Letters, January-June 1906

Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: W.R. Andrews (secretary to Boise Penrose); Mary S. Allen (Friends Library, Phila.); Samuel M. Brosius; Francis H. Brown; R. Stevenson and Julia Burnett; Maria M. Cox; John B. Garrett; Merrill E. Gates; Fred. D. Gleason (Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute); George N. and L. Ella Hartley; William P. Haworth; Allen Jay; Mahalah Jay; Rachel Kirk; P.C. Knox; Daniel W. Lawrence; Lina B. Lunt; F.A. McKenzie (Ohio State U.); John Nicholson; Matthew K. Sniffen; Elizabeth Test; Frank A. Thackery; Harvey Wallace; Francis A. White; D.A. Williams (Otoe, Ind. Terr.)

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of John Nicholson and William P. Haworth; annual report of the Board of Indian Commissioners; Friends Skiatook School, Daniel W. Lawrence's resignation, search for successor; finding suitable people for vacancies at the missions at Hillside and to the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; situation at mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe (D.A. Williams letter); title to the mission land near Shawnee; more on Bentley and the Kickapoo people; the Kickapoo people in Mexico prevented from returning to U.S. by police who throw them in jail (Brosius letters, Elizabeth Test letter); account of Tecumseh Church fund; situation at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, Mardock, Oklahoma (letter of R.S and Julia Burnett) also letters addressed to: Mahalah Jay, from: Belle M. Brain re: information on Friends' work with Native Americans Jonathan M. Steere, from: Mary S. Allen re: obtaining current reports