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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1900.

Miss E. L. Patterson,
Supt., Fort Apache Boarding School,
White River, Ariz.

Dear Miss Patterson :-

We have been making almost every kind of rig wanted at agency or school; have made quite a lot of buckboards, some two seat-ed surreys, single seat carriages, specially strong mountain spring wagons with brakes, etc. I enclose you a few prints, which will show you what we are doing.

All join in kindest remembrance.

P. S. - Please return the blue prints.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 19, 1900.

Thomas Smith,
J. E. Berthold Agency,
Elbowoods, N. Dak.

Dear Thomas :-

The enclosed from my school physician informs that your son Jefferson is quite sick and that the difficulty is with his lungs. I believe he is in better hands here for treatment and recovery than he could possibly be with you, as we have a good hospital and an excellent nurse. With this expression of my judgment about it, I am willing to do what you desire.

Sincerely your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 20, 1900.

Randolph G. Hill,
Wycombe, Pa.

Dear Randolph :-

I have your letter of the 17th, asking to enlist in the
Navy. This plan of yours is all right if you first fulfil your pres-
ent obligation. You went to the country in the fall and agreed to
stay through the winter, and until arrangements are made either for
your transfer or return to the school. From what I hear, you have
been doing well, but the situation demands that you continue to do
well. Don't become discontented and break your contract. That would
indicate a want of honor on your part, which would not lead me to
help you. A man who deserts one post of duty is likely to do the
same at another post when something a little more attractive tempts
him or when difficulties present themselves. That is not the kind of
men needed in the army or navy.

I shall expect you to remain where you are and carry out your
agreement, and at the proper time the other matter can be looked after.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 20, 1900.

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

My dear Mr. Jones :-

If you can spare the time I think you would better read
Charles Dagenett's letter herewith. It is a better expose of his
case than I could make. I wrote him as I wrote you I would
that something had occurred that was not satisfactory, just what I
did not know, and that as the matter was entirely in your hands I
did not feel under the circumstances that it was proper for me to
urge his case. You see his reply.

In regard to the band instrument matter; I think it just as well
not to ask Congress to do anything about it. The football fund this
year has given us another $5000 and still has money enough left to
cover the preliminary expenses for next year. We are also putting
up a frame building 100 x 60 feet, ceiled up inside, with windows
high and protected by screens, in which the boys can practice and
which will be a play house for the small boys during the intensely
cold weather. This building is at the end of the football field next,
the hospital, and paid for by the athletic fund.

I still have a debt of $1,400 and a little better, but the farm
will be certain to sell and I shall have a good balance from that,
as this is the only obligation resting upon me. While I should of
course be glad to be entirely freed from debt and have a surplus in
my charity account, I feel such contempt for the petty action in

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this matter that I would rather manage to get out of it myself.

It seems to me best to crowd my views and take the consequences.
The public ought to know how absolutely closed up all the reserva-
tions are and what hindrances are put upon the young of the Indian
race, who would if they could, make an attempt to escape from their
condition. I wish to say to you again that my staying here or leav-
ing here is a matter that does not concern me, and I shall be guided
by that feeling in the future as I have been in the past. I have not
pushed views for a long time because the Interior Department seemed
to be against my doing so. My own feeling is that we shall get at
the truth of things by discussion and that the misrepresentations
Carlisle has been compelled to submit to call for more activity and
strenuousness on my part.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 21, 1900.

Miss Lulu Candace Lewis,
Hartland, Iowa.

Dear Madam :-

A full yearly report of this school for 1900 has not been printed, but I send you herewith a synopsis which was printed in one of the town papers.

Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 22, 1900.

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Calvin Asbury, Supt.
Indian School,
Western Shoshone Agency,
Owyhee, Nev.

My dear Sir :-

I am very sorry to tell you that Della Aitken who arrived recently from your agency went into the hospital very soon after she came with what seemed to be a possible pneumonia, but as it has developed it was a brain trouble. She is now in a semicomatose state and it seems very doubtful whether we shall be able to rouse her out of it. My doctor has written to her guardian. It appears she has no parents.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1900.

Mr. C. W. Goodman,
Supt. Indian School,
Chilocco, Okla.

Dear Sir:-

Isaac Fielder who I understand has been a pupil with you,
who is especially strong and large and much of an athlete, applies to
enter Carlisle. He writes from Tecumseh asking me to provide him trans-
portation at Chilocco. I have written for further declaration of his
purposes and intentions, and while waiting for his reply would be glad
to have from you your judgment as to whether I had better receive him
as a pupil. We are losing a number of the largest and best players in
our foot-ball team this year on account of graduation, and from what
I am told about Fielder, he would be especially acceptable to us to
replace one of these, but I do not of course have any desire to under-
take a person who simply wants to make a convenience of Carlisle and
who is not earnest enough in the matter of improving himself to con-
form to rules and stick. Your prompt reply will greatly oblige.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1900.

H. Isaac Fielder,
Chillicothe, Okla.

Dear Sir:-

I ought to know more about you and of your intentions in
coming here. It is not advisable to take students except they are in
earnest and are willing to give themselves up entirely to the rules
and regulations of the school and have the grit to stick to it until
they have completed the course. I understand from William Bain that
you are about 23, that you are large and strong, and William says you
would be quite an addition to our football team. That of course is
desirable but only desirable within the limitations I have given above.
If you are dead in earnest about it and mean business and I can count
on your sticking, I would be glad to open Carlisle for all that you
can get out of it; and will secure from the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs the necessary authority to accept of you here, which would
have to be granted on account of your being over eighteen.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1900.

Mr. Alexander Upshaw,
Genoa, Nee.

Dear Sir:-

I am obliged to you for the final settlement of your account
here. Your delay and the difficulty I have had in settling with you
as with others, has worked out a new resolution in my mind in regard
to such matters. I shall be very careful in the future not to allow
Indians to get in debt with me unless I am willing to give them the
amount, and I am led to believe that in trying to help you to the
extent I did, I made a mistake. It would have been better if I had
only opened the way for you to help yourself. However it is all over
and settled now.

Miss Reel is here and I am sorry to understand from her that
you are not giving satisfaction as industrial teacher at Genoa. If the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs had written to me and asked me about your
qualities for the position of industrial teacher, I would have had
to tell him I was afraid if you did not have some one to spur you on,
you would not do very well. He chose to appoint you because you were a
Carlisle graduate and without consulting me. Now they are beginn-
ing to realize that they made a mistake. From what Miss Reel says to me
about the condition of the cattle and other interests under your keep-
ing at Genoa, if I were your Superintendent I would not stand it a min-
ute; you would either attend to your duties well or quit, Carlisle grad-
uate or not. Nothing so disappoints me as to find that with the oppor-
tunities you had at Carlisle and the promise you gave, that you should

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be as careless as it appears you have become. Nothing that you could
say would in any way excuse you. You are there to do your work and
you should do your work every bit of it from start to finish, and that
should be the first thing with you and everything else secondary. You
know this as well as I do, and it is not necessary for me to write this
to the evidence coming to me at this time seems to urge that I say
something that may possibly save you from disgraceful discharge.

Your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 26, 1900.

Miss Mary Williams,
1138 Duane Ave.,
Schenectady, N. Y.

Dear Mary :-

I have arranged that tickets to Carlisle be delivered to
you for the two little girls. Take them to the station agent at the
depot of the New York Central & Hudson River R.R., sign for the tick-
ets, and telegraph me when they start. They can come through without
any trouble. You can see that they are provided with a lunch.

P.S. Give the children a note to conductors and railroad officials,
and they will be well looked after en route.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 27, 1900.

Captain, O. C. Applegate,
C/o Indian Office,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Captain :--

Not only myself but Mrs. Pratt and Richanda will be greatly disappointed should you fail to visit us during your stay east. New Year's Day will be a holiday and there will not be so much business on Monday. Why can't you come up Saturday and remain with us over New Year's? Our school will be in session both Monday and Tuesday, and if you could leave Washington so as to get here on the 4:30 train Saturday afternoon you would be here in time for a most interesting entertainment which will take place at the school. A Japanese prestidigitor is to give us a performance which will not only be novel but wonderful in its character.

You will get this tomorrow morning, Friday, and if you will wire me on receipt of it, I will send you two tickets to Carlisle by special delivery, one for yourself and one for Jesse, whom I hope you will bring with you. Miss Reel is here now and that may be an additional inducement. When you telegraph, tell where you are stopping, so that I can mail you the tickets there.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 27, 1900.

George G. Cleveland,
Troop "E", 5th U.S. Cavalry,
Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont.

Dear George :-

Glad to hear from you again, and have given directions that the paper be sent you at your new address with back numbers. You will see what we have been doing since you heard from us last. Sometimes when you have your photo taken in your soldier's uniform, we should like to have one. I intend to have a little photograph gallery of our former students; at least I will have a corner in my office to display them.

We have just passed a very pleasant Xmas, but without snow or as much ice as we could enjoy. The meadow between us and Judge Henderson's was flooded and froze well, so that for a few days every youngster in the school had a chance to skate, but several days of warm weather turned the skating pond into a field of water. We expect it to be hard and smooth again this evening.

With best wishes for a happy new year, I am as ever

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 27, 1900.

Messrs. Reeves, Parvin & Co.,
20 S. Front St.,
Phila., Pa.

Gentlemen :-

Replying to your letter of Dec. 26th making inquiry in re-
gard to Mr. R. R. Todd who applies to you for a position and refers
to me, I have to advise you that while in business in Carlisle Mr.
Todd showed himself to be what we out west celled"a rustler". I
think I am safe in saying that he got more than half the open market
and contract business of this school and his service to us was gener-
ally satisfactory. Sometimes, as will happen in the best regulated
business matters, there was a difference against him in the quality
of goods bid on and delivered, but he always made it right and had a
satisfactory explanation. I know of nothing reflecting upon his hon-
or or honesty. He was always diplomatic and exceptionally capable
in handling business matters, so far as my intercourse with him went.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 27, 1900.

Sir :-

Miss Cornelius, sister of Chester Cornelius, has just been here visiting, and in the course of conversation I find that her brother is probably in Washington now, and expects to have his record cleared. I only write to say that I trust you will on no account allow your kindness of heart to prevail over justice. This young man has swindled others long enough and ought to be in the penitentiary. I am informed by Mr. Standing who has just returned from the Cheyenne Agency that he has borrowed money from the bank there on false pretences; he still owes Mrs. Given over one hundred dollars which he borrowed on false pretences to get himself through business college. He stills owes for the suit of clothes he got in Carlisle, obtained by forging my name to an order for it; and there are others here and in Poughkeepsie whom he still owes.

It is time the young man is handled without gloves.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 27, 1900.

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

Dear Mrs. Etnier :-

I cannot stop now to tell you all about the Robb case. Admitting all you say in their behalf, Mr. and Mrs. Robb, and particularly Mr. Robb did their very best to involve us in a neighborhood quarrel. The circumstances of it were so plain and the disposition to use us so unquestionable that I was compelled in self defence to withdraw our relations. With a full knowledge of their disposition but upon your repeated reports of the quality of the place, aided by a visit from them to the school at which time they pleaded their own cause, I let Susie Moon go back with them. There was very indiscreet conduct on the part of Mr. Robb towards Susie in taking her entirely by herself to entertainments, ball games, etc. I found them together at a football game in Philadelphia, and there was conduct on Susie's part towards others on the streets in Merchantville as made it impossible for me to tolerate the situation longer. I therefore closed out, and think it best to let it remain closed out.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 27, 1900.

My dear Coogidlore :-

Your good Xmas letter makes me very happy because I know
you are happy. What a nice home you have ! Kolilook was going to
go to Miss Edge's some weeks ago, but has been in the hospital. She
is much better now, and perhaps she and Esanetach may come later.

We had a very pleasant Xmas here, that is, the girls and boys
did. Mrs. Pratt and Richenda and I went over to Steelton to take din-
ner with our little grandchildren.

The girls and boys are somewhat disappointed that the ice is not
better. We had almost our first snow this morning, and that has dis-
appeared.

Give my regards to your good father and mother, and to your lit-
tle country sister.

With love to you and best wishes, I am as ever

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

Coogidlore,
C/o Mrs. Jacob Edge,
Downingtown, Pa.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 28, 1900.

Mrs. P. Masten,
Wellsboro,
Humboldt Co., Cal.

My dear Mrs. Masten :-

Replying to your letter of the 18th of December in regard to your son David, I do not see that you have any cause for dissatisfaction. David while in the country goes to school regularly, attending 100 full days during the winter and spring. If he were here he could go to school only half the day. So the time actually spent in the schoolroom is the same at either place. David lives in a good family, has the advantage of going to school with white boys instead of with Indians, and is benefitted accordingly. The effort he must make to keep up with the bright minds of his associates does much more for him than two or three times the same period of schooling in an Indian school could possibly do. His reports have always been good.

When David's five years have expired, which will be in the summer of 1903, he will have the chance to go home if he desires. The time spent in the country is not added to the five years, but is a part of it. As in the three years he has passed from the fifth to the eighth grade, he is making good progress.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 28, 1900.

To the Editor of "The Volunteer",
Carlisle, Pa.

Dear Sir :o

You ask me to write something for your initial issue of a
daily, outlining the prospect for the Carlisle school and the Indian
at the beginning of the new century.

I am sorry to say I do not feel specially confident of the In-
dian's future. It has become the indurated policy of the government
always to do these things to the Indian and for the Indian that
strongen him in the tribal relation and believe him of labor.
The holding him to his tribal relation keeps him from any general
association with the other citizens of the republic. His knowledge
and experience therefore are so limited that no ambition to become
individual and an independent citizen can possibly grow within him.
The pernicious system of giving him rations in his tribal condition
and issuing clothing, distributing money, land to lease, etc., has
borne its natural fruit of idleness; hence worthlessness, disease,
and death. These acts of the government, although intended benevo-
lence, have been the worst crimes committed against the Indian. The
present Commissioner of Indian Affairs declared recently in a public
address that he had no hesitancy in saying that the Indian and our
country would now be better off had the Indian tribe never been reo-
organized, had there been no treaties made with the tribes, and had
there never been an Indian Bureau. The tribe, the treaty conditions,

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and the Burei therefore are the dauges, and until they can be do.
away with there will continue to be little chance for the individual
Indian.

I believe now more than ever and have believed for twenty-five
years that it is perfectly practicable to quickly and economically
equip the average Indian with all that is necessary to make him a
useful citizen. This includes the language of the country, capacity
and industry to compete, and the courage to enable him to strike out
for himself. These things are not to be acquired but Indian reserved
tions or in Indian schools, though Indian schools properly situated
and managed with the intention to accomplish these things may be a
most important help towards passing him on to the completed position.
Indian schools on Indian reservations are only invitation and helps
to the Indian to remain in his tribal capacity and unlimited experience
shows that no courage to enter our civilized life and compete
for its good things is to be acquired in such schools. Indian schools
located in our industrial centres and required to send a large pro-
portion of their students out into the public schools and into our
industrial life, if generally adopted, would be the beginning of the
end. The young of the Indian race, like the young of all other races,
that go to make up our heterogeneous population, still successfully
acquire the beginning qualities to make them individual citizens in
the public schools through associating and measuring their work and
brought with our own children, and this will start them on the right
way and on the highway to competent citizenship; and as Indian schools
can possibly do this for them, Associating with the language of the
country will give the language without any special schools for this
purpose. So, too, associating with our industrial and moral energies

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will give industry and moral force without any special subjects for
that purpose, and this only is Indian education.

My formula for solving this problem has for many years been, "To
divide the Indian get him into civilization; To keep him so, let
him stay." The Indian tribe, the Indian Bureau, the Indian Agency
constitute the problem, and none of them favor the plan. If it can
resolved to close out the influence of these hindrances and to give
the Carlisle school a full chance to do what it can in the way of
training them for and sending young Indians out into our national life,
the Carlisle school has a hopeful but limited future in prospect.
If it be settled to keep on working along the same lines we
are now pursuing and to insist upon purely Indian, tribal, and reservation schools as paramount, thus to continue holding the Indians together separate from our other peoples, the Carlisle school will necessarily be dragged down in the failure of all the rest. All Indian schools should be tentative, and should all be limited to the one end of fitting the young Indian to enter the general school system and life of the country. This duty performed, Indian schools as such should disappear, else they become pernicious hindrances and race-hatred builders.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 31, 1900.

Dear Sir :-

I am sorry to say I do not feel especially confident of the Indian
Dian's future. The indurated policy is always doing those things to
the Indian and for the Indian that strengthen him in his tribal rela-
tion and relieve him of labor, sending everything to him in his tribe
and reservation, food, clothing, money, religion, education, and thus
hindering him from the invaluable experience of going away from the
tribe after anything. Holding him to his tribe keeps him from any gen-
eral association with the citizens of the republic. His knowledge
and experience therefore are so limited that no ambition to become of
the people and an independent citizen can possibly grow within him.
The pernicious system of giving him rations for a long series of
years and issuing clothing, distributing money, land to lease, etc.
has borne the natural fruit of idleness; hence worthlessness, disease
and death. These, although intended benevolence, have been the
worst crime committed against the Indian. The present Commissioner
of Indian Affairs declared recently in a public address that the In-
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never been recognized, had there been no treaties made with them, and
had there never been an Indian Bureau. The tribe, the treaty conditions,
tions, and the Bureau control are the hindrances, and until they can
be done away with there will continue to be little chance for the individual
Indian.

Through a multitude of experiences I believe now more than ever
and have believed for twenty-five years that it is perfectly practicable
to quickly and economically equip the average Indian with all
that is necessary to make him a useful citizen. This includes the
language of the country, capacity and industry to compete, and the
courage to enable him to strike out for himself. Being separated
from all pressure of necessity for them, these things are not needed
usefully
acquired on Indian reservations nor in purely Indian schools, though
Indian schools properly situated and managed with the intention to
accomplish them may be most important help towards passing him on to
completing influences. Indian schools on Indian reservations are on-
ly invitations and helps to the Indian to remain in his tribal capacity
and unlimited experience shows that no courage to enter our civilized
life and compete for its good things is acquired in such
schools. Indian schools located in our industrial centres and required
to send their students out into the public schools and into
our industrial life, if generally adopted, would be good beginning.
The young of the Indian race, like the young of all other races that
make up our heterogeneous population, will successfully acquire the
primary qualities to make them individual citizens in the public
schools through associating and measuring their brain and brawn with
our own children, and these will start them right, on the highway to

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competent, competing citizenship. No purely Indian school can possibly do this for them. Associating with the language of the country will best give the language and save the expense of special schools for that purpose; and associating with our industrial and moral forces will best give moral and industrial force and save the expense of theoretical special schools for these purposes. These qualities thus acquired bring true Indian emancipation.

My formula for solving this problem has for many years been, "To civilize the Indian get him into civilization; To keep him so, let him stay." The Indian tribe, the Indian Bureau, the Indian treaty do not favor the plan. If it be resolved to close out the influence of these hindrances and to give the young Indians full chance out into our national life, the Carlisle school has a hopeful but limited future of continued usefulness. If it be settled to continue building up purely Indian, tribal, and reservation schools as paramount, and thus capture and utilize the supreme influence of schools to continue holding the Indians in tribal masses separate from our other peoples, the Carlisle school will necessarily be dragged down in the failure of all the rest. All Indian schools should be tentative, should be limited to the one duty of fitting young Indians and sending them out into the general life of the country. This duty performed, special schools for Indians should disappear, else they become pernicious hindrances because class and race-separation, hence hatred and builders.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 31, 1900.

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

My dear Sir :-

Referring to your letter of Dec. 6th and my reply of the
8th, it is important that I should know at once what you propose to
do, because if we are to undertake the service I intend to get a spec
ial leader on from a distance, and to bring to the school some of the
previous band talent. Much vigorous practice will be necessary. Please
let me know at once on receipt of this what your intentions are.

If for any reason you should prefer to accept of the service of
Mr. Dennison Wheelock's band, it will not be a very grievous disap-
pointment to me, for the reason that it will be a matter of consid-
erable labor and responsibility to meet the obligation successfully,
and there is no material profit to us at the price named save to ex-
emplify that the Carlisle school banner in such things still floats
worthily.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 31, 1900.

My dear Sir :-

It is about concluded that our football team will play with
Cornell University on your Exposition grounds if the date and other
arrangements can be settled satisfactorily. The arrangement of games
is in the hands of the football manager and all games have to be ad-
justed with reference to the other games to be played. I think your
management at the Exposition understands fully the position we take.
We have not yet heard what other plans you have for athletics; conse-
quently I cannot say what it is possible for us to do. The baseball
schedule was made up sometime ago. The spring sports, running, jump-
ing, etc. have been limited with us to four neighboring institutions
Dickinson College, Mercersburg Academy, and Bucknell University, and
the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. It is possible we
might participate in some contests of this kind if we knew what your
plans were; and it is still possible for us to play a game of base-
ball if the date could be made to suit. Our team plays with Cornell
University at Ithaca, and if Cornell should be willing to play it at
Buffalo instead, I am sure it would be entirely satisfactory with our
team.

Personally, I am glad you take up athletics in connection with
the Exposition, and feel sure if properly managed it will be not only
a source of very wide interest but also of material income.

-2- Mr. Buchanan.

It is possible of course by mutual consent to cancel some of
our other obligations in order to help the cause along, and if I
could know just what you want, would give as favorable consideration
as possible.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 31, 1900.

Mr. Dennison Wheelock,

W. DePere, Wis.

Dear Denn :-

I had agreed to meet the desires of the Director-General
in the band matter before your delayed reply came, and I do not see
how I can back out of it without fully exposing the situation to Mr.
Buchanan. The condition we are in and the amount of effort required
to enable us to meet the obligation, and the limited receipts after
all expenses are paid, make the job not a very desirable one. The on-
ly real benefit I can see in it is the continued publicity of Car-
lisle. To allow you to swing in as a product of Carlisle and Car-
lisle to be in any way responsible for you or your band is, under all
the circumstances, not to be thought of. I have therefore let the
matter lie expecting it to mull out to its logical conclusions through
the considerations of the people in charge of the Exposition. If your
manager can get them to say they would prefer your more talented
band, and they conclude to contract with you instead of with Car-
lisle I shall have no objections; but the position you take that your bo-
ing a Carlisle graduate would give Carlisle more eolat than if we
undertook the service, is fatuous.

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Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 31 1900.

Thos. C. Copeland, Secy.,
137 E. Fifteenth St.,
New York City.

My dear Sir :-

Our commencement occurs the middle of March, and we are
loaded with an obligation by the Department to make a full exhibit
of our work at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo; and that in
connection with the pressure under which we are just now undergoing it
impracticable for me to take up the added labor of preparing any-
thing for your very worthy exhibition.

Thanking you for the opportunity, I am

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TELEGRAM.

Jan. 1, 1901.

Rev. Louis M. Lawrence,
Iroquois, New York,
via Gowanda.

Bertha can't live many days. Father better come. Can arrange half rate from Buffalo if advised.

Pratt, Major.

W. U. - 8:30 A.M.

TELEGRAM.

Jan. 1, 1901.

Rev. L. M. Lawrence,
Iroquois, New York.
Via Gowanda.

Have asked for ticket to Carlisle to be issued to Mohawk on his application by agent W. M.Y. & Penna. P.R., Buffalo tonight's train.

Pratt, Major.

Postal. 11:30 A.M.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 1, 1901.

American Laundry & Mach'y co.,

206 West Pearl St.,

Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gentlemen:-

On a recent visit to Oklahoma I visited an Indian school where the Superintendent made inquiry in regard to Laundry Machinery suitable to do the work of a school of about 150 pupils and I promised to obtain for him a little information as to the probable cost of what he would need. Viz: One or two small sized washers, about a 20 inch extractor, a small sized steam mangle, a water heater, all with shafting, hangers, pulleys and belts; also engine and boiler to run the same. He already has a dry-room heated with hot air. If you will give me description and probable cost of such an outfit, I will be pleased to forward it to him. Quote each article separately so that he can retain or leave out of his final estimate, as desired. The quotations to be f. o. b. Chicago.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 1, 1901.

Mr. James Pontiac,
Ashton Post Office,
Oseola County, Mich.

Dear Sir:-

Returning home after some weeks absence, I find your application to re-enter Carlisle. I gather from your note that you are married and have two children.

In regard to the work in the bakery, you know how it is
done, by our own students, except that we now have a white baker so
as to give better training to the boys; but as this place is filled
there is no vacancy for you, neither do I know of anything else for
you around here, and can therefore only recommend you to stick to
it in Michigan and do your best.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan 1, 1900.

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

Sir to

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. 104, Headquarters of the Army, A.G.O., August 23rd, and
letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary of the Inter department
dated September 8th, all 1879.

My address for the next month is as above.

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jun. 1, 1991.

Mrs. Mary McHenry Cox,
The Clarinettes,
11th & Pine Sts.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Cox :-

Monroe Coulon left here Monday Afternoon of last week, all
went immediately after I got your letter, and as I supposed he would
go to you at once I gave him a letter addressed to you which he was
to deliver. He came back Thursday and left on my desk an envelope
containing the amount to pay for the ticket, but there was nothing
with it to tell from whom it came, except a little slip giving the
amount due for a ticket to Phila. and return, which I now find he has
out of the letter he was to deliver to you. He now informs me that
he did not want to go to Philadelphia and did not care to see you;
that the money he placed on my desk to pay for the ticket was part
of nine dollars received from hold some time ago; and that while in
Philadelphia, he stayed at the home of Mr. Immler on Woodlawn Avenue.

I wish you would give me all the facts you can in this matter,
so that I may know what further to do about it.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1901.

Charles Dickens,
San Carlos Agency, Ariz.

Dear Charles :

I am glad to hear by your letter of Dec. 28th that you
are getting on well, and wish you a happy new year.

About sending Grace home, I am sorry to disappoint your father
and mother, but under our rules that would be entirely impracticable.
Grace came for five years and is getting on nicely. She is attending
school at Laurel Springs, New Jersey, going to school with white chil
dren and living in a white family. Her reports are very good, she
is in good health, and I find she writes home regularly. You know
what advantages the girls and boys have here, and can explain to
your father and mother why it is so important for Grace to go on with
her schooling.

We have no one here by the name of Dan Secook, but we did have
Dan Philips, who I suppose is the boy you inquire about. He ran away
this fall; the last we heard of him he was well down toward North
Carolina with another boy who was running away from the school. As
this was his second attempt to get away we made no special effort to
bring him back after he got beyond Pennsylvania. He will no doubt
reach home before long.

With kind regards to yourself and other Carlisle boys and girls,
Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2, 1901.

Mr. Max Vogt,
Worthingburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

When I get ready to select a band leader I will give your
application consideration; but my judgment is that I shall not want
any but an Indian. There are a number of capable ones among my grad-
uates, and I have about decided on one of them.

January 2, 1901.

Mrs. J. C. Smith,
Berkeley,
Herford Co., Md.

Dear Mrs. Smith :-

I cannot find any copies of "Our
Red Brothers" to spare. When the book first
came out I ordered two dozen copies and dis-
tributed them among my friends, preserving
only one for my own library.

The publishers are John C. Winston & Co.
Phila., from whom I presume the book can be
had direct.

Sincerely yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1901.

Miss Jean L. Ankrom,
Ponce, Porto Rico.

Dear Miss Ankrom :-

Before answering your letter of December 7th I had hoped to
know the action of the Department on the question of admitting more
Porto Rican children to this school. There have been so many urgen-
cies on this subject that I wrote the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
and suggested that I be allowed to take forty or fifty in all. So far
there has been no conclusion, and from a personal talk with the Com-
missioner by phone I fear it may not materialize. This school was
created and is appropriated for as an Indian school, and Porto Ricans
were accepted in a limited number only as an incident for consider-
ation. If we are to keep on with them it seems necessary to have the
sanction of Congress. Should the matter be favorably decided I will
communicate with Dr. Brumbaugh direct, and he will arrange any trans-
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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1901.

Miss Jenny Ericson,

San Juan, Porto Rico.

Dear Miss Ericson :-

I have the matter of undertaking about thirty more Porto Ricans up before the Department. My expectation is they will not approve of my taking any more, for the reason that the school is appropriated for as an Indian school, and the Porto Ricans are not Indians. Still, I may be disappointed.

With the compliments of the season, I am as ever,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 3, 1901.

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

My dear Sir :-

I have an urgent invitation from the Civic Section of the
Inaugural Ceremonies Parade in Washington for our cadet corps and
band to participate in that parade. We would like very much to do
that, but have no funds to pay transportation. Four years ago we
went down, but many of the boys paid their own expenses and what
they did not pay I found the money for; but I am not now in a posi-
tion to do that, and our boys this year have not the funds to under-
take it. I realize that it is of very considerable value to keep the
school before the public, and have always done so, in the past when
I had charitable contributions using them to defray the expenses. We
have always been favored in these matters by your road and the Penn-
sylvania making us very low rates. Oftentimes you have given us free
transportation. For these very material helps I have been under con-
tinued obligations; so that I feel a hesitancy in asking now, still,
the pressure of necessity is upon me, and if we go at all it will
have to be without expense for transportation. Anything you can do
for us, if you think it proper to move in the matter, I shall esteem
a great favor.

My plan would be to leave here on the 4th of March so as to get
the first train out of Harrisburg in the morning at four. That would
put us into Washington at 7:44, in good time for the parade. Return-

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 4, 1901.

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

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter of Jan. 2nd about your daughter who wishes to come to Carlisle and bring her brother and sister aged nine and eleven years. In reply I must advise you that we cannot accept children under fourteen. The number of small children that came to us from Lincoln Institute in the summer has crowded our accommodations so much as to make it impossible for us to take any more unless they are of proper age. If the older daughter is fourteen or over and in good health I can accept her. Have had no letter from Ida Jacobs.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 4, 1901.

Miss Gloria Marguez,
Ponce, Porto Rico.

Dear Miss Marguez :-

Mrs. Etnier has referred your letter to me and asked me to answer you direct.; but I cannot now give you a favorable answer. Unless I have the consent of the Department I cannot take any considerable number of Porto Rican children, as this is an Indian school and is appropriated for as such by Congress. Should the Department, to whom I have submitted the matter, approve of my accepting any more, I will communicate with Dr. Brumbaugh, Commissioner of Education in Porto Rico, and transfers will be made thru him.

The girls who came up with Mrs. Etnier are getting on nicely and seem quite happy in their work and studies, and have been to me several times about friends of theirs who are anxious to come to Carlisle.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 4, 1900.

Mrs. Mary McHenry Cox,
The Gladstone,
11th & Pine Sts.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Mrs. Cox :--

Monroe was taken to see Mr. Sniffen of the Indian Rights Association, and said he gave an account of the whipping he received at the Home for not getting up early in the morning and told that he was laid up for two weeks afterward because of it.

I told him should have nothing to do with the Immels, Mrs. Wood or the Indian Rights Association; that he would better let all those things that had been settled drop into oblivion. He says he was met at the depot, and the Immels told him you wanted to get hold of him and make him swear he was never whipped at the Home, and that was the reason he did not go to see you. I give you the story as it comes to me.

Enclosed is copy of a letter just received from Miss Immel.

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 4, 1901.

Samuel Karyte,

Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Dear Samuel :-

When your letter came I sent it down to Miss Burgess and it has been down there for some time. I see Miss Burgess has marked "6 mos." on it, which means that the 10¢ you sent pays for a six months' subscription to the "Red Man and Helper". The price was raised to 25¢ this summer, as it was enlarged and combined with the "Red Man". You will see by reading it regularly just what we are doing and how the school has grown since you were one of us. I cannot tell you nearly so well in a short letter. There are still a number of teachers and others here whom you knew, and who are glad to hear from our old students.

I am very glad to hear you are getting on so well. The picture you sent of the blacksmiths' part of a street parade had no name on it and until your letter came back to me I could not acknowledge it. The faces were so small I could not distinguish you. I shall be very glad to have the photo of yourself which I understand by your letter you intend to send me.

We have just passed through a pleasant holiday season, but all are down to work again.

With best wishes for the new year, and kind regards to any of our old students you chance to see, I am

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 4, 1901.

Mr. Fillmore Jackson,
Versailles, New York.

My dear Sir :-

I have your letter of the 27th ult. in regard to a band
instrument for your son, but have been waiting until I saw Rollo
fore I should answer. I had word from his farm home that he had bro-
ken his arm, and so sent him his ticket and arranged for him to come
back to the school, where we can better care for him. He should be
here tomorrow.

It is not practicable for us to send band instruments to the
country for the boys to use. We have need of them at the school, and
if they are injured or lost the government will not replace them.

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Carlisle, pa., Jan. 4, 1900.

Mr. Geo. C. Ball,
Chicago Beach Hotel,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of Dec. 26th in regard to moccasins we do not make them nor any other piece of Indian dress at this school. There are Indian girls here who could make you a pair if the material were obtainable, but the buckskin, rawhide, beads, and sinew with which they are usually sewed are not to be had here. I therefore return the check, and suggest that you write to Mary Wolfe an Indian employe in the school at Crow Agency, Mont., who was formerly a pupil here, tell her just what you want and send a measure of your foot. As the Indian women are not likely to have lasts, it would be better to send a paper pattern the shape of the sole and the exact size.

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