Letters, July-December 1906

(ca. 72 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: Irvin C. Dickinson (Friends Indian Mission and Day School, Hillside, Ind. Terr.); Myra E. Frye; William P. Haworth; John Howard; Daniel W. Lawrence; Piety E. Lawrence; John Nicholson; Mary F. Park; John M. Ratcliff; Walter Smedley; Elizabeth Test; Miles White, Jr.; Delia L. Williams (Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Delaware, Ohio)

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; filling vacancies at Hillside, Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma, and Modoc Nation missions; difficulties at Hillside, possible closure of boarding school; land held by missionaries; interest in and future of the Assoc. Ex. Comm., does it have one? (letter of John Nicholson, 8 mo. 9, 1906); Daniel W. Lawrence leaves Hillside, Irvin C. and Ethel L. Dickinson take over at Hillside; John Nicholson writes (9.7.1906) that western Friends lack a religious concern for any special service and are more interested in external considerations; Elizabeth Test writes that Bentley's schemes have been defeated re: the Kickapoo people; Omar and Miriam Mendenhall going to mission to the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; possible conflict between Friends workers and Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society (see letter of Delia L. Williams, Nov. 21, 1906) also letters addressed to: John Nicholson, from: Abigail J. Hadley re: starting a mission among the Cherokee William P. Haworth, from: Allen C. Johnson; Emory Pearson re: vacancy at Hillside; Omar and Miriam C. Mendenhall at mission to the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma