Letters, July-December 1904

(ca. 133 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: Albert Benson; Lodi and Anna Bonser; Samuel M. Brosius; Benjamin S. Coppock; George A. Dary; Myra E. Frye; T.M. Griffiths; George N. Hartley; L. Ella Hartley; J. Edward Hart[suck]; Ellworth Haworth; William P. and Abigail C. Haworth; Thomas [] Elizabeth Ho[y]den; William A. Jones; Rachel Kirk; Daniel W. Lawrence; Lina B. Lunt; J. Walter Malone; Franklin and Mary Moon Meredith; John Nicholson; D.A. Outland; Morton C. Pearson (Church Federation of Indianapolis, Office of executive secretary, Y.M.C.A.); J. Snowdon Rhoads; Matthew K. Sniffen; A.C. Tanner; Elizabeth Test; Frank A. Thackery

Topics discussed include: general news of the missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of George N. Hartley, John Nicholson and the Haworths; prohibition in Indian Territory; suitability of William P. and Abigail Haworth or Franklin and Mary Moon Meredith to replace the Hartleys as Superintendents; Lodi and Anna Bonser resigning their post, D.A. Outland discouraged and also wishes to resign; financial matters; Haworths appointed as successors to the Hartleys as Superintendents; the Merediths leaving the Wyandotte, Oklahoma mission; dismissal of W.H. Spray as agent for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; situation of the Kickapoo people; Seneca mission [Seneca, MO?](the Bonsers); J.E. and Laura Hartsuck successors to the Merediths at Wyandotte, Oklahoma mission; desire to acquire lands for the mission at Shawnee, Oklahoma Ter. also letters addressed to: George N. Hartley, from: William A. Henley re: lease Henley made to the mission Matthew K. Sniffen, from: William A. Jones re: W.H. Spray; Commissioner W.A. Jones (typed copy) re: Jones' resignation as Indian Commissioner and his thanks to the Indian Rights Association and S.M. Brosius Jonathan M. Steere, from: Edward M. Wistar re: Shawnee and Kickapoo Tribe allotment James Whitall from: George A. Dary re: legacy of Lydia Marie Child