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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 2, 1903.

Miss Alice Doxtator,
Indian School,
Crow Agency, Mont.

Dear Alice :

I am very sorry that your letter of complaint has to fall into
my hands.

You did not leave five cents with us when you left Carlisle.
You drew fifteen dollars the day you left and took a check for the
balance, $14.28. Why you return the check I cannot understand. Why
did you not cash it and use the money? You are right in saying that
when you left there was over forty dollars coming to you from the
country. I told you at the time that as soon as this money came in
and the bill was settled for your ticket the remainder would be sent
you, and this promise was kept. Your ticket cost $18.95 and I sent
you a check for $25.05 the same day I paid the railroad company for
your ticket. You ought to have it before this. I return to you
herewith the check for $14.28 which came in your letter. I think you
studied bookkeeping and business forms in school and you should know
that a check is drawn to get money upon. You took the check for
$14.28 upon my advice in order not to run the risk of losing the mon-
ey. I told you that as soon as you reached DePere you could take it
to a bank and get the money on it. You can do that now by going to
the bank nearest where you are.

We have just had word from Charles that he is getting along
nicely, and I hope the outdoor life he will get up there will bring

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complete recovery. He was looking extremely well when he left here except for his enlarged neck.

I am glad you are keeping the school colors so near you and that they mean so much to you. I am sure you are going to do well in your position and you must not let a spirit of homesickness take possession of you and make you miserable even though you are so many miles away from home.

Colonel Pratt is in the southwest and will visit a number of agencies and schools before returning here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 3, 1903.

Supt., LaJolla Day School,
Valley Centre, Cal.

Dear Sir :

I replied yesterday to your telegram asking that Rose Nelson be sent home to the effect that it was impossible to let her go at this time. For the sake of her people I regret exceedingly that this action is necessary, but it has been the rule of this school not to send students home on account of sickness in the family. Otherwise, we would be deceived in a multitude of cases and put to endless expense. If we let the bars down for one we are obliged to abrogate the rule entirely. This is a very critical time in Rose's education as she completes the course and will receive a diploma in February next. Without any disparagement to the other good girls in this school, I am safe in saying that there is no student here whose influence and example are worth more to Carlisle; and at the same time I am able to say that Carlisle is of inestimable value to her. It would be nothing short of a calamity to her to go home at this time when she is so near graduation.

Upon the completion of her course Rose desires to take up the work of preparing to be a trained nurse. I believe she is in every way fitted to succeed in this profession. However, I think if her mother is still living and still in need of her presence at the time of her graduation next February she would go home at once and return later to take up her training in the hospital. It is necessary for her to receive her diploma here before she can enter upon that course

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 3, 1903.

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

Dear Mr. Commissioner :

Mr. Warner will call at your office Saturday morning next with tickets to the Georgetown football game. I sincerely hope that you and your family with as many of your official family as can be spared will attend the game. It will be a great pleasure indeed to have you there.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 3, 1903.

Miss Bessie F. Cummins,
1321 Kenesaw Ave.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Cummins :

Mr. Warner will visit the Indian Office Saturday morning and see that you are supplied with tickets to the game, as you request. I am very glad you wrote about this, as it brought the whole subject to mind and it. Warner was interviewed at once. He will have a sufficient supply of tickets I think so that all Indian Office people who wish to attend the game will have the opportunity.

With kindest regards,

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, pa., Nov. 3, 1903.

Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,

Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Mr. Kingsbury :

In the light of your letter I have decided to keep all the chil-
dren, at least until Colonel Pratt returns to consider the subject.
I appreciate the difficulties under which you labor in this particu-
lar line on account of being so near the border. I should think it
would sometimes be impossible to tell just where these boys and
girls do belong.

When Peter Cole was here he promised to notify me when the run-
away boys got home and said he would have them arrested and himself
bring them back to Carlisle if transportation was furnished for that
purpose. I would like to have this carried out and upon receipt of
a telegram either from you or from him that the time is ripe I will
immediately request that tickets to Carlisle be delivered, and all
expenses of arrest, etc. will be met upon presentation of bills.

Colonel is in the southwest for a trip of several weeks, visit-
ing the various Indian schools and agencies.

Sincerely yours,

Acting Supt.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 4, 1903.

Capt. J. B. Brown,
Indian School,
Morris, Minn.

My dear Brown :

We have sent you by express today a suit of clothes in accordance
with the measurements you gave us. I hope it will fit a young man
who will be good Carlisle stuff next year. I knew no other way to
forward it than by express and suppose you have some way to settle
the transportation charges.

Colonel Pratt is away again for the month of November, this time
in the southwest. I hope you have your school filled and am very
much interested in hearing that you have. My chances for a trip to
the northwest do not seem at all encouraging from the fact that I
have been authorized to go with the football team to Chicago Thanks-
giving Day. I am not sure yet that it will be possible to get away
but I will if I can.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 4, 1903.

James Dickson,
Lapwai, Idaho.

Dear James :

Colonel Pratt did return from his trip in the north west and is now in the south west for a few weeks, visiting Indian schools and agencies.

It is splendid news to hear that you are gaining so much in health. I hope it is a permanent improvement. I think it will be well for you to wait a little longer before returning to Carlisle. We shall all be very glad indeed to have you back and the delay will only be to make sure that your strength is equal to a return to your duties here. Suppose you spend the winter at home and come to us in the early spring. Write and let me know what you think of that plan.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 4, 1903.

Dear Mr. Kingsbury :

I note what you say in your letter of the 31st ultimo to Colonel Pratt about the runaway boys and Peter Cole's inability to bring them back.

I am perfectly willing to send someone from the school to get them if that seems best and it certainly is best if Peter lacks nerve to carry out his offer. If Moses Herring is there also I can send someone at once.

About keeping them at Carlisle, you understand that we would not keep them locked up merely for the sake of holding them here. When a boy is placed in the guard house it is only for a limited time and for punishment, not to assure his staying at the school. When the boys are returned I think they can be given such punishment perhaps as will make them think better of their determination to run away every time they are brought back. I believe we can wear them out at this business and make it so warm for them that they will have to stay at the school or stay away from home. Your interest is of very great assistance to us and we want to deal with these boys in such a way that they will be an example to all others coming from that school. On John Chubb is still here and has shown no disposition to leave but he could slip away almost any time if he so desired.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 4, 1905.

Mrs. N. S. H. Simmons,
22 Lafayette St.,
Schenectady, New York.

Dear Madam :

Your letter of the 2nd instant was sent to the hospital for in-
formation relative to Helen Fraties and Miss Barr, the nurse, advises
that she does not think Helen will ever be well again. Her trouble
is tuberculous. She is very thin and nervous, but seems to be feel-
ing better than usual just now. However, it is her disposition to
hide any suffering she may have and will not complain even though
very ill. She is up and around and attends school. She is quite
contented here and as we are able to give her comforts and medical
attention which she could not have if she returned to Alaska we are
not expecting to send her home.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 5, 1903.

Superintendent,
Insane Asylum,
Norristown, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I write to ask if you have an Indian young lady, Miss Estaiene Depeltquestangue, in your asylum. A note was just received from her by one of the teachers here which leads us to believe that she is. If this is correct, please inform me as fully as you can regarding her condition and needs. She was for several years connected with Carlisle as a special student and a clerk in our office, and we feel considerable interest in her.

Thanking you for the courtesy of a reply,

Acting Subt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 5, 1903.

Mr. C. E. Harroun, Jr.,
Edmond, Okla.

Dear Sir :

I am today asking that the ticket agent of the A. T. & S. F. R.R
at Edmond be instructed to deliver to you a ticket to Carlisle for
Thurza Guadaloupe, whom you desire to enter here as a student.

Please notify us when she will start.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 5, 1903.

Rev. Frank Mt. Pleasant,
R. F. D. Route 19,
Lawiston, New York.

Dear Sir :

The enclosed letter from Mrs. Annie Hill is referred to you for
information relative to the children of the writer for whom appli-
cation is made to enter this school. Unless they are bona fide
United States Indians we cannot of course accept them. Kindly advise
with the return of the letter as to their Indian blood, desirability
and eligibility.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 5, 1903.

Mr. J. E. Brockway, Mgr.,
The Brockway Lecture Bureau,
6101 Penn Ave.,
Pittsburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :

The committee on entertainments for this school is now considering suitable performances for the coming winter. A varied course is desired that will please our students in the lower grades as well as those who are more advanced, and at the same time cultivate their taste for that which is refined and elevating. The following from your catalog have been selected as probably presenting the features sought:

Dramatic Recitals - Underhill.
Ambary & Wagner Ladies' Quartette.
Chicago Glee Club with Reader.
Imperial Hand Bell Ringers.
Edmund Vance Cooke, Reciter.
The Jansen Carnival Company.
Liquid Air Experiments.

A combination of music and impersonation, of the order of Rogers-Grilley, is much more satisfactory to us than either alone, but as we have had this particular entertainment several times something new is desired. Please give us your best terms and open dates for the attractions above mentioned or others of equal merit, upon receipt of which further consideration will be given and possibly engagements made with one or more. Our funds are somewhat limited and that will have to be taken into account in any engagements made.

Please let us hear from you at an early date.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 6, 1903.

Hawley Hill,

Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of Nov. 2nd to Colonel Pratt I have to
advise you that Colonel Pratt is absent for a few weeks, and that I
have referred to the records and find that he wrote you that your
son could not go home before the expiration of his term of five
years; that he explained why he could not go, and that he has since
repeated that to you in answer to your subsequent urgency.

Clarence went to the country this fall on his own request and
is attending public school. His chances for education are here and
now either at the school or under the outing.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 6, 1903.

Mr. T. L. Hoover,
Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :

Colonel Pratt is absent at this time, and I therefore acknowledge with thanks the clipping you enclosed to him yesterday.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 6, 1903.

Miss Margaret Guss,
Mifflinburg, Pa.

Dear Miss Guss :

Your letter with regard to the position of drawing teacher at this school comes after we have been supplied by the Civil Service Commission. Examinations were held in August to obtain eligibles for this place as well as for any others that might become vacant in the Indian service. As there are only one or two other positions of the kind in the Indian school service and a large number took the examination it is not probable that another examination will be held very soon. However, you might find out definitely about that by addressing the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9, 1903.

Rev. M. F. Trippe,
Salamanca, New York.

Dear Mr. Trippe :

Referring to your letter of the 3rd enclosing one written by
William Jacobs, I regret to say that this boy was sent home on ac-
count of misconduct after only three years at the school. That makes
a prima facie case against him, but we would not want to permanently
blacklist anyone who has a real desire to make a man of himself. Will
you be kind enough to investigate his record since leaving Carlisle
to the end that it may be ascertained whether he has really reformed
or is simply looking for a place to spend the winter? Unless he has
greatly improved in conduct we would not want his influence among
our students. I am sure you appreciate the amount of mischief that
can be done by a bad boy.

A letter has just been received from Walter Kennedy, Second,
at Killbuck, New York, asking that his son be admitted to Carlisle.
He states that he has been to see you but you think the boy too young.
If he is past twelve as his father says I think we can arrange for
him without any trouble unless there is some other reason which would
debar him.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9, 1903.

Rev. W. E. Jenkins,
Selden, Kans.

Dear Sir :

I am in receipt of your letter of the 5th instant enclosing a
clipping from The Topeka Daily Herald.

The trouble related therein I found upon inquiry at the Indian
Office in Washington last Saturday to be almost entirely the fault of
of the white men. At no time did the Indians resist the proper ac-
tion of the authorities. They were fired upon without any reasonable
cause, and in return did merely what you or I would do under similar
circumstances, defended themselves. No Carlisle graduate had any
part in the trouble, although if any had I do not think we should
have been particularly ashamed of them for it. So far as we can tell
the man mentioned as having been a student at Carlisle was here some
years ago, and after three years deserted and returned to his home.
It could not have been any other one and if it is not he, certainly
no person who has been at Carlisle had any part in the trouble.

If you will investigate the Indian uprisings that have occurred
in the past ten or fifteen years you will find that the cause each
time lay entirely in the deep-seated antipathy that the western set-
tler has for the native. This statement is not coming from an east-
ern person who knows nothing about it, but from one who is western
by birth and education and knows the feeling entertained toward the
Indians by those living on the outskirts of the reservation and how

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9, 1903.

Mr. Byron M. Cutcheon,
74 Paris Ave.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dear Mr. Cutcheon :

In Colonel Pratt's absence I write to tell you that no Carlisle graduate had any part in the uprising that has filled the papers recently. A man named Smith is mentioned in connection with it who may be the same person who a number of years ago attended this school for between two and three years and then deserted. If it is not he no person who ever attended Carlisle took part in the affair. I was at the Indian Office Saturday and was informed there that so far as they can get at the facts the white people are almost entirely to blame. Had they gone about the matter in the proper spirit difficulty whatever would have been encountered. The root of the whole trouble lies in the deep-seated antipathy of those living on the outskirts of the reservation who covet everything in the possession of the Indians.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9, 1903.

Dr. L. Webster Fox,
1304 Walnut st.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Doctor :

Silas Schrimpscher, one of our students, has trouble with his
eyes, and I write to find if we can send him down Friday. Our band
goes down at that time, reaching the city about three o'clock and if
it is agreeable to you we will let him go down with it.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9, 1903.

Zenas Graham,

Flandreau, South Dakota.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 5th, I send you herewith an ap-
plication blank. If you are enrolled at the Flandreau School you
cannot be received at Carlisle except on the recommendation of Supt.
Pierce. If your application is properly executed and shows you to
be a suitable person for the Carlisle school we will upon its re-
turn here take up arrangements looking to your enrollment.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9, 1903.

Mrs. Mamie King,
104 E. Third St., Flat 7,
St. Paul, Minn.

Dear Mrs. King :

Replying to your letter of the 3rd instant, some time ago your
daughter sent to one of the girls at the school a letter which she
had written herself and to which she had signed Colonel Pratt's name.
She made Colonel Pratt say in this letter that he did not wish her to
return here nor could she go to any other Indian school. The letter
was addressed to you. I do not know what her object was any further
than that she was trying to deceive you. The deception failed to
work, however, as the letter was turned over to the matron. Ella had
also been writing some very foolish letters to some of the boys while
they were out at the seashore in the summer. These evidences of
frailty in her nature led Colonel Pratt to the conclusion that he
would not receive her in the school again.

I regret very much that Ella has shown this disposition for she
was very much liked while in the school by her teacher and many oth-
ers including myself. Colonel Pratt is absent and I have not the pow-
er to take up the question at all further than to state the conclusion
he announced just before leaving Carlisle. He will not return before
the first of December.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9, 1903.

Mrs. Clara McStrohm Naugle,
Lees Crossroads,
Cumberland Co., Pa.

Dear Madam :

The only sewing that is sent out from this school is a limited
amount of work from the tailor shop. It would be impossible to furn-
ish you anything like regular employment or indeed to promise you any
thing at all, as arrangements are already made with those people in
the town who have been doing our work. Should there be opportunity
to give you something to do in that line it would of course give us
pleasure to, but no arrangement could be made now to that effect.

It might be well for you to call upon the tailor after you come
to Carlisle, if you can do such work.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 9, 1903.

Mrs. L. P. Miller,
381 Wabash Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Madam :

In reply to your request of the 5th instant, I had mailed you
on Saturday a photograph of the student body on the campus, showing
some of the buildings in the back-ground; also one of our illustrated
catalogs. There will be no charge for the photograph. I trust it
will serve your purpose.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 6, 1903.

Mr. J. Liberty Tadd,
Art Studio,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

Miss Wood, a teacher in this school, who attended one of your chalk talks not long ago, tells me you said you would be willing to come to us sometime this year if your expenses could be met. We should consider it a very great favor if you could do that and could make almost any time that would be convenient to you suit us. We have, as you know, students of all grades, from the most primary to the graduating class which corresponds to about the tenth grade of the public schools, and talks of this nature are always received and most heartily enjoyed.

Will you kindly advise whether you have any open dates and whether you would feel inclined to come to us.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

Mrs. L. Bancroft Fant,
441 N. 4th St.,
Newark, Ohio.

Dear Madam :

Replying to your letter of the 7th instant, I cannot do better
than to refer you to Miss M. S. Cook, Chief of the Miscellaneous Di-
vision, Indian Office, Washington, D. C., who has charge of the work
of all field matrons throughout the Indian Service. I am sure she
can tell you where such material can be placed to do a great deal
of good.

Thanking you for your interest in the Indian and appreciating
your good words concerning The Red Man,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

Frank E. Johnson,
Sanborn, New York.

Dear Frank :

You left us very abruptly and unexpectedly last winter and it
would not be worth while for you to return to Carlisle unless you
have changed your ideas about school. If you wish to come back and
will pay your own way you will be received on arrival here and placed
upon the rolls.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

Dr. A. M. Seabrook,
Woman's Hospital,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Dr. Seabrook :

I have pleasure in enclosing for your use a ticket to the
Carlisle-Pennsylvania football game on Franklin Field Saturday after-
noon next.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

Rev. Dr. J. A. Lippincott,
M. E. Hospital,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have pleasure in sending you herewith a ticket to the Car-
lisle-Pennsylvania football game on Franklin Field Saturday next,
your name being on Colonel Pratt's list for complimentaries.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

Dear Doctor :

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

Mr. Herbert B. Johnston,
Editorial Rooms,
"The North American",
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

Miss Charlotte E. Harris,
Jefferson Hospital,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Charlotte :

I have pleasure in enclosing a ticket to the game on Franklin Field next Saturday, as you request in your letter to Mr. Miller.

Our people will not get into Philadelphia at all as we are arranging to leave the cars at West Philadelphia, starting home from there at 5:35.

Yours very truly,

Acting Supt.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

Mr. H. A. Riddle, G.P.A.,
C. V. R. R.,
Chambersburg, Pa.

Dear Mr. Riddle :

I write to ask if your office would make use of any tickets to the Pennsylvania-Indian game. If so, I shall be very glad indeed to send them up with the compliments of the school.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

Mr. W. A. Cox, G.A.,
C. & N. W. Ry.,
601 Chestnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have pleasure in enclosing for the use of yourself and your
office force six tickets of admission to the Carlisle-Peensylvania
football game on Franklin Field Saturday afternoon next.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 10, 1903.

C.
Mr. Geo. H. Shenton, Agent,
G. & H. Ry.,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Mr. Shenton :

I have pleasure in handing you herewith fifteen tickets to the
Carlisle-Philadelphia game in Philadelphia Saturday next, for the
use of yourself and the Phila. & Reading office in Philadelphia.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1903.

Mr. W. H. Shepler,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Mr. Shepler :

I have pleasure in handing you herewith 4 tickets of admission to the Pennsylvania-Indian football game in Philadelphia Saturday next, for use of yourself and Mr. McCartney.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1903.

Mr. Jungmann, Chief Clerk,
Benna. R. R. Office,
Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have pleasure in enclosing for the use the Pennsylvania
OFFICE with Colonel Pratt's compliments, twenty tickets of admission
to the Pennsylvania-Indian game on Franklin Field Saturday next.
These seat you in the same section used by our Carlisle delegation.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1903.

Mr. Geo. C. Shenton, Agent,
G. & H. Ry.,
Carlisle.

Dear Mr. Shenton :

There is such great demand for the football tickets for Saturday and our pupils in the country have made a much heavier draw on us than was anticipated, so that we have scarcely enough left to supply our own needs for employes and students who are planning to go. However I have so shifted as to spare you an additional five, which you will find herewith. I am sorry the tickets are not here to make your number equal to last year.

Yours truly,

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1903.

Mr. Edson J. Weeks, G.P.A.,
P. & R. R.,
Reading Terminal,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have today sent Mr. Geo. C. Shenton, Agent, G. & H. Ry. at Carlisle, twenty tickets of admission to the Pennsylvania-Indies game on Franklin Field next Saturday, the same to supply both himself and your office.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1903.

Miss Marie McCloud,

Moorestown, New Jersey.

My dear Marie :

I am very glad indeed that you wrote me, though sorry you were
feeling so blue at the time. I will see Miss Bowersox about her not
writing to you. I am sure she means to answer all letters she re-
ceives from the country girls. There must be some miscarriage in the
mail or otherwise that is responsible for your failure to hear from
her. Do you write regularly to your mother ? You know parents at
home are always fearful that their children in the east will forget
them and if the children neglect to write them regularly they feel
that there is want of sympathy. I think it would be a good idea for
you to write a nice long letter to your mother and see if you do not
get an answer.

I have sent your name in to Miss Ely for a ticket to the foot-
ball game. I trust you will meet all the children there and have a
splendid time. The boys are going to make a very determined effort
to win again this year, and we are all on edge about it.

The Red Man will be sent you as you request. I thought it was
going to all children in the country.

You do not tell me when you expect to start to school or wheth-
er you have started. Moorestown certainly has very good schools
and you should be able to do well there. There is no reason why you
should not be able to change to another place in the spring if you

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are not satisfied where you are. One thing I ask is that you try to
be contented with your present place. If the conditions are such
that you feel you would fit better somewhere else the matter can be
attended to. However, you know we do not wish children to change on
a mere whim or only for the sake of moving from one place to another.
Write me again a little later in the winter, when you have definitely
made up your mind about it all.

We have a very large school this year, - 720 on the grounds
and a total enrollment of 1075. I believe this is the highest
point Carlisle has yet reached.

Colonel Pratt is still in the southwest, and will probably not
return before the 1st of December.

If you will write me every time you feel blue I shall try very
hard to make you some kind of an answer. It may not cheer you up
much but it will be a message from the school and for that reason
will probably be welcome.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1903.

Mr. Alfred C. Hoheb,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

Dear Sir :

I have referred your letter to your son Julius, advising him to write you regularly. He is in his usual health and I do not understand why he has not written. I trust you will hear from him regularly hereafter.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1903.

Dear Mr. Trippe :

Your letter of the 6th instant leaves me in some doubt concerning the extent of the infirmities of Helen and Helena Jackson. We would not want to take the one with an impediment in speech if it would interfere with her recitation work in school, nor the one who is deaf if it is difficult for her to hear what is said in an ordinary tone of voice. Our school is very full, but we do not wish to re-fuse admission to any deserving and needy pupil if it can be avoided. Before taking any further steps I will await a reply to this letter.

There will be no objection to the Curry children. I enclose an application blank to be properly filled for the boy, also one for the Jimerson boy, but will not place transportation until the whole party is decided upon.

Colonel Pratt is away and will not return until about the first of December.

Trusting we may hear from you soon,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1903.

Miss Alice E. Nexttator,
Indian School,
Crow Agency, Mont.

Dear Alice :

I guess you and I are on good terms again. I was a little cross when your letter to Colonel Pratt came because you seemed to be making a sort of complaint on account of your money not getting to you. We shall forget all about that now. I hope you have your check cashed and are enjoying the proceeds.

We are having considerable excitement just now about the Pennsylvania football game and everything else has to give way to arrangements for going down. You know what a flurry it always causes that week. About two hundred will go down, counting the band, but not the football team.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1908.

Solomon S. Spring,
Bason, New York.

Dear Friend :

I received your letter and photograph and want to thank you most cordially. I appreciate your friendship very highly indeed and would greatly value the photograph you have sent me.

I hope too that all the children at Carlisle will do well while here and that they may be a comfort and credit to their people when they return home. I am glad to say that your children are well and making very good progress in school.

We enjoyed your visit to Carlisle and hope sometime next year you may be able to arrange to bring us another party in order that you can visit us once more.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1903.

Dear Colonel :

I am sending you a letter received Saturday from Mr. Crary.
Mr. Allen has appointed an entertainment committee as you directed
and they have been looking up the matter. The Brockway agent was
out and two entertainments have been selected and arranged for. As
we have had several illustrated lectures lately giving views of the
Grand Canon, etc. and are well furnished with slides that belong to
the school beside those you have shown of Yellowstone Park the con-
mittee was not in favor of spending one hundred dollars for it.
Crary's engagement although it is good. He seems to think we had
some arrangement with you, but I find nothing in the letter hooks.
Mr. Crary a letter has not been answered. The committee also de-
sires to know whether you expect Mr. Elson's course to come out of
the $400. Mr. Allen suggested that I write you about this, and
I am placed on the committee so as to keep track of what is done
and keep copies of letters.

We are busy with arrangements for the game Saturday. Tickets
are in great demand.

No doubt you are having interesting interviews with the Indians
at Osage now.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1903.

Mrs. Sara T. Kinney,
46 Park St.,
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Madam :

I regret that your letter of the 11th instant has reached us at
so late a date that it is impossible to arrange to send a boy or girl
for your meeting. Our school is billed to go to Philadelphia Sat-
urday to witness the football game between the University of Pennsyl-
vania and our own team. Then the young man of whom you speak has an
engagement to play with a portion of the band for the Y. M. C. A. in
Philadelphia on the 15th. You see that the short time, together with
this engagement, would make it impossible for anyone to prepare prop-
erly. We should not want anyone who represents the school to have
time to think up something worth saying and the time is now so short
that none of our students could be able to do justice to himself or
end any interest to your meeting.

Miss Burgess did not mention the matter at all and your communi-
cation is therefore the first intimation I have had of your wish.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1903.

Mr. Justin Deutsch,
231 N. 3rd St.,
Phoenix, Arizona.

Dear Sir :

At last reports Jose Henry was in the best of health. He went
to the country to attend school during the winter but for some reason
unknown to 'us he became dissatisfied and ran away from his country
home a short time ago. His whereabouts since then are unknown to us
but we are -endeavoring to locate him. There is very little doubt
that he is in excellent health for he is normally so, and were he in
any sort of distress he would be sure to let us know. I hope we may
be able to discover his whereabouts before long.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1903.

The Onerd Mfg. Co.,
81 Pine St.,
New York City.

Gentlemen :

I enclose herewith a card which is similar to a number that have
been received at this school from your own and various like companies.
I desire to state that the students of this institution are not per-
mitted to enter into such arrangements as you propose. I will there-
fore ask you to please refrain hereafter from engaging them as your
agents.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1903.

Mr. S. N. D. North, Director,
Census Bureau,
Dept. of Commerce & Labor,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :

In compliance with your request of the 6th instant I have had mailed to you copy of our illustrated school catalog together with the last annual report and copies of our weekly paper "The Red Man and Helper" containing such articles as are somewhat descriptive of the methods and policies of the school.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1903.

Mr. L. B. Trawick,
Kendall Green,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 7th instant, a catalog of this school, also last annual report of its superintendent has been mailed you.

Thank you for your interest in the Indian team.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1903.

Mr. J. S. Moyer, Prin.,
South Side Schools,
Fulton, Ill.

Dear Sir :

Your letter of the 2nd has been held some time to see what could be gathered up for you. Our work is of such a practical nature, the products made being used either by the students or taken by the Indian Department for use at western schools and agencies, that we have nothing for exhibit unless specially made for that purpose. Our sloyd department at present is composed so largely of quite new pupils that there is nothing on hand there that would be at all interesting as an exhibit. You will therefore see that it is impracticable to send anything in the line you ask. However, I am mailing a catalog of the school illustrating classes at work, etc.

Our school paper "The Red Man and Helper", a weekly issue, might possibly interest some of your students. The price is 25¢ a year.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1903.

Bureau of National Literature and Art,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen :

We are today in receipt of a facsimile copy of the Declaration
of Independence addressed to Colonel Pratt, which I presume is in-
tended for the use of the school. I thank you for the same and am
having it framed for our walls.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 12, 1903.

Prof. Pamahasika
2316 Frankford Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of Nov. 6th our entertainment committee suggests either the 28th or the 30th of December as dates suitable to us for your performance, and desires to know from what point and to what point you would need transportation. As that would be in addition to your fee of $30 it is important to have a pretty accurate estimate of the expense before closing an agreement.

Please let us hear from you promptly.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1903.

Mr. Geo. E. Little,
1112 E. St. N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter offering us an evening between the 28th instant and December 1st, and regret to state that we cannot give you any of these dates. The 29th is occupied by our literary societies, and the 30th is also arranged for. Our funds for entertainment are very limited and we have several breaks this month by reason of band, football and our own entertainments it seems best not to undertake anything more at this time, but let such entertainments as our funds will cover be scattered through the winter.

Our people remember very pleasantly your former appearances here. Your testimonials are herewith returned, as you request.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1903.

Mr. H. M. White,
7 S. 4th st.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your favor of the 12th instant, I have to state that at present we have no graduates out of employment who are qualified to fill such positions as you mention. Please accept our thanks for your offer of assistance, of which we shall be glad to avail ourselves when we have those competent to fill such positions acceptably.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 13, 1903.

Dear Mr. Trippe :

I will have transportation to Carlisle placed with the agent at Salamanca for the son of Walter Kennedy, as his enrollment had previously been under consideration. It will be impossible to receive the others until after commencement about the 10th of February, owing to the extremely crowded condition of our school. There are now 1075 on the rolls, 732 of whom are present on the grounds, so that our accommodations are taxed to their utmost capacity.

I trust this will be satisfactory and that the children will be ready to come in February.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1903.

Mr. William Skye,
Peoria, I. T.

Dear Mr. Skye :

I received your letter enclosing one written to you by Stella.
I think it is not quite the proper thing for you to send her money
as you have been doing. The rules of the school provide that all
monies for students shall pass through the office. This rule is made
not for the sake of getting business for the office, but because
experience has taught us that it is the wisest course in all cases.
I do not think Stella should be encouraged to break this regulation.

I note what you say about Park Walton and shall do all I can to
help you out. I will try to make Stella see that you are working
for her interest and are doing all you can to protect her rights.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 14, 1903.

Prof. J. Liberty Todd,
319 N. 32nd St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have yours of the 10th instant, also your circulars with the
lecture marked which I presume you would give us. My letter was
perhaps a little misleading. What we were thinking of was not a
lecture on manual training, but a sort of chalk talk which could be
associated by all our students. Our school is somewhat peculiar,
being made up of Indians ranging from the beginning grades to the
tenth grade or senior class. A very considerable number of these
are adult, but understood English very imperfectly. From your pro-
spectus I should judge your lectures more suitable to a Teachers'
Institute, or at least to a body more advanced mentally than your
audience would be here.

Thanking you for your prompt response,

Acting Sup t.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 16, 1903.

Mr. David Venne,

Layden, North Dakota,

Dear Mr. Venne :

In reply to your letter of the 14th instant I am very glad to
state that Maggie is in school and is doing well. Her eyes have been
treated and seem to give her very little trouble now, as she attends
school regularly, a thing she had not been able to do until the past
month. Her general health is excellent. Her work while not in school
is that of assisting the nurse in the hospital.

I have sent her word that you are anxious to hear from her. You
should have heard every month. I do not understand why her letters
have not reached you.

Actingupt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 16, 1963.

Supt. J. Kelso Green,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Mr. Green :

I beg to acknowledge with our thanks the invitation extended to Colonel Pratt and the teachers of the Carlisle School to attend the sessions of your coming Institute. I congratulate you upon the many excellent people whose services you have secured and shall count it a great privilege to have as many sessions attended by our people as possible.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 16, 1903.

Dr. H. W. Champlin,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I have referred your letter of the 13th instant to Miss Marie Castro for settlement, asking her to send the amount directly to you.

I trust you will receive a prompt remittance.

Very respectfully,

Acting Supt.

TELEGRAM.

Joseph F. Seymour, Jr.,
Los Angeles, Cal.

Nov. 13.

Letters received. Will ask for twenty-five hundred dollars guarantee for New Year's game. We will pay our own expenses and arrange transportation. Agree to play no other games in California. Wire answer and I will forward contract.

G. S. Warner.

W. U. 6:30 P. M. Night, Govt. rate.
Chgd. to Athletic Ass'n.

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TELEGRAM.

Nov. 16.

Rev. W. C. Kingsbury,

Hogansburg, New York.

Transportation ordered. Bring only deserters. Have no room for new pupils.

Allen, Act. Supt.

W. U. 2:15 P.M.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 16, 1903.

Miss Marie Castro,

Mayaguez, Porto Rico.

Dear Marie :

I enclose a statement from Dr. Champlin of Bloomsburg showing an indebtedness against you of eight dollars. If this is correct, please send him that amount in payment.

I trust you are well and happily situated.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17, 1903.

Prof. Pamahasika,
2316 Frankford Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

Wednesday evening, the 30th of December would suit us a little better, but as the 28th is the only date available for us we will expect you here to give an evening entertainment on Monday, the 28th at the terms you name, viz., $30 and expenses which will include transportation for yourself and your helper and the necessary express charges. We will also furnish you quarters at the school Monday night if you wish. We have a special rate on the Pennsylvania Railroad and will send you tickets in good time.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17, 1903.

Mr. Philip Webster,
Santee, Nebraska.

Dear Sir :

I have just called William Jones to the office and he tells me
that he writes to his father, Mr. James Jones, and only occasionally
to you. He is at liberty to write as often as he chooses to you and
I have advised him to write either to you or to his mother as well
as to his father. The monthly letter is obligatory and William I
understand has always observed the regulation. He is a good boy, is
in very good health and is doing nicely, being in one of our upper
grades.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17, 1903.

Mr. Dawson George,
Cherokee, North Carolina.

Dear Mr. George :

Your daughter Annie is now in the ninth or Junior grade and an interruption in her school work would be a great detriment to her interests. It is Colonel Pratt's rule not to send students home during their school course because of sickness in the family at home. There are now on our rolls 1078 pupils, and if the rules permitted pupils to go home because of home troubles you can see that with our large school there would be a considerable number of students absent all the time on that account. I very greatly regret that these conditions prevent Annie's going to her mother, but you will understand the necessity that is upon us to forward our students' interests.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17, 1903.

Mr. S. Ansbach,
C/o Coleman House,
Lewistown, Pa.

Dear Sir :

We remember with pleasure your entertainment at our school some
time ago and would enjoy a repetition but for lack of funds. Our
resources for entertainment are very limited, three engagements for
the winter having practically exhausted them, and aside from what
has already been partly or wholly arranged for shall be dependent
upon our own efforts at entertainment. However, were we not thus
hampered we could scarcely give you the dates named.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17, 1903.

Mr. W. W. Gill,

Scottsdale, Arizona.

Dear Sir :

Your letter of the 9th instant to Colonel Pratt in his absence
is referred to me for reply.

Grace Thumbo is a most excellent girl and I have no doubt would
fill some place on your reservation with credit. However, she has
not finished her school work and it would be a mistake for her to
discontinue it at this period. When she has received all that Car-
lisle can give her, the question of her doing something in your coun-
try if she so desires will be considered. She will then be fitted
to render you very much better service and come to you with a much
more suitable character than she could possibly possess now. I am
of the opinion that in almost any case it is preferable for an Indian
boy or girl taking employment in our service to go to some other res-
ervation than the one on which he lives. Experience has shown that
the results are far more satisfactory.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17, 1903.

Prof. O. H. Bakeless,
Bloomington, Pa.

My dear Professor :

Jose's desire to make such a sacrifice for his people is very commendable and would appeal very strongly to anyone. However, I wish to say that he has in some way obtained a very erroneous idea of the amount of money to his credit at the school. The books show that he has only $18.81, and it seems to me he could hardly afford to send ten dollars of this small amount home. Do you think so ?

Since you are not to be in your new house on Thanksgiving Day
why don't you come down and spend it with us at the school ? I am
not extending this invitation to you because I am going to be away in
Chicago, but in spite of that fact. I am sure everyone at the school
would be more than glad to have you with us.

I am planning myself to go with the football boys to Chicago on
that day. It gives me opportunity to see the game which I judge will
be very interesting indeed, and the pleasure of being with the boys
on their trip, beside seeing one or two excellent friends in that
city.

Colonel Pratt is expected home the last of this month or the
first of next, probably the latter. He is now in Nebraska, moving
slowly toward the west.

With warmest regards to Mrs. Bakeless, John and Katharine as
well as to the Carlisle colony in the Normal School,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17, 1903.

Mr. Melvil Dewey, Librarian,
Education Division, State Library,
Albany, New York.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your postal of the 13th instant, we do not issue an
annual catalog, and that published in 1902 is our latest. I send
under another cover copy of Colonel Pratt's Annual Report for 1903;
also copies of the annual reports from 1899 to this year, except
that for 1900 which was not published.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17, 1903.

Jose Osuna,

Bloomington, Pa.

Dear Jose :

Professor Bakeless has enclosed to me your letter, and since
your idea of what is due you does not agree with the books here I
want to make you a little statement of your account.

On Sept. 10, 1902 you had a balance of $1.41. Since then you
have received as wages credited Sept. 21st, 1903, $19.00, making a
total of $20.41. You have been charged 25 9/10 for The Red Man and 50 1/2
45/100 and 40/100 for express on clothing sent you. This leaves you a balance
of $18.81. If this does not seem correct to you please write and
tell me as nearly as you can all that you think has been paid you
and that should be properly charged against you. Since you have
such a small amount of money it does not seem to me wise for you to
send any home, and it is altogether probable that you will not wish
to.

I am extremely sorry there is any distress in your family and
hope it is but of a temporary nature.

With best wishes,

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1963.

Mrs. Rosa John,
Iroquois,
Erie Co.,
New York.

Dear Mrs. John :

Rosetta Pierce arrived last evening and has entered into the
spirit of things with a readiness that promises well, and we shall
give her all the opportunities that Carlisle affords.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19, 1903.

Mr. Walter Kennedy, second,
Killbuck, New York.

Dear Sir :

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 18, 1903.

Dear Mrs. Allison :

This is just a note to tell you that the team leaves here
Tuesday evening, the 24th, arriving in Chicago at 5:00 P.M. the day
before Thanksgiving. We stop at The Lexington and shall be pleased
to have you and Mr. Allison call.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1903.

Richard Robinson,
1313 Garnet St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

Our school is very full this year and we have been compelled to answer unfavorably a number of applicants for that reason. Over three hundred of our students are in country homes for the winter and spring, having been so placed in order that they might have the advan tages of the public schools. Their work mornings and evenings and Saturdays covers their board while attending school. After their school term is over they receive wages for their work. The next year most of these out students return to the school here and others take their places for the outing experience. As you are in the city where there are excellent schools and can yourself arrange to work in some family for your board while attending school it is better for you that you continue to earn your own living as you probably have been doing either in whole or in part. Indian schools are intended for Indians who do not have the opportunities at their homes that you have.

I return your photograph herewith.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1903.

Stacy Matlack,
UINTAH & OURAY Agency,
Whiterocks, Utah.

Dear Sir :

Your letter to Colonel has not yet reached him as he is travel-
ing in the west and his address is very uncertain.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1903.

Alex. Solomon, Sr.,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Sir :

Your son Mitchell took typhoid fever not very long after his arrival here and was sent into the school hospital where he had the constant care and attention of our school nurse and doctor. He is now quite well and is in his regular place in school and work. The stories of runaway boys are not to be relied upon in any way and I advise you not to be influenced by them. Mr. Kingsbury and Mr. Cole can tell you how things are conducted. Both have been here and looked into things pretty well.

Mitchell should write you at least once a month. He is at liberty to write as often as he pleases, but the monthly letter is obligatory.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1903.

Miss Olga Hilton,
Sitka, Alaska.

Dear Miss Hilton :

Your letter to Colonel Pratt comes in his absence, but will be
held for his return, probably within the next two or three weeks.

He will then make answer concerning your sister. Just now our school
is very crowded, 1078 being enrolled, about 730 of whom are present
on the grounds. After commencement there will be more room and chance
for those who are suitable to be entered.

I am happy to tell you that Lottie continues to do very well.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1903.

Prof. Pamahasi ka,
2316 Frankford Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :

The 31st of December will suit us for your entertainment and we
shall depend upon you to give us that date, as per your letter of
the 20th instant.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 21, 1903.

Mr. Chas. Burton,
Metlakahtla, Alaska.

Dear Sir :

Colonel Pratt is not at home and will not be here probably be-
fore December. Your letter will be handed to him on his return. In
the meantime I write to say that Henry is here, is well and is going
to school. Miss Barr, the school nurse, was sent to Billings, Mon-
tana, where Mr. Marsden had left him in the hospital with his cousin
for company. Henry was just about well when Miss Barr arrived there
and they started for Carlisle a few days after.

The children are having here all the opportunities the school
affords and I trust you will have no cause to regret sending them
here.

Your letter has been handed to your daughter for the news it
contains.

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Nov. 20.

Mrs. Thomas deasy Barry,
337 Pennlynn T.,
Norfolk, Va.

Four letters. Col. Pratt was, Mr. Allen as the Monticello.

W. B. Bestved.

Postal. 3:70 I.M. Jolleson.

Cedarsale, Pa., Nov. 26, 1868.

H. B. S. Ives.

Chesapeake County, New York.

HARRIS, E. W. ARNOLD

I am sorry to hear that you are a student at the University of
Baltimore, mother of Gilmore George, a student of this school.
I will do my best to help you.

Will you please investigate the case and let me know the facts re-
garding the mother's condition. Gilmore is in the country and doing
so much better than he has done anywhere else that we are very un-
willing to disturb him. However, I would like very much to have the
facts as you are able to ascertain them.

Thanking you for the favor,

Yours truly,

(Signed) EDGAR A. ALLEN.

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Carlisle Pa., Nov. 23, 1903.

Miss Elmora Denny,
Grove, I. T.

Dear Nora :

Your letter of the 16th instant is unfortunate in again finding
Colonel Pratt away from the school for a considerable time visiting
the various agencies and schools in the west. However, if you de-
sire a position as teacher in the Indian service there is only one
course to pursue and that is to take an examination. You should
write to the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., stating
that you are an Indian and a graduate of the Carlisle school. Ask
that you be given an examination for the position of teacher in the
Indian service, non-competitive if possible because you are an Indian

You know that the latest ruling of the Civil Service Commission
is that Indians as well as white people must be examined before ap-
pointment. If someone would give you temporary employment as a
teacher and ask that you be given a non-competitive examination to
hold the place, I believe it could be managed; but vacancies in teach-
ers' positions are not easy to find. I notice that a teacher at Wy-
andotte resigned recently. Perhaps you might make some arrangement
with Mr. Durand for appointment there.

If there is anything we can do for you it will be done with
pleasure, but there are many of our graduates wishing positions in
the Indian service with no vacancy available. If you think of any
way in which we can curve you do not hesitate to write.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 24, 1903.

Mrs. Edith S. Woodbury,
Indian School,
Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.

Dear Mrs. Woodbury :

Colonel Pratt wishes me to write to some of the old Carlisle students at Pine Ridge who may be able to give us the real facts concerning the late so-called "Uprising on the Borders of Wyoming." We would like to know the causes leading to the trouble, who were the aggressors and what is the result of the investigation made. The most important thing, however, to us, is the relation of any of the old Carlisle students to the trouble.

We have seen various names given in the press, but only one could be identified as having been at this school - Charles Red Hawk (Smitl) who is referred to as the Carlisle graduate. Can you give us his part in the fight? Was he a leader and what has been his reputation at the agency since leaving Carlisle? You know about what we would like to have, and as full an account as you can give will be greatly appreciated.

With kindest regards and best wishes,

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 24, 1923.

Clarence Three Stars,

Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.

Dear Sir :

Colonel Pratt wishes me to write to some of the old Carlisle students at Pine Ridge who can give us the real facts concerning the late so-called "Uprising on the Borders of Wyoming." We would like to know the causes leading to the trouble, who were the aggressors and what was the result of the investigation made. The most important thing to us, however, is the relation of any of the old Carlisle students to the trouble.

We have seen various names given in the press, but only one could be identified as having been at this school - Charles Red Hawk (Smith), who is referred to as the Carlisle graduate. Can you give us his part in the fight? Was he a leader and what has been his reputation at the agency since leaving Carlisle? You know about what we would like to have, and as full an account as you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1923.

Mrs. D. J. Ripley,

Fort Berthold, N. Dak.

Dear Mrs. Ripley :

On Oct. 28th I wrote you that word had been received from the Loan and Building Association of Pittsburg to the effect that a check sent by them for you about Sept. 9th had been cashed and that they hold your receipt therefor. You reported that you had received no check, and a duplicate was obtained and forwarded to you Oct. 7th. I asked you to write at once returning the duplicate check or if that had been cashed, a draft for $393.80. You have made no reply to this letter. Please attend to this without delay. The Building and Loan Association looks to me to recover the amount and I have to look to you. You can see the importance of looking after this promptly.

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G.S. Warner,

Lexington Hotel
32nd. & Michigan Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

All Carlisle is with you and our sturdy boys today.

Allen

(W.U. 7.35. A.M. Nov.26, 1903.)

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Mr. Nicholas Soekbesen,
Oldtown, Me.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 23rd instant making application
for money you claim is in bank to the credit of your daughter Ada, a
deserter from the school, I have to advise you that if there was any
money left with the school at the time of her desertion it was ex-
pended in efforts to secure her return to the school.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Mr. J. W. Schultz,
Leland Hotel,
Minot, North Dakota.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your communication of the 22nd instant, the present address of William Hazlett is Cobb, Oklahoma, where he is engaged in the real estate and banking business.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Mr. F. A. Rogers,
Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute,
Hampton, Va.

My dear Mr. Rogers :

I wish to express my hearty thanks for the blue prints you have sent me of the exercises in your blacksmith shop. They will be of great assistance in our shop work as I have very profound faith in the efficacy of Hampton methods.

Please accept again our thanks for the most hospitable treatment accorded us by your officers and students on the occasion of our recent visit there.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Mr. Wm. Stuart,
63 S. Second St.,
Memphis, Tenn.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 23rd instant addressed to Colonel Pratt who is absent from the school, I beg to state that all we know of the case of Creeping Bear at Memphis has been obtained from the various items that have appeared in the public press and the recent visit made by Miss Burgess of this school. As to his guilt or innocence we have no opinion. We have satisfied ourselves that he was at no time a student at Carlisle. In most cases where an Indian gets in to some trouble he is widely advertised as a graduate of this institution and we have a great deal to do in running down these stories, nearly all of which prove finally to be utterly without foundation.

I thank you for the clipping sent as it gives us further information as to the opinions held by some of your people concerning Creeping Bear's innocence. I trust he may meet with complete justice.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Dear Mr. Kingsbury :

Mr. White arrived with Philip Delorimiere Tuesday night and
Philip is now in a safe place. I am certain that for a time at least
he will not be able to leave us. Of course, you understand that it
is unwise and impossible for us to keep boys locked up. We simply
have to take chances on their deserting again after being returned
to the school. But we are determined that no boys who have been en-
rolled at Carlisle from Hogansburg and desert shall be allowed to re-
main at home.

I hope Mr. White will capture all the others soon and bring them
in. I think he will be able to do so if the matter is held in se-
cret.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Mr. Henry Coulon,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Mr. Coulon :

There is doubtless some mistake that leads you to anticipate a
visit from your son Monroe. We know of no plan for his going home
at present. In fact, it would be out of the question for him to do
so as he needs all the time possible for his school work. His out-
ing at Lake Mohonk this summer was somewhat prolonged and made some
extra work to keep up with his classes, but he is doing this very
satisfactorily.

We think you have very promising children and have every reason
to be proud of them.

Yours truly,

Acting Subt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Charles Doxtator,
St. Vincent's Hospital,
Green Bay, Wis.

Dear Charles :

I am glad you are going to be operated upon for your trouble and
hope the results will be most satisfactory. Your health means a
great deal to you and that was the reason we allowed you to go home.
It will be a very great blessing to you, as you know, if you can be
fully restored to your full strength. Be sure to take good care of
yourself while under treatment.

I had a nice long letter from Alice a few days ago. She ex-
pressed concern about you, and as you know, is very deeply interest-
ed in your welfare.

Very truly your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Juan Apachose,
Sacaton, Arizona.

My dear Juan :

You seem to have forgotten that at the time of your leaving we
paid you in full - not only what was to your credit on the books, but
what was due you from Mr. Galbraith and what was coming to you for
corn cutting. Mr. Galbraith owed you $2.75. $2.00 was coming to you
for corn cutting, making $4.75 Mr. Miller overpaid you $4.75 when
you left because that amount was coming to you. Consequently, your
account is balanced. I am sorry you failed to understand this.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Dr. Clara Israeli,
906 S. Eighth St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Madam :

Replying to your communication of the 26th instant, I beg to advise you that Lottie Hilton is under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gehris, to whom you should write if you desire Lottie to visit you. We make it a point never to interfere in any way with the control of a child when placed with a satisfactory family as Lottie is. I hope that by correspondence with Mr. Gehris you will be able to obtain your desire.

Thanking you in Lottie's behalf for the invitation,

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Mrs. Henry Coulon,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Coulon :

By reference from the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs
I have your letter of the 19th about your daughter Lucy, and am di-
rected to reply to you direct.

Lucy was placed in a good home in Moores town, New Jersey for
the winter. This was her own desire. She entered public school in
September. You will see therefore that you are laboring under a
misapprehension when you state that she is not attending school. She
was not strong when she came to Carlisle, but has has held her own
very well in this respect. She had a cold the last week in October,
but the lady she is living with I am assured is very careful of her
and will give her really more attention than she could have here
where there are so many to be looked after.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Miss Josephine Jacquez,
Largo, New Mexico.

My dear Josephine :

I was pretty sure when I saw your back turned upon Carlisle
last June that you would never be with us again unless you came with-
out parental consent. I have had enough to do with people in that
country to know how to read their letters between the lines. I do
not wish to counsel disobedience, but I am very sorry indeed that
your parents are not willing to make the sacrifice that is so impor-
tant to you. Delphina is extremely sorry that you did not get back
but like myself she had no faith that you could return.

Yours truly,

Acting cupt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Mrs. R. E. Dunlap,
R. F. D.,
Rock Hill, S. Car.

Dear Mrs. Dunlap :

Your account of the marriage of Rose and Archie is very interesting and not a great surprise.

Archie Wheelock was quite a satisfactory boy at Carlisle until the last few months he was with us. He had obtained employment in a tinshop near us under the guidance and control of the school and we thought he was doing well until the investigation of one little irregularity showed that he had been systematically practicing deception upon the school. He was called to account for his bad faith, and chafing under the rebuke it was necessary to give him he deserted from the school. We are only sorry he did this and still entertain for him the very best wishes. I hope he will never try to deceive Rose as he tried to deceive her and everyone else here. He is a fairly competent tinner and ought to be able to make a comfortable livelihood at the trade wherever there is work of that kind to be done.

Please give to Rose especially our best wishes and the hope that her married life may be very happy.

It is impossible for us to receive students under twelve years of age. That is the fixed rule of the school and we do not wish to depart from it in any instance. We find it is not advisable to have very small children here. If at any time next year you can bring us

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Homer Ricketts,
Shawnee, Okla.

Dear Homer :

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TELEGRAM.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,
Indian School,
Riverside, Cal.

Nov. 28.

Have asked Southern Pacific deliver you ticket to Carlisle.

Postal. 11:30 A.M.

Allen, Act. Supt.

Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 27, 1903.

Creeping Bear,
Colony, Oklahoma via Weatherford.

Your son is well. Has not been sick.

Allen Acting Supt.

W.U. 6.25. P.M.

TELEGRAM.

Jerome Feather,
Spring, Wis.

Your message. Sorry, but impossible to send John home.

Allen, Act. Supt.

W. U. 10:50 A.M.

Nov. 28.

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Carlisle, pa., Nov. 28, 1903.

Mrs. Chas. Gordon,
238 Andrew St.,
Rochester, N. Y.

Dear Madam :

For the reports you want you would better address the Commission-
er of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C. asking for copies of any old
reports he may have. This school was begun twenty-four years ago,
but there were missions and schools among the Indians long before
that. The reports of this school of course deal with Government and
industrial work principally.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 28, 1903.

W. W. Hite,
U. S. Patent Office,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :

Referring to circular letter from the United States Civil Service Retirement Association, signed by Jacob W. Starr, President, received recently, I have to advise you that some time previous to the receipt of this circular a subscription sheet came to hand addressed to Colonel Pratt. Colonel Pratt has been absent almost continuously since that time, so that the matter has not been acted upon. The date of his return is somewhat uncertain, but as it will probably not be before the middle of December I herewith return the sheet.

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Carlsbad, Pa., Nov. 30, 1903.

Frederick Bighorse,

Cut Meat, S. Dak.

Dear Friend :

I am sorry Colonel Pratt is not here to read your very encouraging letter. It is a source of great pleasure to him and to the rest of us also to hear good tidings from the old students.

The trouble in Wyoming when gifted down turned out to be as we expected, that is, that the white people were entirely to blame. It is a great satisfaction to us to know that in almost all these cases the Indian is not the aggressor. If all the pale-faces in the world were as peaceable citizens as the Indians there would not be any of this sort of trouble.

I trust you are finding a useful place to fill in life and that Rosebud is very much better for your being there.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 30, 1900.

Mr. Samuel Burton,
North Saxman, Alaska.

Dear Sir :

In Colonel Pratt's absence I write to tell you that the boys arrived safely at Carlisle and both are in good health, as reported to their father November 21st, the letter being addressed to Metlakantsla, Alaska.

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Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 30, 1903.

Mrs. E. G. Forte,

Fort Yates, North Dakota.

Dear Mrs. Forte :

Your son Charles was in the country during the summer and chose to remain out and go to school during the winter. He is the family of Mr. N. B. Reed at Trenton Junction, New Jersey, attending school there. His health is reported to be good. His reports are excellent. Mr. Reed is well pleased with him and he with Mr. Reed.

Here at school he has always been excellent in every way and has made many friends.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1905.

Mr. Mason D. Pratt,
Steelton, Pa.

Dear Mr. Pratt :

Under another cover is sent you a number of the Congressional Record containing a list of the senators and members of Congress with their home and Washington addresses. No copy of the Congressional Directory containing descriptive sketches of the Congressmen has been received this year.

I trust the copy of The Record sent will meet your requirements.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1903.

Rev. J. Emory Fisher,
Iroquois,
Erie Co., New York.

My dear Sir :

Before saying anything upon the subject matter of your letter
I desire to express the hope that your stay at the Iroquois Mission
will be most successful and that we may sometime have the pleasure
of welcoming you at Carlisle.

Regarding Emma Jamison, I am very sorry to say that the records
of the school and her own record since leaving the school are such as
to preclude the possibility of our taking her. When here she was so
serocious that it was necessary to send her home within a very short
time. This was several years ago. Since leaving Carlisle we are in-
formed that she has obligations consequent upon the birth of a child
that would make it inconsistent for her to come to Carlisle.

It would seem to me that she should find something to do. I am
very sorry not to be able to oblige her in this particular.

Yours truly,

Acting Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 1, 1905.

Prof. Preston W. Search,
The Mansion House,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :

I regret very much that Colonel Pratt is absent in the west and
will miss the opportunity of meeting you on your present visit to
Carlisle, which I am sure he would prize very highly. However, it
will afford us unusual pleasure to have you visit the school and av-
ery facility possible will be given you to learn of its working.

I was located in Southern California during the time you were
superintendent of the Los Angeles schools and your ideas of in-
idualism in education were very attractive to me.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 2, 1903.

Mrs. M. Thibodeau,
Indian Island,
Oldtown, Ms.

Dear Madam :

Replying to your letter of the 29th, the school furnishes your
grandson an uniform with all other students of the institution all the
clothing that is necessary. His importing you is simply due to
the fact that he desires to have money to spend for other purposes
because he feels unwilling to wear the school uniform. Occasional
ly, we have some people with a false pride who feel averse to wearing
clothing that is so common on the grounds. It is all of good quality
fully as good as I am able to provide for myself, and there is an
abundance of it. You may rest assured that if you send him nothing
whatever for clothing he will be substantially and comfortably clad.

Acting supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1903.

Miss M. E. Trout,
DuBois, Pa.

Dear Madam :

Replying to your postal inquiry I have to state that subscription price of the weekly paper published at this school, The Red Man and Helper, is 25¢ per annum. Under another cover I send a copy of our illustrated catalog as requested.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1903.

Rev. W. S. Hayward,
R. F. D. # 5,
Syracuse, New York,

Dear Mr. Hayward :

I desire to thank you for your kindness in investigating the case of Mrs. Sally George. It is a rule of the school not to allow pupils to go home before the expiration of their term even when there is sickness in the family and it does not appear that the circumstances in the above family justify a departure from the rule.

Yours truly,

Acting Subt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1903.

Mr. Frank Wood,
382 Washington St.,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Mr. Wood :

I write in response to your letter of the 2nd instant to Colonel Pratt to say that he has been in the west since the 26th of October and will probably return to Carlisle not later than the 15th of this month. A copy of a portion of his address was received here on the 28th of November and forwarded immediately to San Francisco. Another part came on the 1st of December and was also sent immediately to Colonel Pratt with the information that you should have it at the earliest possible moment. Mrs. Barrows stated not later than December 6th. I am certain, however, that it cannot reach you that soon.

I regret his absence very much on this account, but hope you will find it possible to delay publication until he can look over the copy and have opportunity to make any alterations he might desire.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1902.

Mr. George W. Benn,
Dover, New Hampshire.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of the 2nd instant, I beg to state that
our school is for Indians only. We have enrolled at the present time
1,086, from all the tribes in the United States. The school is sup-
ported by the Government, but from time to time donations and be-
quests are made by friends of the school and of Indian education.
These are expended by the superintendent, Colored Pratt, for equip-
ment, improvements and instruction not authorized by the Government
out of the fund appropriated by Congress.

Under another cover I send you some literature pertaining to
the school which will give you some idea of its character and scope.

Yours truly,

Acting Subt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 3, 1933.

Mr. Marvin Crouse,
R. F. D. # 5,
Syracuse, New York.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter of November 18th with reference to the
return of Gilmore George, it is not possible to send Gilmore home at
the present time. I am sorry to disappoint his mother, but believe
that the welfare of the boy demands that he remain where he is. If
his people could see their way clear to stop asking for his return
and let him continue in school and settle down to the feeling that
this is to be his home until he obtains some education I think his
progress would be much more satisfactory. Gilmore is at an age when
he can be of very little assistance at home, and school is a great
necessity to him in preparing himself for future usefulness.

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Carlisle, Pa , Jan. 14, 1904.

Mrs. Minnie Landers,
Akron, N. Y.

Dear Madam :

Our Commencement will take place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of February. Invitations will be issued within a few weeks to those who have been connected with the school, the friends of Indian education, officials, etc. Your name will be placed upon the list for an invitation and if we hear from you certainly that you will come and have this word in time to arrange transportation, a reduced rate to Carlisle will be secured for you.

Col. Pratt is absent for a few days.

LC

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Carlsble, Pa., Jan. 15, 1904.

Mr. Ira Jones,

Miami, Ind. Territory.

Dear Ira :

I am sorry that you have been caused anxiety about the
state of Belle's health. It is true that she was not very well
for sometime in the country and was brought in for that reason.
Her condition was the same as is often the case with girls of her
age. She has been under the care of our nurse, who is excellent
in looking after the sick, and now seems to be as well as ever.
You may be assured that I have the same interest in her welfare
that I have had ever since knowing her, and would be sure to let
you know if there should be anything unfavorable about her health
that would be at all alarming. She is in school regularly now and
doing very well.

It is likely that you are having more winter now than
at the time you wrote me. We are having it pretty steady and quite
severe. The ground is all covered with snow and sleighing is very
good.

It is a great pleasure to know that you are improving
your place. You have a valuable piece of land, and I hope that you
both will realize a happy life from it.

Mrs. Allen joins me in sending kindest regards to you
and Mrs. Jones.

LC

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1904.

Mr. Joseph Crawford,
Tiff City, No.

Dear Sir :

We are very sorry to learn that Nicholas Cayuga is in
poor health. It would seem to me, however, much more easy to
bring Lena from Chilocco than to have Melinda come all the way from
Pennsylvania. She is now in the neighborhood of 19 years old, and
has not advanced in school any further than her younger sisters.
She ought to have the opportunity to go to school for the next few
years. Lena has had a great trouble with her eyes, I am told, and
it maybe that she is not attending school anyway. I would suggest
that you write to Chilocco and find out. Of course, I am not ad-
vising that Lena be taken out of school, and trust Mr. Cayuga will
soon improve in health so that it will not be necessary to stop
the schooling of any of the three children. Please give him my re-
gards and sympathy and best wishes.

LC

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 15, 1904.

Miss Amy Hill,

Care C. L. Hawke,

Swarthmore, Pa.

My dear Amy :

I have been very slow in replying to your letter received long ago, but it has been owing to the fact that I have failed to have an opportunity to talk with Miss Barr until this morning. She says that Rose LaFarge has made application for the vacancy at Jefferson Hospital. She thinks, however, there is a vacancy at the Polyclinic and will write about it to find out. Perhaps you will be able also to find out something about it. If it should be satisfactory, and it ought to be for Miss Barr says they are having a fine new building, we will recommend you for the place. You must not be too hard to please, for after all the hospital is only the place for you to receive your training and anyone who can give you good instructions will fit you for the duties of nurse. I will be glad if you can go over to the Polyclinic and then let us know what you think about it.

With best wishes,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1904.

Levi Levering,

Mr. Hall, Idaho.

Dear Levi :

Replying to your letter of the 14th, I wrote to the Commissioner a couple of weeks ago saying as much in favor of Mr. Lock, in case there was a change, as I allow myself to say in favor of anyone for such a position. It is very, very seldom that I permit myself to advise the Office in regard to agents or their affairs. If I entered into this kind of business it would require a great deal of looking up individuals and so on, and I would be responsible in a way that would be detrimental to the interests here; so I have refrained generally from making recommendations. But I did say a word and told the Commissioner that in my judgment that agency was a proper one to be placed under the charge of a school superintendent.

Mrs. Pratt and I had a long trip after we left you. Our next Indian stopping place was Carson; we then stayed three days in San Francisco and went down to Riverside, and were among the Indians of Southern California for nearly two weeks; then to Yuma, Phoenix, San Carlos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and home.

In our visits we saw much to confirm my views as to the necessity of Indian getting out from his environment and coming into competition with the white race, not in masses but as individuals.

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(2) Mr. Levering,

Please give my kind regards to Mrs. Levering, to Supt. and
Mrs. Leake and to the rest of your force.

Condently yours,
R.H. Pratt

LO

Mrs. R.E.Dunlap

Rockhill, S.C.

last night.

W.U. 5.40 P.M.

Telegram-- Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 14, 1904.

Wade still very ill but a little better than

Allen, Acting Supt.

Telegram-- Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 17, 1904.

Mrs.R.E.Dunlap,

Rockhill, S.C.

Wade died this morning. Pratt, Col. & Supt.

W.U. about 9.30 Am.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1904.

Sara Elizabeth Corbin,
122 W. Minor St.,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Sara :

Your letter of Jan. 9th to Mr. Allen is referred to me on my re-
turn from several days in Philadelphia.

It required a great deal of management to get you into the place
where you are now. It was your own desire, and whether you teach
school or become a stenographer you could not get into a better place
to bring success to your efforts. Incompetent stenographers are be-
coming a burden to business everywhere. Lack of education and lack
of skill simply bring failure. After you have finished West Chester
if you want stenography we can then undertake to arrange for it; but
having made the arrangement there after considerable correspondence
I cannot look with any degree of favor on your desire to give up.
Unless we can bring Indians generally to hold on to their chances
and make good use of them, especially when they are as good as those
you have it would be better for your people if we withdrew and let
them keep on going down hill.

Make up your mind, Sara, to stay right where you are and finish
your course just as you desired in the beginning and as you agreed
to do. Then, when you are through there you will be able to make
yourself a far better stenographer and your chances of success will
be far greater. You will secure a larger place and better salary.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1904.

Poland Bros..
4347 Main St.,
Manayunk, Phila., Pa.

Gentlemen :

Replying to yours of the 15th instant, the Indians of New Mexico generally support themselves by agriculture, fruit growing, and some few by raising cattle and sheep. There are others who do something at making curio articles for sale, but their main support is agriculture.

You can reach there by way of the A. T. & S. F. Railroad. The road passes near to quite a number of their villages and those that are not on the railroad are easily reached from it.

The report of the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C., would give the present status of these Indians, as well as of all others. You can get a copy of this report by writing the Commissioner for it.

Yours truly,

Col. & Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1904.

Mrs. R. E. Dunlap,
R. F. D.
Rock Hill, S. Car.

Dear Mrs. Dunlap :

Wade Ayres died Sunday morning. As his father has been advised by my school physician, he had vaccinia, which is a form of smallpox. I have your telegram requesting that his body be shipped home. It is exceedingly impolitic to do that, for us, for the people en route, and for your people down there. The poor boy was practically covered with sores from head to foot and was in such condition that it was a mercy to him that he died. His sight was gone and his hearing affected. In all probability he would have been a care for the rest of his life.

These things happen and we cannot prevent them. While I am in deepest sympathy with your wishes I feel entirely certain that it would be wrong to all interests to ship him home, as you request. However, I have sent my physician to see if it would be practicable to get the local bill from the Board of Health that would be necessary in order to ship the body.

Yours very truly,

Col. & Supt.

P. S. Since writing the above the doctor reports to me that he could not get a certificate from the Board of Health to ship the body unless we conceal the facts, which of course is impossible.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1904.

Dr. J. G. Rothrock,
Commissioner of Forestry,
Mont Alto, Pa.

My dear Doctor :

The boy about whom I wrote you my physician thought too far
gone to be a prospective candidate for your camp and I concluded to
send him home. Accordingly he left here Saturday evening.

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Jan. 18, 1904.

Rev. Edward Marsden,
417 Queen Anne Ave.,
Seattle, Wash.

My dear Edward :

Yours of the 11th I find on my return from a
week's absence in Philadelphia. I regret greatly
that I was not where I could be more in touch with you
and help your affairs along as I intended and still
intend. Please keep me informed as to what you re-
ceive from your friends and also as to whether your
own salary matter has been attended to.

Commencement is before us just now and my hands
are full, but I shall not lose sight of you and shall
hope if the needs of your church are not met that I
can do something. You certainly seem to have accom-
plicated a great deal in the way of additional help
and additional interest. The methods of our church,
it seems to me, too often work disadvantage to the best
interests of most worthy causes. Yours is one of them.

With kind regards from us all to you and Mrs.

Marsden,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carliole, Pa., Jan. 18, 1904.

Rev. D. A. Sanford,
Bridgeport, Okla.

My dear Sir :

I have yours of the 15th commending what I say in reply to the "Kansas City Journal". The conditions are under rather than overstated because the actual facts would not be believed. There must come a time when there will be a looking into conditions and then the facts will come out. "Lands in Severalty" is to be a great destroyer. The leasing of the allotments and allowing the Indians to gather in camps for dancing and drinking is working no end of ruin. I see no reason from the conditions except by a great change in public opinion, and those of us who are working for the Indian consistently and not united in our ideas. The result is that the force for evil swings wider and stronger in spite of us. It is beyond all our comprehension that the churches themselves should so universally give all their efforts in the direction of holding Indians together as manners. It does not seem to be in the curriculum of either the church or the state to give the Indian any chance to go out and become a part of the people, participating in their industries and becoming independent of such industries as the church and the state so feebly and impractically formulate and operate. If a missionary gets hold of an Indian of capacity, who might go out and make a success beyond his tribe, he invariably holds on to him to utilize him for his mission purposes. If the state produces one, it must

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1904.

Miss Herle,
Supt. of Nurses,
Jefferson Hospital,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Miss Herle :

Replying to your inquiry of the 14th instant, I am glad to tell you that Rose M. LaForge is in excellent health, is large, strong and capable, and her character here has been exemplary. She is quite among the best and foremost of our girls. All our people think she will do well as a nurse.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 18, 1904.

Dear Brother Kingsbury :

If at the time of our commencement, the 16th, 17th and 18th of
February, you have the runaway boys in hand and ready to bring down
I will pay your transportation to Carlisle and back to Massena Springs
and will be glad to see you here.

Fraternally yours,

P. S. - I have asked the railroad authorities to continue transportation at Massena Springs a month or even longer in order that it might be ready for you the instant you are ready to use it.

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Jan. 19, 1904.

L. O. Howard, Permanent Secretary,
Am. Assn. for the Advancement of Science,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :

In February last you asked me to become a mem-
ber of the Association. My time was so absorbed
for a while that I laid the letter away, hesitating
whether I could participate in the purposes of the
Association. I now think it quite possible I can
in some degree meet the requirements and if you send
me the necessary application blanks I will make
them out and you can submit them for action.

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Jan. 19, 1904.

Mr. Levant L. Mason,
Jamestown, New York.

Dear Levant :

I have owed you a letter a long time, and feel
heartily ashamed that I have not written you.

You asked me to get elk teeth. I tried at dif-
ferent places where we were and found the ordinary
price to be two dollars apiece. Nice ones ran up as
high as fifteen dollars. The whole elk tooth indus-
try seems to have gone daft. I really could not get
anything except at a very high price. One of the
western school superintendents wrote me he had a num-
ber that he had taken out of an Indian grave; but
he wanted five dollars apiece for them, and from what
I heard about it I suspect he would have no trouble
in getting that. Occasionally I heard of people who
had elk teeth garments, but when I found the people
the garments had been sold at preposterous prices;
so there is nothing in sight unless you want to pay a
big price. If you do, I can put you into communica-
tion with those who have them.

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Jan. 19, 1904.

Mr. F. Gutekunst,
712 Arch St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :

I thank you for the samples just received and herewith return them at once. The sample marked "1" would suit me a little better if you could give the front part of the neck under the chin a little turn back.

Our folks are quite pleased with your efforts and this would only be a beginning order. I would be glad to have them before commencement, which occurs the 16th, 17th and 18th of February.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1904.

Claudius Potts,
1111 Witherspoon Bldg.,
Phila., pa.

Dear Sir :

I have been absent from home pretty much ever since the third of August and have not given the water much use or thought. Now that I am at home I shall take it up methodically.

I notice that your rate is $12 for one dozen half gallon bottles and I paid you $12 therefore. You shipped me half a dozen half gallon bottles and one broke on the way, so you sent an additional one to cover that. You still owe me half a dozen bottles.

Yours truly,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1904.

Moses Monteath,

Kamiah, Idaho.

My dear Friend :

I have your letter of the 13th instant and referred it to the
doctor for a report on the condition of Sarah's eyes. He now reports
to me as follows :

"Sarah Monteath's eyes are well and she is going to school regularly. They had been sore . "

There seems no reason for anxiety on that score. I am glad to
tell you that Sarah is getting on nicely and that she is dearly loved
by all of us.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1904.

Richard G. Nejo,
Penn's Park, Pa.

My dear Richard :

I have your letter of the 13th and the one forwarded by your sister.

You are entitled to go home this year, and of course it is a
matter entirely in your own hands. Your return to Carlisle after
you have gone home will be just what we would like and what would be
best for you. If you can bring your brother Francisco with you, that
will be all right too; but all this must be worked out during the
summer. I am sorry to be compelled to deny your request to go home
now, but that I must do. Write to your brother, keep him in good
heart and have your sister do the same thing, and we will hope that
all will come out right.

Your sister's letter is herewith returned.

Faithfully your friend,

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Jan. 19, 1904.

C. B. Canfield, Bus. Mgr.,
1300 Broadway,
New York.

Dear Sir :

Yours of August 4th is before me for further
consideration. I left home August 3rd and did not
return until about the 10th of October. At the end
of October I left home again and was gone until the
30th of December, so that I have had no time to
give any attention to your appliance.

I am 63. There is hair all over my head, but
on the top a very small quantity and a little more
in front. Lower down on the sides and behind on
the head the hair is still abundant. It is turning
gray rapidly. I have some doubt that your appli-
ance would do me any good. If you think it would
I am willing to hear from you again.

Very truly yours,

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Jan. 19, 1904.

Hon. Carl Schurz,
New York City.

My dear Mr. Schurz :

On the 5th instant I sent you a letter of which
the enclosed is a copy. Having received no reply,
I fear it has failed to reach you, so send this re-
minder.

I can understand that on account of your years
or for some other reason it may not seem practica-
ble or even best for you to come to Carliele, but
if you can come we want you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 19, 1904.

Mr. Ben Gimbel,
Gimbel Bros.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :

On looking up your last engagement of the band I find that it
went to you for two weeks instead of three and you paid us $1814.

The band now numbers fifty-two members. We have brought into
it more skill and it has had the additional advantage of Mr. Wheel-
ock's special training, which I explained to you. I have gone over
the ground carefully and so far as I can see it will be impracticable
for us to undertake an engagement of three weeks short of $2500, two
weeks for $1800, or one week for $1000. As absence cuts into their
school work seriously I would prefer, first, a one week engagement;
second, a two weeks engagement, and would be glad if you would let
it rest at that. However, we will give you three weeks if you in-
sist. The figures named are the very lowest I can make.

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Carliole, Pa., January 19, 1904.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :

About the most harmful and forlorn school effort I saw
during my absence was at Yuma.

The Yuma school, as you probably know, is at the old
barracks on an elevated piece of land. The children from their
windows can look down on the flat below and see their degraded
homes and people.

The Yumas are not destitute of a willingness to work.
They were putting in cord wood for the state prison across the
river and it was interesting to watch them urging their heavily
laden boats against the current and energetically unloading their
deliveries of wood at the close of the day.

It seemed to me that something worth while might be
done in the way of agriculture and I urged Mr. Spear, who is a
good earnest man, in this direction, telling him something of my
observations along the Nile - how the water was lifted out to irri-
gate, etc. He took me down to a farm just below the Indian's
camp and within a mile of the school where I saw about 30 acres
of alfalfa which was producing, as he told me, a large and paying
crop annually. The water was lifted out of the river by steam
power and all the property appeared to me to be in good condition
and satisfactory. He drove me from point to point to study the
situation and see if it would not be practicable to get water on

(2) Hon. W. A. Jones.

to some of the land the Yumas occupy. It did seem feasible but
the use of the appliances on the farm already under cultivation
was by all odds the best and most promising for school purposes;
and the water supply on the farm could be extended to the Indians'
lands. Mr. Spear thought the man would sell. I told him I thought
it worth while to find out and try whether he could not buy the
farm. The enclosed letters from Mr. Spear and the owner of the
farm, together with a drawing, are the result of this conference.

I agree with Mr. Spear that the farm is cheap at the
price named and if the lands contiguous could be as well utilized
as a small acreage on the opposite side of the river, which is also
irrigated by machinery and cultivated by a Chinaman who delivers
garden truck in the town of Yuma, it would be a much needed utiliz-
ing of the resting time of the Yuma Indians, beside an excellent
example to them and a much needed means for training the young
people at the school. I believe the money put into the farm would
be under no circumstances a loss to the Government, because the
amount could be returned to the Government by sale of the property
at any time should the scheme for any reason be abandoned.

This is to me a most common-sense proposition, and I
feel assured it would greatly encourage and bring greater success
to Mr. Spear and the people at the school through giving them a sub-
stantial means of industrial training they do not now possess.

Allow me to urge, then, that if you have means at the
disposal of the Department applicable for this purpose, you make
this purchase at once.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Justin Head,

Jerome, Ariz.

Dear Justin :

I am glad to have a note from you and to know what you are do-
ing. Mrs. Pratt and I just returned from a trip in the west on the
30th of December. We had only a very short time at San Carlos, so
that I could not get about and see our returned students as I wish I
had been able to do. I see you are out and doing for yourself, and
it pleases me that you are trying to go at things the same as any
other American.

We are well here at the school and are quite busy in preparation
for commencement which occurs on the 17th and 18th of February. It
will be our sixteenth occasion of the kind and the twenty-fifth an-
niversary. The school is now larger than it has ever been, numbering
just about 1080.

With best wishes for your success,

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

To The Recruiting Officer,
United States Navy,
League Island, Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :

I have here an Osage Indian boy, Benjamin Mashunkashey, nineteen
years old, who has been enrolled as a student at Carlisle for four
years. He is a good fellow, has been in apparent good health ever
since he came, and is exceedingly anxious to enter the Navy. I told
him he could not enlist without the consent of his guardian. His
guardian's consent, endorsed by the Indian Agent, is herewith; also
report from my school physician who I asked to give him a preliminary
examination.

Please advise if you are willing to consider his enlistment. He
can come down at any time. Should you not want to enlist him, please
return the papers.

Yours truly,

Col. & Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Geary P. Myers,

Omaha Agency, Nebraska.

Dear Geary :

I thank you for sending me Mr. Mathewson's views and will use them in The Red Man. It is all right to put out that kind of information. What the public ought to know is the truth from everybody. There should be no concealment. "The truth will make us free." Error enslaves us. I hope you take The Red Man and Helper.

It is not at all unlikely that I may visit Omaha and Winnebago during the spring or summer, and shall be glad to see you and your surroundings.

I am receiving some very cordial endorsements of my views from agents and missionaries.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Mr. E. K. Mather,

Methlakatla, Alaska.

My dear Friend :

It will be all right to send your little boy 25 ¢ a month, but
as you have made it conditioned upon his studying hard, I suggest
that you send it in care of Miss K. S. Bowersox, who is Assistant
Principal of the school and will see that the conditions are complied
with.

There will be no trouble in Elwood's having spending money, for
under our system he can earn all that is really necessary for him.
However, as the amount you propose to give him is so small it will
not affect his earnings. He is one of the orderlies in my office,
and one of his duties is to show people around the school grounds.
For such service visitors frequently give the boys little rewards.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Miss Kate C. McBeth,
Lapwai, Idaho.

My dear Friend :

I have yours of the 14th instant. Since writing you Rev. A. Hagerty, of the First Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, tells me that he has been talking quite a little with James with regard to his future and James has indicated a desire to take hold of spiritual service, and receive some special instruction. I have just read your letter to Mr. Hagerty and we see no reason why he should not be encouraged and helped in the direction of his desires. I have been a little concerned for his health and was so concerned when he went home. We shall give special care to that.

I thank you for your full letter.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Mrs. Annie Parnell Little,
Kamiah, Idaho.

My dear School-daughter :

I have been investigating James Dickson's case, and now that he
has a divorce from his wife for just cause I can see no reason why
he should not have aspirations in the direction you speak of; nor is
there any reason why he should not go on and round out his education
as well as he is able to do.

I thank you for writing me about it because it puts me on my
guard, although I feel that we are not on wrong lines in what we are
doing.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Dear Sir :

I return herewith the two proofs forwarded by yours of the 20th.
Instead of making me 4 dozen of "six - N - F" you may make me 2 doz-
en, and make 4 dozen of the "six - N - F", which will be an addition
of 2 dozen to the number ordered.

Next week Mrs. Pratt gives a reception for the graduating class
of our school and asks me if she cannot have 4 dozen of my photographs
to use in connection with that, as mementoes to the members of the
class. If, therefore, it is practicable for you to complete the or-
der or half of it by that time I will be obliged if you will do that.

We are all greatly pleased with your work, and for myself I can
say that I esteem the several views superior to any I have ever
had taken. You may send the photographs by express or any way you
like. I will send you a check to pay immediately upon receipt of
photographs and bill.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Mrs. E. Bear Fighter,
Poplar, Mont.

My dear School-daughter :

In reply to your letter I must say that I have no news from
Washington in regard to your Indians. In fact, I have not been in
Washington for a long time and have had no reason particularly
to talk or think about you up there.

Mrs. Pratt and I were in the west most of the fall, but we went
among the Indians of the Middle and Southwest more than among those
in the north. It has been part of my plan to see more of the Indians
and I shall probably go out again in the spring. Perhaps then I
shall see your people. Nothing whatever has come to me about your
removal to Fort Berthold.

We are all very well indeed and busy with commencement prepara-
tions. Commencement will be on the 17th and 18th of February. It
would be very pleasant to see you here at that time if practicable
for you to come, and any other of our old Carlisle students.

You give me your married name only, which does not tell me who
you were at Carlisle, so that I am quite in the dark.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Miss Josie Vetter,

Rulo, Nebraska.

My dear Josie :

It just comes to me that there is some interest due you on your deposit with me, and I send you herewith my check for $28.

Mrs. Pratt and I were away for five months, from August 3rd to December 30th. Since my return I have been extremely busy.

Our commencement is on the 17th and 18th of February. As this is the quarter centennial we are going to have a special time on October 6th to celebrate the very beginning of the school. Keep that in mind. I hope you are well and that life goes pleasantly with you.

With love from Mrs. Pratt and all your friends here, I am

Cordially yours,

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 21.

Gen. Horatio C. King,
375 Fulton St.,
Brooklyn, New York.

Your letter. Expect to pay not over $75 and expenses. If that bait catches, use it.

Pratt.

Postal. 9:35 A.M.

Carlielle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Mr. Wm. Bero,
Colton,
St. Lawrence Co., New York.

Dear Sir :

I have your letter with reference to your son Paul, who I am
glad to tell you is now in good health. When the monthly home letters
were written last month he was absent from school, so that it was
overlooked in his case. He will write you shortly. You should have
at least one letter a month from him with a report card. If these do
not come regularly, please let me know.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

John Whitehorn,
Pawhuska, Okla.

Dear John :

This is the first time I have had a word from you and I am glad
to know that your health is restored. I was down in your country
in November, but only for a few days, and so was unable to see many
of the old students. Benny Mashunkeshey has received your message
and will probably write you.

We are all well here. The school is very full this year. Just
now we are in preparation for commencement which occurs on the 17th
and 18th of February. I presume you take The Red Man and so keep
some track of our doings.

With best wishes,

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904.

Felix Iron Eagle Feather,
Agency Printer,
Rosebud, S. Dak.

My dear Felix :

Your letter of October 30th was awaiting my return from a long
trip in the west and I did not get home until the 30th of December.
Mrs. Pratt and I visited a number of Indian agencies and schools in
Oklahoma, Nebraska, Nevada, Idaho, California, Arizona and New Mex-\ ice. We were in Omaha very soon after the trouble in Wyoming, and
I have since read the account Clarence Threestars gives of it. It
was a shameful affair and the facts ought in some way to have as wide
publication as the sensational and false accounts had. However, I
am glad to know we can point to so many good examples of energy and
proper living among our students in the surroundings and influences
they are subjected to. I found many encouraging instances in our
travels, as well as things that are very disheartening.

Our sixteenth graduating exercises occur on the 17th and 18th of
February. It is also the twenty-fifth anniversary, and we should be
very glad to have as many old students present as possible. Could
n't you and other of our old students make up a party among your-
selves? If you can, and will notify me in time I will arrange that
you be furnished half rate tickets coming and returning.

With kind regards to your family and best wishes for yourself,

Faithfully your friend,

I would enjoy seeing a number of your "New Era."

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 22, 1904.

Mr. J. Cohn,

Carson City, Nev.

Dear Sir :

Yours of the 14th instant to Miss Purges, Manager of The Red Man and Helper, is before me.

I wrote the editorial and said what I thought ought to be said about it because of what had previously been said in the way of comparison and disparagement by the advance agents of the "renaissance of Indian arts" and Indian curio business. You have acknowledgment in the article for your claim that the woman has a better home than she had before. The article is not designed nor does it in any way disconcert the development and the earning capacity of the Indian in any direction. That the solution of the Indian question in any material measure is to be found in the manufacture of curios is all nonsense.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1904.

Dr. Gilray,
Erie Co. Hospital,
Buffalo, New York.

My dear Doctor :

Miss Hilton, who has just made a report to me of her trip to
Akron with Myron Moses and her finally leaving him with you in your
excellent institution, and the excellent conditions surroundings him,
the kindly influences she met everywhere and the evidence that Myron
would be treated with more than usual consideration because she was
able to explain matters.

I want to add my urgency to all she has said to you, the nurses and others about the hospital in Myron's favor.

He was a student at this school quite a number of years. He is
one of the most exemplary young men I ever knew, a thorough gentleman and entitled to just as much consideration as these terms imply.
If at any time anything is needed in his behalf and I can furnish it
I shall be glad to do what I can to ameliorate his condition, and I
want to thank you and your corps of helpers for so kindly receiving
him. You will find him an excellent influence among your other in-
mates.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1904.

Mr. John Powell,
Wah-hi-yah, N. Car.

Dear sir :

Your son Moses came to Carlisle in September, 1899, so that his five years will not expire by the time our home parties are made up. However, on your urgency, I will allow him to leave at the end of the school year, which closes June 30th, if that is his wish. We are not permitted to send home students during the school term. Moses is well and needs all the time in school he can get, especially if his opportunities are to be cut off so soon.

Jan. 23, 1904.

Hon. M. E. Olmsted,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :

I am very greatly obliged to you for the two bound copies of The Congressional Directory which were received last week.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1904.

Mr. Edgar L. Hill,
Manati, Porto Rico.

Dear Sir :

I have investigated the matter of Joaquina Menendez about whom
you write, and find that she has been writing home regularly, but
has been addressing her letters to her brother at Manati. As I am
informed that her brother lives at home I cannot understand why the
mother should not have knowledge of her daughter. All students'
home letters are sent here each month and a record is kept of them
for reference in case of complaints and inquiries. They are then
forwarded.

Joaquina is in the country under our outing, attending public
school and learning housework, and we have nothing that would indi-
cate she is not well and happy. We require detailed monthly reports
from patrons and our visiting agent is on her rounds now.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1904.

Col. James H. Lambert, Executive Officer,
L. P. E. Commission of Pennsylvania,
710 Real Estate Bldg.,
Broad & Chestnut sts.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Colonel Lambert :

I have been very thoroughly over the ground of expenses for our band at St. Louis and find I can undertake to let you have the band for one month for $2700, two months for $4200 or three months for $4700, we paying all expenses whatsoever provided we can get either public quarters on the grounds or space to put up tents and take care of the band. There are 55 pieces.

If you can manage the transportation to and from St. Louis we can get on with $1500 per month. You will note that this is less than one dollar a day per man, being $50 a day for a month of 30 days, and covers the care of the boys in every way and their pay, for I must pay each one of them and some should have quite good pay because they can earn it.

The Pan-American officials paid us $3500 for the month of August and the expense of travel was only about 40% of what it is between here and St. Louis. At the World's Fair we had living and cooking space in the Stadium; but I have tents and cots if there is no available building room.

When the time approaches for you to have the band I believe the state pride of the Pennsylvania Railroad will lead it to give us a pass. The Interior Department through its Fair officials has asked me if I could not give the band to them for a portion of the time,

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but just as you have indicated, they have little money to spend.

In considering the matter from our own standpoint, I would say
that if we could have two months at the Fair it would be the limit
of our wishes. By that time my boys will in all probability be in
such disciplinary condition as to require quite a siege of school
restraint to get them back into shape.

Jan. 23, 1904.

Samuel Tilden,
C/o Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Samuel :

We have our commencement on the 17th and 18th
of February. If you are to be in Washington at that
time with Joseph and Olcott I shall be glad to have you
all come up and will send you tickets in order that
you may do so.

When Joseph was in the Territory he had children
at Carlisle and it might be interesting to him to see
the place again. At present there are a number of
Nex Perces here, as you know, who would be especially
pleased to have you present.

Sincerely your friend,

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Jan. 23, 1904.

Myron Moses,
C/o Erie Co. Hospital,
Buffalo, New York.

Dear Myron :

Miss Hilton has just made me a report of her arduous trip with you and it is a great relief to me to know that you got through so well. It is an evidence of strength that is most hopeful and encouraging. I hope you will keep up good heart and give yourself up in every way to the treatment accorded you. You will help those who are trying to help you by doing this. Miss Hilton advises that the doctor is hopeful about you. Always take all the chances you can. I am reminded of a general who was wounded on the battle-field and when the doctors examined the wound they found it necessary to take off his leg at the hip - a very dangerous operation. The general asked them if there was a chance of recovery in case they did that. They told him, "Yes, one chance in a hundred." "Well", said the general, "that's just the chance I will take". And sure enough, he came thru all right.

I hope you will be able to drop us a line occasionally. With love from us all and best wishes,
Faithfully your friend,

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In considering the matter from our own standpoint, I would say
that if we could have two months at the Fair it would be the limit
of our wishes. To that time my boys will in all probability be in
class, disciplinary condition as I require, write a letter of school
restraint to get them back into shape. If you want them for more than
two months I shall of course want to meet your wishes.

Yours very truly,

Col. & Subt.

TELEGRAM.

Gen. O. O. Howard,
Burlington, Vt.

Jan. 23.

Yours 22nd, whereat we are all happy. Please advise me in good time
about transportation. I have special rates from almost everywhere.

Pratt, Col.

W. U. 2:45 P.M.

396

Carlisle, pa., Jan. 23, 1904.

Mrs. Sarah Louisa Oberholtzer,
1905 Tioga St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Mrs. Oberholtzer :

The annual report, also a school catalog, go forward to you today.

In regard to putting a bill before Congress such as you speak of
I question somewhat whether it is a matter within proper Congression-
action. Does it not rather belong to those things which communities
govern for themselves, and is it not dependent upon its own success
for recognition ? It seems to me that without local conviction in
a place it would be a failure notwithstanding any Congressional ac-
tion that might be taken. The schools are more under the care of states and
communities, and really, so far as I can see, such matters do not fall
within the legislative oversight of the country, however worthy they
may be. It is possible, of course, that I am mistaken about this,
but this is the way it looks to me.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1904.

Mr. O. A. Mitscher,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Osage Agency,
Pawhuska, Okla.

My dear Sir :

I am especially gratified by the fact that you agree with me in regard to giving Indians opportunities beyond the tribe. I may say, and I think I know the Indian field pretty well, that to my mind you have about the toughest job in it.

How is your scheme for dividing up the Osage lands working out ? Not that any material good is to come to your people from it now, but it will be getting many of them toward poverty where they will be compelled to think and act and work for themselves, and that will be their greatest blessing.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 23, 1904.

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

Dear Doctor :

Helen Fraties died on the 14th of December. Our records show
that her father is John Fraties of St. Paul Island, Alaska, but we
have nothing to show that there has been any communication between
them since her coming to Carlisle. Miss Mellor brought her from the
Jessie Lee Home. There is to Helen's credit on our books $23.48.
What shall we do with it? Perhaps Miss Mellor could advise.

We are all very glad that you are coming up to be with us at com
mencement. I don't know what we may have from Washington, as the
past two years we have failed to get any members of Congress. Per
haps they have tired of it. I shall send them the customary invi
tations, writing only to Mr. Sherman and Mr. Stewart that we will
make the usual arrangements in regard to their coming if they accept,
and will let it go at that.

I shall be glad, of course, to have any good Washington people
come up that would really help our cause along. If you have any
suggestions to make we will conform to them.

Yours faithfully,

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In considering the matter from our own standpoint, I would say
that if we could have two months at the Fair it would be the limit of
our wishes. By that time my boys will in all probability be in such
discipline condition as to require quite a siege of school re-
straint to get them back into shape. If you want them for more than
two months I shall of course want to meet your wishes.

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Carlisle, pa., Jan. 23, 1904.

Dr. Geo. P. Bible,
Temple Bldg.,
Broad & Cherry Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :

Replying to your letter to Miss Bowersox relative to an evening engagement at this school some time in February, I regret to state that our obligations in the way of entertainments for the school have been so heavy this year that I do not feel we can undertake anything else. Added to this, our time is so full of home entertainment by the various literary societies and the customary ante-graduation affairs that we should need to forego anything from outside even if we were prepared to meet the expense.

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TELEGRAM.

Jan. 23.

The Baltimore American,
Maltimore, Md.

Your paper today states that a Cherokee Indian has hard luck. His name is William Goodyear; and that he ran away from Carlisle, wanted to return and was refused by the school authorities.

No William Goodyear ever attended the Carlisle school. We have no runaway answering description you give of William. No runaway has been refused readmission. In fact, we follow runaways and bring them back, sometimes from the remote west.

This statement is due the public in order that the subject of your article may not further impose upon the sympathies of the people.

R. H. Pratt. Col. & Supt.

W. U. 6:30 P.M. Press rates.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1964.

Corbett B. Lawyer,

Lapwai, Idaho.

My dear Corbett :

I am glad to know you are coming to commencement, and if you
have three pupils to bring with you I will pay your expenses coming
and returning, but they must be good pupils, not shabby ones. They
must be earnest, ambitious and healthy. I send you half a dozen ap-
plication and consent blanks which you would better have filled out
and sent me before starting; but of course all must be with the con-
sent of the Superintendent.

Our commencement occurs on the 17th and 18th of February.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, pa., Jan. 25, 1904.

Miss Etta M. Clinton,
423 S. Arne St.,
Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Dear Miss Clinton :

Your letter to Mr. Allen came just as he was hurriedly leaving
for the Territory and he had no time to answer, but put into my hands
asking me to make reply for him.

He says it will be necessary for you to take an examination in
order to re-enter the Indian service, but that you need have no fear
of being unable to pass it, the matron's examination being quite
simple and within the ability scholastically of anyone who has been
a competent matron; that he thinks there will be an examination for
positions in the Indian Service held in Albuquerque sometime this
spring, probably in March or April, and he thinks it would be well
for you to make inquiry from the Civil Service Commission immediate-
ly in order to have your application on file in good time.

He would also express his best wishes and regrets that he was
unable to write you at this time.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1904.

Captain C. H. Arnold,
U. S. R. S. Lancaster,
U. S. Navy Yard,
League Island,
Phila., Pa.

Sir :

The bearer is Benjamin Mashunkashey, who wishes to enlist as per
papers herewith.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 25, 1904.

Mrs. Chauncey J. Hawkins,
Spencer, Mass.

Dear Mrs. Hawkins :

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 26, 1904.

My dear Mrs. Kinney :

Miss Burges sends me your inquiry in regard to the
number of deaths among Indian children after they have been taken
from their homes and put into school, advising that you under-
stand the Government ordered a thorough physical examination of
every such child within twenty-four hours of its arrival at the
school, and asking to know if you are right in having stated that
tubercularly
about seven tenths of these children are
tainted.

My experience here warrants me in saying that if there
be an increase in tuberculous troubles among the children, it is
not due to sending them to school. It is an undisputed fact
that tuberculosis is prevalent among the Indians. That it is now
on the increase, I do not believe. It is not true here at Carlisle
where there are almost 1100 boys and girls coming from prac-
tically every tribe in the United States. The fact is that Indians
are quite entirely like the whites, both young and old , in health
matters as well as all others . They are not a freak of nature,
nor are they a peculiar people in their physical and mental capac-
ities. Their physical and mental conditions are controlled by
the same laws that control the white man. The white man's skin
is white; the red man's skin is red, perhaps, but both are human
and the same laws degenerate or elevate, regardless of the color
of the skin. Why then do you ask whether schooling is bad for

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(3) Mrs. Kimey.

and especially to his education and the multitude of experiences
I have had in receiving children from the Agencies, who are already
doomed, and the observation of their life and treatment on the
reservation all warrants me in saying this picture is not over-
drawn. Two days ago, after half a dozen letters and urgency
from the agent and my arranging his incoming, a student arrived
from Minnesota with the certificate of the agent and of the Agency
here physician that he is a proper subject for us to receive and ed-
ucate, whom I find on examination is entirely blind in one eye
and two thirds blind in the other eye, his neck bearing old scars
of scrofula and a new attack on him, his whole neck jewelled and
ready to suppurate. And this represents the conscience and purpose
of no inconsiderable number of the Government's field agents so
far as education is concerned. This boy needed a place to die
and they sent him to Carlisle. Whenever the health of the Indian
children has failed here at the school their health would have
failed just the same elsewhere, and the very many who have been
helped and saved from bad health and fatal results by coming here
could hardly be approximated.

The ability of the Indian children to receive instruc-
tion readily and reach as high attainments as the other races is
established beyond a peradventure in my mind. In all lines of
education, industrial and literary, this is confirmed. With less
to be athletically
physical training he shows himself the equal of the Anglo Saxon
with all his centuries of special training.

The home life of the Indian is made manifest upon his
appearance at the school by his uncared for eyes and teeth, his
unkempt hair, often full of vermin, unclean skin, clothing inad-

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(4) Mrs. Kinney.
in
equate, lack amount and variety of his food; which all indicates
our meanness in his management. We have been governed by a wrong
sentimental, dwarfed, do-as-you-please, ignorant, modish,
tribal, avaricious, alienating, segregated irresponsible system;
and have forced upon the Indian a life confined to a barren spot.

Let the Indian be free; bring him into the political
and social fold where he belongs ; treat him fair and honest;
and in five years such questions as yours will not be necessary.

My dear Mrs. Kinney, let us demand with all the
veneration we can a radical change in the treatment of the Indian
and the administration of his affairs. I believe if you had
been with Mrs. Pratt and me since Mohonk and seen and heard what
we did and realized the crime of reservation management and the
not only degenerating but destroying influences of even our boast-
ed "Lands in Severalty", that you either would have said, "Darn!
the whole business" or wanted to hire somebody to say it for you.

Use this in any way you desire.

Sincerely yours,

LC

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 27, 1904.

Mr. O. H. Bales,

Knightstown, Ind.

My dear Mr. Bales :

I have your very wise and kindly letter about David Haddon. You understand, of course, that our only object is to further the interests of these young people in every way we can, and secure if possible their incorporation into the body politic. To that end we have our Outing. David has been slow in school, but a good boy and worthy He has been here a long time, and the school can really do little more for him. A great deal more is to be done through his being cut among people.

What you propose is all right. If you can find a home for David and keep him at work you will be accomplishing just what I am trying to do here, and I shall be very glad to send him to you at the close of the fiscal year if you can arrange to have him come. His conduct on the farm and in his country life is such as to make him a boy that is wanted by all our best farm patrons. I should therefore have a hope that any arrangement of the same kind you may make for him there will be successful. After his visit to you, should it appear that for any reason it is best for him to return to the care of Carlisle he can do that. I would greatly deplore his going home, for conditions among the Indians now, particularly the allotted Indians, are just about as deplorable as it is possible for them to be.

Very faithfully yours,

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Certificate, on, Jan. 26, 1904.

Miss Rachel K. Robinson,
Chicopee, Mass.

Dear Miss Robinson :

Your recommendation here are of such a nature that I must know
thoroughly the qualifications of those who are to fill all positions
in the school. Just now all places are filled, but there are usually
vacancies occurring in the number. As you probably understand, those
are usually supplied by transfer from other Indian schools, in which
case I must know the person and her experience in the particular
line required. If it is not practicable to secure the proper person
by transfer, certification is made by the Civil Service Commission.

Your letter is placed on file.

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Jan. 28, 1904.

Dear Brother Fisher :

We do not want any such Indians as your Jacob
William Winney. We must, so far as possible, keep
clear of this wilfully bad. I send you with pleasure
one of our catalogs and put your name for one year on
our free list for The Red Man and Helper, sending you
a few back numbers which will give you some of my pe-
culiar opinions. There are so many things on Indian
Education that I can scarcely tell you what to get.
The more you read, the more confused you will become.
Your own good sense will be your best guide, and I may
say to you that Brother Trippe at Salamena is one of
the very best volumes on the Indian to be found any-
where.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 28, 1904.

Miss Lizette Roubideau,
3034 Susquehanna Ave.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Lizette :

Mr. Allen is away and your letter to him comes to me. Of course
you are entitled to go home and we are ready to send you at any time;
but I hope you will do some very hard thinking before you start. It
is entirely possible for you, of course, to go out into some of the
small towns near your home and do well, but if you live under the
influences of the Indians of your tribe that will be next to impos-
sible. Mrs. Pratt, MissBURGEAS and I were there in the late fall
and found that your people, the Poncas and the Pawnees are all trav-
eling downward very rapidly. I count every day you remain away from
your tribe great gain to you, and very much wish that something would
occur to keep you away for some time yet.

Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 28, 1904.

Mrs. Sara T. Kinney,
43 Park St.,
New Haven, Conn.

My dear Mrs. Kinney :

Yours of yesterday is received.

Indian children are tainted with tuberculosis. Scrofula and weak hearts are quite common. Some years ago I brought sixty-two Indian children from Rosebud. Ninety-four were rejected in selecting these sixty-two; but the physician was a competent one and thoroughly interested in the welfare of the children and of the school. He gave them very much such an examination as we give men who desire to enlist in the army. He even had his wife make a careful examination of the girls. I insisted upon it and stood by to assure its being done carefully, taking down the results myself. The consequence was we had one of the healthiest detachments that ever came to Carlisle.

We have 1070 pupils now. There are four in the hospital sick in bed. There are eight or ten others convalescent or ailing, but about and most of them attending school. This is the most unfavorable time of the year. Good food, proper clothing, cleanliness and attention to sanitary laws are great influences to lift them up.

I never heard of an order from the Department to examine children within twenty-four hours after arrival at school, but I have done this at Carlisle for quite a number of years, requiring a special and separate report from my school physician. It is not school that kills. It is the degenerating conditions at home, the results of which at times appear after they have been in school a while.

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We have here twenty Shoshones and three Bannocks. They were all together the other day to see their agent who stopped at the school a few hours. You would say they were an exceptionally healthy body of young people, jolly, earnest and progressive.

I have been anxious for a number of years that there should be a careful investigation by a competent and unbiased medical authority into the health conditions of the Indians at home and in school, for I know that the unsanitary living at home in food, clothing and housing, together with evil practices, is really what is destroying them. It is not true that civilization kills or is in any way unhealthful. It is not true that a sudden change from the degraded savage life to proper civilized living, as in school, injures them. School and better living saves them. It is the old life that kills. After my long experience, I can safely say that if I wanted to destroy the Indians and make it appear all the time that I was trying to save them I would adopt just about the system that has been adopted. If our children were all relegated to their homes now I should expect great mortality. Here where they receive proper care and instruction, and the influences are good, there is very little mortality. It would be a splendid thing for the Indian service, and I am sure would close the mouths of those who antagonize us on health grounds to have the most careful and complete investigation made into all health conditions among Indians in school and out. I am sorry I cannot give you statistical comparisons, but I cannot.

You and I are quite entirely in accord on these as well as other matters concerning our red brethren, I am sure.

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Carlisle, pa., Jan. 28, 1904.

Prof. H. W. Elson,
2122 Natrona St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Professor :

The large sum expended for entertainments this year, arranged
for in my absence, just about doubled what I had planned. This com-
pels me to put off having you again until next year. I trust it
will be convenient for you to come then and give us an additional
course of lectures.

Very sincerely yours,

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Jan. 28, 1904.

James Waldo,

Verden, C. T.

My dear James :

Thanks for your letter which has just reached me. It does me good to know that some of you remember with pleasure our little affair on the Washita. I trust sometime it may be repeated under more elaborate auspices - not that I would criticise those who had the management of it, but to make anything a complete success requires experience and I doubt if any of those who took it up and did it ever did such a thing before. I wish I should be glad to have a copy of your petition any time and will do what I can to aid you.

Our commencement is to be on the 17th and 18th of February. As I told you when there I want to make the 6th of October observable as being the full ending of the twenty-five years. For this reason I am not crowling the commencement much, so far as having the old students to some is concerned. Still, we are always glad to see you and will give you a warm welcome here and elsewhere if you can be present. Invitations will come to you.

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Jan. 29, 1904.

Mr. Chauncey Y. Robe,
Rosebud, S. Dak.

My dear Chauncey :

Thanks for your good letter. I shall use a
little of it in The Red Man. Am very glad to know
your health is so greatly improved and wish I had a
vacancy to offer you here. I trust you may get a
good appointment. Go away from home. Forget you
are a Sioux. Be an American in every sense of the
word - you are so able to be just that.

Don't forget that next October" the long jour-
ney over, we came to Carlisle" twenty-five years
ago, and we must have a rousing good time. Plan
your affairs with reference to that.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1904.

Mrs. Herbert White,
De Witt, Ga.

Dear Madam :

I send you today a quantity of printed matter concerning Indian education, including one of our illustrated catalogs, and several copies of our weekly school paper.

Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1904.

Supt. C. K. Rix,
Petersburg Union School,
Petersburg, Mich.

Dear Sir :

I had mailed you yesterday one of our illustrated catalogs of the Carlisle school, together with copies of several of my addresses on the subject of Indian education, an annual report, and other printed matter relating to the subject. Should you want full information on the work pursued on the reservations in the west, you would better write The Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C. for a copy of his annual report, or to your Congressman asking him to obtain a copy for you.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1904.

Dear Brother Kingsbury :

I enclose receipt for the payment of ticket issued to Mrs. Lazore. When she left here she said nothing about an order and Mr. Allen, then in charge, did not know she was ready to start. The rate of $12.75 which you say she paid the agent in Carlisle seems to me very low, considering she had no order from the school.

We do not care for John Lazore, nor do any of the other runaways you know to be in the neighborhood of Hogansburg seem worth the trouble and expense of catching. Our principal reason for bringing them back is to break up their returning home.

No Terrance boy has appeared here. It may be possible for you to bring us two or three new students, or possibly one or more of the best of the runaways now at home, so that I could pay your expenses coming and returning, and have you with us at commencement.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1904.

Mrs. Ella A. Boole, Secy.,
Woman's Board of Home Missions,
156 Fifth Ave.,
New York City.

Dear Mrs. Boole :

Replying to your letter of Jan. 27th, we have separate dining-
rooms for employes and students. Employes board in what is known as
the Teachers' Club, and their bill of fare is made out either by the
matron in charge or by a committee appointed from their number. The
rate is $2.50 a week per member, and the food consists of whatever
the market affords within that limit.

As the subsistence of students is paid for by the Government
and we are confined to a certain ration for each, the menu is much
more limited, consisting of bread, meat, potatoes, rice, oatmeal,
beans, milk, coffee, fresh and dried fruit, etc. The meals are
varied as much possible by varying the manner of preparation and
where practicable by adding vegetables, puddings and pastry. The
matron and cook are responsible for the proper management of this de-
partment and each morning a report is made to the superintendent of
the quantity and quality of food furnished, its preparation, etc.
These are filed.

I send you copy of a recent report made by the matron in com-
pliance with a request from the Department. The menus, as you see,
are for one week in each season, and are copied from the last year's
morning reports.

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Jan. 29, 1964.

Mr. Fayette A. McKenzie,
Shoshoni Agency, Wyo.

My dear Sir :

I write only a word to say that we are not in
the main apart in these Indian matters. It is prac-
ticable for us to cease capitalizing our efforts
upon the Indian as an Indian, and to take up the
work on the basis that the Indian is a man to be a
citizen and to quit his Indianism. If to this end
all of us who are in the educational work would do
that and enter into relations and sympathy with edu-
cators in our several localities, urging our cause
in this direction, things would go better very quick-
ly for our charges.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 29, 1904.

To The Postmaster,
Unionville, Mich.

Dear Sir :

Isaac Graverotte, so n of William Graverotte, claiming to be
one half Indian, applies for admission to this school. He says he
is twenty years of age, which is rather too old for a beginner. Still,
I would like to know more about the boy before refusing him an oppor-
tunity here. Will you be kind enough to find out what you can about
his character, mentally, physically and morally, and give me your
judgment.

Jan. 29, 1904.

Dear Miss Bottsford :

I have your acceptance of our invitation to
commencement and we shall be happy to have you with
us.

In due time a half rate ticket will be sent
you.

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Jan. 30, 1904.

Mr. Levi Levering,
Fort Hall Indian School,
Blackfoot, Idaho.

Dear Levi :

I appreciate what you say in yours of the 26th
with regard to the changes at your place. Major Cald-
well was here last Sunday and I discovered that he
had been appointed Agent and Superintendent under the
new order of things. The natural expectation is that
the new incumbent in all such cases will want to se-
lect his own assistants, and I rather opine that if
Supt. Locke desires to remain under Major Caldwell
in the position of Assistant Superintendent it will
be arranged in that way. That is the usual order.

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TELEGRAM.

Jan. 30.

Walter Battise,
Sac & Fox Indian,
Chicago & St. Louis Express,
Vandalia, Ill.

Robert Keokuk and Ira Walker have not returned. Are they with you or do you know their whereabouts? Wire answer.

Pratt, Col. & Supt.

C/o Conductor.

Postal. C. V. 3:10 P.M.

Jan. 31, 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 Interior dated September 6th, all in 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Col. U.S.A., retired, & Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1904.

G. S. Warner,
Football Coach and Manager,
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Mr. Warner :

We do not agree as to the methods and duties of Colonel Pratt nor as to the manner of treating young people as mature as James Johnson. James is 26 years old., rather far removed, as you must admit, from the childhood stage. He has gone considerably beyond Carlisle, has been for several years in Dickinson College, and as you know is now well advanced in the college proper; so that the point you suggest that he should have been told that he had been served right or that he ought to have been whipped and sent back is hardly applicable. James Johnson was captain of the team and as captain there were not only no complaints against him, but he has received special credit and notice from the press and the football world. For me to admit that he should be treated as a child would be exceedingly inconsistent. He stood next to you as an official in the football aggregation. That again advises me that he is entitled to consideration. You intimate that he came to me whining. This is not in accord with my own views of what he did. I listened to you and I listened to him - not with just the same judicial attention that I listened to you - but still of necessity with something of the same attention. He reached home before you did and insisted upon making a statement. Before allowing him to do so I called in Mr. Allen, thinking it better that there should be a witness, and his letter having been addressed to Mr. Allen - the matter having come up.

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in my absence.

I have, according to the best of my recollection, indicated to you in the main what occurred at that time. You do not seem satisfied with my statement, and having heard various things that it is alleged James Johnson has said, you insist upon an aggressive settlement. I have hesitated to open it up before Mr. Allen returns because I believe it would be better to have his recollection of what occurred to complete the testimony and the settlement. I am sorry to say that to me it has assumed the aspect of a personal quarrel, and my experience in such things warns me that it would be extremely difficult to settle it amicably on the lines you propose. My judgment does not agree with yours that entering into these things, calling in witnesses those who were under your control at the time and allowing them to say what they might care to say - probably would say - would add either to your comfort or establish you more firmly with the team. In my judgment, it would be in a measure placing your reputation in their hands, allowing them to express themselves for or against you and so establishing a precedent. I realize your feeling in the matter, but it does seem to me that your supremacy is better assured by not making so much of it or urging it; that you yourself in the end will feel that this is the best way.

I feel I cannot be mistaken in this and shall regret to adopt the course you urge, particularly if you stay here. To have your conduct and reputation resting in the hands of the members of the team who will feel that they can talk about you freely and can bring an issue and put you on trial will surely work injury. Some may speak for you, some may speak against you. In the profession you have, chosen you are at the top and are too big to come within the pale

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of such bickerings as you plan to inaugurate.

I regret exceedingly that it seems to you there has not been
sufficient appreciation of your efforts. I have certainly myself on
all occasions claimed I had the best coach in the country and have
been especially proud of the exploits of the team this year. With a
light team you have accomplished results that entitle you to greatest
credit. I thought that had been expressed and you understood it.

If for the sake of higher reward or because of loyalty to your
own university you leave, I acquiesce; but if it can be avoided by
me it shall not be an enforced leaving as the result of an inquiry
into acts committed under momentary anger and resultant pro and con
alleged statements arising therefrom.

In writing you thus frankly, I over-ride my judgment a little
as to just the temper in which I should meet your instructions and
allegations aimed at me personally.

Your friend,

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Feb. 1, 1904.

Kish Hawkins,
Darlington, Okla.

Dear Kish :

Your niece, Rena F. Coyote, is exceedingly anxious you should be here at our commencement, and I hope you are considering it as favorably as you can. We of course want you to be with us on the 6th of October next, at which time we hope to have a very large gathering of old students. I have thought we might make some arrangement in connection with the World's Fair. Our people pretty generally want to go there, and I can arrange I feel very sure so that those old students who come in at that time may stop at The Fair either going or returning, without extra expense to them.

Really, I think October would be the better time and if you write Rena so encourage her that you will come in the fall she will be satisfied.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 2, 1904.

Mrs. O. H. Platt,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam :

I am advised you are specially interested
in them and would like to know in detail what I
think of the present situation among the Warner's
Ranch Indians.

I was at Pala on the 15th and 16th of Decem-
ber with Mr. Partridge, one of the three commis-
sioners who selected the Pala site. We traveled
to and from Redlands together, so I had full op-
portunity to go over the ground covering the se-
lection of the place and the plans of the commis-
sioners. We saw the people at their homes, at
their work setting up their houses, making their
irrigating ditches and cleaning up the town site.
The agent himself showed us over the tract and
explained to us his plans; then drove us back to
the station at Temecula and spent the night with
us.

For about fifteen years Carlisle has had
students from Warner's Ranch, brought or sent
here by their faithful teacher, Mrs. Babbitt;
and through correspondence with her and with the
parents and the students after their return home
I was somewhat familiar with the condition and
quality of the people.

Before this removal these Indians never had
an agent residing with them, but Mrs. Babbitt
lived among them as their only teacher, counsel-
lor and best friend. Since their removal Mrs.
Babbitt has been deposed and sent elsewhere. They
now have an agent not familiar with their mode
of life, but a good man I am sure. There are
also a farmer, an irrigating engineer, a school
teacher just new in the service, and a matron;
so that they are supremely dominated by the ex-
pensive and character-weakening agency system.

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All the people I saw were large, able-bodied men and women, unusually strong and capable workers. I talked to quite a number, and with few exceptions they had good use of the English language. From their constant meeting with white people who frequented their hot springs resort at their old home they had largely become quite at one with the white race in thought and speech. There are in the United States few Indians better qualified than these to abandon all tribalism and take upon themselves the individual duties and responsibilities of citizenship.

It was plain to be seen that they were not happy, though I did not invite expression of discontent and was particular to give them as much courage and hope as I could under the circumstances.

I found the negotiations and their removal were conducted quite imperiously. The chief commissioner in every talk and through his whole career with them in the duty of selecting a site for the reservation and in their removal harshly domineered the situation, wearing a belt carrying openly all the time a six-shooter and a scalping knife. Yet these Indians are perfectly peaceable. Although the majority of them speak English he always talked with them in Spanish so that his fellow commissioners never surely knew what was said.

The Pala Reservation is an abandoned mission. The water supply at times of greatest need is, I am sure, very much less than was represented. I question greatly the adequacy of water and arable land to furnish at best even a fair living for the community, but this will prove a blessing if agency control can be relaxed and they go out to work among our people.

The place was not materially in use at the time of purchase. If my time had not been limited I should have tried to find out why. We traveled twelve miles over a very rough mountain road from Temecula to reach Pala. High mountains surround it, making sunrise late and sunset early.

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the continent to Temecula and from there hauled
over the mountains. Thirty had been erected and
the balance had just arrived at Temecula when I
left. Lumber suitable for that climate is cheaper
there than the lumber of which these houses were
made is in Brooklyn; and these Indians with a lit-
tle outside help were entirely able to as quickly
build their own houses. The houses sent out are
little protection from cold, heat or dust, which
are the elements most necessary to be protected
from in that climate. They have had very little
rain for three years. When inside these hous-
es it was easy to look out through the cracks al-
most anywhere. The Indians were taken from their
adobe homes which in that climate are the best
protection against heat, cold and dust, and lodged
in these houses.

The night I was there was almost freezing
cold. We shivered in overcoats and could only
find a place to keep warm at the trader's store,
the agent himself not having heating provision in
his own house. Pneumonias are to be anticipated.

The irrigating engineer was spending about
$13,000 for a ditch, hiring and directing these
skilled Indian irrigationists to work upon it.
He began by paying them $1.50 a day, and after
working some weeks at that price, changed his mind
for some reason to $1.25 a day. Then the Indians
struck and things were at a stand-still for weeks.
Finally, they reluctantly went to work at the
lower wage and were at it with apparent faithful-
ness when I was there. The result is the ditch
has been thrown back so much that they will not
have water for next year's crop, and this compels
Government support with its pauperizing influences
for another year.

The drink habit is growing rapidly - not
more than four or five but were increasingly in-
dulging in drink. It is somewhat natural that
the agency system and control to which they were
never before subject, and their consequent loss
of independence and manhood should nurse this
vice. Under these circumstances, it is hardly

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1904.

Mrs. D. H. Fox,
1620 Penn St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Fox :

I send you copy of our illustrated catalog, which contains practically all that could be given in a short history of this school. We have photographs from which the illustrations are taken and can furnish any you may want unmounted at 10¢ each.

With the catalog I enclose copy of my last annual report and an account written some time ago for The Ledger of Philadelphia by one of its correspondents.

Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1904.

Mr. W. C. Parabee,
Peabody Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Sir :

Copy of The Red Man and Helper containing my reply to the editorial in The Kansas City Journal has been sent you. There is no charge.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1904.

Mr. Caleb Keith,

Metlakahtla, Alaska.

My dear Mr. Keith :

Your letter dated about a month ago reached me in due time, and I am glad to hear from you. Your son James is getting along nicely, is well and seems happy. The whole party that came with Mr. Marsden became at once quite at home among us, and I am sure we will be able to return them at the end of their period with us, very much improved. You did just right to send your son away from home to be educated and the association and contact he will get here cannot help fitting him for the place he is expected to fill later in his own country. He should write you at least once a month, that being one of our requirements.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 2, 1964.

Miss Bertha J. Dryer,
Keshena, Wis.

Dear Miss Dryer :

I have your letter advising that you, like so many of us who have been at Carlisle, have seen your brightest and best boys and girls ruined by the reservation system, and that you are heartily in accord with my views.

I like this expression and note what you say about joining our force. Your application is placed on file and when there is a vacancy shall gladly give it consideration. It has been a desire of mine for years to equalize the sexes in our force of teachers, and as vacancies have occurred I have endeavored to do that, believing that in our large number of pupils there would be material benefit through this arrangement. I am not up to that point yet, but there are interests to be met that make it necessary to waive that intention at times.

Our changes usually occur in the summer or at the end of the school year. If you will write me again, say in May, and will then give me your experience and training as a teacher and your specialty, it may be practicable for me to favor both you and ourselves.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 2, 1904.

Fred S. LaChapelle,
Wabasha, Minn.

Dear Friend :

I have your letter asking for one of our application blanks upon
which you may request admittance to Carlisle.

In reply I think best to say that your chances are better
where you are. In Wabasha you can attend the public school, which
is a privilege I covet for all Indian boys and girls. If you were
here I would want to place you just where you could be with white
people. But as we have now nearly 1080 young people for whom to
secure these benefits we ought not to take those who can arrange
themselves for these advantages.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, pa., Feb. 2, 1904.

Mr. O. A. Witscher,
U. S. Indian Agent for the Osages,
C/o Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir :

I was especially gratified to know from your letter that you agree with me in regard to giving Indians opportunities beyond the tribe. A considerable number of declarations on the same line are coming to me from the field.

I am pleased to see your plan for dividing up the Osage lands
is working out. I should favor a shorter time for selling the allot-
ments over and above 160 acres; but that will probably come through
the urgency of their needs. You have certainly gained a very great
victory in getting them as far along as you have. I think I know
the Indian field pretty well, and to my mind you have about the
toughest job in it. The principle of giving large estates and annu-
ities, in almost all cases, must be put aside, and the Indians must
feel the pinchings of poverty before there can be any very great suc-
cess in civilizing and industrializing them.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 3, 1904.

Mr. Charles Macey,
Gardiner, Oregon.

Dear Sir :

In reply to your letter of the 24th ult., the following is the
judgment of my school physician in which I concur :

"In regard to Willie Macey, would say that he is in bad health. Was not well when he came. He is getting worse all the time in spite of our oversight.

His father evidently knew Willie was sick, and it is no more
than proper that he should pay his way home. "

If you will send me the cost of a ticket, which will be about
$60.00 I will let your son go home, although by rights you should
return to the Government the cost of his coming as well, since you
knew he was not in good health when you sent him.

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My dear Bakeless :

Thanks for your valued letter. You of course
know that no one can come to Carlisle with more wel-
come than you; but I understand the situation, and
if you can come only for commencement day we shall
be happy to have you. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis lec-
tures on Tuesday evening, and we count that a rare
feature.

From what you say about the girls I judge best
to write advising them against coming to Carlisle
at this time. Miss Weekley was just in and insist-
ed upon it, especially in the case of Jennie DeRos-
ier; but none of them have an abundance of money,
so it is not good judgment for them to come notwith-
standing we should be pleased to have them with us.
We must all learn to do what is best instead of what
we want to do, and this is a good opportunity for
them to do that.

I note what you say about your young man. Send
him along any time that suits. With love to Mrs.
Bakeless, John, Katharine and David,

Faithfully your friend,

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Feb. 3, 1904.

Miss Zenia Tibbett
State Normal School,
Bloomsburg, Pa.

My dear School-daughter :

In view of the fact that your resources are
limited and that your duties in school will not per-
mit of an interruption, as I am informed, I think
you would better not plan to come to Carlisle for
our commencement. We should of course be happy to
have you with us, but not at the expense of your
class standing. It will not be many months before
you have finished the course at Bloomsburg, I trust
with credit to yourself and us, and we must let
nothing come between you and the accomplishment of
that long desire.

With very best wishes for your success, and with
the hope that the Alumni may have a letter from you,
I am as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 1, 1904.

Mr. William Dalton,
Metlakahtla, Alaska.

My dear Mr. Dalton :

I appreciate your expressions of confidence that we will do
the best we can for your daughter Kate and son Christopher. They
are good children and our people are much interested in them, as they
are in the entire party brought from Alaska by Mr. Marsden. The
Presbyterian minister, Dr. Norcross, has them all in mind and their
spiritual needs will be looked after carefully. The girls and young-
er boys attend Sunday-school on the grounds, which is conducted by
our own teachers, but the older boys go to Sunday-school in town.
All have the privilege of attending church in town. In the after-
noon and evening we have services for all in the chapel or the assem-
bly rooms.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 3, 1904.

Miss Lelia E. Patridge,
4424 Larchwood Ave.,
Phila., pa.

Dear Miss Patridge :

I have a letter from Dr. Merrill E. Gates, Secy. of the Board of Indian Commissioners, Washington, D. C., commending you highly and wanting to know if we cannot use you here.

Our limitations for anything like regular help are such that it is impossible for me at Government expense to get anybody I want for anything. The United States Civil Service Commission hunts all my help of every sort. I have no voice in the matter except I get someone already in the service who wants a transfer. I believe with Dr. Gates you could be valuable to us, and in a temporary way I could probably handle the matter with my charity resources if not too expensive.

Our commencement occurs on the 16th, 17th and 18th of this month. We are of course extremely busy in preparation, and it is not a profitable time to be taking into the school just the kind of help you can bring; but I should not wonder if it would be interesting to you and perhaps helpful to us to have you come and be with us a few days about commencement. You would then get the scope of our work, and later in April or May when our teachers have got their new pupils in hand you could come for a period and aid them. Our school continues right along, but promotions which are made at Commencement start us off on a new school year.

With this before you, if you will indicate to me about the cost,

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I shall be ready to decide.

We have a half rate on either the Pennsylvania or the Reading
Railroad, and if you desire I can send you one of our tickets. The
cost will be $3.70 for the round trip.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 3, 1904.

Moses Johnson,

R. F. D., Syracuse, New York.

My dear Sir :

Referring to your message concerning Fred Waterman and my reply,
I greatly regret that there should seem to be need of his presence
at home at this time. He is doing well in every way and needs the
time at his studies. In addition to this, our rule is not to send
pupils home because of sickness, even of death in the home family,
and the Department orders that visits shall not be made during the
school term. Were we to consider family troubles causes sufficient
to allow the withdrawal of students from school, we would not be
able to bring to capability five percent of those who enter Car-
lisle for that purpose. What we are trying to do is to give Indians
the training with hands and minds that will make them independent,
useful men and women, and you can see that we must adhere strongly to
our purpose to accomplish anything.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 4, 1904.

Mr. Julius Herne,
Hogansburg, New York.

Dear Sir :

Mr. Kingsbury urges me to let your son Louis come home to help you. It is impracticable for us to do that. Students come here for a fixed period. Your boy has been here only a few months. Condition were the same with you when you allowed him to come as they are now, so that the need now cannot be greater than then. Beside, he is a small boy and would be practically of no use to you. He needs the opportunities he has here and you should urge him and encourage him to remain in school and do the best he can. His education costs you nothing and should be the more appreciated because of that.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 4, 1904.

Mrs. Emma Cummings,
Riverview, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Cummings :

I have yours of Jan. 26th about your children, but do not feel
that I ought to accept them without a physician's certificate. The
school is very full and it will be just as well for them to delay un-
til the weather moderates sufficiently for you to get them to a phy-
sician to be examined. We want always to be perfectly sure as to
the health of the students who enter Carlisle and to know who is re-
sponsible in case those come who are not equal in health, charac-
ter or mental ability to our requirements. You have application
blanks and when these are filled out and returned, a conclusion will
be based upon the information there given.

Your letter to Willie is then has been handed to him.

Yours truly,

If your children seem proper in age, blood, etc. and are accept-
ed, transportation to Carlisle will be placed at your nearest rail-
road station at our expense. If placed on the proper train with a
letter to conductors, there would be no trouble in their coming
through all right together without escort. We bring in and send home
many pupils in this way, and the railroad people are very attentive
to them and route, so that we have never had any accidents.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 4, 1904.

E. A. Season,
North Madison,
Lake Co., Ohio.

Dear Miss Season :

I have pleasure in mailing you today for the purpose you speak of, a number of small pieces of sloyd work from our children's classes. We do not have a kindergarten, our pupils being too old for that. The sloyd pupils make their own drawings and work up the wood from their own measurements.

Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 4, 1904.

Mrs. M. Landers,
Akron, New York.

Dear Friend :

The fare from Buffalo and return to Buffalo will be just about $10.00. I will send you tickets in good time, one for yourself and one for Mr. Doctor, and you can pay for them here. Leaving Buffalo in the evening, you will be here the next morning in time for breakfast.

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Feb. 4, 1904.

Mrs. Tunis S. Hamlin,
1306 Conn. Ave., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mrs. Hamlin :

Your husband's note of the 26th of January
states that you hope to be present at our commence-
ment. We shall be pleased to have you come as a
guest of the school. The party from Washington
will leave there at 7:50 Wednesday morning, arriv-
ing at Carlisle about 12:30, and returning leave
Carlisle at 5:48 Thursday afternoon, reaching Wash-
ington about 10:55. Unfortunately, my charity re-
sources this year will not permit me to extend free
transportation, but we have a half rate which will
make the round trip about $4.00.

Sincerely yours,

TELEGRAM.

Feb. 4.

Corbett Lawyer,
North Lapwai, Idaho.

Your message. Agent North Lapwai will deliver your tickets.

W. U. - 6:00 p.m.

Pratt, Col. & Supt.

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Carlisle, pa., Feb. 4, 1904.

Mr. John A. Tuck,
550 E. 55th St.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Sir :

Palagia Tutiakoff becomes a senior at our commencement on the
17th of this month and will have one more year to remain with us.
It is not best to disturb her in her school life so long as she is
going ahead and getting years and discretion. She is with Mrs. Pratt
at our house, and they get on well together. From something that
has happened lately I think Polly is engaged to one of our graduates
who claims to be doing pretty well up in Canada. If their marriage
is brought about I would consider it the best solution of her case.
Should there be a break in that I would be glad to cooperate with
you in carrying out your purpose.

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Carlisle, Pa., feb. 5, 1904.

Rev. Edward Marsden,
Ketchikan, Alaska.

My dear Mr. Marsden :

Dr. Diven has probably written you about Elizabeth John who was some time ago very sick with pneumonia. He did not expect her to recover on account of heart trouble and other complications. But she has been mending right along. Her lungs are healing and I anticipate she will get into far better condition. The doctor himself reports quite differently from his former expectation. Elizabeth is up and about, but is still under the observation and care of the hospital people.

Feb. 5, 1904.

Miss Eleanor T. Chester,
1016 Eleventh St. N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Chester :

We shall be glad to have you present at our commencement and it will be all right to bring Mrs. Bond with you. I am sorry my resources will not allow me to include her for free transportation, but we can send her one of our special tickets which will bring her from Washington and return her there at an expense of about $4.00. This can be paid here on arrival.

Her transportation I understand is to be sent to you. Of course both of you will have entertainment here.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 5, 1904.

Mr. Charles Burton,
Metlakahtla, Alaska.

My dear Friend :

Your daughter Margaret has not been sick nor in the hospital for treatment since she came. Henry also is well and has not been in the hospital. Sydney Burton was left at Billings, Montana, by Mr. Marsden because he had pneumonia. He was placed in a hospital there and I sent my nurse out immediately to care for him and bring him in. She found him almost recovered and in a few days started for Carlisle with him. He has not been sick since arrival.

Elizabeth John had pneumonia some weeks ago and we were quite uneasy about her; but contrary to the doctor's expectation she recovered, is now up and about, and we trust will be entirely well before long. Her case was especially serious because of heart trouble and other complications.

All the other Alaskan children seem to be in good health and I can report them among the most satisfactory students we have.

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Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 4, 1904.

Mrs. Annie Hill,
C/o H. D. Patterson,
R. F. D. # 19,
Lewiston, New York.

Dear Mrs. Hill :

We cannot accept as students here children about whom we do not have full information. We must know that they are bona fide residents of the United States. I send you consent and application blanks which should be carefully filled out and returned to me. In addition, I must have a certificate from some responsible citizen that the boys belong in the United States. As one is only 9 years old we cannot take him. Twelve is our limit. When I know from the physician that they are in good health and have assurance of their proper character I can reach a conclusion. If it is proper to receive them, I will place transportation at Buffalo for them and notify you.

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