Letters, August-December 1907

(ca. 60 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: Charles C. Binney; R.S. Burnett; James Clark; Ethel Dickinson; I.C. and E.L. Dickinson; J.A. Dunbar; Merrill E. Gates; Isaac T. Gibson; W. Jasper Hadley; Rachel Hale; George N. Hartley; J. Edward and Laura Hartsuck; Abigail C. Haworth; William P. Haworth; John Higgins; Elizabeth A. Hill; J.J. Hill; Ella Holstein; Allen Jay; Rachel Kirk; Francis E. Leupp; John Nicholson; overseers and elders of mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; H.C. Phillips; Walter and Jessie Ratcliff; Marion E. and Mary J. Reisinger; Walter Smedley

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of William P. Haworth; repairs at the various missions and expenses thereof; the situation at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, Wistar receiving letters in support and otherwise re: retention of R.S. Burnett; letters from Burnett defending himself; letter of resignation of Burnett; suggestions for a replacement for the Burnetts at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; eventually replaced by John J. and Elizabeth A. Hill; situation at mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe; conflict between D.A. Outland and D.A. Williams (see letter of Abigail Haworth, 9.25.1907); situation at Hillside; investigation at Crow Agency, disagreement between Wistar and Leupp (over sheep?); possibility of starting a Friends school and mission near the Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation (see Isaac T. Gibson's letters) also letters addressed to: Abigail Haworth, from: J.J. Hill, Allen Jay, from: Isaac T. Gibson, Francis E. Leupp, from: Edward M. Wistar (2 typed copies of 2 letters), Matthew [K. Sniffen], from: Herbert Welsh (typed copy 11.21.1907) re: J. Lewis Dalby and Samuel M. Brosius, investigation on the land of the Crow Tribe of Montana (Apsáalooke), friction between Washington authorities and the Indian Rights Association