Letters, 1892 - 1894

(ca. 37 items: letters, ms. copies)

Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. Correspondents include: Oliver H. Bales; Rachel Kirk; John D. Miles; James E. Rhoads; Charles S. Taylor; John M. Watson and his daughter Eva Watson (also her monthly reports from Skiatook School, Indian Territory).

Topics discussed include: Skiatook School (run by John M. Watson and family); White's Indiana Manual Labor Institute; Mission to the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; finances of the missions and government spending to aid the missions also letters addressed to: Oliver H. Bales, from: James E. Rhoads re: White's Indiana Manual Labor Institute, Indian Training School (ms. copy); D.M. Browning (Commissioner of Indian Affairs); from: Oliver H. Bales re: White's Institute; Charles W. Kirk (Supt. Friends Indian Mission, Tecumseh, Oklahoma); from: D.M. Browning (typed copy, Commissioner of Indian Affairs); T.J. Morgan (Dept. of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs) John Nicholson, from: Elizabeth Test (Mission to the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma) Prof. C.C. Painter, from: Elizabeth Test (Choctaw City, Ok. Ty., ms. copy) James E. Rhoads, from: Rachel Kirk; Rev. M.E. Strieby (American Missionary Association); extract of letter from Charles F. Coffin re: Skiatook School (letters, ms. copies)