Letters, May-December 1895

(ca. 78 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. Correspondents include: John B. Bishop; Oliver H. Bales (White's Institute); Robert M. Ferris; Alice C. Fletcher; Myra E. Frye; George N. Hartley; L. Ella Hartley; Robert W. Hodson; John [] Kimber (cousin of EMW); Rachel Kirk; Francis E. Leupp (agent, Washington Agency of the Indian Rights Association); John Nicholson (Chairman of the Committee on Religious Interests) on committee business; Elizabeth Test (on the mission to the Kickapoo Tribe); Eva Watson (Skiatook School); James Whitall; E. Whittlesey (Board of Indian Commissioners)

Topics discussed include: committee business; proposed resignation of Robert W. and Lemma J. Hodson (from Miami, Oklahoma); proposed resignation of Amos and Charity Davis; E.C. Cook taking charge at mission to the Modoc Nation; question of whether [SoF?] should have title to lands improved by Friends' work; perceived "shortcomings" of people in the field and whether they should be retained; duties of workers in the field; conditions at the various missions and schools (especially in the letters of John Nicholson and George N. Hartley); situation of the Kickapoo people; illegal leasing of their land by whites and refusal of the Kickapoo people to go to their "allotments"; need of educating the Kickapoo people for their own protection in a changing world; Skiatook School also letter addressed to: Herbert Welsh, from: Francis F. Leupp (typed copy) re: situation in Durango