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Bryn Mawr, Penna.

June (?) 10, 1894.

My dear Capt. Pratt,

The receipt of your kind invitation to be present at your graduating exercises brings freshly before me the interests and the noble work of Carlisle. The "Red Man" is always received with pleasure, because of its information about Carlisle, and its statement of your news upon Indian Affairs; and though the work must often seem slow to you, and the useless obstructions to progress many, yet such are the conditions of all uplifting work in the world, and we count them happy which survive, for in due season "we shall reap, if we faint not."

The removal of Genl. Armstrong and of George W. Childs have quickened my courage and zeal because we see after men's lives are closed how real have been their forces for good, even though the human limitations that attend us all.

May I send you, then, a word of cheer, and that you "be strong and of a good courage". It is our destiny as a nation to have great freedom, and to have to work out our advance under these conditions. They bring great advantages and some great inconveniences, but it is just in this state of things we are providentially placed, and our work is assigned. The advance in the condition of the Indians in 25 years has been great--not all we could have wished from such heroic labors as have been bestowed, yet

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Bryn Mawr, Penna.

June (?) 10, 1894.

My dear Capt. Pratt,

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the progress has been great. Our country's heavy
debt to them has been to some extent paid, and
their fate has been thrown upon themselves, for
if they do not embrace the offers made, then
remaining in degradation becomes their fault, not
ours.

With kindest regards to Mrs. Pratt and to
Miss Nannie, I am