth your struggling for in comparison with that. You have your chance to get an education, and no circumstances, if I were you, would I give it up. Your time to make money will come later, as well as your time to return to the Philippines.

May 17, 1904.

Fillmore Jackson,
2123 Bailey Ave.,
Buffalo, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Jackson :

Your son Fillmore is on the home list and will return at the end of June. I shall hope that you will send him back to us promptly and not later than the middle of September.

Very sincerely your friend,

Col. & Supt.

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May 17, 1904.

Mr. H W. Elson,
2122 Natrona St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Elson :

I am very greatly obliged to you for your
cordial letter of the 16th and also for the copy
of your history, which Miss Bowersox is examining
now with a view to using it in one of our higher
departments.

The attitude of the Department in regard to
what I said to the preachers in New York is evidence
that it can be touched, which is hopeful. I have
made these remarks before, repeatedly, and not been
called down about them. I am not called down now
except through the newspapers; and I have no doubt
that they give a correct presentation of the attitude
of the Department. I question that anything will
come of it, but I am ready to meet any issue that
may appear.

With very kind regards and high appreciation
of your estimate of my position, I am, my dear pro-
fessor,

Sincerely yours,

May 17, 1904.

Dr. S. Weir Mitchell,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Doctor :

One of my students has been the rubber for our foot-
ball team for the past five years, and I would like to have him
learn skilful massage. Is there any way and place that you can
suggest ? He could give from the 15th of June to the 15th of
September to this work, and if necessary even longer.

Please drop me a line advising.

Sincerely yours,

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May 18, 1904.

Mr. Richard Bender,

Reno, Nev.

My dear Friend :

Tiffany is just now in my office having brought a letter written by Richard Barrington, an old friend of his who alleges that he writes for you, in which Tiffany is urged to come home because you want him to come home; and in which he pictures a great many things that he thinks will be enticing to your son, in the shape of band, ball and bicycle and the fine times that they have and alleging large per diem wages out there. When I returned to Carlisle last fall, Mrs. Pratt and I told Tiffany just what you said, and he was apparently of the same mind with you about it. He graduated with credit in February last and then began to attend the Commercial College in Carlisle. Two years ago he spent the summer at Lake Mohonk, one of the most if not the most delightful summer resorts in the world, under the care of a very eminent and good Quaker man by the name of Smiley. His presence there where hundreds of visitors met him daily and his usefulness was such as to make a great impression and get a good name for the Indian race and for Carlisle. Last year Tiffany did not go there, but we sent other boys because they wanted a little orchestra; and he did not want to go. Those boys did not do so well, and their conduct injured our cause somewhat. I urged Mr. Smiley that if he would keep it up for another year, I would certainly not dis-appoint him again, but would give him boys that would surely battle-

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fy his every demand. He spoke particularly of wanting Tiffany
if he could have him. Tiffany was spoken to about it and was
pleased to go. They only want him this year, and we have selected
a good mate for him; and it is all planned that they shall spend
the summer until October next at Lake Mohonk.

Now, my dear Mr. Bender, one of the greatest principles,
as you I am sure understand very well, in life, is keeping one's
agreements. Tiffany need not have made this agreement and he was
perfectly free to go home when he graduated or at any time before
he entered into this arrangement; but having entered into it,
all honor demands that he stand by the arrangement. Tiffany him-
self is very willing to do that, and he tells me that he has written
you three times to this effect. He wants, of course, to see his
father and friends at home. I have told him that, immediately
after he has met his obligation in October, he can go home if he
desires; and this will be the arrangement this summer, leaving
Tiffany entirely free to do as he pleases when October comes.

With very kind regards to you, in which Mrs. Pratt cor-
dially joins,

Sincerely your friend,

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Mr. A. S. McSwigan,
Mrgr. of Amusements,
Pittsburg, Rys. Co.,
Pittsburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :

The Carlisle Indian Band has pretty generally dispersed
for the summer. We have only about thirty members present, and
they are going out in different directions later, to earn money.
We shall not be together again until the 15th of September, so
that it is not possible for us to consider any arrangement.

May 18, 1904.

Miss Cynthia E. Webster,
Lac du Flambeau, Wis.

My dear School-daughter :

I have no doubt the Department is bothered some in
finding a suitable place for you, and it has been left for the
changes which occur always at the close of the school year. I
am sorry that you feel distressed, but my advice to you is to
"buckle up your belt" and give your head an extra lift and endure
a little longer. It is not much longer now.

Affectionately your school-father,

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May 18, 1904.

Rev. P. Henry Byrons,
New Smyrna, Fla.

Dear Brother Byrons :

As I wrote you before, it is my intention to be at
St. Louis on the 15th of July if it is at all practicable. I
fear you give me altogether too much prominence in the matter,
but I shall gladly do all I can to re-establish the best of
relations. It seems to me the chasm is well bridged now. If
the politicians were only as amicable as the old soldiers,
everything would be lovely.

Mrs. John Crosby Brown,
Brighthurst,
Orange, N. J.

Dear Mrs. Brown :

The drum was sent to your address at 36 E. 37th Street,
New York City, by mail, on the 15th instant. I trust that it
has reached you all right.

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May 18, 1904.

Mr. Alexander Charles,
Constantia,
Oswego Co., N.Y.

My dear Sir :

I am always glad to receive good Indian boys at Carlisle,
and could easily make a place for your protégé, but would it be
best for him ? As it seems to me, he is now out and away from
other Indians and located where he can attend the public schools
and so learn to contend with white boys which will be his best
preparation for contending with them after they and he are men.
If there is nothing in the way of his attending the public school,
he is a good deal better placed than he would be here at Carlisle,
even though we have a most excellent school and teach trades and
so on. But all are Indians. Disintegration and the success of the
individual Indian is their only hope; segregating and special-
izing is their destruction. I beg of you to give him the best
chances you can where he is. Forget that he is an Indian and
assume that he is to become an independent individual man. Should
there be any reason why this cannot be accomplished there, it is
perfectly practicable for me to receive him here; but I should
at once begin to do just that for him; and as I have over a
thousand to care for, you could no doubt see to his interests in
that way better than I can.

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May 18, 1904.

Joel W. Tyndall,
Indian School,
Yuma, Ariz.

My dear Joel :

It always does me good to see your good strong hand-
writing and to realize that you are like your writing - swinging
along in a neat forceful way.

I note what you say about Lizzie, Amy and yourself.
This is right. Our duty is always to do the very best we can
wherever we are. Instead of covering up the dark places, I
think the best way is to air them a little bit. Light and sun-
shine drive away miasma.

I am delighted to know that Richard Henry is getting
along so well. There is always an antidote for the superfluous,
and you are probably quite right in thinking that the heat will
take away his extra fat. My mind wanders away to the future for
him quite a little, and I can easily picture him not only a man,
but a good man and even a great man. We must give him a wide
opportunity.

I am glad to know that there are three bright Yuma
boys who will come to Carlisle. I send you a half dozen consent
blanks so that you can have some on hand in addition to what you
need; and I will have transportation to Carlisle placed at Yuma
for what you have at any time that you advise me they are ready.

(2) M. Tyndall.

Patrick Miguel is a pretty strong force here at Carlisle. He is one of our most responsible officers and I am glad to receive his brother.

It is a pleasure to know that Roy Duncan is making
himself useful. Roy, while not bright, was a real good fellow
here at Carlisle, and I have no doubt of his success in anything
that he feels equal to.

Carlisle is getting on all right, and still able to
meet all attacks.

Mrs. Pratt joins with me in most cordial remembrances
to Lizzie, Amy and yourself.

Faithfully your friend,

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May 17, 1904.

Mr. Toupe Reid,

Laguna, N. Mex.

My dear Friend :

I have your letter of the 12th asking that Carrie be sent home this summer. Carrie herself, immediately after commencement, urged to go to the country for the summer and that she did not want to go home. Taking it for granted that she had settled matters at home, I let her go. It has been our rule all the years to do this, and if I had received a letter from you to the contrary, I should not have allowed her to go. We urge them always not to go to the country if they want to go home at the expiration of their five years term. Their going to the country and stating that they do not wish to go home for the particular year is always accepted, and means that they shall remain at Carlisle for one year more. This is the situation in which Carrie now stands, and I shall have to carry it out. Next year she will have the same opportunity to decide and if you wish her to come home then, I will not allow her to remain. Carrie is in good health and doing well; and I am sure that the final results of her staying here at Carlisle will be very satisfactory to you.

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May 19, 1904.

Miss A. L. Kidder,
Crow Creek, S. D.

Dear Miss Kidder :

There are no vacancies in the position of matron or
assistant matron in prospect at Carlisle this year, so far as
I am informed at present. Should there be, I would of course
be glad to consider one like yourself who has had experience,
rather than a new person from Civil Service.

May 19, 1904.

Mrs. John Crosby Brown,
Box 924, Brighthurst,
Orange, N. J.

Dear Mrs. Brown :

If you send me the kettle, I have no doubt that
some of my older Indian boys can procure a skin and finish it off
for you and make identically the same drum that they use in their
ceremonies.

Sincerely yours,

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May 19, 1904.

Henry Homer, Sr.,

Marcellus, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Homer :

Replying to yours of the 17th in regard to Thomas and
Jonas Homer's coming home this summer, I have to advise you that their
names were not put upon the home list for the reason that it has been
our rule for twenty years to include on this list only those whose time
expired before school commenced in the fall, which is about the middle
of September. Those who came later than that were generally held over
until the close of the next year unless there was special reason for
not doing so. In this case no special reason appeared, and as the boys
were in good health and contented, it seemed best to let matters remain.

We have found that letting students go home for a visit during vacation troubles their equanimity and becomes perplexing to them and us for a considerable time after their return, usually; and as the boys during vacation have a chance to earn and save money, and generally desire to do that so as to have spending money for the succeeding year,

it has seemed no hardship. The boys are getting on well, and I feel
assured that when the final results reach you after they leave us, you
will be greatly pleased that they have had our care. It would cost
something to the Government for them to phone, which is already at a
very considerable expense for their education, clothing, feeding and
etc.; and it would seem but reasonable if that amount of money should
be saved to the Government if it can be done without hardship. It would

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also prevent the boys from earning and saving as we arrange for them,
and they would come back with a great deal of freedom and license
gained by the summer on the reservation which would interfere with their
progress and take them some time to overcome.

May 19, 1904.

My dear Mr. Zeigler :

I find on inquiry that Mr. Shenton has taken up the
matter about our Band and it will probably be all arranged.

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May 19, 1904.

Mr. A. S. Penington,
4059 Spring Garden St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I wrote a few days ago to Dr. Weir Mitchell to find if
I could get our Indian boy rubber into some place where he could
learn skilful massage. Dr. Mitchell refers me to you, and says
that you not only undertake teaching but you are skilful at it,
and recommends you. This young man is very strong and in a way
quite capable of taking care of our athletes, but he lacks exper-
ness. He advises that you charge $50.00 for a thorough course
in massage. Would it not be practicable for you to take this
young man use him during the summer months - say from the 15th of
June until the 1st of September - and give him this instruction
and by such labor as you can get out of him care for his board.
If you can do this, I will let him come to you. He is an excellent
fellow in every way, and you would find him energetically ready
to carry out your purposes and to accept of your instruction.

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May 20th, 1964.

Mrs. Nina Brown James,
Santa Fe, N.M.

Dear Nina:-

I have your letter of the 11th inst. asking about the
$88.74 which you left here when you went home last summer, and in
reply will say that it was used to pay a bill of $54.00 which was
incuried by you while at Meritoo-Chi Hospital, Phila. The five
dollars which you say Bataiene sent down to Mrs. Munch was given you
by Mr. Allen's directions that you might have some spending money
in case you needed on your way home. Trusting this explanation
will be satisfactory I am,

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May 20, 1904.

Waldon Fosset,

810 Belmont Ave., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :

We shall be glad to give you every facility to get all the photographs you may care to make. This is the most seasonable part of the year; the only particular disadvantage is that we are close to vacation and have sent out for the summer quite a good many of our pupils already, more going at the close of this month and others soon after the middle of June when we close the school. As you probably want buildings and grounds more, this need not cut any figure.

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May 20, 1904.

Miss Grace A. Warren,
White Earth, Minn.

My dear Grace :

I have your letter of the 16th saying that you would like to be continued as day-school teacher in your present position, and have referred your case to the Bureau recommending you highly as I can very conscientiously and am very glad to do. My recollection is that even Indians now have to take some sort of a Civil Service examination and your case may fall within that. I would suggest that you apply through the Commissioner to take that examination, and I feel quite sure you will be equal to it.

I am always glad to hear of your welfare. Your career at Carlisle is a very pleasant memory to all of us.

With kind regards and best wishes,

Faithfully your friend,

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May 20, 1904.

Mr. Wm. H. Rupp,
Gettysburg, Pa.

Dear Comrade :

I think the movement of the Band had better be, so
far as possible, subject to your disposal over there. Of course
you will hardly want the expense of keeping them over night, nor
would it be necessary. If there is a late train on which they
can get home or as far as Mt. Holly, from which point they could
get the trolley every half hour, they could stay as long as you
want. If, however, it would serve your purpose for them to leave
on the 4:15 train in the afternoon, I should think that would be
rather the best way. They can leave here on the morning train
at 8:30 and have at least six hours with you. If they could come
back on the afternoon train, we could save supper for them here,
so that you would only need to provide them with one meal. Please
let me know promptly what you conclude and I will make the arrangements accordingly. There will be just about thirty boys. I anticipate the Washington party will get off so that they can as well
come back on the 4:15 train as not.

Very truly yours,

May 20, 1904.

Miss Olive Gibson,
Seboveta, N. Mex.

Dear Miss Gibson :

I find that a letter which I dictated intending to
go to you was sent to Miss Dissette. It is as follows :

"I hesitate very much to receive students from Seboveta,
fearing I may fall under the comment of the two superintendents
in charge of the school matters in New Mexico. After talking
it over with Mr. Allen, it seems best for me to decline for the
present from doing that, and if I should receive them later, to
do so after some distinct understanding with those superintend-
ents."

I return to you the letter of Mr. Heald which you probably
care to retain.

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May 20, 1904.

Mr. E. S. Sheldon,
Genesee, Idaho.

My dear Sir :

I have your letter. When your son graduated here, he
asked to remain and go to college and stated that it was your wish
for him to do that. In view of your letter, I will very cheer-
fully change that and send him home soon after the middle of June.
This will close out his college attendance which has been paid for,
and his obligation to the school here.

May 20, 1904.

My dear Doctor :

The bearer, Louis Flores, needs something done to his eyes.
Will you please make a careful examination and advise me what may be
necessary? Dr. Diven thinks that you can give him a prescription
which can be taken care of here and Louis very greatly improved. Please
let me know after you have examined him, what is best.

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May 21, 1904.

Levi Levering,

Ft. Hall, via Blackfoot,

Idaho.

My dear Levi :

I am glad to know that you are going to attend a summer school. If you want to keep yourself up with the school progress of the day, there is no other course. You should have done it every year, and it would have told wonderfully on your ability and possibly on your interests; and, as you say, that is the Carlisle spirit. All of our teachers, even the best of them, take a summer school course every year.

Glad to know by your letter that you are getting on all right and still sticking to the old ship at Fort Hall. That is right.

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May 21, 1904.

W. W. Winget, M. D.,
No-wa-ta, I. T.

Dear Sir :

I thank you for your frank letter and enclose to you
a copy of the full address, a part of which is contained in the
clipping you sent me from the Kansas City Journal.

I realize more and more that I am not so much at odds
with the people who have the real good of the Indian at heart,
and know enough about them by actual contact and experience to
form a proper judgment.

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May 20, 1904.

Mr. Caleb Keith,
Metlakchtla, Alaska.

My dear Friend :

Yours of the 8th instant enclosing five dollars for
your son James is just received and I have advised him of the
amount and placed it to his credit on our books. It will be sub-
ject to his call and judicious use at any time, under my observa-
tion. We try to teach our boys and girls to be careful with
money and study economy. Our system is so well worked out that our
children generally very cheerfully comply and most of them have
bank accounts of their own earnings. We require all students to
save half they earn against their quitting the school.

I thank you for the kind expressions of your letter,
and am in entire accord with your wishes in regard to your boy.
I shall work with him to accomplish your desires. You can do a
great deal in the fatherly advice you give him even though you
are far away.

Very sincerely yours,

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May 22, 1904.

Miss Lelia B. Patridge,
4424 Larchwood Ave.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Friend :

I appreciate very highly indeed the graciousness of
your kindly note. The occurrences of the last few days, while
annoying, are in the right direction and leading to a greater
peace and progress. It is a battle and we cannot properly divest
it of some of the hurt features of a battle; but we have victory
on our side right now because we are right.

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May 24, 1904.

Maj. W. P. Gould, Retired,
Be Land, Fla.

Dear Major :

Your letter in regard to Chief White Horse, the
Sioux Indian who has been the subject of press notice recent-
ly, is by reference from the Adjutant General before me.

The White Horse who came so near capturing you, was
a Kiowa and a prisoner in my care at St. Augustine, Florida,
from 1875 to 1878, when he returned to his tribe and died
about three years thereafter.

I looked up the cases of all those Indians that were
with me in Florida and the incident of capturing the horses;
and your narrow escape was one of the offenses in the career
of White Horse which led to his being selected for Florida.

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May 24, 1904.

Augustus C. Parker,
873 Prospect Ave.,
Buffalo, N. Y.

My dear Sir :

Quannah Parker's four children, three girls and a boy,
were here from six to seven years each. None of them graduated,
but they were all well advanced. They were sufficiently intelli-
gent after leaving the school to fill places of some trust. One
of the girls became clerk in a bank in a little town in Oklahoma
near her father's place; another has been for quite a number of
the
years assistant matron at Comanche Indian School at Fort Sill.
The boy died two years after he returned from Carlisle, and the
third daughter, the smallest, was at last accounts a student at
the Chilocco School, O. T.

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May 24, 1904.

Maj. M. A. Embick,

Boiling Springs, Pa.

My dear Major :

My commission has not yet arrived but every
indication says that it will before many days. I
greatly appreciate your hearty congratulations and
expression that "time at last sets all things even",
and your good wishes. We all have this in our
favor : that our promotions have been given to us
by the Congress and come more directly as the gift
of the people of the United States. We all feel
this is greater graciousness.

Fraternally yours,

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May 24, 1904.

James Keith,
Care Eliza C. Smith,
Yardley, Pa.

Dear James :

I enclose a letter from your father which was re-
ceived a few days ago. The five dollars which he sent for you
have been placed to your credit on your account.

I trust that you are making the best of your oppor-
tunities in your country home, and are striving to carry out
your father's wishes.

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

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May 24, 1904.

Mark Penoí,

Anadarko, Okla.

Dear Mark :

In answer to your letter about our several entertain-
ments at Anadarko, and the "great critics" who are agitated there-
at, I must tell you those transactions are not the property of the
public nor of anybody, except those who took part in them and paid
for them. If the parties thereto were aggrieved in any way, it
is their right to make inquiries, but not on the lines that you -
suggest. If the Government has suffered in any respect, it has of
course a right to investigate.

Sincerely your friend,

TELEGRAM.

May 25, 1904.

Rudolph Blankenburg,
214 W. Logan Square,
Philadelphia, Pa.

The document is here and I am now a B. G. Shake.

Postal 10:53 A. M.

Pratt.

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May 25, 1904.

My dear Sir :

I have planned that our Band leave here on the 8:15 train, arriving at Gettysburg between 9 and 10, and leave there at 4:15, notice from the G. A. R. Post there that this will be satisfactory having been received and this being the least expensive arrangement that we could make.

I am much obliged to you for giving the boys a chance to see the battlefield and participate in the grand exercises of the day.

Very truly yours,

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June 11, 1904.

Mrs. E. F. Stockwell,
1810 Oakville St.,
Cleveland, Ohio,

Dear Mrs. Stockwell;

Applying to your letter of June 9th, I own only put out our
girls in home that are within reach of our visiting agent. For
those who have left us it is all right to go where they like. Lilian
make truly about your being too far away. There is this in addition
we do not put our girls in large towns or cities. It is our aim to
fit them for country home life such as they are expected to fill af-
ter they leave school. Then, too, we have already cleaned out the
place. Every girl it is possible to spare has already been sent out.
Only the juniors and seniors remain and they have been arranged for
and will go in a few days. However, the first reason would govern
your case all the time.

Minerva was not compelled to accept the appointment in the In-
dian service. Indeed, I feel it is far better that young Indians re-
main entirely away from the Indian service and find places for tim-
eolives outside Indian management and Bureau control. Both girls
know this is my line of talk to the students always.

I am greatly pleased to know that you find such excellence in
our girls. I may say that you have good average girls, so you can
see there is no real reason why Indians should not be distributed
and useful in our country instead of being held together under a Bu-

-2- Mrs. Stockwell.

I am so that there may be estates to administer, etc.

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June 11, 1944.

Mrs. Sarah Quigg,
Sao & Fox Agency, Okla.

Dear Mrs. Quigg:

The enclosed letter is just received. Please wire me immediately upon its receipt what you think I ought to do about it. Also return the letter to me.

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June 13, 1964.

Mrs. Charlotte Green,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Green :-

Your daughter, Alice Johnson, will leave here one of the last
days in the month, ticketed to Syracuse. She will travel with other
girls passing through Syracuse. I will telegraph just before she
starts or write you sufficiently in advance so that you may arrange
to meet her in Syracuse.

Alice should return in the fall and go on with her studies.

Yours very truly,

June 13, 1964.

Mrs. Phoebe Sundown,
Akron, New York.

Dear Mrs. Sundown :

Your daughter, Louisa Cluts, will leave here for Akron one of
the last days of the month. I will write you sufficiently in ad-
vance of her starting so that you may arrange to meet her there, or
will telegraph you when she leaves.

Yours very truly,

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June 13, 1944.

Angus Smith,

Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Mr. Smith :

Your son Angus has completed his five years at Carlisle and is therefore entitled to go home. Accordingly, he will leave here one of the last days of the month. I will telegraph Rev. W. C. Kingsbury at the time they leave and he will inform you so that you can have him mat at Nyando.

Mitchell should return to the school in the fall.

June 13, 1944.

Mr. Peter Chubb,

Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Mr. Chubb :

Your daughters Lizzie and Nancy will leave here non-time the last week in the month, ticketed to Nyando. At the time of starting we will telegraph Rev. W. C. Kingsbury who will inform you, in order that you may be there to meet them.

Lizzie especially has made a good record and ought to return in the fall and go on with her studies.

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June 13, 1904.

Joseph Connor,

Hobansburg, New York.

My dear Sir :

Your daughter Mary has been here five years and is therefore
entitled to go home this summer. Accordingly, I have arranged for
her to start from here with other girls ticketed to Nyando sometime
the last week in June. Rev. W. C. Kingsbury will have telegraphic
notification when they start and he will inform you so that you may
meet Mary.

Your daughter is yet very young to leave her studies and should
return in the fall and complete the course here.

Yours very truly,

June 13, 1904.

Mrs. Josepha Garcia,
Arlington, Cal.

Dear Mrs. Garcia :

Your daughter Zenobia will leave here, ticketed to Arlington,
sometime next week probably, traveling with other girls going to
California points. I will telegraph you at the time she starts,
in order that she may be met in Arlington.

Yours truly,

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June 13, 1904.

Charles Kie,

Gallup, New Mexico.

Dear Charles :

Your sister, Mary Seechi, will leave here for Laguna probably sometime next week, traveling with other girls going to New Mexico. I will telegraph Mr. Pradt at the time they leave, and he will be on the lookout for both his daughter and the other girls.

Yours very sincerely,

June 13, 1904.

Mrs. Abby Moses,

Akron, New York.

Dear Mrs. Moses :

Your niece, Ada Charles, will leave here one of the last days in the month, ticketed to Akron. I will either write you sufficiently in advance of her starting so that you may be on the lookout for her, or will telegraph you when she leaves.

Ada's record here is very creditable, and she ought to return in the fall and go on with her studies.

Yours very truly,

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June 13, 1904.

Mr. Theodore Coleman,
Julian, Cal.

My dear Mr. Coleman :

Your daughters Ida and Isabella are both desirous of returning
home, having completed their five years here. Accordingly, I am ar-
ranging that they leave here in company with other girls going to
California sometime next week probably. They will be ticketed to Te-
meula, and you will have telegraphic notice at the time they start.

Yours very truly,

June 13, 1904.

Mrs. James Sharp,
782 First St.,
San Bernardino, Cal.

Dear Mrs. Sharp :

Mariniana Sabbachio will leave here for San Ber-
nardino probably sometime next week, traveling with other girls go-
ing to California points. I will telegraph when she starts. Please
inform her aunt. Yours truly,

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June 13, 1904.

Jacob Whipple,
Cut Meat Creek,
Rosebud, S. Dak.

Dear Mr. Whipple :

I am arranging to send Jennie Standingbear to you leaving here
probably sometime next week. She will be ticketed to Bushvilles and
will have an order on the stage company for transportation from
there to Rosebud. At the time of starting I will telegraph the agent
who will inform you when to meet her at the agency.

June 13, 1904.

Mrs. Margaret Felix,
Rosebud, Minn.
Dear Mrs. Felix:

Your daughter Lily will leave here one of the last days in the
month, ticketed to Mendota. She will travel as far as possible with
other girls from the school going to their homes in the northwest.
I will telegraph you at the time she leaves, in order that you may
arrange to meet her at the station.

Lily is well up toward the top and goes home with the understand-
ing that she is to return in the fall and keep on to graduation.
Just now she is visiting friends in Huntingdon, Pa.

Yours very truly,

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June 13, 1904.

Mr. Edwin L. Chalcraft, Supervisor,
in charge of Nez Perces,
Lapwai, Idaho.

My dear Chalcraft :

Thank you for your congratulations upon my
promotion. I was retired but continued here as
a retired officer. Lately I with about three
hundred others have been given an advanced grade
on the retired list, which makes me a brigadier
general, the rank which under all the rules of
the service I should have had at retirement. This
promotion has just been given by Congress,

The papers are full of the announcement that
I am relieved by Captain Mercer, now agent at
Uintah, Utah; but I have no official notice of
it.

June 13, 1904.

John Youngdeer,
Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 8th instant, your son Jesse
would not be due to return home had he not run away in the fall of
1902 and remained away until March, 1903. He therefore began a new
term, only one year of which has been completed. Under these circum-
stances I have not considered Jesse entitled to return home this
year. He has been doing very well since this last escape.

Sincerely your friend,

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June 13, 1964.

Henry Homer,
R. F. D. # 2,
Marcellus, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Homer :

Jonas asked to go to the country for the summer with the understanding that if I permitted him to go, he obligated himself to remain another year at the school. As I explained to you, we always allow students to conclude these matters themselves. Jonas has done very well. He earns money during the summer for his own use in the winter, and that arrangement will have to stand. As I wrote you, Thomas also asked to go to the country but it seemed just as well to let him go home, especially in view of your request.

Very truly yours,

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June 13, 1904.

Mr. Richard Bender,
McKinneys,
Lake Tahoe, Cal.

My dear Friend :

I have yours of the 6th and have spoken to Mennie about
writing to you. You will hear from him shortly. I find he has
been writing to his cousin, but hereafter you will hear from him at
least once a month. He is in the senior class and is doing very
well now.

Tiffany being a graduate is entitled to go home at any
time, but having gone to Mr. Smiley's he is of course expected to
fulfill his obligation there. If in the fall after he returns here
he wishes to go home, it will be all right and I can pay his way
out, but if he returns it will be at his own expense; however,
I can arrange that he have a half rate to Carlisle and if he brought
say three to five suitable students with him, I could cover his
expenses as escort.

Sincerely your friend,

June 14, 1904.

H. A. Gross, G. A. P. D.,
212 Clark St.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Mr. Gross :

I thank you heartily for your congratulations
on my promotion. By act of Congress, I with about
three hundred others, was given an advanced grade
which made me Brigadier General on the retired list-
the rank I should have had when retired.

You probably have seen in the papers that I
have been relieved. The public was in possession
of this fact before I myself was notified. The
change was ordered July 1st. It will take some
time to settle affairs so that I am likely to be
here some weeks yet.

Please express to Mr. Kniskern and Mr. Cairns
my appreciation of their interest and good will.

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June 14, 1904.

Mrs. Mary Thibbideau,
Old Town, Me.

My dear Mrs. Thibbideau :

I have your letter telling of the whereabouts of Peter
Francis and was about to send one of my men to Wattoon to bring
him back; but after investigating his case fully and giving care-
ful consideration to the matter I do not feel that it is worth
while to spend the money. Peter has run away repeatedly and has
violated the rules of the school so flagrantly while here that
the school is really better off without him. Still, if he chooses
to get back he will be received and will be attended to as seems
best. He is able to take care of himself and I would advise that
you send him no money. To earn his own living will be the best
thing for him.

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June 14, 1904.

Miss Clara E. George,
Tunessassa, New York.

My dear Miss George :

I have your letter about your sister Salina, who is under pun-
ishment for a serious offense. She has before been guilty of steal-
ing, was court martialed and confessed, and were she a white girl
committed to the courts under such a charge and found guilty her
sentence would be more severe than it now is. She has not completed
her term here and is not entitled to go home this year. Therefore
I cannot send her. Beside, if she has any notion of leaving off
this very troublesome habit and making herself a woman of any ac-
count here is the place for her to work it out.

Sincerely your friend,

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June 14, 1904.

Mrs. John Crosby Brown,
Brighthurst,
Orange, New Jersey.

Dear Mrs. Brown :

Yesterday I had boxed and expressed to Mr. P. H. Reynolds at
the Central Park Museum the kettle you sent me. One of our boys, a
Mandan, I found was accustomed to old Indian ways and understood the
use of drums and other Indian paraphernalia, and I had him convert
the kettle into a Mandan drum. His charge for the work is $2.50.
The express charges bringing it here and returning it were 90 ¢ and
85 ¢, so that the total amount due here is $4.25, which can be sent
me and I will settle the charges.

The following statement is handed me by the young man :

"The kettle drum was used in the buffalo dances, by the Mandans,
in the early days; also in dances after a victory. The singers sat
around the drum and the women danced around it."

The Sioux I am informed had an instrument somewhat different.
The Caddoes, Wichitas and other tribes now living in Indian Terri-
tory used a drum similar to the one fixed up for you.

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June 14, 1904.

Miss Mary E. Yarnall,

Fort Yates, North Dakota.

Dear Miss Yarnall :

I have your letter of the 10th from Fort Yates, and am glad to
know you reached your destination safely. What a disappointment you
did not know that Mr. Allen was on the same train for such a distance

This morning I received an order from the War Department reliev-
ing me from duty at this school and appointing Captain Mercer of the
Army, now acting Indian Agent at the Uintah Agency, Utah, to super-
cede me. This, however, need not interfere in the slightest with
your making up as good a party of children as possible. Glad to know
you have so much encouragement.

The change here will not occur before July 1st.

Sincerely yours,

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June 14, 1904.

Mr. C. M. Liggett,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Mr. Liggett :

Yours of yesterday is received. For the present I shall not be
wanting to buy property anywhere .

Sincerely yours,

June 14, 1904.

Mrs. W. T. Lopp,
4116 Elliott Ave. N.E.,
Seattle, Wash.

Dear Mrs. Lopp :

I have yours about Annebuek, but she would hardly be a suitable
girl to take care of your children ; nor would I be willing to place
one of our girls so far away from the school unless it were arranged
through the authorities at her home and Dr. Jackson who is primarily
responsible for these Alaskan children.

Annebuek is getting on very well in school but there are several years schooling for her before she graduates.

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June 14, 1904.

Miss Ida Mitchell,
C/o Miss Elizabeth D. Edge,
Downingtown, Pa.

Dear Ida :

I enclose to you a letter from Mr. Sloan with regard to your
property. I think it will be all right for you to go before a prop-
er officer of the court and execute the papers. Send them and the
letter back to me and I will forward the papers at once to Mr. Sloan.
He says this is an entirely different piece of property from the one
in question when you were called in to the school. Please attend
to this as promptly as possible.

Faithfully your friend,

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June 14, 1904.

Mr. John R. Wood,
Byue Poynt,
Camden, N. J.

My dear Mr. Wood :

I thank you for your letter. No doubt your visit to Washington at the time did have something to do with clearing up the situation, though very few who dealt with matters there would be willing to admit it.

I have just been relieved from my long service here by an unexpected order, on account of a speech I made, copy of which I send you.

Thank you for the enclosures, but you will have to deal with my successor with regard to your people coming here.

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

Faithfully yours,

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June 15, 1904.

Mrs. Jennie Thompson,
Sanborn, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Thompson :

Your daughter Melissa will leave here within a few
days for home, ticketed to Sanborn. I will notify you by letter
or telegram of the time she should arrive in Sanborn.

June 15, 1904.

Mrs. George Logan,
Versailles, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Logan :

Wesley Tallochier is in the country in an excellent
home, is getting on well, likes his place, and when asked how
going home in the spring said that he did not want to do that.
We have therefore allowed him to stay. His engagement will be
closed in the fall, and if he then desires to go home and his
parents wish it, it can be arranged; however, I do not think
that would be the best for him as schooling is so important to
him.

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June 17, 1904.

Mr. Frank Burgess,

San Francisco, Cal.

My dear Sir :

I am sending to Eureka, Cal., Miss Jessie Terris, one of our
students who is in poor health. Miss Lena McKay, another of our girls,
accompanies her to Eureka. They will probably have to wait a day or
two in San Francisco for the boat. Miss Burgess thinks someone from
your family may be able to see that they are in proper quarters dur-
ing their wait, and I therefore telegraphed you. I shall greatly
appreciate such attention. They should reach San Francisco about
seven Thursday morning, the 23rd, via the Southern Pacific.

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June 17, 1904.

Mrs. Celia McKay,
Wilbur, Ore.

My dear Mrs. McKay :

Lena is starting home today via the Southern Pacific.
One of our girls who goes to her home in California is in poor
health, and I have arranged that Lena accompany her as far as
Eureka, taking the steamer from San Francisco. As soon as she
has delivered her charge to her family, she will return to San
Francisco and start immediately for Wilbur. This of course is all
at our expense. It will delay her arrival at home some days but
she will be with you before the end of the month and will herself
notify you from San Francisco when to expect her at Wilbur.

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June 17, 1904.

My dear General :

I enclose to you a special delivery letter
which I did hope would reach the steamer before
you left the dock. Since writing this I have been
peremptorily relieved without reason asked or cause
given, by order of the President. Captain W. A.
Mercer of the Army succeeds me and my service
terminates at the end of the month. And this is
a free government, of the people, for the people and
by the people", and we have a constitution which
provides legal proceedings in all cases. I could
ask for a court of inquiry, but that court would be
ordered by the man who has relieved me without
cause, and what good would it do ?

We are packing and will go off some place and
rest for a time and await the mutations of time.

With love to Mrs. Blankenburg and all your
party and a right royal salute for yourself,

General Rudolph Blankenburg,

En route

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June 18, 1904.

Mr. Jno. B. Miles,
Lawrence, Kansas.

My dear old Friend :

Your letter is just exactly what I expected from you
and I thank you for it. I of course will be ready for a job
pretty soon but I am going to rest a little while, but anything
you have to propose I shall listen to. It may be that the condi-
tions and emergencies under which I have left the service will
call for my energies for a time, in the way of making a fight;
but I can say this to you, my old friend, that I have hundreds
of newspaper clippings and 30 % of them are in my favor, and I
believe before we get through with it, one hundred per cent will
be. I was removed without a solitary symptom of an opportunity
to answer any charges that were made - simple closed out. But
it has been in contemplation some time and the "kitchen cabinet"
has been after me. It is a long story and I shall not attempt
to tell you about it. We are all broken up. People of this town,
the state and many throughout the country are writing to me as you
have and worse, and our friends are a legion - no enemies that
dare show their heads.

My love to Mrs. Miles. Thanks for the good message.

By the way, I gave that letter you wrote me some time ago
about asphalt to a remarkably able newspaper man who I think is
on the trail of that and other things and who I believe will use
it eventually. I sent it to a senator to read and he wrote me that

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June 20, 1904.

Mr. James F. Johnson,
Evanston, Ill.

My dear James :

As I am closing up and leaving Carlisle so soon and
am not certain that any arrangements of mine will be carried out,
I think it best to send you a check for $350.00 which, as I am
member, will cover the situation between you and the athletic fund,
at least this is all that I feel that I ought to do. You will
therefore find that amount and a receipt therefor enclosed which
please sign and return.

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June 20, 1904.

White Buffalo,
Cheyenne & Arapahoe Agency,
Oklahoma Ter.

My dear Friend :

I have been relieved as Superintendent of this school and
will turn over to Captain Mercer of the Army on the 1st of July.

Your daughter has not been very well but it has been
nothing serious and she is now improving and the doctor says she will
come out all right; therefore, we have not worried you with her case.

I leave here with regret and particularly because it shuts
off my power to continue to help my Indian friends, especially my
earliest Indian friends.

With love to you always and to all of my old Carlsbad and Flor-
ide friends,

Ever faithfully your friend,

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June 20, 1904.

MrThomas L. Sloan,

Ponder, Nebr.

Dear Thomas :

I return Ida Mitchell's contract signed and witnessed as
you desire.

I am relieved from my duties here by Captain Mercer, who
was formerly your agent at Omaha, to take place on the 1st of July.
The order of removal was sudden, unexpected and without comment, and
the newspapers allege it was because of a speech I made in New York.
It was printed in the Red Man and Helper. I can only say that I am
glad to be relieved from further duties under such an administra-
tion of affairs as we have now, the disabilities and incompetency
of it being thoroughly illustrated by my removal. I shall make some
little statement in the next school paper which will be the last issue
under my supervision.

Sincerely yours,

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June 20, 1904.

Mr. Octavius I. Bates,
32 King St.,
Flushing, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Bates :

Your letter shows that you have not yet the
news of my being removed from Carlisle. By a
War Department order last week I was summarily
relieved without comment, without reason, with-
out investigation or charges of any sort, all
because of my speech in New York as indicated by
the newspapers. In this, as in my retirement,
I can say to you as a friend, the Government
"of the people, for the people and by the people"
and the Constitutional guarantees of our Govern-
ment have been violated.

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June 21, 1904.

Hon. Chas. M. Dow, Vice President,
Guarantee Title & Trust Company,
Lower Broadway, New York.

Dear Cousin Charles :

One of my Indian girls who goes to her home tonight is leaving
in my hands $1,300 which she would like to place where it would
bring the best interest she can get and still be available. You
told me when there you would give 4 % on deposits that were allowed
to remain untouched for some time. Is that the best you can do and
are you willing to take this girl's money ? If so, I will have it
transferred and complete all the arrangements with the necessary
formalities.

We have about concluded to locate for the summer at Bemus Point
on Lake Chautauqua, and are in correspondence about a cottage there.
If we do we shall of course see you and the family.

Sincerely yours,

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June 21, 1904.

Arthur Sheldon,
c/o Washington Hotel,
Cor. 17th & Washington Aves.,
St. Louis, Mo.

Dear Arthur :

I enclose to you an order which if you present to the
Burlington agent will secure you a ticket to Billings, Montane.
I have had to write to St. Paul to have them send you an order
for a ticket from Billings to Genesee and they will do that to
your hotel, so that if you remain in St. Louis for six or eight
days more, you will get the balance of your transportation.

The athletic boys are not going to St. Louis. Excluding
and some of the others preferred to go out to work and earn money,
and so I have let them go.

With best wishes to you always, and again a good-bye,

Sincerely your friend,

You would better stop off one train at Billings or telegraph there
to the agent of your coming in order to get your ticket.

June 21, 1904.

Dr. J. J. Harward,
Fulford, Md.

Dear Doctor :

I have just been relieved from the superintendency of
this school and shall of course make no attempt to guide further
in the selection of its employees. Confidentially, I think if you
wrote directly to the Commissioner and told him of your experiences
and your desire for the position here, he would be as inclined to
favor you as he could be; and then when the new officer, Captain
W. A. Mercer of the Army, arrives on the first of June, if you
write to him you can certainly stand a good chance of getting the
appointment.

Very truly yours,

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June 21, 1904.

Wanton S. Webb,

Providence, R. I.

My dear Mr. Webb :

I thank you for the clipping from the Providence Journal. I have been fairly treated by the newspapers. If I had been as fairly treated by my Government, I should not be on the retired list nor should I be relieved from this Carlisle school.

Very sincerely yours,

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June 21, 1904.

Miss Josie Vetter,

Rulo, Neb.

My dear Josie :

I am relieved from my place as superintendent of this
school and pass now into retirement.

What shall I do with your money ? I am ready to return
it to you, or I can place it in one of the best and largest trust
companies in the world - the Guarantee Title and Trust Company, of
New York - where it will yield you 4 %, what you are getting now;
or I am willing to use it myself and pay you the same interest,
but as I shall be changing from place to place and life is uncertain,
leaving it with me is not perhaps as sure for you as putting
it with the Trust Company or having it yourself. Please write me
at once what you desire.

I cannot talk about my quitting Carlisle. You can, your-
self understand it all.

Faithfully your friend,

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June 21, 1904.

Mrs. Della C. Munch,
Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Dear Mrs. Munch :

No complaint of any kind was made against you. From the care
and attention low small girls have been receiving I had no reason
to believe that you or anyone else had special charge of them; nor
had anything occurred to make me believe that the special care of
former years was being observed. They do need continuous and care-
ful attention and I selected the person I thought best fitted for
that particular work and placed her in charge. There has been no
reflection upon you in this action, nor was any intended.

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June 30, 1904.

William Dugent,

403 - 25th St.,
Baltimore, Md.

My dear Sir :

All employees in the Indian service are provided by
the Civil Service Commission in Washington, D. C. Superintendents,
agents and others can only get what they want by asking through
the Indian Bureau, who then ask the Civil Service Commission and
they are there provided for. Your proper way to get into the
Indian service is to communicate with the chief of the Civil Ser-
vice Commission and you will be told of the "hocus-pocus" methods,

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June 21, 1904.

Levi Levering,
Fort Hall,
Via Blackfoot, Idaho.

My dear Levi :

I have your letter of the 17th.

What you have read in the papers about my removal from
Capitale is true. On Tuesday last I received a special War De-
partment order relieving me from the superintendency of this
school, and I will turn over to Captain W. A. Meroe, of the Un-
tah Agency on the 1st of July. The order was sudden, unexpected
and without comment and the newspapers allege it was because of
a speech I made in New York before some Baptist ministers, which
was printed in the Red Man and Helper. I am of course sorry to
sever my connection with the school which I have built up and
carried on for so many years, but am glad to be relieved from fur-
ther duties under the present administration of affairs, the in-
competency of which is so thoroughly illustrated by my removal.

Glad to know that you are striving to become better
prepared for your work and hope that your summer vacation will be
both pleasant and profitable to you.

Faithfully your friend,

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June 24, 1904.

Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,

Hogansburg, N. Y.

Dear Brother Kingsbury :

Thank you for your quotation. My friends all over the country are sending me the most loving messages. We have a very strange government or rather I question whether it is government, certainly not "of the people, for the people and by the people."

I have cancelled the order for tickets at Massena Springs.

I hope I may meet you some time this summer and should like nothing better to be with you and catch music alone. I shall locate for the summer at Lake Chatsupka and anything addressed at Jamestown, New York, will reach me.

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June 25, 1904.

Rev. Frank H. Wright,

Fort Sill, O. T.

My dear Brother Wright :

My man claims that he put out a sibley wall and coll
the boy to pack it. The boy must have gotten hold of the wrong
tent for we find we have the sibley wall here. I send you by ex-
press today a sibley wall and you can keep the one you have for
your kitchen.

I must tell you that I am leaving Carlisle on the first
of the month being relieved by order of the President, the new-
papers alleging it is because of some talk against the present
system of Indian management, though I have not been called down
about it in any way, shape or manner, nor allowed to answer.
When you visit Carlisle, therefore, in the future, which I hope
you will do, you will not find me here. We propose to spend the
summer on the shores of Lake Chatauga. Jamestown, New York, will
be my address where I will be glad to hear from you that you have
received the tent.

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June 27,

4.

Dr. Lyman Abbott,

Editor of The Outlook,

New York City, N. Y.

My dear Doctor: The Outlook of the 25th instant in speaking of Captain Mercer and I, began by stating that I had resigned. This is not true. The Outlook also states that Mr. Leupp is a reliable correspondent. Nothing could be more erroneous than this. He was never truthful about me and Carlisle. You will remember that he was on the board of Indian Commissioners during 1896 and 1897. He was engaged then as now in misrepresenting me and Carlisle through his paper. He also made statements about others in Indian work, impugning their motives and service also. I then- in 1897- took two or three of his letters and wrote to one of my official superiors calling attention to their misstatements and also to the fact that the law providing for a board of Indian Commissioners, which was made on the solicitation of President Grant, provided that the members shall be men eminent for philanthropy and intelligence. I called attention to the fact that Mr. Leupp was in no sense a philanthropist, that he lacked in truthfulness- an important element in intelligence- and was therefore out of place as a member of the Board, where Mr. Leupp disappeared from the board of Commissioners.

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present administration against me, and his letters and news paper corres-
pondence confirm these warnings.

The facts in regard to my resignation are as follows: I was re-
tired at 6P against my wish and without reason. Good constitutional
lawyers assert that it was a violation of the letter and spirit of our
government. An officer retired under law is told by such retirement
that his services are no longer required and that he is to go off and do
nothing. The only duty given me for 23 years at that time was this Car-
lisle school. I accordingly sent my resignation to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs- my immediate chief- both by telegram and by letter urging
immediate release, stating that my Assistant Superintendant was fully
capable of carrying on the work here until my successor could be found.
Mr. Jones repeatedly wired, and wrote me at once that my retirement cut
no figure in the position here, urging that I remain at my post. In
the mean time many scores of friends added their urgency, and even im-
operative demands that I stand by the school. Finding myself without
support and realizing that I was a public servant and therefore not en-
tirely my own master, I went to Washington with letter to recall the
resignation in my pocket. After talking it over with the Commissioner
and finding that he still earnestly desired that I remain, I gave him
the letter recalling the resignation. He acknowledged its receipt, and
that placed me on the same footing as though I had not tendered my resign-
ation. Any statement that the present removal is made on account of
my having tendered my resignation 16 months ago is therefore unwarranted
by the facts.

I enclose you copy of the speech which is said in the public dis-
patches from Washington to be the reason given by the Interior Depart-

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June 29, 1904.

White Buffalo,
Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency,
Oklahoma.

My dear Friend :

Your daughter Amy is very well. She was sick a little while
in the hospital and it was the best place for her to go, but she is all
right now and the Doctor assures me there is no need of your being con-
cerned about her.

I am very sorry not to be able to stay here and carry out my
own wishes in the education of your daughter but I do not control my
own movements and am compelled to yield to the powers that be.

June 29, 1904.

Mary M. Scarborough,
Wrightstown, Pa.

My dear Friend :

I thank you for the resolutions of the Wrightstown Farmers' Club. They are certainly in line with the situation.

Sincerely yours,

June 29, 1904.

Mr. George Vaux, Jr.,
Room 404, Girard Bldg.,
Broad & Chestnut Sts.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear George :

I thank you for the letter about the Pottstown Iron Company bonds. I wish you would give me as promptly as you can the very best light possible on getting rid of these. They have been students' funds for quite a good many years, the students drawing interest at 5%, and it is imperative that I have the cash to turn over.

We are pretty much packed and will put our belongings into the cars tomorrow. That ends my responsibility here. I have nothing to do after that but to turn over. The widespread indignation has helped me a great deal. Our Red Man which comes out tomorrow will be a pretty good expose of my side of the case. I think the onus all belongs to the Secretary of the Interior who is not a big man and has been handled by the Bureau of Ethnology and a few other enemies of mine. However, I have faith to believe that the whole result will be beneficial. The nation will be waked up to the negligences of the government and made to observe where the fault is in Indian management, and that will go a long ways towards correcting it.

Faithfully yours,

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