Letters, July-December 1908

(ca. 54 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: Abigail C. Haworth; William P. Haworth; Allen Jay; Rachel Kirk; H.H.B. Meyer; Thomas Ryan; Walter Smedley; Herbert Welsh; Ret Willard; D.A. and H.E. Williams

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of William P. Haworth; Wistar sailing for England (for 2 or 3 mo.) and all matters relative to Native Americans from Haworths be sent to Walter Smedley; Hartsucks withdrawing from Wyandotte, Oklahoma mission, to be replaced by the Georges; request for land near Hominy for Friends Indian Mission; sale at Hillside, the Dickinsons withdrawing, Kansas Yearly Mtg taking over meeting there; D.A. and Hattie E. Williams to go to new mission to the Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation; mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe (letter of Rachel Kirk, 9.14.1908); establishing a mission at Hominy, Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation Reservation, Oklahoma; Charles S. and Eunice A. Hunt to work at mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians; newspaper clipping re: abuse at the Crow Tribe of Montana (Apsáalooke) Reservation (letter of Herbert Welsh printed in paper); John R. and Louisa B. Cook to take charge of mission to Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma (Bah Kho-Je) (near Perkins, Okla.) also letters addressed to: William P. Haworth, from: Ira G. Carter re: expresses desire to take up work at a mission; J.R. and L.B. Cook re: taking Ratcliff's place at mission; Charles S. Hunt at mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe; Walter Smedley; probably Walter Smedley [in place of Wistar] members of the committee, from: Edward M. Wistar re: the Association's diminished responsibility for Modoc Nation mission, Ottawa Tribe, Hillside missions because of Kansas Yearly Mtg. and opening up mission with the Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation at Hominy, Oklahoma Labon Miles, from: [Walter Smedley?] re: interest in mission to the Osage Nation (Wahzhazhe) Walter Smedley, from: L. Clarkson Hinshaw (Kansas Yearly Mtg.); William P. Haworth