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Dr. King.

proposing to turn this and two other schools into colleges, and a
lot of the smaller schools that were in existence when he took
charge into high schools and academies; he also proposed to estab-
lish high and grammar schools among and near the Indians. It was
a blunder fearfully and unnecessarily expensive, with never succes-
ful results as is and was plainly established by our experiences.

Morgan has no doubt helped you greatly, and it is all right,
and I like your book immensely, as I have said, and have given cop-
ies of it to good strong friends of mine who will read carefully
and make good use of the sentiments it contains.

I am as ever,

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THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

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Jan. 27, 1900.

James H. Smythe,
Rethinsville, N. Car.

Dear Sir :—

Replying to your letter of the 24th inst. I have to say
that I have not at hand printed information regarding rules, reg-
ulations, laws, and conditions governing the admission of students
to Indian schools, but all Indian children between the ages of
6 and 18 except those belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes of
Indian Territory, who are enrolled at some agency, are entitled to
education in some one of the many Indian schools of the country.
To be admitted here, they must be of good character, in good health
and have parental and agent's consent. At present the Carlisle
school is overcrowded.

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Jan. 28, 1900.

Mr. A. J. Boston,
511 Pennsylvania Ave.,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

You have not heard from me for some time for the reason
that we have had no business. There is a girl to come from Los An-
geles or Tempe, Cal. about the middle of February whom I have
intended to bring over your lines, but have already had some correc-
tions made with Mr. Longmore about it. The order for a party from
San Carlos should be cancelled. An Indian inspector visited there
and dissuaded the Indians from sending their children. His course
in this matter was the subject of inquiry by the Department. He
seems to have been a good deal a charlatan in Indian affairs, and we
are one of the sufferers.

We are full now and shall probably not have much railroad bus-
tness until the close of the fiscal year.

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Jan. 28, 1900.

Wajara- Ezra Premont,
Omaha Agency, Neb.

“My dear friend :-

I have your letter of Jan. 23rd, and am sorry to hear
that theOmahas are doing so poorly again. In regard to the re-
turn of your children for a visit, Marguerite's time will be put
next summar, and she can then go home at Government expences if she
so desires; but Francis came a year later, so that his five years
will not expire until the year following. In all cases where pu-
pils leave school before they are entitled to, it is at their own
or their parents' expense. Francis is in the country, and I am
sure that on thinking the matter over carefully you will agree
with me that it is better for him to remain here where he has so
many advantages than to be taken home, where as you say there is
a great deal of drinking and gambling. Both he and Marguerite are
making very good progress.

Sincerely yours,

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Jan. 28, 1900.

Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, Prof.
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md.

My dear Doctor!

You remember that some years ago I arranged for an entertainment in your academy in Baltimore in March following our commencement here, because of the urgency of some of the members of Congress and other officials that we visit Washington and other large cities for the purpose of showing what our young Indians could do musically. As I remember, Dr. Gilman and his family and about twenty others comprised the audience. The conditions were a terrible blizzard which had laid prostrate telegraph wires and interfered with railroad communications, and made it exceedingly impracticable for people to be out of doors. On the suggestion of Government officials I am about to attempt another move in the same direction. Soon after the middle of March I propose to let our band and clubclub make a trip, beginning in Washington and running up the coast to Boston, then via some of the largest cities, on a tour of six or eight weeks.

This will be handed you by our advance agent, Mr. Veldar, and I shall be greatly obliged if you can through your athletic management or some other branch of the University, give us such backing as you feel you can in accordance with our merits. The general idea, together with letters from Dr. Harris, General Egan, Son

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Jan. 29, 1900.

J.A.Moore,

Huntsdale, O.T.

My dear Mr. Moore :-

Your daughter Ellen has written to you and her reports
have been sent you regularly each month, and if you have not re-
ceived them it is because of some difficulty in the mails.

We are very careful to see that every student sends one home
letter each month, and there is a report card that goes with it
giving the health, conduct, progress, etc. when they are at the
school; when they are in the country they write the letter only,
but they must do that and it is sent to this office and we forward
it. Our records show that letters have gone to you regularly soon
after the first of each month. I have stirred the matter up and
there will be more care in the future. If you do not hear from
Ellen promptly and regularly, please inform me. The door is also
wide open for pupils to write as often as they please. There is
nothing at all to prevent their writing every day and we pay the
postage. Ellen is in the country this winter, attending the pub-
lic school at Marysville, Pa. This you know is a part of our Car-
lisle system. Her reports show that she is getting on excellently
and if she does as well as our girls usually do she will make more
progress than if she had remained all winter here.

So far as I can find out there is no truth in the rumor that

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Jan. 29, 1900.

Mr. Hal S. Ray, P.A.M.D.,
111 S. Ninth St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Mr. Ray :-

Our band will make a tour through our eastern section of
country. Whether it will go far enough west to use your road I do
not know. There has been some talk of going to St. Paul, Minneap-
olis, Omaha, etc. which might strike you, but after the route is
arranged, which will not be for five or six weeks, we can tell bet-
ter. Our agent starts out today to negotiate in the different
places. My plan was to have Mr. Wood make a ticket for the party
and I have already talked with him about the rate. He has informed
me that for fifty-five or more he could make a rate of 1 4/5 cents
per mile. When we know just what we can do, I will take the mat-
ter up with you again.

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Jan. 29, 1900.

Miss Katie Grindrod,
2026 Vine St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Katie :-

I have been trying to find out your address. Mr. Allen
needs a nurse at Albuquerque and says he would prefer one of my In-
dian nurses. This is in a region of country where I would like to
see you go for a time at least, because of your own health. The
salary is $50.00 per month. If this letter which I am going to
send to your Phila. address reaches you, I wish you would tele-
graph me whether or not you will take the place. You know Mrs.
Allen was formerly Miss Ida Johnson. I count Mr. Allen one of the
best superintendents in the service.

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Jan. 29, 1900.

Senator H. L. Dawes,
"The Cochrane",
14th & K. Sts.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Senator Dawes :-

I thank you warmly for your kind and very satisfactory
note in favor of the band, and believe your endorsement will not
be discredited by any of the band's performances.

We are having wonderful health at the school. Two boys and three girls are in the hospital, none seriously ill out of the 102 but we have three varioloid cases at a remote corner of the farm. One of our boys ran away, was gone a week, and after being back about a week, came down, and the others followed. On this account Mrs. Pratt and I are alone. Nana and our little grandchild are with Mason at Steelton, and Richenda is at Wilson College.

We are having the grandest winter weather, and all goes well.
With cordial greetings to yourself and Miss Dawes, in which Mrs.

Pratt joins,

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Jan. 30', 900.

Governor Joseph Francis,
Millnockett, Me.

My dear Governor :-

I think the little disturbance between the girls from Maine is all right now. Those little things that come from temporary misunderstandings or discontent must be expected. There certainly has been nothing serious, but investigation shows that Graue was not entirely without fault.

I have never been in Maine; have wanted to go there for years and if it is possible for me to get away sometime during your fishing season I shall avail myself of your invitation and come to see you. I have a canvas boat very much like an Indian's birch bark canoe, fourteen feet long and carries two persons nicely; weighs about a hundred pounds. I also have a good big circular army tent, "Sibley" with wall four feet around, capable of accommodating six or eight persons, with a cook tent, mess chest and all the paraphernalia of a camping outfit. Since I bought it I have been too busy to use it until last summer, when I carried the boat with me to the Pacific Coast. I caught several very large trout, two that weighed over seven pounds each.

When the time approaches for good sport write me what you can offer, and if I can get away I will come and see you.

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Jan. 30, 1900.

Mrs. Carrie E. Johnston,
Sidney,
Delaware Co.,
New York.

Dear Madam 1-

In accordance with your letter of Jan. 26th, I mailed
you yesterday such material as we have on the subjects you mention,
from which I trust you can get some information. The most complete
source from which you could get the data you wish is the Annual
Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a Government publi-
cation which you may be able to get by writing to the Commissioner.
Please return the magazine when you have finished with it.

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TELEGRAMS.

Jan. 30, 1900.

Felipa Amago,
2002 E. 8th St.,
Los Angeles, Cal.

From what railroad station will you be ready to start Feb.

3rd ? Wire Answer.

Pratt, Major.

Postal.2:00 P.M.

Jan. 29, 1900.

7itkalaBa,
62 Rutland Square,
Boston, Mass.

Must decide now. Will give you forty dollars a week and expenses for the six or eight weeks. You will have state room in sleeping car for yourself and accompanist, Wire answer.

R.H.Pratt.

11:30 A.M.

Jan. 29, 1900.

Mrs. Emma Pellows,
2422 Arlington St.,
Phila., Pa.

Come immediately. Bring both trunks and things for your room.

(Major Pratt's personal account.)

Jim.

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Jan. 30, 1900.

Mr. Glenn S. Warner,

Springville, New York.

My dear Mr. Warner :-

Your letter should have been answered some days ago, but the fact is we have been, or at least I have been somewhat in the air about it. Mr. Thompson insists that we ought to have skillful baseball man if at all. He has been in correspondence with a man in Chicago whom he met at Chautauqua, and has some hopes of success. Both he and I think that for football we have in you the ideal man but he seems to think we need a man who is an exceptional player, specially skilled in the game to lead our boys in baseball. The man he hopes to get he says can be had for the season or any part of it for $25.00 per week and he thinks five or six weeks of training would serve, and as it does not make any material difference to the man whether he stays a longer or shorter time, the expense would be so much less. Baseball has always been an outgo with us. There is never any income, and we must cut our wearing of it accordingly.

Mr. Thompson urges also, and it is a fact, that the material correspondence in regard to football is now over. The schedule is pretty well arranged. On the favorable expression of the Department when I was in Washington recently I authorized him to consider a game in California at the close of the season and he has writ-

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January 30, 1900.

Mr. J. Quincy Eaton,
"The Concord",
Washington, D. C.

My dear Quiney :-

I expect to be in Washington tomorrow, Wed-
nesday evening and shall stop at "The Raleigh". My
son Mason starts this evening for some place in Ten-
nessee, and will be in Washington on Thursday.

I think it would be a good plan to meet you Thurs-
day evening. Mason leaves Washington for home at
eight o'clock that evening.

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Jan. 31, 1900.

Mr. J.R.Wood, G.P.A.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Some months ago I brought my grandchild of
eight years from Denver here to place her under treat-
ment of Dr. Fox to correct her eyesight. Sometime
this month I want Mrs. Pratt to take her home. Will
you please oblige me with transportation "Harrisburg
to Chicago and return" good through February?

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Jan. 31, 1900.

The Ladies' Protestant Guild Bureau,
1502 Cherry St.,
Phila., Pa.

Wesdames :-

Mr. Fellows and his wife have been given probationary
employment here to demonstrate their fitness for the place.

There seems to have been some blunder in their understanding
with you. I said nothing to you about giving them board, and if
you will reread my letters you will find it so. All employes ex-
cept those on very small salaries provide their own board. This
was a source of some discontent in our arriving at an agreement.

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Jan. 31, 1900.

Mr. Harwood Hall, Supt.
Indian School.
Perris, Cal.

My dear Hall :

Your very fine picture, or rather the picture of your very fine mandolin club came yesterday and has attracted general attention. I told Miss Burgess to note it in The Helper and say it was the best mandolin club in the Indian service. Thank you for sending it. My club does not get on as well as I think it ought, although we have the most noted instructor in this region. An existing about for a different instructor and hope to find one.

Trust all goes well with you.

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Jan. 31, 1900.

Mr. John Vaukloft,
Pres. Board of Charities,
San Juan, Porto Rico.

Dear Sir :-

I send you today in accordance with your request, a full
set of outing blanks for patrons and pupils, the use of each of
which is evident to the reader ; also blank used by our pupils
when they wish to draw money from the bank here at the school in
which their savings are deposited. We have no other printed regu-
lations, but I send several Annual Reports and other material from
which you may get some idea of the system employed in our school
here. Our course of study has been lately revised and is in the
hands of the printers.

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Jan. 31, 1900.

A. J. Phillips,

Tahlequah, Ind. Ky.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 27th I have to say that
members of the Five Civilized Tribes are not entitled to entrance
at Carlisle, and by a recent order we are not allowed to receive
students from any tribe who are over 18 years of age without spec-
tial authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

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January 31, 1900.

Mr. Manton S. Webb,
397 Knight St.,
Providence, R.I.

My dear Mr. Webb :-

I thank you very cordially for your letter of appreciation. I shall now consider that you are regularly enlisted as one of my lieutenants to push a knowledge of the fact that Indians are quite like the rest of us, and when given a full chance will develop equal ability in every line of industry, not remaining behind in morals and literature.

Sincerely yours,

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Feb. 1, 1900.

Dear Sir :-

Your letter & the 28th to Major Pratt finds him absent for several days, and as you seem to be quite anxious about your daughter, I will explain to you the real state of the case.

It is true that we have among the pupils three cases of varicoid that have been running now for two weeks without others developing. As soon as the doctor was able to be sure of his cases then the pupils were placed half a mile from the school in a little house on the school farm by themselves, and are now almost well. There is no reason for anxiety for your daughter on this ground I think, any more than if she were right at home with you, the separation is so complete.

You know there is a great deal of this disease throughout the country at this time in almost every state. We use every precaution here and every new student is vaccinated, and in case of any sickness at all the doctor is right here with a comfortable hospital and a trained nurse. All the work of the school is going on as usual and none here feels apprehensive of any further trouble.

Major Pratt will see your letter on his return.

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Feb. 3, 1900.

Mr. J. W. Dalcott,
First Dist. Committee,
Lynn, Mass.

Dear Sir :

Your letter of the 2nd inst. to Major Pratt compels while he is absent from home, but will be brought to his attention as immediately on his return. In the meantime I mail you the last Annual Report of the School, together with several other reports, and such material as may be suitable for your purpose. The little book of pictures represents the school several years ago, but additions and improvements have since been made. Please return the magazine, as we have only a very few left and they are in constant demand.

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Feb. 5, 1900.

Supt. F. C. Campbell,
Indian School,
Fort Shaw, Mont.

My dear Campbell :-

Our band is to start out shortly on a tour of the cities of the United States, and I am making a desperate effort to perfect its establishment so that it may commend itself in the highest manner to all the people, and so forward our claims that the Indian is capable of our civilization in all lines. My band leader informs me that you have a young man, Louis Goings, who is especially capable as a baritone player. One of our baritone players is sick and will be unable to go. If you can spare Mr. Goings for the trip I will pay his expenses and he will get an experience and training that will greatly add to his ability to help you. We begin in March, and he can return to you after we finish. Please telegraph me on receipt of this whether you can spare him and if he can come at once and get down to work.

Hope things are going well with you. Have just been in Wash-
and conditions there more and more favorable to our

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Feb. 5, 1900

Miss Fannie Rubinkem,

Newtown, Pa.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter together with the Home Mission liter-
ature you enclosed, but have not yet had time to read it carefully.

The information you give regarding our boys will be entirely
confidential. Knowing the real state of things I may be able to
do something to break up the habit you speak of. We are this year
revising our rules and regulations, and hereafter shall insist on
a closer observance of them by both pupils and patrons. Mr. Dage-
nett has not completed his visits and will be in Newtown again,
when you may have a chance to see him.

Our Commencement this year will not be held until the middle
of March. We used that time last year and found it so much more
satisfactory in a number of ways that we have concluded to adopt it
permanently.

Trusting the matter you speak of may right itself soon, and
thanking you for your interest,

Sincerely yours,

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Mr. J. W. Calcord,
Lynn, Mass.

My dear Sir :-

Am just back from Washington and have yours
of the 2nd, which my clerk informs me she answered
sending you material. I thank you for your contin-
ued interest in Carlisle and trust we have served
you with what you need. If not, let me know and I
will send you more.

We have grown much larger than when you visited
us ten years ago, as you will see by my report. I
can also say we have grown more and more in the pub-
lic confidence, and the confidence of the Indians has
increased in our methods. I might add too that all
over the field those who have contended for home ed-
ucation, tribal education, are weakening; and the
disposition to give the Indian a chance outside of
the reservation is getting so strong that I feel we
may count on very considerable enlargement.

I send you a copy of The Red Man, containing
resolutions that were passed with great unanimity
at the Indian School Convention in Los Angeles last
summer.

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February 5, 1900.

Hon. Jas. S. Sherman,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Sherman :-

Mr. Thompson informs me that he wrote you sometime ago about the game with Hamilton College, and states that you took charge of the affair last year. Is it your wish that Mr. Thompson arrange directly with Hamilton or shall I depend on you to arrange it? The dates open are Oct. 13th, Oct. 20th, and Nov. 24th. October 13th, at the beginning of the season would be preferable for us. Please let me know, as it is a matter of some little moment to conclude our schedule.

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Mr. John Loran,

Hogansburg, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Loran :-

Your son has written a letter to you every month since
August. Pupils' home letters are sent through this office, and
we check them off so that we may know they have written.

Peter is at Trenton, New Jersey at the home of Mr. James B. Drake. He is in good health, goes to school regularly, and good reports of him are sent in.

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Feb. 5, 1900.

Mr. C. D. Gibbs,
Williston, N. Dak.

My dear Sir :-

If you still want to send your boy to Carlisle and will
write me in July or August, I can then receive him. In the mean-
time will you please tell me whether he is full or only part Indian
and if only part, how much ? What agency does he belong to, and
is he regularly entered on the rolls of the agency as a member of
the tribe ?

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Feb. 5, 1900.

Miguel Maxcy,
U.S.Hospital for the Insane,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Miguel :-

I am delighted to get your letter so well written, and
to hear what you have to say about your great improvement. I
trust you may continue to improve and become entirely well. When-
ever the doctor notifies me that you are well enough to return to
Carlisle I shall be glad to make arrangements for you. Your home
folks have been very anxious about you. I hope you will write
them very soon.

All goes well at the school. So far we have had a delightful
winter and the boys and girls have had great fun skating on the
large pond next the school grounds on the west.

Trusting I may hear very soon from the doctor himself that
you are well enough to leave the hospital,

Always faithfully your friend,

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Feb. 5, 1900.

John Kawi,

St. Joseph, Arizona.

Dear John :-

I have your letter of Jan. 23rd, and am very glad to
know you have found employment that pays so well. I trust you are
wise enough to lay aside something every week.

Things are going on as usual here. We are improving all the
time. Since you left our numbers have gone above a thousand, and
all are apparently happy and contented. The health of the school
has been unusually good this fall and winter. We have had six
or eight weeks of good skating. You remember we have a pond west
of the school entirely to ourselves.

Have just returned from Washington and find much to do on my
return. The Helper will give you the news. With kind regards,

Faithfully your friend,

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Feb. 5, 1900.

Miss Rosa Bourassa,
Indian School,
Phoenix, Ariz.

My dear Rosa :-

I find in the Indian Office quite a prejudice against
having Indians for clerical help, arising from the fact that they
have tried a good many and all except Frank LaFleshe have failed
to give satisfaction; not so often from lack of ability, but be-
cause of a lack of stick-to-it-iveness and of character: so that
getting a transfer as you propose will, I fear, be a matter of some
difficulty. You were with me as a teacher, not as clerk or sten-
ographer, and I am therefore not able to give you the hearty en-
dorsement on this line that Mr. McCowan is. Your best plan is on
the line of your suggestion, i.e., that you get an exchange. It
is easy to work an exchange within the Department if the heads de-
sire it; but to get a transfer without a place being open to you
is not so easy.

Washington has its advantages and disadvantages. One of its
disadvantages is that it is a place of unusual temptations. Lu-
zena has had some experiences. She is not solidly established by
any means.

I want you to be here at our Commencement and hope to gather
in quite a number of others who have been with us, either students
or graduates. I would be very glad to have a large number of the
Alumnae, for we are going to have an unusual presence. Very con-

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siderable numbers of members of Congress and officials are coming
up. This is our largest class, numbering 37.

until you have something else
You must not give up your position. That would be bad on ev-
ery account. You are entirely right about taking a smaller salary
out in the world. If you can get another position I should say
that would be your best course, for then you would go on improving,
and you would be demonstrating that the Indian is fitted for a life
in the general affairs of the nation. I was in Washington four
days last week and intended when I left here to speak to the Com-
missioner about your proposed transfer, but it entirely slipped my
mind. The Indian bill was under discussion and there was some
prospect of a Catholic fight, and I had a number of other things
to do, helping several superintendents who were in Washington; so
that altogether my time was quite taken up. If you could become a
good stenographer and typewriter, which is quite possible, with
your very neat penmanship, there would be no trouble in getting a
transfer. It might even happen that I could give you a place here
in that line, and before very long. From here you could work it
better than from where you are. Be assured, my dear Rosa, that my
very earnest desire always is to forward your interests.

Cordially and faithfully your friend,

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Feb. 5, 1900.

Mr. Chas. H. Fischer,
1710 Chestnut St.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Mr. Fischer :-

I have not sent my check for the phonograph, cabinet, and
records for the reason that there has been quite a little dissat-
isfaction with it. I have not been able to make it go as well as
I had anticipated. I return to you a dozen of the records. Most
of them seem to be imperfect or there is some defect in the machine
which does not run them through right. The phonograph itself has
to be wound up entirely at the end of every second record at least,
although it runs for a long time when no record is on. Several
times when I have attempted to give entertainments with it it has
behaved badly. It may be there is someone here who knows more a-
bout running it than I do, and can make it go better. Will be com-
ing down some time before long, and may see you.

I enclose my check for $61.87, which the bill and memoranda
explain. Please receipt.

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Feb. 6, 1900.

Mr. C. E. Landis,
Box #133,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

In March we are going to start the band through the country on a tour of the largest cities to see if we can get the money to go to Paris. If we cannot get the money we shall have to abandon the trip. The outlook is very bright; still we may be disappointed, and it is not worth while to negotiate for transportation until that is settled.

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Feb. 6, 1900.

Mr. Glenn S. Warner,
Springville, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Warner :-

Mr. Thompson and I have again been talking over the mat-
ter of a permanent athletic management and at once. The corres-
pondence is very heavy, and of course it needs some person entire-
ly familiar with that sort of business and who has the tact to meet
all applications properly. Mr. Thompson has himself done that
admirably and at the same time been loaded with the daily care of
his large charge here of the boys, their physical training and the
general details of school service. I have just told him that I
felt it important either to relieve him of his duties as Discipli-
narian of the large boys and give him over entirely to athletics,
or have someone to relieve him of the athletics. We are of one
mind about the situation, and I think you yourself are sufficient-
ly familiar with our affairs to be able to comprehend it all as it
is without further explanation. We both feel that you have the
qualities needed in the general management of our athletics more
than any other man we have ever had with us, and that you would be
more acceptable at the school in every way; for I can say without
any reservation that you and Mrs. Warner are highly esteemed by
everybody here. We are not a great college with tremendous resour-
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this line we have to do entirely from our income from that source.
The salaries for all employes of the school are small, as you per-
haps know. The introduction of a much larger salary will have some
influence. There is always the contingency and responsibility of
a bad season to consider. We think in view of all these conditions
that $2500 a year is as much as we ought to offer, and you to
bear your own board expenses. I have had the quarters you cou-
pied painted and caecomined, and cleaned up generally; have put in
a water closet and fixed up the bathing arrangements in the room
farthest back; have boarded in the back porch and put two windows
in, so it may be used as a store room, and altogether the rooms
make very comfortable quarters for a small family. You would have
electric light and steam heat and could board at the club for $2.50
each per week after becoming club members. To become members all
newcomers are required to pay $3.00 for fourteen weeks. As you
paid $3.00 last fall, I would undertake to see that the club
were willing to let that time apply, making up the difference be-
tween the fourteen weeks, and the time already paid. Of course
when you are off with the team your expenses will be taken care of
as usual. If you will come to us under these conditions, I say
"Come", and shall be glad to know at an early date.

There are some things I think I ought to say in this connec-
tion so that there may be no misunderstanding. I should expect
you to take charge of the team and be with it just as Mr. Thompson
has always done, and entirely relieve him of the responsibility of
of that when it goes off. This would possibly sometimes necessi-
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of visiting friends, etc., but need not I think so materially in-
terfere as to be a serious matter with you. You can easily under-
stand that when the team is traveling or is at some hotel the mas-
ter should be with it to see that nothing wrong occurs. We cannot
permit mistakes or rowdyism. The team must always be subject to
the regulations of the school. If it breaks in these matters we
shall soon be at a great disadvantage, if not driven out of the
field entirely. Our standing with our friends everywhere is of the
greatest possible importance. Skylarking and rowdyism are not to
be thought of. I should expect you to have general supervision
of all baseball, football and track athletics. I would want you
to engineer the development of the field here, and would be glad
to have you at one with us in your being at the school, so as to
be willing in case of emergency that I send you away from the
school to perform other duty, possibly I would need to ask you to
attend to something else temporarily entirely within your resour-
ces if emergency should demand it and it could be done without ma-
terial detriment to your regular duties. Not that I expect by any
means that interference of this kind would be frequent or at any
time burdensome, but I should want to feel that you were willing to
comply with anything of this sort that might be necessary. Some
times I want to investigate something at a distance, or a boy has
gone astray and someone must look after him; or I might want to
send you to an Indian agency in the west or to New York or else-
where. In such cases I should want to feel free to use your ser-
vices if in my judgment you were the person to send.

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Feb. 6, 1900.

Senator H. L. Dawes,
"The Cochrane",
Washington, D. C.

My dear Senator :-

We want to use what we can and say what we can
for your Commission and its work in "The Red Man".
Kindly send to Mrs. Eastman here your reports and
any documents that will help us to now and then par-
agraph you.

If you are in Washington when our Commencement
is on, I shall expect you to come up if I have to
secure the special private car of the President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad for you.

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Dr. Carlos Montezuma,
100 State St.,
Chicago, Ill.
My dear Doctor !—

Feb. 6, 1900.

It has just come to my ears that Antonio Apache is an Ethiopian, that he has curly hair under that long straight hair, and the long straight hair is only a wig. What do you know about it? Please give me any information you can and I will send the imposter, if imposter he is.

Are you coming to our Commencement ? We are going to have a specially good time. Can't you bring Dr. Dudley, your Indian doctor, and any other Chicago Indiana ? Please let me hear from you. The date is 13th - 15th of March.

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Dr. W. W. Stryker,
Prof. Hamilton College,
Utica, N. Y.

My dear Doctor :-

Mr. Sherman suggests that you could come most comfortably "Utica to Canandaigua" and down the Northern Central to Harrisburg. Will this route suit you going and coming, or would you prefer to come by one route and return by another ? Please let me know in time so that I may arrange transportation.

I expect to be at the Lawton funeral in Washington, and hope to see you a moment then. Lawton and I were comrades in the same regiment in the Three Months Service in '61 and campaigned together against Indians from '67 to '74 in Indian Territory and Northwestern Texas.

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My dear Ramona :-

I am very glad to hear from you always, and to know of
the improvements in your section and of your and Asa's welfare.
You had better write to Mrs. Mabel Pratt yourself about Dorothy's
money. There is nothing on our books against Mrs. Pratt in favor
of Dorothy, but settlement was made between them direct, and I am
inclined to think there is nothing due her. With steady employ-
ment she ought to be able to pay her debts. Your letter and money
were sent to Miss Burgess and no doubt you have received several
numbers of The Helper since,

We are well here, busy as ever, and looking forward to Com-
 mencement which will be held in March this year. Our school num-
 bers above a thousand, and many ask admittance that we are com-
 pelled to put off for lack of room. As you now receive The Helper
every week, you will get all the news that.

With kind regards to Viola and your brother, to Asa and all
the Carlisle students, in which all your friends here join,

Mrs Ramona C. Daklugie,

Fort Sill, Okla. Ty.

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George McDaniel's,
Muscogee, Ind. Ty.

Dear George :-

Am glad to know of your success and that you have please-
ant memories of Carlisle. You would not find many of your old
schoolmates here after an absence of eight years. The school chang-
es very much from year to year. This year it is larger than ever
before, numbering 1022. We have added to our buildings and accom-
modations, and are constantly improving. Our graduating class this
year will number 37. When you are in the east again we shall be
glad to have you stop and see us.

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Rev. J.H. Pannebecker,
Trinity Reformed Church,
Columbia, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 6th in regard to bring-
ing your class of boys to visit the school on the 22nd, I have to
say that you are very welcome, but the 22nd being Washington's
birthday, the shops and schoolrooms will be closed, so that it
will hardly be an favorable a time for visitors as some other day,
If, under the circumstances, you wish to come, it will be all right
visitors come and go at pleasure, and are admitted to every department
on every day of the week excepting Sundays and holidays.

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Zitkala-Sa,
62 Rutland Square,
Boston, Mass.

Feb. 7, 1900.

My dear Zitkala Sa:-

On receipt of your letter I had Mrs. Cook write fully to her sister to find out whether she could go with you and what she would want for the trip. Her reply did not come until just now, and is not very satisfactory. It is doubtful whether she can go, and she asks more for it than I was led by Mrs. Cook to think she would; so that I cannot well decide about it immediately. It is desirable you have the person you have confidence in and hope to bring it about. I find that to take a piano along will cost from $15.00 to $20.00 per day and soon knock the instrument to pieces, and to hire one will cost at least $10.00 per day. We propose to play in large halls and in many of them an instrument is provided. Mr. Sousa has arranged that his band accompany his lady violinist and I am told by those who have heard it that it is a great success. Dennison says he can arrange music to accompany you perfectly. Is this not the best thing to do, and so save the $200 which Miss Wells asks? In that case I could send someone from here who already has a salary, possibly Mrs. Cook. You had better come here by the 1st of March and arrange these details and do some practice work with the band.

I want to give you a good start and believe that beginning
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pen to you, and it may open the way for you to go with the band to Paris, which would be of material advantage both to you and the band. The beginning concert will be given in Washington on the 16th of March, the day following our Commencement, in Lafayette Opera House, where a Longfellow Memorial exercise is to be held for the purpose of getting funds to erect a statue to Longfellow in Washington. It will be in the afternoon and it is planned that the President preside and distinguished orators and statesmen give recitations from Longfellow. Everyone present will be invited; none admitted except by card. All the high officials or their families will be there; so the chances are that you nor the band will ever hereafter have the opportunity of appearing before such a distinguished audience. The band and you are to furnish the music. I enclose you their first prospectus.

The managers are anxious to give us all the notoriety that can be had from the occasion in return for our music, and as newspaper men from all over the United States, Washington correspondents from the great dailies will be there, it will advertise us wonderfully, and be a boom in our start that will make a way for us everywhere. They want one or two recitations from Indians. Knowing your powers along this line, and as it will give you additional standing, I said at once that we could give them one or two brief recitations. On looking it over it seems to me that all or part of "The Famine" should in "Hiawatha" would suit you admirably, and I am sure would be one of the most if not the most affective recitation presented. I trust, my dear Gertrude, you will take hold of this with the same ardor you always do of everything that

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seems to offer to help lift. In a day or two I will send you my idea more definitely. I have thought of taking Mr. Simon or having Mr. Wheelock reite a selection from the next chapter after "The Vamine", and have submitted these as our selections to the Washington managers.

While in Washington the band will probably play in the White House for the President and Mrs. McKinley, and we shall of course expect you to offer a violin selection. The time will be so arranged that a day can be given up to sight-seeing and visiting the Capitol and other points of great interest there, which you will thoroughly enjoy. Further details of the expedition will be worked out from time to time; but you will want to start out pretty well provided with changes of apparel, especially underwear, for it will not be convenient to get linen cleansed frequently.

Send Mr. Wheelock your music at once, so that he may work up accompaniments. I wish we had a good Indian lady's voice to take along in addition, but it don't seem able to find one. There should be several in this great school, and I believe there are if they were developed.

Your friend,

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Feb. 8, 1900.

Mrs. Gertrude B. Wilkinson,
1051 W. 30th St.,
Los Angeles, Cal.

My dear Mrs. Wilkinson :-

I have just written to Mr. Stevens and
also to my friend Senator Gallinger, who is Chair-
man of the Committee on Pensions in the Senate, and
before whom I suppose your claim will come, saying
what I could in your behalf. As I am just leaving
home for several days, am using my stenographer.

I am glad to do anything I can. Advise me if
you find that my further interposition will help
you. Things are favorable to Indian matters and I
am sure the sympathies of Congress and the country
are with you. It seems to me the day of generous
actions.

Mrs. Pratt joins me in most cordial remembrance
to you and yours.

Very faithfully yours,

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Feb. 8, 1900.

My dear Sir :-

I send you some large photographs which
may aid you, and which you may keep. We have no
charts. Thanks for your full letter. Am just off
to be at a Scotch-Irish dinner in Philadelphia today
and at General Lawton's funeral tomorrow in Washing-
ton.

I had not known that Carlisle was other than
well treated and well spoken of, but have not seen
all that Congress said.

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Feb. 5, 1900.

Mrs. H. W. Crawford,
2301 W. Park Ave.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Madame :-

Neither the manner nor the spirit of Caleb Sickles' leaving Carlisle was satisfactory to me, nor do I feel that his own good is being served by it. I may be mistaken of course, and am willing to let it rest on that. Caleb was entered as a pupil in Dickinson College. Everything was satisfactory there so far as I knew. He was making good progress and it was a great favor to him that he had the opportunity. There was character building in stick ing to those who had given him help. There was character destroying in his manner of leaving and in his utter defiance of my judgment. Innocently you and Mr. Crawford served as a foundation for the movement. I do not particularly blame you, though under all the circumstances and knowing all the responsibilities I have to carry here and the number of discontents I have to overcome, I think if I had been in your place I should have felt it the proper thing to consult freely with Major Pratt before offering any inducements to a student to quit his school. It is done now, and we will let the outcome speak for itself.

In regard to sending you girls next summer as waitresses, I could not think of it. The fact that you crowded the boys into one room on the ground floor with an outside door, which was not only detrimental to good health, in my judgment, but to good morals

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and the best interests of your service, encouraging night prowling
I had made up my mind not to allow a party to go to you the com-
ing summer. I think you did strive to forward our interests and
the interests of the boys in a way, but that you erred in judgment
and discipline in these matters. The boys were as absolutely un-
der your control there as under mine here. All you had to do was
to enforce the rules or return the disobedients. You did not com-
pletely do either.

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Feb. 8, 1900.

Mr. A. M. Taylor, Pres.,
Phila. & West Chester Trac. Co.,
720 West End Trust Bldg.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Sir i-

Absence has caused delay in answering your request of the 30th in regard to James A. Miller. Mr. Miller was connected with our trolley company here for some time and I saw him frequently and became somewhat acquainted with him and learned to feel that he was a careful and proper man to be engaged in his work. He left the trolley company, as I understand, for a better salary. I do not know him very well, but since receiving your letter have made some inquiries, and am satisfied that he neither drinks nor gambles and is not addicted to practices that would make him objectionable in your service. I therefore take pleasure in recommending him to you as a careful, conscientious, and capable man for motorman or conductor.

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Feb. 8, 1900.

Mr. Noble Haigh,
3877 Manayunk Ave.,
Roxbury, Phila., Pa.

My dear Mr. Haigh :-

I have given consideration to your letter of the 7th in
regard to a boy for the hospital, and find that we have Indian
girls in that vicinity besides girls in hospitals in Philadelphia,
and it does not seem to me to offer the kind of employment or in-
struction that the school is established for. Being a night watch-
man at a hospital does not meet the requirements. In view of these
things and also of the fact that we have found it quite detrimen-
tal to put our boys in cities, I think we had better not undertake
to fill the place you have so kindly sought for us. We should be
glad to hear of any good farm places a little later on, if they are
remote from our girls' district; but unfortunately almost all
round Philadelphia and in the outlying districts we have girls
placed. This at once militates against sending boys there.

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Feb. 8, 1900.

Mr. Russell Ratliff, Supt.,
Omaha Boarding School,
Omaha Agency, Neb.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 3rd inst. in regard to
the return of John Grant, I find from our records that John came
Sept. 7th, '95, and is therefore not entitled to go home until
the summer of 1901, according to the rule in force at this school
which, as you say you understand from previous explanation.
Those entitled to go home leave here usually the first week in
July, sometimes a few days before. At this date I cannot tell
just when John will get home. Please explain the matter full to
his father.

John began in our lowest grade, but is making progress and
seems happy and contented.

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Feb. 8, 1900.

Mrs. Alfred Halftown,
Corydon, Pa.

Dear Friend :-

Your words of gratitude are very encouraging. I have
always done what I thought best for the boys and girls under my
charge, and it was quite a disappointment that Lovett did not re-
main to complete his course. He is, I think quite able to look
out for himself, but a year or two more at school would have added
much to his equipment. I understand your feeling for him and trust
he may come back safe to you. I shall always feel an interest
in his success.

With kind regards to you and your family,

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Feb. 8, 1900.

Mrs. Oriel Armstrong,
Versailles, New York,

Dear Madame :-

I have your letter of the 3rd about your daughter Edith and son Eli Doctor. Edith is well and is getting on very nicely. In regard to Eli's annuity money, it would be better for him to make application for it. When money is sent to pupils here in our care they always have the benefit of it, but it is hardly our business to urge such matters. If Mr. Ferrin's check or money order has been lost in the mails, he may be able to trace it, if notified of its nondeliverance here. I have told Eli to write to him again and bring his letter to me, and I would send it to Mr. Ferrin with a note, calling his attention to Eli's inquiries.

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Feb. 3, 1900.

Major R. H. Pratt,
C/O The Raleigh,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Major :-

I repeated to you in Washington this morning a telegram
from Agent Applegate that he still wants to send a class, ready
about March 1st; also send copy of a telegram just to hand from
Mr. Warner. Telephone message just came from somewhere. Anna did
not find out from where, or how, saying that Mrs. Canfield will be
here this afternoon.

Dr. Diven wired yesterday from Mt. Holly that the girl in the
hospital there was doing well. He is here this morning and I have
just talked over conditions there with him, and find that while
the girl is in good hands, being well cared for, there is no doubt
that she contracted her disease from the unsanitary surroundings
of her country home.

Dr. Irvine came on the grounds yesterday just at noon, and
had a good deal of athletic talk with Mr. Thompson, that evening
to be the main object of his visit.

No mail of any importance has arrived and nothing official.
There are two boys reported missing this morning, both Cherokees,
David Crow and David Baron. If they follow the track of others
from the same place who have gone before, they may possibly turn
up in Washington, although tracers are out after them. Nothing else
new.

Very truly yours,

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Anna P. Blackburn,
Tufts College, New York.

Dear friend ! -

I have not forgotten my promise to send the "Journal of Study" when it was ready, and have been much disappointed at the delay in its completion. I find it will be a pamphlet of some form or other, and is being printed in our own printing office, about half of it being done already; but at no time have they been able to finish it owing to other work which seemed to be more pressing. I have therefore had an abstract made which I think will be ample to serve your purpose and whenever the pamphlet is printed will send you a copy.

We think well of your plan of working along the same lines and appreciate your interest.

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Feb. 12, 1900.

Mr. C. A. Higgins, A.G.P.A.,
77 Jackson St.
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Sir :-

This morning I have yours of the 10th. Mrs. Pratt and my grandchild will leave here on the evening of Wednesday, the 14th. The child is eight years of age and therefore needs transportation. Will you not kindly arrange that Mrs. Pratt may call on your ticket agent in the depot at Chicago for it, as she will reach Chicago after your office hours and will want to go right on in order to hasten back to our Commencement which occurs soon.

I thank you most heartily for this courtesy and also for the continuation of the rate. In this connection will you please have your agent at Las Cruces, N. Mex. deliver two tickets reading "To Carlisle" via your lines and the Pennsylvania to Solon Sombrero and Frank Lester, two Indian boys from Mescalero Agency who will apply to the agent there for this transportation soon. Should there be a little delay in the boys' reporting, please let the order remain until the tickets are called for. The correspondence indicates that they will come soon. Use the rate of $11.03 "Chicago to Carlisle" in settlement.

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Feb. 12, 1900.

Mr. Samuel A. McCoy,
Secy. of Council,
Danville, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of Feb. 10th, the band numbers 60 pieces. You can imagine that the expense of moving an establishment like that is very material. Wiring a dining car and sleeping car, feeding this number and paying railroad expenses costs at the very lowest estimate we can count on, taking one day with another and the long moves, about $300 per day. We cannot go without profit, for we expect this tour to furnish us the means to visit Paris. With these facts before you if you think it is practicable to consider the matter further, write to Howard Pew, 34 E. 14th St. in whose hands the whole management has been placed.

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My dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of Feb. 10th, the band numbers 60 pieces. You can imagine that the expense of moving an establishment like that is very material. Hiring a dining car and sleeping car, feeding this number and paying railroad expenses costs at the very lowest estimate we can count on, taking one day with another and the long moves, about $300 per day. We cannot go without profit, for we expect this tour to furnish us the means to visit Paris.

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Feb. 12, 1906.

Mr. J. Frobson, Supt.,
High School,
Wittenberg, Wis.

William Ballado could have been under engineering training some time ago had he made his wishes known. It is now arranged that he go into that department immediately after commencement when one of the boys who is now there graduates and passes out. After he has been brought forward some in our own shops it is possible I can put him into one of the machine shops in the neighborhood of the school and push him on further. This of course is somewhat dependent upon the adaptation he shows for it.

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Rev. F. H. Wright,
244 San Jacinto St.,
Dallas, Tex.

My dear Mr. Wright :-

I have yours about Anice and the soldier Simmons. While
it is a very touching case and appeals strongly to me especially,
I am sorry to say that my convictions are so against the propri-
ty of it as a precedent that I could not undertake to even inter-
cede. Can't you see that if discontented soldiers serving near
Indians found out that a discharge might possibly be obtained by
that means there would be much use made of the scheme. Aside from
this I feel entirely sure I should be laughed at at the Department
and make no real gains for the young people. Of course I would be
glad to see the union effected and entirely agree with your views
about that being a broad way to bring about a settlement of our In-
dian question. If the time comes and conditions warrant me in aid-
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Miss Emily E. Peake,
Indian School,
Oneida, Wis.

My dear Emily :-

I have asked that a ticket be provided you
by the C.A.N.W. R.R. agent at DePere over their lines
to Chicago and the Pennsylvania to Carlisle. There
will be something left of your order which I will re-
turn to you when you reach Carlisle. You are to
call on the DePere agent for your ticket.

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Mrs. Julia Bent Prentiss,
Darlington, Okla. Ty.

Dear Julia :-

Am very glad to hear from you after all these years and
to know that you are settled and trust that hereafter all will go
well with you. Charles Bent is well and is getting on I think as
well as we can expect. I note what you say about Nina Carlisle
and will write to Major Stouch about it.

I think Lydia Gardner intends to remain east. Hope you will
write and tell her to; also Eva Rogers. There is no reason why
they should not do well somewhere in the east. Give my regards to
Nina and all the Carlisle students, Mrs. Pratt, Nana, and Ri-
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Feb. 12, 1900.

Mr. Julius Moritson,
138 N. 10th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir :—

I send you the only picture we have of William Colombe, the one standing is he. I send you also a copy of "The Indian Helper" of Feb. 9th which contains extracts from two letters from him. William is only half Indian, his father being a white man, an old soldier, and his mother a Sioux from Rosebud Agency, S. Dakota. He was a student here almost five years, the last two of which he had entire charge of our bakery, baking the bread for over 600 students. He was a good quiet and manly boy of average ability.

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February 12, 1900.

Miss Alice C. Fletcher,
214 First St. S.W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Fletcher :-

I want half a dozen copies of your "Indian
Story and Song from North America" for band and
school uses. Someone here says the book is now in
print. If so, I would like to have them at once.
Please ask your publishers wherever they may be to
send them to me with bill.

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Feb. 13, 1900.

Miss Estelle Reel,
Supt. Indian Schools,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Miss Reel :-

I have just received a letter from Dr. Shepard Secy., at Winona, addressed to me as President of the Department of Industrial Education, N. E. A., and have written asking him if it was not an error as it is the first information I have had that I was selected for the place. Am inclined to think he means the Department of Indian Education.

The documents sent indicate that Charleston
has been selected for the next meeting. Now what ?

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Feb.12, 1900.

Major G.V.H. Stouch,
U. S. Ind. Agt.,
Cheyenne & Arapahoe Agency,
Dartington, O. T.

Dear Major I-

Allow me to congratulate you and the service at the Cheyenne Agency and the general Indian Service that you have accepted the position of agent for the Cheyennes. Several letters from former students of Carlisle have come to me lately, all speaking most kindly and trustingly of you, and I feel sure that you and Mrs. Stouch can and will do a great deal for those needy people. If you come east, stop off and see us. I hope sometime this summer to get down your way, possibly with Mrs. Pratt.

Nina Carlisle, the daughter of Tom Carlisle of your agency has been here a great many years. Tom has paid her no attention whatever, and I understand that he draws the little grass money and annuity that should come to her, and makes use of it. My relocation is that there is some regulation which requires that these monies should be saved for students. Calling your attention to the matter is enough, I am sure.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Stouch,

Very sincerely yours,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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Feb. 13, 1900.

Dr. A. V. Richardson,
Supt. Govt. Hospital for the Insane,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir :-

Enclosed please find a ticket "Washington to Carlisle"
for Miguel Maxey, and I shall be very glad if you find it conven-
nient to send him here Thursday. If he leaves Washington at 7:50
A.M. he will get here at 12:25; or he can leave at 10:50 A.M. and be
here at 4:30 P.M.; or leave at 3:30 P.M. and be here at 8:40 P.M.
You had better wire me which train he is on. From what you say I
judge he is able to travel alone if put on the train.

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Feb. 13, 1900.

Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones,
823 N. Second St.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Jones :-

The papers have exhausted our supply of
pictures of William Colombe. We had three. Others
are asking this morning. Really I think too much is
being said about him. The boy has only done his du-
ty. He is only part Indian and to single him out be-
cause he has a little Indian blood and give him so
much attention when there were plenty of others who
did as much and perhaps more than he did, is a course
in such matters not to be commended.

In regard to a picture of the mandolin club, all
I have to say is that our mandolin club does not a-
mount to enough to make it the subject of newspaper
attention. I hope you will accept my judgment and
look upon the matter in that light.

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Feb. 13, 1900.

J. R. Wood, G.P.A.,

Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Mrs. Dorsett, my matron-in-charge of the girls, wishes to make a quick trip to Chicago and return. I would be obliged to you and it would be a great favor to her if you will allow her to use your $11.03 rate and send me a round trip ticket. I enclose my check for $22.06 to cover this business, and request that it may be here for use Thursday morning. Please make it good to return from Chicago any time before the close of February.

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Feb. 13, 1900.

Dr. Jas. M. King,
1026 Arch St.,
Phil. Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

I very much fear it will be impossible for
me to write anything for your "Christianity in Ear-
nest" just at present. I am loaded with responsibil-
ities of Commencement and am also arranging to start
our band of sixty pieces on a long tour; and these
added to the ordinary cares of the school absorb my
energies to such an extent as to take away all redun-
dancy for additional effort; and I feel that it is
better for me just now especially not to push Catho-
lic matters. Later it may be all right. The person-
al request of the Secretary that I say nothing about
them, I think I had better comply with.

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Feb. 13, 1900.

Mr. F. C. Campbell,
Supt. Indian School,
Fort Shaw, Mont.

Dear Sir :-

Your message just received and I have instructed that a
ticket reading "To Carlisle" be placed with the agent of the Great
Northern R.R. at Great Falls be delivered to Louis Goings. My
band leader urges that he be sent on at once so that he may begin
his work with the band.

Should there be any delay in his coming, please advise me.

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Feb. 14, 1900.

Mr. Eugene Stapler,

Edgewood, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Will you please submit to me what you think is right in
your claim, and also have the doctor send me his bill. Let me
know too what you would do in case your employee was white or black

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Feb. 14, 1900.

Mrs. Geo. H. Stewart,
Shippensburg, Pa.

Dear Mrs. Stewart :-

Replying to your letter of the 13th inst.
I send you today my last Annual Report with several
copies of addresses, by which you can get an idea
of our object in educating Indian children here and
the results attained.

Nearly all our graduates take employment in the
service. Many of the others are also employed at
schools and agencies. Ninety-five percent do well.
So far only a very small proportion remain in the
east.

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Feb. 14, 1900.

Mr. James J. Schenandors,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Sir :-

Your sisters came here Sept. 19th, '93 for a period of
five years. Where time is not up yet, and it is therefore not
practicable to send them home now. When they are entitled to re-
turn home, they will have a chance to do so. They are well and
are getting on nicely.

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Feb. 15, 1900.

My dear Belinda :-

I have your letter and at once write to congratulate you, or rather I think I should congratulate Mr. Simeon Hill. I do not know him, but I do know you, and I know that as things go in this world it will take a man of extraordinarily good character to fill the full measure of a husband for such a girl as our Belinda. I have no doubt that your good judgment in this case will in all others in the past within my knowledge has been duly exercised and that Mr. Hill is the good and worthy man he should be for you. One thing about him is that he is settled and you have at once a good home without the uncertainty of making one.

We all sincerely and heartily congratulate you
and wish for you and Mr. Hill every happiness.

Miss Belinda E. Archiquette,
Oneida, Wisconsin.

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Feb. 14, 1900.

Charles Buck,

Browning, Mont.

Dear Charlie :-

By this time I suppose Major Logan is in Washington, and we shall expect to see him here before his return. Am sorry to hear of your quarantine, but it is better to be quarantined against those who are sick than with them. We have been very fortunate all year. Have had very very cases of sickness. Smallpox seems to be all over the country.

Your party of children are doing as well as we can expect, having been here such a short time. Some of them are getting on very nicely in school. They seem contented and happy. You have promised James Wheelock a grand treat. Am sorry you and Spyna cannot be with us at Commencement. We expect a grand time.

With kind regards to Spyna in which all the family join,

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Feb. 15, 1900.

My dear Doctor :-

I have a special rate of $11.03 "Chicago to Carlisle", $22.06 for the round trip, over the Pennsylvania. This is at the rate of a cent and a half per mile. Have already sent tickets to Rosa Bourassa and Emily Peake. As I wrote you before, Commencement comes on the 13th, 14th, and 15th of March. Glad you can come, and hope that Dr. and Mrs. Dudley will be in your party. Let me know in time how many tickets you will need.

Faithfully your friend,

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Feb. 15, 1900.

Miss Clara L. Gilbert,
Buckingham, Bucks Co.,
Pennsylvania.

Dear Miss Gilbert :-

The only way you can get into the Indian Service as teacher is through the Civil Service. You will have to take an examination before the Civil Service Commission and get on what is called the eligible list, and then await your turn. All teachers in the Indian Service are now secured in this way. Write to the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission in Washington, D.C. telling about yourself and that you want to take the examination and he will have blanks and information sent you.

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Feb. 15, 1900.

Rev. A. H. Chaffee,
Pastor First Congregational Church,
Allegheny, Pa.

My dear Sir :—

Replying to your letter of the 14th inst.
proposing a discussion between one of my young Indian
men and a young colored man as to which race has sufered most at the hands of the white man, the red or
the black, I have to say that while we have several
young men who could discuss the question fairly well,
we are in the midst of preparations for our Commencement which occurs on the 13th, 14th, and 15th of March
and everybody is too busy to take up anything new.

Permit me to say that personally I do not feel
that such discussion would bring any good results.
What both races need is to strike out into the good
things of life, and so far as possible forget the
past. Neither do I like the plan of throwing the In-
dian and negro together. The Indian problem and the
Negro problem are entirely different things, and
there should be no coupling of the two.

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Feb. 15, 1900.

Edward Oga,
Co. A., 4th U.S. Infantry,
Camp Columbia,

Havana, Cuba,

Dear Edward :-

I received your letter in January and thought I had answered it. Your second letter brings the matter to my mind again, but I find your letter has been misplaced. The $18.00 has been placed to your credit, and Miss Buckenbach reports to me that she got it on interest at 3%. Your letter may turn up later. I am glad you look ahead and save part of your money. It is a habit you will never regret.

We are very busy, preparing for Commencement. It will be a little later this year than usual, coming March 13th, 14th, and 15th. The band is getting ready to start on a tour of the large cities, the boys and girls are busy out of hours drilling, and everyone is full of work. We are well, and everything is moving along smoothly. Trust you are getting on nicely. With kind regards in which your friends at the school join,

Always faithfully yours,

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Feb. 15, 1900.

Mr. Morris M. Whitaker, Supt. Constr.

Upper Nyack, New York.

Dear Sir :-

Major Pratt has handed me your letter of
Feb. 14th and has asked me to take charge of the mat-
ter of designs for Mr. Flint's yacht.

I have charge of the art work of the school and
have presented the offer to the pupils. They are much
interested and a number of them are at work upon de-
signs which I hope to be able to send you about Mar.
1st.

Thanking you for the opportunity given us, and
hoping we may be able to present some satisfactory
designs, I am

Very truly,

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TELEGRAMS.

Feb. 15, 1900.

Supt. Allen,
Indian School,
Albuquerque, N. Mex.

No word or answer whether you can spare Schenandore. Please wire.

Pratt Major.

Evening.

Mrs. Stevick,
1340 Corona St.,
Denver, Colo.

Your mother and Mary started, Denver Topeka road, Sunday morning.

R.H.Pratt.

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Feb. 19, 1900.

Rev. A. Wells,

Hogansburg, N. Y.

My dear Sir :-

I am very sorry not to be able to yield to the requests of parents of the St. Regis children and allow them to go home during vacation. We accept of Indian children here on the sole understanding that they are to remain five years under our care and take our curriculum as it is arranged. We cannot agree to modify it for anybody, for the minute we began we should have to yield all over the field. The Indians in western New York are the worst of all in this particular, but they have now gotten used to our methods and do not bother so much. If parents are anxious to see their children, I suggest that it will cost no more for them to visit Carlisle than to have their children go home to visit, and I am always glad to have parents visit the school and their children. It may be that some would care to attend our commencement March 13th, 14th, and 15th. Make up a little party and advise me promptly and I will endeavor to arrange a low roundtrip rate.

I enclose you an invitation. There will be present on that occasion very considerable numbers of the Senate and House Committees on Indian Affairs, The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and probably the Secretary of the Interior.

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Feb.19, 1900.

My dear Mr. Campbell :-

I have yours of the 14th about Goings. I can understand the situation and seeing value he is to you, feel that I ought to say that you must do what you think best about it. I had no idea he was so useful to you when I wrote. We shall be glad to have him come here, and I have already arranged for a ticket for him. You will find it awaiting him at Great Falls, but if you think best to keep him, advise immediately and I will cancel the order. If Goings is coming to take our band tour he should be here not later than the 10th of March, as our boys give their first and greatest concert in Washington on the 16th at a meeting where the President is expected to preside and members of Congress and officials of the Government in general with their wives will be present. It is to be a memorial gathering for the purpose of raising $35000. for the erection of a monument to Longfellow in Washington, and will be held in the Lafayette Opera House just in front of the White House. Our band is to furnish the music.

We are in very fair shape and will not disappoint anyone, but every added strength will advantage our whole school cause. You understand this very well, I am sure. We do not want to rob anybody, but we do want to boom the capacity of the Indian.

-2- Mr. F. C. Campbell.

Glad to hear that things go so well with you.

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Feb. 19, 1900.

Hon. Jas. S. Sherman,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Sherman :-

I don't want to give up the hope of getting
the President. Anticipating the blizzard and suffer-
ing from rheumatism I was warned to come home; but I
will come down any time you think best and get togeth-
er a party to go and see the President about coming
here. I believe I could get General Hawley, Senator
Nelson, and Mr. Proctor, who have all been here and
took a deep interest, and possibly Mr. Fairbanks who
represents my state, though he has never been here.
Mr. Landis would go, I am sure, and Mahan and Packer,
and I can think of several others; but I believe Mr.
Sherman has more influence than they all. If you
think it at all possible to secure his coming for
Thursday, the 15th, and that my coming down and organ-
izing this kind of a force will do any good I will
come down any time you say.

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Feb, 19, 1900.

Mr. Edgar C. Snyder, Clerk,
Committee on Indian Affairs, U.S. Senate,
1420 Kennesaw Ave., N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Snyder :-

I send you a list of senators, showing those
to whom I have sent invitations outside of the Indian
Committee. There are several that have always been
friendly to whom I would like to send invitations
anyhow. Understand I do not place this as a limit,
but in times past those I have invited outside of my
Indiana senators have been kind to us,

I should be glad to have Senator Thurston bring
anyone he thinks best. I enclose a number of extra
invitations for that purpose.

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Feb. 19, 1900.

Mr. H. K. Devendorf,
Clark, Committee on Indian Affairs, H.R.
115 Maryland Ave., N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Devendorf :—

I send you a list of the members of the House to whom I have sent invitations direct. I send you an additional quantity of invitations to cover others, as well as newspaper men, We want newspaper men to come and boom our band after they have heard it and are satisfied that it is worthy, so that we may have for it as good a reputation as we can be-fore it starts on its tour of the cities.

Faithfully yours,

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Mr. Herbert Johnson,
"The Times",
Phila., Pa.

My dear Herb :-

I noted the editorial in "The Times" and knew where it came from. It was of the good sledgehammer sort of which you are so often the author. I was glad too to see the extracts from my Report. This sort of help gives additional backbone right along. I want you to come up to our Commencement the 13th, 14th, and 15th of March, and bring Mrs. Johnson. Will send you transportation unless you can get it free through your newspaper standing and save me the expense. You will be a guest on the grounds.

The invitation enclosed gives the information you want. We are promised an unusually large delegation of members of the Senate and House, and other officials. Mr. McKinley does not talk favorably. I do not like to see these matters published in advance for the reason that it frequently annoys the persons who would come.

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Feb. 19, 1900.

Miss Zitkala Sa,
62 Rutland Square,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Gertrude :-

The arrangements for our band tour are settling down to a condition that looks as though you might not be needed quite so soon. People are not to be blamed for being a little incredulous as to the quality of music Indians can furnish, and we must prove this quality before we shall receive the support we need. Without having fully settled it, it looks now as though we would have our concert in Washington at the Longfallow exercises and also a Carlisle concert in the evening in Rifle's Armory on the 16th; then probably a concert in Baltimore the 17th. Beginning Monday the 19th the band would play under a contract for entertainment in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, covering about a month. During this time the manager would be negotiating with people who, having discovered that the band is really worth listening to will come to our terms. You can understand that it is a very material expense to care for sixty people. It will amount to about $300 per day, and we must make such sure arrangements as will cover that before we go into it. Without just now definitely settling the matter, I believe we will need you for the Washington and Baltimore entertainments only, and then you can return to Boston for an additional month of instruction, starting out with the band after that. I would like you to be able to recite "The Pioneers."

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Scene from "Hiawatha" and to play at the Longfellow exercises in
Lafayette Opera House and also at the public concert the band will
give in the evening in Washington; then in Baltimore the following
eve. Pianos will be supplied in both places and if things go as
I have arranged you are to return to Boston. I will let Miss Sen-
seney be your accompanist for these performances. Will consider
the tourist accompanist later. Am inclined to favor your having
Miss Wells at her price and Mrs. Cook thinks we can get her. If
the prospects are good and I think they will loom up, this little
additional expense will not disturb me, and I very much desire
that you be entirely satisfied with your helper.

I send you a copy of Miss Fletcher's book just out on Indian
music and suggest that you make some use of it in your practice
and be ready to use a little of it should encores be called for.
It would be very gratifying to Miss Fletcher if you were ready with
something of hers in Washington. You can understand that in booming
ing her we secure her services in booming ourselves.

Faithfully your friend,

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Feb. 19, 1900.

Dr. M. W. Stryker, Pres.
Hamilton College,
Clinton, New York.

My dear Doctor :-

I am sorry to note that on our invitations we have your name as given on a note you sent Mr. Sherman, your initial "M" being omitted. The cards are all printed and most of them addressed, so that I cannot now correct the error. I trust it may not annoy you.

In regard to your coming to Carlisle and returning, my only object was to provide transportation by the route you might prefer. We get first class transportation at half rates from and to all points on the Pennsylvania lines; that is, from Canandaigua south, and from New York, and I can arrange to send you a ticket from either of these points. If you have an arrangement covering the same half rate, all right.

I hope there is a Mrs. Stryker and that you will bring her along and count on us for her expenses and entertainment here.

We will talk "Lawton" when you come.

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Feb. 19, 1900.

Mr. B. H. Warner,
"F" St. near (th St. N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Warner :-

I called on Mr. Evans at the interior Department, who has charge of the Rifles' Armory and told him we would take it for the Indian band on Friday evening, the 16th of March.

I was at your office to see you a little before noon last Saturday, but found you had gone. Will send you tomorrow two thousand little slips about the band and the Sioux Indian maiden violinist.

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Feb. 19, 1900.

Mrs. Mary E. Copp Wilbur,
1719 Fifteenth St., N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam :-

I did not reach Washington until Friday last
and came home Saturday, so could not be at your recep-
tion.

Our band boys will be at the Lafayette OperaHouse
on the afternoon of the 16th of March for the Longfel-
low exercises, and will give a pay concert in Rifle's
Armory the same evening. I trust your ladies' soci-
ety will be interested in our behalf. I desire to
somehow raise the money to send the band on a short
trip to Paris, that being the incentive I have given
the boys for most untiring practice and development.

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Washington,D.C.Feb. 16.

H. E. Pew,
34 E. 14th St.,
New York,

Your letter 15th to Wheelock. Tour may close with Grand Opera House, Phila. and arrange with Keith's and Proctor's, hoping this concession will demonstrate and give all time needed to arrange successfully on any lines. We take Rifle's Armory here evening 16th. My letter last evening.

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Feb 20th 900

Adjutant General U.S.A.
Washington D.C.

Sir

Complying with your Circular of Jan 17th I have
to respectfully report that I am not a graduate of
any institution. Home conditions compelled me
to quit school and begin work at fourteen, before
concluding the grammar grade. I am indebted
to the opportunities of business, the war of the
rebellion, and the regular army for additional
intellectual equipment, and hold the degree
of L.L.D. given by Dickinson College in 1888.

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Feb. 20, 1900.

Rev. L. M. Lawrence,
Iroquois,
Erie Co., New York.

My dear Sir :-

The following western New York boys and girls graduate
at our exercises on the 13th- 15th of March :-

Isaac Seneca, Daisy Doctor, Sara Kennedy, Kitty Silverheels,
Bertha Pierce, Nettie Pierce, Rose Poodry, and Virginia Turkey.
The class numbers 36, so you see New York has more than its share.

I enclose you an invitation which you can use in a general
way for any who may want to come to us from New York. I can secure
round trip tickets from Elmira for you at the cost of fare one way
which is $5.69. If you need transportation I ought to know it at
once, as it takes some little time to arrange it. It is possible
I may be able to get a low rate from Buffalo, but cannot tell yet.

In regard to the old lady who wants to get her grandsons en-
tered at Carlisle, we shall be ready to accept of another small
party from New York nest summer. I shall want careful selection
to be made and that there be as many girls as boys.

Glad to get into communication with you and shall be greatly
pleased if you find it convenient to run down and attend our com-
mencement exercises.

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Feb. 20, 1900.

Martin D. Archiquette,
Indian School,
Keshena, Wis.

My dear Martin :-

Glad to hear from you and to know you are getting on so
well. Have heard indirectly about you, and always, I am glad to
say, in a way to make me feel proud of you.

About the band matter ; Mr. Wheelock advises me that the pla-
ces you could fill are occupied now; but we should be very glad to
have you come down to our Commencement.

Faithfully your friend,

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Feb. 20, 1900.

Mr. Wm. F. Cooke,
3604 Lancaster Ave.,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :-

The place here requires an all-round cook who is not a-
fraid of work. We are cooking now for over 700. The care of the
food, the cleanliness of the place and discipline of it requires
the services of two people, who by experience I find had better be
man and wife, both capable of doing the work. Indian boys assist.
The work is not hard nor is it unpleasant. We have a large kitch-
en, airy and lighted on three sides, and equipped with large range
steam cookers, etc. The man I have is an Englishman, less than a
year in this country, and has not betrayed the cooking qualities
I was led to anticipate. His wife like yours prefers some other
place.

I should be glad to give you consideration were it not for
the above conditions. I might of course easily find an assistant
cook but that would throw your wife out of a place under salary,
as I have no other position to offer. If you choose to pursue the
matter further, send me some of your references.

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