May 25, 1904.

A. G. Harvey, D. P. A.,
636 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Harvey :

There is just about as much certainty of the Carlisle
Indian School being moved to Helena, Montana, as there is that the
moon will turn to green cheese, and no more. It is simply some
little scare-crow fox by some of the people who have been making
much ado about my oft repeated speech which for some reason or
other got around a great deal more than usual and "fretted the
cattle".

Yours sincerely,

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF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

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May 25, 1904.

George W. Hogan,
Prior, Mont.

My dear George :

I am very pleased to get your kindly letter and certainly congratulate you most heartily on your occupation. It is eminently practical and thoroughly full of importance for your future. Do the very best you can where you are and there will be more to follow.

I am glad to hear from Thomas Stewart, Hugh Leider and Charlie Clawson.

Your letter and what you are doing leads me to ask you whether there isn't some real good trout fishing up there. How I would like to get out in camp myself and be able to occasionally cast a line ! I would be willing to carry a chain, drive pegs or do anything else connected with surveying if I could just get out and have such a nice opportunity as you are having. I shall be glad to hear from you again.

Give my regards to Col. Ranken and to the boys, and with the best wishes from all at Carlisle for you and all of you, I am,

, Ever faithfully your friend,

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May 25, 1904.

Mr. Guy LeRoy Stevick,
Ernest & Cranwell Bldg.,
Denver, Colo.

My dear Guy :

Thank you for yours of Saturday just received. I
have subscribed for "The Republican" and had received a copy of
Mr. Gausse's editorial. I have certainly fifty different editorials
and comments and that of Mr. Gausse is the best of any, though many
of the others are wonderfully good. "Those that be for us are
more than they that be against us", far more. Only a very few
differ from me and most of these do it ignorantly. I may say that
we occupy the field. The truth hurts, but no move along this line
could fail to hurt. There have been many innuendos sent out by
the Department at Washington indicating that I was to be disciplined,
removed, etc., and it matters not much what is done with me. Present
conditions have got to be changed or else Carlisle and all the other
schools might almost as well never have been.

You will all be pleased to know that I received my com-
mission this morning as Brigadier General and have already taken
the oath of office, which in view of my retirement is somewhat
farcical; still I do not object to taking it for the twelfth time
under the same circumstances, that is, promotion.

Summer is on us in earnest, the thermometer ranging up
to 90 during the day. How I long to be with you in the mountains !
What are your plans for the summer without any reference to us ?
Maybe I could work to them.

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We are all well. Richenda is visiting Mrs. Dr. Fox at Haver-
ford and is having a good time.

We are fixing up a little here. The place is so perfectly
lovely in every respect that I feel almost tempted to urge you to
come in with all the children again. Couldn't we work something
of that sort ?

Mason has just completed a little $75 job for me, and his
second job is a contract to build a filtering plant for Steelton
which will bring him $2000. The openings for business for him
really seem to be very encouraging and I have never seen Mason in
better spirits. He quits the steel works with the respect and
confidence of his chiefs. An exhibition of great kindness shown
him is the continuing of his salary for several months and allow-
ing him to occupy his house indefinitely. Every evidence shows
that they are very sorry to lose him,

With love to you all,

Sincerely yours,

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May 25, 1904.

Judge W. N. Ashman,
Army Court,
City Hall,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Judge Ashman :

I have intended every day since I got your note to respond and thank you for it. How I highly prize your ever constant appreciation !

You will be glad to know that I this morning received my commission as Brigadier General on the retired list. This was a special act of Congress covering quite a lot of us old fellows that had been overslaughed when we were retired.

My little "tilt" with the Department has been one of the best things that ever happened to us. The papers through-out the country have stood by me nobly. My whole speech was simply a hash, made up from former speeches; but somehow just at this juncture it seemed to "pierce the rhinoceros skin" and hurt. The views expressed are not controverted anywhere.

With cordial remembrances to Mrs. Ashman,

Ever faithfully yours,

May 25, 1904.

Wm. H. Rupp,
Adjutant, etc.,
Gettysburg, Pa.

My dear Sir and Comrade :

In accordance with your letter, our band will leave here
and quite a company of our students, for Gettysburg at 8:30 Dec-
oration morning, and return from there on the 4:15 train, as you
have arranged. They will be subject to your direction, and I trust
that you will have them met and tell them just what to do. My
bandleader, Mr. Lamar, is an old Army man and comrade of the War.

Sincerely yours,

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May 25, 1904.

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

My dear General :

I received your approval of the Harrisburg
editorial duly, but have been under considerable
pressure and so have failed to thank you.

You may have noticed that I made a speech to
the Baptist ministers in New York and the stir it
has caused throughout the country. I have about
fifty editorials, almost all of them staunchly
in my favor. I said nothing there that I have not
said over and over again for years back, and I can
show printed and written evidences of this fact.
The displeasure of the Indian office has been help-
ing a whole lot and I am not sorry for what has hap-
pened.

We have, in a way, been planning to go to St.
Louis in the fall with the whole school, the same
as we went to Chicago. As the St. Louis Indian ex-
hibit is a hybrid and even students of Carlisle have
been hired to go there and impersonate wild Indians,
I have no part or parcel in it. Our young people
of course are anxious as usual to see the great

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show, I have it in mind to work up a cheap trip
as I did before when I took 543 to Chicago. They
all paid their own way and we spent a week there
and $13.50 covered railroad transportation, trol-
ley car fares, hotel keeping and every other ex-
pense whatsoever, for each person. Whether I can
do as well at St. Louis, is a question; but I
imagine I can come within a few dollars of it, and
have told the children so, and many of them are work-
ing to save the money.

Yes, Congress fixed our Alaskan business all
right, and I am even planning to get in more pupils
from Alaska so as to use up the full appropriation
made by Congress - $4962.30.

You will be glad, I am sure, to know that I
have this morning received my commission as Brigadier
General on the retired list, and am now entitled to
the consideration belonging to that grade and post-
tion.

With kind regards to Mrs. Eaton,

Ever faithfully yours,

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May 25, 1904

James Leyon,

Onondaga Castle, N. Y.

My dear James :

Your letter by Fred Waterman is just before me. Yes,
you may return to Carlisle and I will fix the transportation
for you whenever you are ready. You may write me about other
boys and girls who want to come and tell me how old they are,
whether they are good healthy pupils and of good character, and
I will consider anything that you suggest.

Sincerely your friend,

May 25, 1904.

Maross Jenkins,
Liberty St.,
New York City.

My dear Sir :

You may send me, if you will, two boxes of soap same
as the cake recently received from you. I wish to give it a
wider test. Mrs. Pratt used up the last cake you sent in washing
a woolen dress in hard water and was pleased with it.

Yours very truly,

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May 25, 1904.

George W. Vaux,
Girard Trust Bldg.,
Chestnut & Broad Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear George :

Are you going to the Conference at Portland on June
15th to 22nd ? I have some notion that way but have not concluded.
If you do go, what route would you take- steamer from New York, or
all rail ?

This morning I received my commission as Brigadier Gen-
eral on the retired list.

Sincerely yours,

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May 25, 1904.

Maj. J. M. Burns, U. S. A.,
West Virginia University,
Morgantown, W. Va.

My dear Major :

Weeks ago we had placed all the students it was possible
for us to spare this year. Our applications come in in January,
February and March, and by the end of March we usually have the
whole summer's outing arranged. There are a few exceptions of
course where changes are made. We place our students within reach
of a visiting agent, having one each for the boys and girls; and
we never place boys and girls in the same neighborhood.

Students go out for the summer only, unless those who
have them can give them school privileges during the fall, winter
and spring, and use them out of school hours in pay for their keep.
We usually have out 350 such, and these outings are determined by
my agents' reports from their summer visiting. The quality and
convenience of the school, every character of the work to be done
and so forth, are considered.

By this you will see that your remoteness and the other
conditions make it impossible for me to serve you now and make it
improbable that I could at another time.

We sometimes have graduates who care to remain East for
higher education and who will go out for two, three or four years
for normal or other high school training and live in families and
so take care of their expenses while they are acquiring advanced
education.

Very respectfully,

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May 26, 1904.

Mr. George Wetherill,
2036 Race St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear George :

Your note of yesterday to hand.

My commission as Brigadier General just reached
me yesterday morning, and I am now properly authorized
to wear a star on each shoulder.

There is a slight lull in the battle in regard
to my New York speech. Just where it will break out
next makes little difference.

I have been feeling better today than I felt
yesterday and the day before.

We open bids this afternoon for our annual supplies, covering an expenditure of about $60,000, and the bidders have been humming around all morning.

With kindest regards from both Mrs. Pratt and
I to your good mother and sister,

Faithfully your friend,

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May 26, 1904.

Bertha H. Smith,
67 W. 107th St.,
New York City.

Dear Madam :

Replying to yours of the 22nd instant, I send you herewith an excellent description of the Carlisle School as published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, of March 1903, several annual reports, a number of my addresses on the education and advancement of the Indian, and our latest school catalogue. The latter contains a list of all the graduates from this school, including the class of 1902, giving the name of the tribe of each and their location.

We receive the greater number of our students from New York State, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Oklahoma, respectively. We also have on roll eighty-seven pupils from the territory of Alaska.

In regard to my opinion as to the extent to which I think of the Indian the education is possible and advisable, I think they should have the same liberty as all the other masses. A vast majority will get on with a very ordinary education; brighter ones should have a chance for higher education; and the still brighter ones a still higher chance. That is all there is in it. Many of our young people have passed through the normal schools with credit, and a number have passed through colleges. One of my young men in the employ of the school at a good salary, entered Princeton and in

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four years graduated with his class creditably and without any
difficulty; and he only had the help of eighty-five dollars a
year. All the rest of money he needed he earned by various
kinds of menial services to his fellow students or to some mess-
keepers. He delivered and sold newspapers daily and had various
regular jobs.

The Indians lack only opportunity, when in due time
they will reach a competitive place and be able to hold their own
in all the walks of our American life. They will never do this,
nor will their education ever amount to much until they have the
benefit of association and competition. It is not giving the
Indians an equal chance to put them in schools entirely separate
from other children; nor is it giving them an equal chance to
hold them together in bodies under any circumstances or conditions.
They are simply, by such systems, told that they are Indians and
they can't become like other people and that the Government does
not want them to become like other people. But you will get my
best sentiments from my speech to the Baptist ministers in New
York, a copy of which will be found in the Red Man of May 13th
herewith.

Yours truly,

BHC.

Brig. Gen. & Subt.

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May 26, 1904.

Mrs. Mary A. Schenandore,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Schenandore :

Your daughter Elsie will leave here with others either
at the end of June or the first of July. It will depend some-
what upon the condition of our school finances.

I think you will find Elsie very greatly improved, and
will be pleased that she has been under our care so long. I trust
that it may be so that you will think it best to return her to
Carlisle after she has had a summer at home.

Sincerely your friend,

Brig. Gen. & Supt.

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May 24, 1904.

To W. J. McGee,

The "I WAS for several years associated with the late Major J. W. Powell as Ethnologist in Charge in the Bureau of American Ethnology",

The "I AM PRESIDENT of the American Anthropological Association, which includes practically all American ethnologists",

The "I AM ONE OF THE THREE COMMISSIONERS on the part of the United States in the International Commission of Archaeology and Ethnology",

The "I AM CHIEF of the Department of Anthropology (including Ethnology) in the Universal Exposition at St. Louis",

St. Louis, Missouri.

Sir :

I did not notice your former letter for obvious reasons, and question a little whether (on your account) I had better notice this one, but have concluded to let you have your own way, partly because your letter practically confirms the paragraph you so petulantly and boyishly deny.

You quote only a part of my sentence. The complete sentence is as follows :

"We invite first a thorough inquiry into the influences of ethnologists, who in all they do persuade the Indian to remain in and exaggerate his old Indian life, and then so elaborately and widely picture him in that life as to lead the public to believe that nothing else can be expected."

This says just what I meant to say in exposure of the hold-back efforts of your Bureau, now so well verified by your above letter.

I do not intend to engage in a metaphysical controversy with you, which would be so much more in your line and for which

(2) To Mr. McGee.

you have so much more time, but the following is my general idea
of our relative positions :

The man who takes EVEN ONE young Indian by the hand,
leads him to the border line of his reservation and finds (if he
can) a crack in the high and strong fence you ethnologists have
so materially helped to build and maintain around the reservation
and the tribe, and then persuades him to go through that crack
out into the activities of our American civilization and, just
even TRIES to fill him with a longing to become a part of it, is
doing what is far more valuable for God, country and humanity
than all the good all of your kind of alleged scientific, ethno-
logical theorists have done or may do through all their alleged
discoveries of alleged hindering, indurated complexities in Indian
life.

It is curio and alleged peculiarities perpetuated and
elaborately illustrated at the Government expense, on one side,
and on the other, the family principle for all mankind with its
duty of all to labor and make themselves useful.

P. S. Please feel entirely free to take any other direct steps in
this matter you think advisable.

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May 28, 1904.

Mr. Douglas Volk,
National Academy,
27 W. 87th St.,
New York City.

My dear Sir :

We have a considerable number of Sioux pupils and some that are quite typical. Unfortunately, at this season of the year there are more students in the country for the summer than here at the school and some of our test specimens are not available; but if you can come over, I will give you every facility to make your own selection and if there are any here on the grounds that would serve your purpose, should be glad to make such arrangement as would suit you best. We also have Chipps was from Minnesota.

I send you under separate cover several photographs of the young Sioux that are here now and available.

Yours sincerely,

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May 28, 1904

Eli Peazzoni,
Grenoble,
Bucks Co., Pa.

My dear Eli :

It is entirely impracticable to let you go home.

We do not let students go home on account of illness in their families. If we did, you can see very readily that among over one thousand students there would be many going and coming all the time; so that we have a rule against it and have had more than twenty years. Your time is not up until June, 1906.

The letter from your superintendent is herewith returned to you.

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

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May 28, 1904.

Committee on Arrangements,
Elwyn, Pa.

Gentlemen :

I regret that it will be entirely impracticable for Mrs. Pratt and I to be present on Elwyn Day at the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble Minded Children, on June 2nd. I am obligated to be at a school here. Thanks for your kindly invitation.

Very truly yours,

May 28, 1904.

Dr. C. M. Phillips,
Prin., State Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Doctor :

I feel very grateful to you indeed for the
kindly notice of my promotion.

Sorry I could not be down at the exercises
of Daisy's graduation. She is a real good girl
and has promise of quite a future.

Sincerely yours,

May 28, 1904.

Mr. Harry F. Heller,
D. P. & P. A.
622 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Heller :

Thank you for your congratulations. It is
delightful to know that my advancement pleases
such a large number of people. I am getting kindly
messages from all sides.

You did just right to tell Mr. Eustis that
there was nothing in that Helena Fox.

Sincerely your friend,

May 28, 1904.

Mr. J. H. Bridges,
Box # 1395,
New York City.

Dear Sir :

I acknowledge with great pleasure the donation to
our school library of "The History of the Carnegie Steel Con-
pany", which I am sure from a casual glancing through, is a
valuable contribution to the important literature of the day.

Very truly yours,

Brig. Gen. & Subt.

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May 28, 1904.

Miss Marguerite Wolfe,
Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear Mrs. Wolfe :

Katie came here on June 20th, 1901, so she is not
due to go home until the end of June, 1906. I could not there-
fore let her go now.

If your boy is in good health and is a good boy, I
should be glad to have him come to Carlisle and will arrange
transportation for him at any time that you may be ready to
send him. But he should come with the consent of the agent,
who must act in all these cases.

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May 28, 1904.

Herbert Johnson,
Ed. Rooms, North American,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Herb :

Thank you for your very kindly remarks on my
promotion. It is one of the pleasures of my life
that I have so many good friends who think me worthy
of advancement. It is probably the last promotion
I shall have during life, and as there is permanent
substance in it, it is all the more gracious.
Though I have abandoned the eagle for the star, I
assure you that I shall not be any more remote,
and we shall be pleased to see you and yours at Car-
lisle this summer as usual.

I enclose you a little biographical sketch
by one of those multitudinous encyclopedic people.

With kindest regards and best wishes,

Very faithfully yours,

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May 23, 1904.

Maggie Cadotte,
Care Mrs. J. W. Parker,
Beverly, N. J.

Dear Maggie :

You came here December 23rd, 1900, consequently
your time will not be up until December, 1905; and your time
to go home would be the June following that. It isn't possible
for me to let you go home before that time. If I opened the
door for one, I would have to open it for all, and that would
simply break up the school. If we allowed the ill health of
fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and other relatives to be a
reason for sending students home, there would be a vast number
of them going and coming all the time and we would have no school.
Can't you see that? I am sorry of course to have to deny any
pleasure or seeming benefit to any student, but it is not prac-
ticable for me to do otherwise.

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May 28, 1904.

Daniel L. Keister,
Supt., State Printing Office,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :

We shall be very glad to extend all the courtesy we
can to your excursion. Saturday is an "off day" and therefore
not the best time to visit us; and on June 13th we shall be
below in numbers here, but such as we have we shall be glad to
show you. Please advise me just a little before, just the time
of your arrival and I will provide guides, etc.

Very truly yours,

Brig. Gen. & Sup.

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May 28, 1904.

Mrs. Sallie Silver,
Akron, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Silver :

Herbert Johnson is entered on the home list and will
leave here about the first of July.

May 28, 1904.

Miss Claudia M. Hunter,
Graham's Island, N. Dak.

Dear Miss Hunter :

I send you an application blank which please filled
out complete together with the doctor's examination and return
to me, when I will further advise you.

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May 28, 1904.

Maj. W. P. Gould,
Grand Hotel,
Vincennes, Indiana.

My dear Major :

I wrote you the other day to Florida in regard to
White Horse, your letter to the Adjutant General having been
referred to me.

The White Horse who was hurt on the train was Sioux;
the White Horse who came so near capturing you was a Kiowa
at Ft. Sill. After being in prison in Florida for three years he
was relieved with the others and went home, and my recollec-
tion is that he died about three years afterwards. You may
not remember, and perhaps may not have known, that I looked
up the cases of all those fellows that were sent to Florida
and I had in my records the fact of your near capture and the
capture of the horses. That was one of the charges against
White Horse, but not by any means the worst one. If any of
them had been hung, as Sheridan intended and strenuously per-
sisted in, White Horse would have been among the first. I
have among my military keepsakes some record of all those things
and identified at the time a number of those who were with White
Horse - had them in chains at Fort Sill. Sheridan, you know,
was over-ruled in his policy and they were sent to Florida to
be held for a time.

Glad to hear from you. Sometime when you are roaming
around if you come near Carlisle, stop off and make me a visit.

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Mrs. Pratt and I have only one daughter left with us now, and we have a large house. You will find it a comfortable place for an old soldier and I should like your comradeship. We have several old fellows in the town - Col. Huntt of the Cavalry, Thomas Charge, Major of the Infantry and others drop in occasionally, so that I keep somewhat in touch.

Although retired a year ago last February, I am still here on duty, but just how long I shall be held I don't know. It was pleasant a few days ago to get and advance in grade. I see that you are among those who will be recommended for advancement and can say what you may already know that from personal conference with the House and Senate members of the Military Committee, that the next session will probably adjust these cases who by earlier retirements were not included in the bill just passed.

With kind regards,

Fraternally yours,

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June 1, 1904.

Hoboken, N. J.
Str. "Moltke"

General :

dictating to you from my bed where I
for four days last with a nervous dve-

k you for your civil letter. Mottin
me more good in receiving my promotion
many good wishes from friends matter
the country.

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June 1, 1964.

Gen. Rudolph Blankenheim,
Care Str. "Molten"
Hoboken, N. J.

My dear General :

I am dictating to you from my bed where I
have been for four days now with a nervous d
nepais.

Thank you for your cordial letter. Not
have done me more good in receiving my promote
than the many good wishes from friends scatter
all over the country.

My heart goes with you and you will be much
in my mind on your enjurable trip. Sometime I w
going to take in the great northern peninuula.

Mrs. Pratt and Miss Burgess join me in most
cordial greetings to you and your party, and I am
an enthusiastic bon-voyage to you all.

Faithfully yours,

R. S. I note some political promises for you,
target they may materialize.

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June 1, 1904.

Miss Elspeth L. Fisher,
Genoa, Neb.

My dear Miss Fisher :

I have been ailing for sometime and laid up
since Sunday morning.

Thanks, many, for your kindly letter. Congress,
in the Army bill this year, gave to a certain lot
of us old fellows who had been retired without in-
creased grade, an advance of one grade which made
me Brigade. It comes from the representatives of
the people and I appreciate it, as all my comrades
do, more highly.

Mr. Pratt and I are alone just now, Richmond
being on a visit near Philadelphia. Mrs. Pratt and
Richenda are both very well, and I hope to be, in
a few days.

Please remember me most kindly to the Doctor
and other friends at Genoa.

Sincerely your friend,

June 1, 1904.

Miss Ella Petoskey,

Harbor Springs, Mich.

My dear Ella :

I am so glad to hear that you got home safely and are now with your friends.

It does me good to know that you appreciate so highly your Carlisle experiences. I hope the good seed will grow in you and that more and more you will enlarge and become useful. I was glad when you concluded to stay here and go to school, and sorry when you quit; but perhaps it is all for the best.

Faithfully your friend,

June 1, 1904.

Mrs. M. K. Whiteside,

Watseka, Ill.

Dear Madam :

The large edition of our commencement number of the Red Man containing Dr. Norcross' sermon, was exhausted long ago and I am unable to send you a copy; but I send you two copies of this paper, as you desire, and also an illustrated school copy of our catalogue, which may interest you.

Yours very truly,

Brig. Gen. & Surg.

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June 1, 1904.

Right Rev. C. C. McCabe,
Chancellor, American Univ.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Bishop :

I got your very cordial note from Los Angeles,
but I have been ill; am in bed now. I did not
answer, thinking that my letter would not reach you
before you left there.

I see you have had a long session, have made
some remarkable changes and took high positions.
I am constantly longing to be back in the Methodist
Church, but Mrs. Pratt is odburate.

You will have heard before this of my having
received an advance in grade to Brigadier General
on the retired list, through the action of Congress.
This is all the more gracious because it is the voice
of the people.

There has been quite a little disturbance be-
cause I made a speech to some preachers over in New
York on the 9th of May. I enclose you a copy.
There was absolutely nothing new in it; many of the
sentiments I expressed in public speech more than
twenty years ago, and practically everyone of them
are in my speeches or writings. Having a speech to

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June 1, 1904.

Levi Levering,
Fort Hall,
Via Blackfoot, Idaho.

My dear Levi :

There never was the slightest prospect of the removal of the
Carlisle school to Helena, Montana. That was simply a fox started by
the enemies of Carlisle who did not want to answer my address and who
have been abusing me through the newspapers.

Faithfully your friend,

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June 1, 1904.

Mr. Levant L. Mason,
Jamestown, N. Y.

My dear Brother Levant :

I am dictating my letter to you from bed where I have
been most of the time since Sunday, through a return of my old
enemy, stomach trouble.

Thank you, thank you, for the good-feeling congrat-
ulations. My promotion is of course something of a plaster
for the past, but it does not by any means rectify my retire-
ment at sixty-two. I was fairly entitled to serve under my new
rank as Colonel until I was sixty-four; and had I not been re-
tired, I would today be a live Colonel which is far more valuable
than a retired Brigadier; however, it makes our future comfortable
and that is a blessing for which I am duly and proportionately
grateful.

I send you an editorial from the North American of
Philadelphia, which is the best among many very nice ones I have
received from the press.

If I can get out and shape my business affairs here so
as to leave Carlisle for a time, I am going to do it. I have had
some idea of running up to the resort west of your place. Another
notion we have had has been to start with our carriage and take a
long ride down into Virginia and West Virginia.

Laura and I are here alone. Richenda has been away for
three weeks but will be home Friday. Both Laura and Richenda are

(2) To Mr. Mason.

very well. Mason's prospects are looking up in a most gratifying
manner. He has one job that will bring him two thousand dollars
already and others have come in; and it looks as though he would
not only have all he could do himself but have to employ quite a
little force.

With love from us all to your own good self and all at
Jamestown,

Affectiately your brother,

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June 2, 1904.

Miss M. S. Barr,

Charlottetown, P.E.I.,
Canada.

My dear Miss Barr :

I am writing to you from bed where I have been since Sunday. For several weeks, practically ever since you left, I have been unusually disturbed by my old enemy which has attacked me with more than ordinary force, so that I am under the doctor's care, but am feeling much better again.

I am very glad to know that your sister Ada is improving. We hope and pray for her recovery. It will be all right for you to bring your niece with you for a month or two as you propose, and then send her to your sister. You do not expect to keep her here permanently. I do not think you yourself would favor that. With regard to your remaining until June 15th, that is all right, if you find it necessary and best.

her
Please remember me to your sister and husband most kindly. Mrs.
Pratt and Richenda join me in this.

Faithfully your friend,

June 3, 1904.

Mr. Albert Nash,
Thurston, Neb.
My dear Friend :

Replying to yours of May 10th about Josephine and
Louis, students going home will leave here in small parties the
last week in June. We do send the boys and girls in different
trains, but Louis and Josephine will go together. I will tele-
graph you at the time of starting. Both are doing very well and
should return for another term.

Sincerely yours,

June 3, 1904.

Dear General :

I have been in bed since Sunday with the old
treats which has annoyed me so much in the past
few years. I had hoped to be up today, but it
seems better not to try it too soon. Congratu-
lations have been coming in right along, so that
I have been forced to attend to considerable corre-
spondence from my bed. Thanks for your expressions.

With regard to the St. Louis trip, I am not
certain what we shall do. So much prominence is
given to the worst side of Indian life and aborig-
inal conditions that I am quite disgusted and see
little profit to come to our children from such an
exhibition. There is still plenty of time, however,
to make arrangements if it seems best.

Faithfully yours,

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June 3, 1904.

Mrs. H. P. Cooper,
Gayhead, Mass.

Dear Madam :

As per your request of the 1st instant I am sending
you today catalogue of the school.

With regard to your children whom you would like to
send here, this school intended for full blood Indian pupils,
or nearly full bloods who have lived on reservations and have
not had the advantages of association with white people. I
suspect that your children are very much mixed and that they could
have the benefits of the local public schools. If this is the
condition of things, I would not favor their coming here. We
send our pupils out to work among farmers and in households in
the nearby counties in order that they may have the privileges
that your children already enjoy, of attending the public schools.

Yours very truly,

June 3, 1904.

Mrs. Mary Logan,
Lawton Station, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Logan :

It is not practicable to send Howard Joe to you immediately. The home parties will be made up about the last week in June, and he will leave here with the others at that time. If I allowed him to go now, I should of necessity be compelled to favor others making the same request.

June 3, 1904.

Priscilla Corbett,
Kootka, Idaho.

Dear Friend :

I have your letter of May 27th about money which was sent George Corbett by his father. George left here on the 5th of April with Mr. Stewart, and you would better consult him. We have no record of the receipt of the money here at the office. If it was addressed to George, he undoubtedly received it. If the money had been sent him through me, the matter could be traced, as it is we know nothing about it.

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June 3, 1904.

Mrs. Sara Mitchell,
Oldtown, Me.

Dear Mrs. Mitchell :

Your son Lawrence asked to go to the country and left
yesterday. Having entered into an agreement for the summer, I
cannot allow him to break it. I am very sorry his father's con-
dition is so precarious but trust things may take a turn for the
better with him. Lawrence is doing well, and ought to by all
means continue in his opportunities here. He is well up towards
the top and his prospects are good. As he came late in the fall
in 1898 he is not due to return home this year, the rules pro-
viding that the five years for which students enter, terminates
at the close of the school year in which the five years expires.

Sincerely your friend,

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June 3, 1904.

Miss Nina Carlisle,
Indian School,
Chillicothe, O. T.

Dear Nina :

Your letter reached me some weeks ago telling of your
surroundings, etc. I see you keep up with all our affairs through
the Red Man, and there is little that I can write you beside. I
am glad to know you are improving, as you say, and that you have
pleasant recollections of your life here. As you know, you had
every opportunity for a good start, and it was some disappointment to me that you did not appreciate them and become one of our
most reliable and efficient graduates.

The grounds look beautiful now in their dress of green.

The school closes in a week or two.

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June 3, 1904.

Eli Peazzoni,
Grenville,
Bucks Co., Pa.

My dear Eli :

I am very sorry you do not consider my answer sufficient, for I
cannot vary from it. I realize your anxiety to see your mother, but
if she is as low as you are led to believe there would be little
probability that you could reach her in time, and if you should get
home in time to see her you could not relieve her or lengthen her
life. I have considered your plea carefully, and do not find it ma-
terially different from those that frequently come from other stu-
dents. It was the frequency of such appeals and the fact that we are
often imposed upon that made the rule necessary which I wrote you of

Now that you understand the rule, I hope you will settle down
and be contented to remain at your post and keep up the record you
have made heretofore. Write your family that it is impossible for
you to go home, that it is against the rules of the school, and ex-
plain it fully to them. When they know that you are not responsible
for failure to go home, but are responsible to the authorities here
to observe all the regulations they will be inclined I trust to look
at matters reasonably.

With best wishes for a profitable and pleasant summer to you,
I am,

June 3, 1904.

Mrs. Hattie Jimerson,
Salamanca, New York.

Dear Mrs. Jimerson :

Your son Raymond went to the country this spring on his own re-
quest and is therefore not at liberty to go home this summer. He is
yet a very young boy to leave school, and every additional year you
keep him in school is so much toward making him a capable and inde-
pendent man. He is here without expense to you, and being absent in
your interests as well as his own I trust you will look upon the mat-
ter in a reasonable way. Your desire to see him is but natural,
and I suggest that you come to Carlisle for that purpose. That
you
would give you an outing and enable to see what the place is like and
to get acquainted with those who are caring for your boy. I could
arrange that you have a half rate on the railroad from Salamanca.

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June 3, 1904.

Frank Bishop,

Irving, New York.

My dear Frank :

Thank you for your kindly message on my promotion. With regard to the Dickinson Preparatory, I shall be happy to have you come here to undertake it and will give you all the benefits of Carlisle, that is, your board and clothing and other accommodations at the school. I shall expect you to take care of your college expenses, which in the Preparatory will be about $80 a year, including tuition, books, etc. Graduation from the preparatory without conditions entitles entrance to the law school, but of course it is very desirable to have a higher education before beginning on that. If I were in your place I should accomplish graduation from the college proper before going into the law school at all, and would not be satisfied to become simply a country pettifogger. It will take a little more time but your equipment for usefulness will be so much greater that you will be fully paid for that.

I am glad you aspire to higher and better things and am always glad to help our old worthy pupils, as you know.

Faithfully your friend,

June 4, 1904.

Mr. G. S. Wetherill,
2036 Race St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear George :

There are summer excursions to Portland, Me. and return, and
tickets are good from June 1st to the last of October. Fred could
certainly take advantage of this excursion rate and save money by
it.

Faithfully yours,

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June 4, 1964.

Rev. H. F. Trippe,

Salamanca, New York.

My dear Brother Trippe :

I have your letter about Nicodemus Billy. A few days ago Nicod-
demus ran away with another boy and I heard of their being at Newport
Pa. with a show, and had them arrested and sent one of my men over
for them. They arrived here last evening and are being court-mar-
tialed today.

Nicodemus does not want to go home for any good. From those who
something of his intentions I understand that he is bound to get into
the show business; so I shall hold on to him here unless he escapes
me entirely by running away, as some of the others have. There is
absolutely no truth in his statements that he came back to Carlisle
simply for the St. Louis engagement for the band. I had some trouble
with band boys from your section and elsewhere for the Buffalo engage
ment, and charged my band leader that under no circumstances was he
to negotiate with any players anywhere to come here merely for the
purpose of going to St. Louis. He was to use the material he had and
make the band the best he could, and let it go at that. Nicodemus
brought me three letters from Mr. Wheelock in which he alleged there
was a promise that he could go home as soon as that engagement was
ended; but in none of the three letters he showed me was there the
slightest thing to warrant his statement.

I rejoice to hear that Allen Blackchief and Simon Skye are mak-
ing such a good record. The good and the bad all come here, esper-

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ially the bad. Very seldom do we get the good. When we do it does
me good.

Frank Pierson asked to go to the country instead of going home
and following out our rule in such matters I let him do as he desired
and found him a good place for the summer. We do not permit boys to
go to the country who are going home. I therefore see no way by
which I could let either Njoodenus or Frank go home this year under
our rules; yet I always want to do what you think I ought to do. You
understand that I hope.

I congratulate you most heartily upon the growth of your own
good work and trust and pray that it may continue and multiply until
the whole stagnant mass is enlivened and enthused with higher and
nobler and better things.

Faithfully and fraternally your friend,

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June 4, 1904.

Mr. J. B. Brown, Supt.,
Indian School,
Harris, Minn.

My dear Brown :

Thank you for the kindly expressions with re-
spect to my promotion and more for your "so-be-it's to
my tilt with the ethnologists. I hardly suppose they
will let the matter drop but it is my private opinion
they would better.

June 4, 1904.

Mrs. Lyman Powlas,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Powlas :

Your son Bonnie is entitled to go home this year and I shall
start him for DePere with others sometime the last week in June, but
you will have telegraphic word at the time. He is young and bright
and should return in September to go on with his studies.

Yours sincerely,

Brig. Gen., Supt.

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June 4, 1904.

Mrs. J. F. Welch,
146 Market St.,
Bloomington, pa.

Dear Mrs. Welch :

I am ill and so use my secretary to thank you for your very ap-
preciative and most highly appreciated letter about our two good
girls. It would be impossible not to work when such results are to
be gained. I had hoped I would be able to be with you at Bloomington
on their graduating day, but physical disturbances have bothered me
quite a little and I am not sure of myself. I have been in bed near-
ly the whole of the past week.

These children of Carlisle and Bloomington will be heard from ma-
terially among those who work for the betterment of our country, I
am sure.

With kindest regards,

Very faithfully yours,

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June 4, 1904.

Mr. W. G. Thompson,
154 Lark St.,
Albany, New York.

My dear Mr. Thompson :

Thank you for your kindly message. I have been in bed almost
all week with my old enemy and somehow don't pull up. However, I am
hopeful.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Thompson and other members of your
family when I have met,

Very sincerely yours,

June 4, 1904.

Eugene J. Fisher,
Lamedeer, Mont.

My dear Eugene :

Your agent should have been written to at the time, telling
that you had been sent away from Carlisle and why. I do that now.

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June 4, 1904.

To The Adjutant General, U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C.

Sir :

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

My address for the present month is as above.

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June 4, 1904.

Joseph F. Jordan,

Carlisle, Pa.

My dear Mr. Jordan s-

I thank you most cordially for your kindly expressions with regard to my promotion. It has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life to receive a very great number of similar expressions. My promotion does not exactly pay for my being retired as I was, but it is something of a plaster. If I had what is due me I should still be on duty as colonel, and a live colonel is much better than a retired brigadier. However, it all goes in a life-time.

Faithfully yours,

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June 6, 1904.

Joel W. Tyndall,
Indian School,
Fort Yuma, Arizona.

My dear Joel :

Faithfully your friend,

It would be well for you to write a letter to The Red Man de-
nouncing the educated Indians now engaged in this manner at St.
Louis.

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June 6, 1904.

Mr. Henry Homer,
R. F. D. No. 2,
Marcellus, New York.

My dear Mr. Homer :

Jonas did not wish to go home but chose to go to the country early in the spring. As it is the student's privilege to say whether he will go home at the close of a five years term or continue in school another year, we allowed him to stay and arranged for his going to the country for the summer. He has been doing very well, and the additional time is very necessary if he is to become a capable self-supporting man.

Thomas has not done so well. He is not specially anxious to go home, but is willing to go. As he is very indifferent I have placed his name on the home list and he will leave here sometime the last week in June, ticketed to Syracuse, as you wish. You will have notification of the time of leaving, either by telegraph or two or three days in advance in order that you may meet him there.

My former letter to you addressed to Marcellus was returned to me a few days ago.

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June 6, 1904.

Mrs. Myra White,

Gowanda, New York.

Dear Mrs. White :

I am happy to report to you in answer to yours of the 1st inst., that Franklin is improving. Since the weather has grown milder he has been out of doors a good deal. I see much in hopes that his improvement will continue and that he will get entirely well without the interruption of a home trip. The duties of the small house keep him busy all the time, but he is very easy, particularly in the absence of those who are at all ill.

Yours very truly,

June 6, 1904.

Miss Nancy Seneca, 1717 Arch St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear school-daughter :

I shall be very glad to allow you the use of our school rate to
Oklahoma for your proposed visit to your brother. That is the best I
can do for you. You can come here to start. Our rate to St. Louis
or Chicago is just about two thirds the regular fare; most of those
points one half.

With kind regards,

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Mr. Miles Johnson,
B. P. D. No. 19,
Lowiston, New York,

June 6, 1944,

Dear Mr. Johnson !

Nellie's name is on the home list, and I will arrange that he
leave here sometime the last week in this month, ticketing him to
Buffalo unless you advise differently. The understanding is that he
will return in the fall. He is well up toward the top and ought
to graduate.

You will be duly notified of the day of departure, in order to
meet him in Buffalo if you wish.

June 6, 1944.

Mrs. Sarah Loren,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Mrs. Loren :

Evans Phillips was doing well when I last wrote you, but has
lately been very indifferent and unsatisfactory. I am very sorry
for this. I had hoped he would escape the worthless disposition of
so many of the St. Regis boys. On your urgency I have placed his
home on the home list to leave here the last week in June. You will
have due notification of the date of his departure, either by letter
or telegraph.

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June 6, 1904.

Mr. W. M. Kanderson, Jr.,
Carliole, Pa.

My dear Mr. Henderson :

I thank you for your note of the 6th, and have issued orders
forbidding our students to cross fields in going to the creek or
elsewhere. This is a repetition of my former order.

Yours very truly,

-C- Father Mahony.

because we do not find Catholic homes; but we shall continue to work
together with you to accomplish your purposes.

Enclosed is a full list of Catholic pupils in Bucks County.

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Re. John A. Mahony,
St. Patrick's Rectory,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Father Mahony :

I find that Andrew Herne is only about twelve years old, as is in the hands of excellent people. We call him one of our best pupils. Five miles seems a long distance for a small boy to go, but if you consider it imperative and safe escort to and from school be provided it may be done. I have so written Mr. Flower,

I of course require that all our patrons having children in their care shall be responsible for them Sundays as well as other days, and it is that personal responsibility which makes our outing so much of a success and that is in the way in so many of these cases. A very large number of our Catholic students when out from us if permitted to go four or five miles away to Catholic churches and out of sight of their patrons would take advantage and go wrong.

It was my general understanding with Father Gane when he was here that things would have to remain pretty much as they are for this year, and next year we would be more circumspect and not allow any Catholics to go out unless places are found convenient to Catholic church privileges. This will better quite a little, for we find so few Catholics living in the country and our proportion of Catholic children is so large. However, we can keep here all whom it is impossible to place in such homes as above indicated. This will necessarily lead to our decreasing the proportion of Catholic pupils here

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Roman Catholic in Ruck Co., Perme.

John Benedict
David Swamp
Joseph Cole
John Skenandiora
John Holmes
Alfonso Cornon
Francis Cannon
Clair Everett
Vincente Figueroa
John LaRocque
Joseph Miguel
Joseph Redford
Ramon Romarat
Michael Solomon
Charles K. Forte
Thomas Yellowbull
William Crow
Frank Nick
John B. Ortega
Harry Archambault
Ira Burd
Robt. Davenport
Louis DeJesus
Thomas Delorm
Barney Pretendseagle
Louis Lazaro
Enrique Urrutia
Joseph Pleets
Jose Rodriguez
Thomas Runnels
Joseph Tarbell
David White
Peter Tarbell
Steven Glori
Samuel Brown (N.York)
Lewis Cook
Andrew Herne
Andrew G. Paint
Charles H. Headley
Charles R. Pellett
Thomas S. Batterman
G. R. Martindale
Joseph G. Haines
E. W. Slack
Jan. L. Foote
Kiss E. G. Cox
James L. Codner
H. Q. Smith
Fanny Atkinson
Roland Flack
W. M. Katherine
Harry Foolsey
David VanHart
Andrew T. R. D. E.
T. Newlin Ely
Joseph G. Webster
Wm. M. Sackett
Andrew F. Hibbs
Thomas S. Stapler
J. F. Schumace
Louis R. Walton
Jno. C. Mathews
Miles MartindeLL
David V. Reed
Jas. T. Watson
G. R. Martindale
David Stewart
Thomas LaRue
Tessie Palmer
Robt. O. Belville
E. L. Beans
Theo. F. Vandegrift
Charles VanHart
Lillian Flowers
Mechanics Valley, Pa.
Pallington, Pa.
Woolbourn, Pa.
Penn Valley, Pa.
Truven, Pa.
Edgewood, Pa.
Oxford Valley, Pa.
* Snooking, Pa.
Delington, Pa.
Nyacomb, Pa.
Newton, Pa.
Greensle, Pa.
Hart, Pa.
Morriscville, Pa.
Brooksbur, Pa.
Edgewood, Pa.
Taylorville, Pa.
Hillneyville, Pa.
Forest Grove, Pa.
Oxford Valley, Pa.
Edgewood, Pa.
Jaminson, Pa.
Solisbury, Pa.
Nyacomb, Pa.
* Sullytown, Pa.
Pallington, Pa.
Truven, Pa.
Jaminson, Pa.
Giles, Pa.
Roeloff, Pa.
Vordley, Pa.
* Truynere, Pa.
Wood Hill, Pa.
Edgewood, Pa.

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June 7, 1964.

Mrs. Christina J. Smith,
Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mrs. Smith :

Your little boy, Frank Chubb Smith, is too young to enter this
school. We do not want to take those who are under 12 years of
age. We do have several who are younger, but they are either the
children of former students or were brought here under a misunder-
standing. The school is industrial and children of ten are too young
to fit in well.

I am sorry not to be able to favor you. In two years he will
come within our rules and if he is then in good health I shall be
glad to take him and do the best we can for him.

June 7, 1964.

Miss Penie C. King,
1028 Parrish St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Miss King :

The enclosed letter was returned here some weeks after it was
mailed. As it is an acknowledgment of the money you sent for Walter
Snyder and Henry Rose, I try again to reach you.

My doctor states that Henry is improving some but Walter remains
about the same. He is able to walk about upon the balcony of the how
pital which is sheltered.

Sincerely yours,

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June 7, 1904.

Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson,
Gen. Agent of Education in Alaska,
Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Doctor :

Replying to yours of the 6th instant with regard to Molly Dallak, I have to say that Molly was here in school during the winter and did well. As she is new to the school, and we feel in all such cases that the more we can get pupils into relations with nice white people and rather separated from each other the stronger and better they will become, we sent Molly out to the country on the 5th of April with the first party. She has a nice home, is doing well, and all conditions seem quite satisfactory. There is no reason for anxiety about her that I know of.

I feel sure we are doing the best for her that can be done. If she should remain out during the winter she will attend school with white children; but those matters are settled later. Molly is in the neighborhood of very good schools, and our girls there have as good advantages as any. I shall have her under more careful observation because of your letter.

Faithfully yours,

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June 7, 1904.

A. Gonzalez Font,
C/o Dept. of Education,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your inquiries, I have to state,

1. There is a commercial school in the town of Carlisle, which is not connected with the Indian school, but to which Indian and Porto Ricans may go.

2. The branches taught are spelling, writing, arithmetic, book-keeping and business forms, stenography and typewriting. The time necessary to complete their course depends upon the advancement of the student at time of entering and upon his application and ability.

3. We have no pay roll for Indian or Porto Rican pupils. They attend school half a day and work in one of the school shops the other half day, unless permitted to go to school in town one half day instead of going to work in the shops. In the summer those students who work at the school all day are paid a moderate wage by the Government; or they may go to the country and earn money by farm work. This is the better course. The summer pay at the school is only through two months, the working period in the country from three to six months.
The school (commercial) is open all day. Students may take whole or half day lessons.

4. The charge for attendance at the commercial school is $5 a month for half-day attendance; $8 for full day. Books and material are additional. Payment is expected in advance.
Students must pay their own tuition. The Indian school is not responsible for that in any way.

5. The Commercial School closes July 1st and opens Aug. 25th for the next term.

Yours truly,

Brig. Gen., Supt.

June 7, 1904.

Mr. George S. Logg,
Leslie,
Sterling Co., S. Dak.

My dear Mr. Logg :

Replying to your letter of May 23rd, I must advise you that it
is not practicable to send home your son Frank before the expiration
of his school period. He came here for five years and that time will
not be up for two years. Sickness of parents is not considered a
sufficient reason for withdrawing students. Only the serious illness
of the students themselves shortens their term.

You can easily understand that if we were to accede to requests
of parents to send home their children because of sickness or mis-
fortune in the family at home, our school would soon be practically
broken up. It is the young people we are working for and trying to
fit for the conditions they will meet in later years, and nothing
should be allowed to interfere with that.

Frank is doing very well.

Sincerely your friend,

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June 7, 1904.

Mrs. Harriet Denny,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Denny :

Juliet is in my office and desires that I explain to you the
situation.

Juliet is a junior. Our rules for fifteen years have been not
to permit seniors and juniors to go home until they had graduated.
She will graduate in about twenty months and will then be entitled
to go home, having completed the course. It seems she has been un-
able to make you understand this.

You can readily see, I am sure, what the result would be if we
permitted the seniors and juniors home visits. Usually they come to
the expiration of their school term during this period, and we have
found by experience that we would be unable to carry them through to
graduation unless we held them here. Juliet is well, is in good
spirits, and sent you some money quite recently. She is taken care
of without expense to you and the only hardship about it is the con-
dition which this presents. After talking with Juliet I fear she has
not written you just as she should, but has led you to think she
could go home and return, which is not the case.

I want to assure you of my highest interest in Juliet's welfare
and my assurance that in the end you and she and her friends will
feel entirely satisfied with the results of her being at Carlisle.

June 7, 1904.

Mr. William J. Bailey,
800 K. St., S. E.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :

Miss Burgess hands me your letter. Our school doctor assures me that Mary is in good health except that her eyes have been inflamed for three weeks, but they are improving and he thinks will soon be all right.

This is the best place for her, I am sure. School will be out in a few days. In the long summer days the little girls find much time to play on the lawn and the country air is much better for her than to be in close quarters in the city. Aside from this, you understand that it is against the rules of the school to send pupils home for a visit during their term here.

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June 7, 1904.

Jose L. Rodriguez,
C/o Mr. G. R. Martindale,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Dear Jose :

I enclose a letter from your cousin, and hope you will write
him. Please return his letter to me.

With best wishes for a pleasant and profitable summer for you,

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Carmen Rodriguez,
San Sebastian 60,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

My dear Sir :

Replying to your inquiry I am happy to tell you that Jose is
doing very well in his country home at Trevose, Pennsylvania with Mr.
G. R. Martindale, where he went March 31st this year. All letters
received here for him are forwarded him and he writes to us fre-
quently. I will send him your letter. He is usually so thoughtful
I cannot understand why he should not answer your letters.

Yours truly,

Brig. Gen., Supt.

June 7, 1904.

Mrs. Mary Thibodeau,
Old Town, Me.

Dear Mrs. Thibodeau :

On receipt of your letter about your grandson, Peter Francis,
I telegraphed the chief of police of Pana, Illinois, where you ad-
vised he had gone; but have had no answer, and I doubt if he has re-
mained there. You have probably heard from him again. If so, and
you will advise of his whereabouts I will send for him and bring him
back to the school, as I understand that is your desire.

Yours very truly,

Brig. Gen., Supt.

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June 7, 1904.

Dr. Josiah A. Powless,
Milwaukee Medical College,
Milwaukee, Wis.

My dear Josiah :

It is a great pleasure to me to now acknowledge your invitation to the commencement exercises of the Milwaukee Medical College, which is of so much importance to yourself. At the time I was ill and in bed, and could not write you as I wished. Please accept now my heartiest congratulations on the completion of your course and the fact that you are now an M. D. We shall all look forward to a successful practice for you.

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June 7, 1904.

Emerson D. White,

Fort Yates, N. Dak.

My dear Mr. White :

Your letter to Mr. Allen is handed to me by Mrs. Allen. Mr. Allen is in Minnesota after pupils for the school.

I read with greatest interest what you say about education for
your people. There is no question about your being entirely right.
Your abilities were gained by wide opportunities and so it is with
every man who has ability. The Indians must not expect that limited
opportunities will produce strong useful men. There is no gain without
sacrifice. White people sacrifice a great deal for their children
and Indians must be ready and willing to do the same.

I trust you will give every help you can to Miss Yarnall who has
gone to your agency after a party.

Very truly yours,

Brig. Gen., Supt.

June 7, 1904.

Charles S. Hood,
Yainax, Ore.

Dear Charlie :

In view of the facts you state in yours of the 31st ult.
will be all right for you to defer your coming until later.
hope you will be able to make up a nice party of suitable etu

Faithfully your friend,

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June 7, 1904.

Mr. A. G. Miller,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 7th instant, I have to advise
you that George Robinson was about twenty-two years of age when he
and Dr. Arment entered into their agreement with each other. I heard
of Dr. Arment's treatment of the boy and realizing that he was creating
a bill for which there was no foundation I wrote to Mr. Hagenbeck
to stop it and told the Doctor that he would have nothing but
George's wages to fall back upon. The Doctor's reply was that it
was an arrangement between himself and George and the matter would
be adjusted satisfactorily. George has insisted all the time and
still insists that it was purely an arrangement between the Doctor
and himself and that he was going to send the Doctor some Indian cu-
rios after he went home. However, George had run other accounts at
Bloomsburg and when he went home I let him have merely enough to take
him there, retaining the balance until he should settle with Dr. Arment
or make some arrangement with him. There is in my hands $55.72
of George's money and as I have not heard from him and the bill has
not been settled as appears by your letter, I am willing to turn over
to Dr. Arment or to you for him that amount. This is the only obligation
upon me in the matter. In fact, there is no obligation upon
me at all for ordinarily I give students all the money remaining to
their credit here when they go home. George had bought clothing,

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June 8, 1904.

Mr. Marous Jenkins,
123 Liberty St.,
New York City.

My dear Sir :

I enclose my check for the two boxes of soap which
have just been received, and put the test into the hands of
Mrs. Pratt who will make a report duly. I have given your
letter so that she may follow it in regard to treatment in
washing clothes.

Quite odd that your letter and bill should come to
me this morning and that I should be writing to my friend, Gen.
A. G. Hennisee at San Francisco at the same time, and that you
should mention him ! He and I are in the same boat. We are
promoted, have our commissions but get no pay.

Very truly yours,

June 8, 1904.

Barley S. Thompson,
Box 148,
Rinconing, Mich.

Dear Barley :

How left you come to know
in the same way. We do not send anything to you, what then
can we do ?

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June 8, 1904.

Mr. Edward L. Rogers,
Webster, S. D ak.

Dear Edward :

I have yours of the 5th telling of your graduation
and that you are now a full fledged lawyer, and I congratulate
you most heartily.

I note what you say about your plans for the summer.
We shall be glad to see you here well in advance of the first
of September, so that you may lay your plans accordingly.

Sincerely your friend,

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June 9, 1904.

Rev. Edward Marsden,
Ketchikan, Alaska.

My dear Edward :

My authority for Alaskan expenses in the special law passed by
Congress leaves me some money to be used in transporting students,
and if you have . say ten more - good boys and girls that could
start from Seattle before the last of June I could handle them with
the funds and authority I have.

Govt. rate, etc expense,

Please wire me promptly on receipt of this, whether you can no-
comply such a thing; and if you can, go ahead and I will make the
necessary arrangements.

Faithfully yours,

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June 9, 1904.

Arnold Print Works,
40 - 42 Leonard St.,
New York City.

Gentlemen :

Manuel Ruiz Rexach brings me your letter to him. I have please-
ure in stating that since May 2nd, 1901 when he entered this school
as a student, to the present time Manuel has been an excellent boy,
studious, ambitious and gentlemanly. He has worked in our school
printing office and though not proficient in that line is well spoken
of by the superintendent of that department for his interest and en-
ergy and his adaptability to that kind of work. He is in our senior
class in school, and has been in attendance at the Carlisle Commer-
cial College for nearly two years, spending half a day in our school
and half a day in the commercial school when not in the printing
office.

TELEGRAM.

June 9, 1904.

Thomas Sloan,
Bender, Neb.

Your letter. Owing to protest of Agent against similar action for
Ida Mitchell by another attorney I cannot conclude for her still dur-
ther advice from you. See full letter today.

Pratt, Brig. Gen.

W. U. Night.

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June 9, 1904.

Col. O. C. Bobyshell, Secy., etc.,
Antietam Battlefield Committee,
P. O. Box 1363,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Colonel :

It will afford me very great pleasure indeed to have our
band comply with your wishes and serve at the dedicatory ceremonies
on Antietam Battlefield on the 17th of September next.

You can probably get Colonel Kennedy of the Cumberland Valley
Railroad to give free transportation. Entertainment would have to
be provided for the boys on the grounds or we could have them take
a lunch from here to serve. All that would be required in the way
of pay would be some reward to the boys, say a dollar and a half or
two dollars apiece, to make them feel that their constant practice
has something in it for them beside the mere music. Just now they
are pretty well scattered. Some have their instruments with them
at their country homes from which they will not return before the
14th or 15th of September; but I feel sure that under my most excel-
lent leader they will give you very fair music.

When you know just what you want advise me if you are satisfied
with what we can do.

Fraternally yours,

Brig. Gen., Supt.

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June 9, 1904.

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

Dear Prof. Downes :

The enclosed letter will explain to you that the young man, a
very worthy graduate of this school, desires to return here and enter
the Preparatory of Dickinson College. He has a lofty purpose, his
father is one of the distinguished men of the Senecas in New York,
and he himself is capable. In his former letter he wanted to go
through the Preparatory and then enter the law school, but I have
urged him to make a complete thing of it, going through college as
well before starting in on law. You will see what he says. I shall
of course be responsible for him, but hope to arrange so that he can
pretty nearly earn his way.

Please return the letter.

Fraternally yours,

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June 9, 1904.

Mrs. Dora Leonard Wray,
4009 Dearborn St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Mrs. Wray :

I have your letter of the 6th instant. Your daughter Marguerite is in a very good home. Mrs. Baugh is kind to her. She lost her own little daughter some time ago and Marguerite has in a very great degree taken her place in Mrs. Baugh's affections. Marguerite's unhappiness, if there has been any, is only temporary. She ought to be very grateful for the privileges of such a good home and repay Mrs. Baugh by cheerful and ready obedience. I am sure a letter from you to that effect would have a good result. Her record here has been very satisfactory and I take it the trouble you are worried about was of small importance and very easily handled by Mrs. Baugh.

Lily has been doing very nicely and Phoebe though not always satisfactory in conduct has of late greatly improved. She comes in to the school in a day or two, not for discipline, but because of a change in her country home.

It is a part of the aim of this school to give every child from one to three in some good white family away from other Indians, where they can be one of the family and by working mornings and evenings earn their board and keep and attend the local public school. I count this of more importance to Indians than regular school work, music or other course, and for this reason I shall carry out this scheme with your children just as I do with others. However, as you live in Chicago where there are good public schools I shall be willing

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to let you take your daughters and care for them there, if that is
your wish. When at Carlisle they of course take their turn in the
sewing room and laundry unless detailed to the dining room. With re-
gard to music lessons, our instrumental music department accommodates
such a very small proportion of the girls that not one fifth of
those who want to take music lessons out of our more than four hun-
dred girls are able to do so. There is constantly a long waiting
list and only those who show special adaptability and interest in
practice after selection can be continued.

If you do not feel that the children are getting what you can
give them elsewhere, I am ready, in view of their opportunities in
the city, to allow them go to you, as above stated. There are so
many full-blood Indians needing the very training and opportunities
we strive to give here that the money spent on those already having
equal or greater advantages at their home could be better used in
educating some of these unfortunate ones. However, as we have no
complaint against the children it is only upon your request that
they can be sent home before the expiration of their five years.

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June 9, 1904.

Edward Wolfe,
Cherokee, N. Car.

Dear Edward :

I enclose a blank for your application, as desired. Be careful to fill out your part carefully, and have your mother, the doctor and the superintendent fill out their respective parts. If you are in good health I shall be glad to arrange for your coming to Carlsbad.

June 9, 1904.

Mrs. Anna M. Davis,
Oxford,
Chester Co., Pa.

Dear Mrs. Davis :

Relying to your letter of June 3rd, I have to advise you that only Indians are admitted to this school. It is supported by Congressional appropriation exclusively for Indians. I am therefore unable to help you in the matter of your daughter.

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June 9, 1904.

James Lyon,

Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear James :

I have not received any information from you about those who wish to come to Carlisle with you. Beside their names and ages I must know that they are in good health and how much Indian blood they have, whether they have attended school at all and where, whether their parents consent to their coming. If everything is satisfactory I will place transportation at Syracuse for them. Enclosed are application blanks. Give each child one, see that each is filled and send them all back to me. Then I can let you know what we can do about it. You yourself could come along on the 20th of June without waiting for the others, but I will wait to hear from you again before placing a ticket.

We cannot accept any children who are under 12 or over 20 years of age.

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June 9, 1904.

Miss Lulu Bachtell,
School No. 34,
Columbia Ave. & Carey St.,
Baltimore, Md.

Dear Miss Bachtell :

Yours of May 23rd for some reason just now comes into my hands
and I greatly regret my tardiness in attending to it. For several
weeks I have not been well and my correspondence has been somewhat
disturbed. Your letter was probably inadvertently placed in the
drawer with other letters for reply as soon as I should again be in
my office, and so escaped notice.

Visitors are admitted every day except Sunday. School room
work is in progress five days in the week except legal holidays, but
will be dropped now in a week or so for the summer. All the indus-
trial departments will be open during the entire summer. Many of our
students have already gone to the country to remain till the middle
of September and others go in a few days. 568 are so absent now.

We shall be very glad to show you through all departments if
you make yourself known on arrival at the school.

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June 10, 1904.

Rev. D. A. Sanford,

Bridgeport, Okla.

Dear Brother Sanford :

Rena Flying Coyote desires to go home this year. Having come to Carlisle in the fall of '96, she was entitled to return several years ago, and was given the opportunity each year, but each time expressed her preference of remaining here and going to the country. As you understand, we let students decide these matters for themselves.

I am arranging that she leave here some day the last week in the month, ticketed to Hammon, where she asks to go. She will travel with other girls going to their homes in the southwest.

Rena has made fair progress, but has not done as well as she was capable of doing. However, she is handy in housekeeping lines. I regret very much that she is not remaining to complete the course.

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June 10, 1904.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cook,

Hogansburg, N. Y.

Dear Mrs. Cook :

Your daughter Charlotte is entitled to return home this year by expiration of term and I am arranging to have her start from here with others sometime the last week in the month. Rev. W. C. Kingsbury will have telegraphic notification at the time they leave here and will inform you.

Charlotte has made a very good record here and ought to return and finish the course. I understand from her that she expects to do that.

June 10, 1904.

Mr. Philip Bigtree,

Hogansburg, N. Y.

Dear Sir :

Your daughter Charlotte has completed her term at this school and desires to go home. She had this opportunity last year, but preferred until the matter was settled to remain for another year. She has done well and is well up toward the top. I shall expect her to return in the fall and go on with her studies. She will travel with other girls bound for Hogansburg. Rev. W. C. Kingsbury will have a telegraphic notification at the time of departure and will inform you.

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June 10, 1904.

Peter Mark,

Rapid City, Mich.

Dear Mr. Mark :

Your daughter Josephine has completed one term at this school and is therefore entitled to go home. I am arranging to start again from here, ticketed to Rapid City, with other girls going in her direction, sometime the last week in this month. You will have telegraphic notification at the time of her departure, in order that you may see her.

Josie is well toward the top and it is a disappointment that she does not remain to graduate, but she is capable and bright and quite able to support herself,

Yours very truly,

Brig. Gen., Supt.

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June 10, 1904.

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

Dear Brother Kingsbury :

The following pupils from Hogenenburg are due to return home this
year and accordingly will leave here sometime the last week in this
month, the boys and girls traveling in separate parties;

Frank Tarbell
Louis Thomas
Mitchell Smith
Evans Phillips

Charlotte Bigtree
Charlotte Cook
Ida Thompson
Mary Connors

Nancy Chubb
Lizzie Chubb
Mary Ann Jackson
Louise Tarbell

Hastefore we have used Nysingo as the destination of those we
were sending to Hogenenburg, that being so much nearer their homes
than Massena Springs, and unless otherwise notified we shall use that
point again. The parents have all been notified of the return of
their children, but I will telegraph you at the time of departure.

Charlotte Bigtree and Charlotte Cook are expected to return to
Carlisle in the fall. They have done very well and should continue
their studies. Mitchell Smith also is bright and should return
in the fall; likewise Frank Tarbell. Louis Thomas has been a good
boy but cannot make any progress in school and Evans Phillips has of
late been quite unsatisfactory in conduct in his country home.

Mary Connors should return in the fall.

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June 10, 1904

Louis Barron,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear sir :

Louis Thomas, a student of this school, who gives your name as
that of his guardian, has completed his term at this school and is
entitled to return home. Accordingly he will leave here with other
boys from Hogenburg some day the last week in the month.

Louis has been a good boy here but has not made much progress
in his studies.

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June 10, 1904.

Napoleon Perrier,
Ochelata, Cherokee Nation,
Indian Territory.

Dear Sir :

Your son Thomas is entitled to return home this year by reason of expiration of time. Accordingly I will ticket him to Bartlesville, I. T., as he requests, and he will leave here one of the last days of the month.

June 10, 1904.

Mrs. Julia Jimerson,
Red House, New York.

Dear Mrs. Jimerson :

Sherman will leave here sometime the last week in the month, ticketed to Red House unless advised that you want him to go to Salamanca.

Sherman ought to continue his schooling. I shall expect him to return in the fall.

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June 10, 1904.

William John,
Versailles, New York.

Dear Sir :

Percy Nephew has not been in robust health and as he came here
from Lincoln Institute four years ago I am permitting him to go home.
If he is strong and well in the fall I shall be glad to have him re-
turn to Carlisle. He is yet very young to be out of school and I
believe desires to come back in the fall.

Percy will be ticketed to Lawton's Station, New York.

June 10, 1904.

Chauncey Green,
Lawton Station, New York.

Dear Sir :

Your sons Edward and William are entitled to return home by
expiration of time, and will leave here one of the last days in the
month. I am happy to state that both boys have made a good record
here.

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June 10, 1904.

Rev. Samuel Hopkins,
Marlow, S. Dak.

Dear Mr. Hopkins :

Your son Reuben has been here five years and is therefore en-
titled to go home. I understand that this is your wish, and that
you will be willing to return him in the fall to go on with his edu-
cation. He has made very creditable advancement and has grown almost
to manhood. I am arranging that he leave here one of the last days
of the month, but will notify you at the time of departure in order
that you may meet him at Genesee, which I am informed is the nearest
and probably the most convenient railroad point for you. If not,
please advise.

Hannah is in the country and wishes to remain. It is a rule of
the school to permit students to decide for themselves whether
will go home at the close of their five year period or remain for
other year. Hannah is doing nicely, is well and I think has chosen
wisely in desiring to continue at school.

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June 10, 1904.

Mr. William Bear,
Niobrara, Nebraska.

Dear Sir :

Your children, Harrison and Rosa, have completed their five year
at this school and are therefore entitled to return home. According-
ly, I will ticket them to Niobrara one of the last days in June and
they will travel together. I will telegraph you at the time they
start, or advise you by letter sufficiently in advance so that you
may meet them at Niobrara.

June 10, 1904.

Wilkins Cusick,
R. F. D. No. 19,
Lewiston, New York.

Dear Sir :

Your son Enos will leave here one of the last days in June,
ticketed to Buffalo unless otherwise advised. You will have noti-
cation at the time of starting in order that you may meet him.

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June 10, 1904.

Mr. Moses Smith,

Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Mr. Smith :

Your son Freddie will leave here sometime the last week in June
ticketed to Syracuse. I will telegraph you at the time he leaves
or write you long enough in advance that you may meet him at Syra-
cuse. If he is in good health in the fall it would be well for him
to return to Carlisle and go on with his studies.

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June 10, 1904.

Mrs. Mrs. C. Magee,
Temecula, Cal.

Dear Mrs. Magee :

Alexander Perry has elected to go home, having completed his five years here. Accordingly, I will ticket him to Temecula, and he will leave here one of the last days of this month.

June 10, 1904.

Florencio Subish,
Nellie, Cal.

Dear Sir :

Your son Abel is entitled to go home this year, having been here for five years. He asks to go to Escondido, Cal., and I shall arrange to ticket him there, leaving here one of the last days of the month.

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June 11, 1904.

Miss Rosa LaForge,
226 South Seventh St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Rosa :

It is not at all practicable for me to allow you to break your
arrangements with the hospital. I know how it is with you - you have
simply got a little fever about something else and made up your mind
without thinking. It is immaterial whether you follow nursing as a
profession or not, the value to you as a wife and a mother will be
inestimable. Nothing you could do would be of as great advantage to
you through all your life as to continue right where you are and
accomplish what you set out to do. To allow you to quit because of
a more whim would be reckless nonsense. Stick to your work and car-
ry out your original purpose. It is better than any you have con-
ceived of since.

I enclose you a check for ten dollars as you request.

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June 11, 1904.

Rev. John A. Mahony,
St. Patrick's Rectory,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Father Mahony :

As indicated in my former letter to you I wrote Mrs. Flower, who
is in charge of Andrew Herne, that if proper escort were provided him
to and from church it would be all right for him to go to the Cath-
olic Church; so that the matter was attended to at once.

June 11, 1904.

David Turkey,
Newtown, Pa.

Dear David :

I have your note and am very sorry that I am unable to respond
to your appeal. As I am myself and have been for a number of years
quite hopelessly in debt I have not the money to lend.

Very sincerely your friend,

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June 11, 1904.

J. A. Kuhn,
U. S. Commissioner,
Box 84,
Port Townsend, Wash.

Dear Sir :

Relying to your letter of the 4th instant, I am today sending
you one of our illustrated catalogues.

All students coming here are entered for a five years term un-
less they graduate sooner. We carry them to a point about midway be-
tween the grammar and high school graduating points. Our age limits
are 12 to 20 years, but we prefer those between 14 and 16. We re-
quire a physician's certificate of health and must know that the
applicant is of reasonably good character before accepting him. These
entering Carlisle are transported at Government expense and all ar-
rangements are made from this school.

I enclose an application blank which should be filled out in
all particulars and returned here, when if the information given is
satisfactory, a ticket can be placed at the railroad point named at
the time desired.

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June 11, 1904.

Mrs. Sara Smith King,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear school-daughter :

I have your letter with regard to Juliet . Juliet is a junior
and under our rules is to remain here until she graduates a year from
next February. If I open the door for one I must open it for all.
We have been compelled also to adopt a rule about which you know,
i. e., that sickness of relatives at home shall not be a reason for
violating the rules and sending pupils home. I am very sorry of
course that this rule should at times interfere with what seems a
considerable need and prove a hardship to anyone; but it was the only
way to handle our affairs and make a success of them.

With kindest regards and best wishes and my great pleasure in
your happy home surroundings as you explain, I am

 faithfully your friend and school-father,

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June 11, 1904.

Mrs. N. F. Cooper,
Guy Head, Mass.

Dear Mrs. Cooper :

I well remember the visit of your uncle who was then I believe
a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. His ad-
dress to our children was very impressive. I remember he used in
his speech the fact that he had invented a machine for separating
huckieberries, to show that the Indian had an inventive mind.

My letter to you of the 3rd instant contains the facts of my po-
sition in relation to Indians. "There is no excellence without great
labor", we are told by a very wise man, and I may add, "There is no
excellence without some hardship, self-denial, etc."

You are entirely wrong about your being in better circumstances
if you had been on a reservation. If you had visited many of the res-
ervations as I have and saw the forlorn, hopeless, pauper, dependent,
demoralized conditions that ensue from such treatment you would be
very thankful that your people were never subjected to such influen-
cies. My advice to you would be to continue to push your children out
into the public schools and into the industries of the people about
you. I know from experience that Indians are welcome and the fact
that your uncle was a member of the State Legislature of Massachusetts
indicates the high appreciation and wide opportunities the State is
ready to accord them. It was the Governor who introduced him to me.

Yet I shall not entirely say 'No, your children cannot come to

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Carliele" if you insist that you want them to come, because I have
been taking Indians from Maine and other similar localities who are
no more entitled to the privileges of this school than your people
are. But they must come for five years unless they graduate sooner,
they must be at least one fourth Indian and be in good health and of
good character. If they come, I should of course make a ll arrange-
ments for transportation and cover their expenses.

From my letter you have the fact that we send students to the
country to live with farmers. Every winter a very considerable num-
ber remain out in good white homes working for their board and at-
tending the local white school. This is a part of our curriculum,
and we do not receive any who are not willing to conform to it. I
have not found any Indians either from Maine, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan or any other state who do not need
what we call "the outing", that is, living in the homes of white peo-
ple to find out what it is and to gain the courage of it.

It has been on my mind to visit your people sometime when up on
the New England coast, but somehow the opportunity when there has
never come.

Sincerely yours,

Brig. Gen., Supt.

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