Letters, January-July 1904

(ca. 57 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. Correspondents include: Dr. H.H. Atkinson; Lodi and Anna Bonser; Eliza H. Carey (Friends Evangelistic, Pastoral and Church Extension work of Kansas Yearly Meeting); J. Edward and Louisa Hartance; George N. Hartley; L. Ella Hartley; William P. Haworth (mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma); Thomas and Elizabeth [Hayden]; Rachel Kirk; Daniel W. Lawrence; Josiah W. Leeds; Franklin Meredith; John Nicholson; Anna M. Ray; Matthew K. Sniffen (Indian Rights Association); Elizabeth Test; Frank A. Thackery; Anna F. [Tuber] (San Jose, Ca.)

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people in the field (especially in the letters of the Hartleys and of John Nicholson); Martin J. Bentley and his relationship with the Kickapoo Tribe, ongoing investigation into Bentley's alleged attempts to steal land from the Kickapoo Tribe (see letter of Jan. 14, 1904 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs from Absentee Shawnee Agency, Shawnee, Okla., for details of scheme of Bentley and Fields); reluctance of Kansas Yearly Meeting to assume responsibility for Indian meetings once they cease to be Indian missions under the authority of the Assoc. Exec. Comm. on Indian Affairs, transfer of Modoc meeting to Kansas Yearly Mtg.; proposed visit of Edward Wistar to the west; Friends' School, Hillside, Oklahoma [Skiatook School]; expected resignation of George N. and L. Ella Hartley from their position and finding replacements for them