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Carlisle, Pa., April 5, 1901.

Samuel Little Hawk,
St. Francis Mission,
Rosebud Agency, S. Dak.

Dear Friend :-

I have your letter of March 24th which came just before my return from Hot Springs where I had been taking treatment for neurasthenism. I am considerably improved, but was not well enough to leave in time for the commencement exercises which I was loath to miss. I send you Nos. 37 & 38 of the "Red Man and Helper", which were combined about a year ago under one head. These contain the commencement proceedings, which I am sure will interest you. The price is 25 cents a year, as you will see on the last page. If you want it regularly, write Miss Burgess, who still has charge of the printing office.

The school has improved very much since you were a student here. Wish you could visit us sometime. Last week a hundred boys left for country homes and yesterday about sixty girls went. If some of the Indians on your agency who are out of work were here, I could find them plenty of employment under our outing at good wages.

There are still some in the faculty who were here in your days, Mr. Standing, Miss Ely, Miss Cutter, and others, and who remember you very well and join me in kind regards to yourself and others of our older returned students.

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Carlsbad, Pa., April 6, 1961.

Miss Pasquala Anderson,
Craibu, Arizona

My dear Son-and-daughter :-

I meant to answer your letter of Feb. last long ago, but at the time of its receipt was not in a condition to attend to things as I wished. Just before leaving Hot Springs so many things came up that needed immediate attention that I laid your letter aside. My hospital treatment benefited me considerably, but I am not yet thoroughly well. A good, long rest I believe would do more for me than anything else, and I hope to get away this summer for a while, possibly in the west, or on a tour in Europe.

Conditions on the Navajo Agency are far from encouraging to those who are interested in the advancement of the Indian. I have seen what you say of the opposition to Indian interests on the part of some of the leading men in that locality. It has come to me from a number of sources. Perhaps you can persuade some of the Indians to allow their children to come to Carlisle and so open a way for them to see what is beyond their present borders. I was quite certain of your proper treatment, else I would have been very loath to have you go. If I could have the same confidence in all who go out from Carlisle that they would be able to meet difficulties, fight off discouragements and even be cheerful when things look so hopeless, I would be light-hearted indeed. I thank you for the comfort and pleasure your letter has given, and hope to hear from you often. I may not

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Carlisle, Pa., April 6, 1901.

Dr. Merrill E. Gates, Sec.,
Board of Indian Commissioners,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Doctor :-

Replying to your letter in regard to Mrs. Jenkins, when I reached home I found it had already been planned to do without this teacher for the balance of the fiscal year, for the reason that we have a supernumerary teacher in our force and because about the 1st of April we were to send out one hundred sixty of the pupils to country homes, and could consolidate two departments. The pupils have already been sent out, and more will go in May. I have just written Mrs. Jenkins about this and also to know how many of her family she would bring to Carlisle. Putting off the beginning of her service until the first of July will enable us to have a full understanding on these points.

I am a little close run on money for the year, and to save the $150, three months' salary, will help somewhat.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 6, 1901.

Mr. J. H. Bailey, Jr.,
Wilmington Malleable Iron Co.,
Wilmington, Del.

Dear Sirs:

Replying to your letter of the 2nd inst., I have a Cherokee boy named Johnson Owl, from North Carolina, who would like to undertake work in the line of your offer. His time here is out, and I can recommend him as a good worker and a young man of good character. He has served in our blacksmith shop. If you want him, state fully the conditions under which you will take him.

Yours truly,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt

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Confidentially, I would like to know the name of the boy you already have, and ought also to say that two Indians working together will be an Indian reservation and an Indian tribe whether they belong to the same tribe or not, so that you might expect complications.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 6, 1901.

Hon. I. N. Evans,
Hatboro, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

By all means if you think best, show Miss Ella Hart my letter. I have a letter from her which is very abusive. I told her long ago that this would be the course I should pursue, but it has had no effect upon her. She seems determined to handle things her own way, both as to David Abraham and my girls, and I see no other way than to carry out the program as I have given it to you and as she knew months ago it would be. I shall be very sorry to do it, but I must maintain conditions and not allow anybody, even Miss Hart, to tumble them down.

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I enclose Miss Hart's last letter.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 6, 1901.

S. A. Thompson, Sec.,
Board of Trade,
Wheeling, W. Va.

Dear Sir :

Replying to yours of April 4th in regard to our band, I must inform you that $125.00 per day and expenses, provided you take two or more days, would be as small a sum as we could undertake to come to you for.

The band never was in better shape. It has a large repertoire of the best music and is fast approaching almost faultless rendition. We get $3500 for four weeks' service at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in July and August. The only obligation upon us just now is for a week from today, Saturday the 13th, at Lancaster.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 6, 1901.

Miss Grace E. Paine,
433 Christian St.,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Miss Paine :-

Teachers are provided for the Indian Service by the United
States Civil Service Commission in Washington. Examinations are held
for this purpose periodically in different cities, and assignments
made from those who pass with the highest grade. If you write to the
Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Washington, all information
will be sent you.

I am not permitted to select my own teachers except that I have
a little voice in looking over the civil service lists, or may select
from those already in the Indian Service elsewhere if they care to
transfer to Carlisle.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 6, 1901.

Mrs. Emma Stock Jenkins,
Kirkwood, Mo.

Dear Mrs. Jenkins :-

When in Washington recently on my return from the west, I told Dr. Gates that a vacancy had occurred in my teaching force which I could offer you, and that I would do so. On arriving at Carlisle I found that a plan had been inaugurated to do without this teacher for the remainder of the school year, that is, until June 30th next, first, because we had a supernumerary teacher, and second, because we were sending out about 160 pupils to country homes during the summer and could very easily consolidate departments. A note just received from Dr. Gates advises that he wrote you what I said. Inasmuch as we are pretty close run on our appropriation I would prefer to save the three months' salary, as was arranged in my absence.

In my talk with Dr. Gates I spoke of the objectionable feature of getting employes who are cumbered with families. He said he thought you intended to make some arrangement for your daughter which would make it unnecessary for her to be with you, and could take care of the younger in the one room we allow for teachers.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 6, 1901.

Honorable Thad. C. Mahon,
Chambersburg, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Mr. Schweier and his daughter Isabella were here today. The vacancy I had in mind when talking to you I have concluded not to fill this year because of the scarcity of funds. I invested $20,000 in a farm this year and have still carried my quota of about a thousand pupils. I have explained matters to Mr. Schweier very fully, and make no doubt we can give Miss Isabella a trial next year. Under any circumstances she would have to take a civil service examination which I believe from her attainments she could easily pass and rate high. If she goes through with that before beginning here it will simplify matters very much. I could of course, under the rules, employ her temporarily for ninety days and prove her ability that way and she could take the examination afterward; the other way would be the better, however.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 6, 1901.

Mr. T. S. Prisbie,
55 Irving St.,
Hartford, Conn.

Dear Sir :-

I send you today some literature in regard to the school,
among which you will find a "New England Magazine" containing an ar-
ticle on the school written by one of the professors of Dickinson
College. This I would like to have you return as it is the only one
I have. You will gather from these that we are doing what we can to
make the Indians like other people, capable of meeting the obligations
of life in this country in competition with its other people. Until
that is accomplished, there is an Indian problem.

In our work at this school we pursue the methods used to make
Americans of foreigners, depending largely upon placing them in good
environments and in direct competition. In doing this we cultivate
no Indianisms, feeling entirely satisfied both from a common-sense
consideration of the question and very long experience with very many
subjects that the same things that make good American citizens out of
foreigners will make good American citizens out of Indians.

I believe a visit to the school would be your best means of
judging of its utility. I can only add that all help received from
any quarter is carefully used and made to accomplish all our best
judgment will enable

very sincerely yours,

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