Letters, January-March 1909

(ca. 50 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: Samuel M. Brosius; Ira G. Carter; John R. and Louisa B. Cook; M. Friedman; Myra E. Frye; William P. Haworth; Charles S. and Eunice A. Hunt; Allen Jay; Charles J. Kappler and Charles H. Merillat (attorneys for the Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation ); F.A. McKenzie; [H.B. Peaii]; Walter B. and Jessie M. Ratcliff; Charles J. Rhoads; Matthew K. Sniffen; Walter Smedley; Jonathan M. Steere; J. Brownlee Voorhees

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of William P. Haworth; finding ministers to work at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe (Ira G. Carter, A.F. Bolland); mission to the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma (Bah Kho-Je), where the Cooks are working; legislation in Congress affecting Native Americans and religious missions (land related), Native Americans and statehood bill, the Navajo Nation and public land, list of legislation related to Native Americans (bills in Senate and House); selling land at Tecumseh; mission to the Modoc Nation, where the Ratcliffs are working; finances of missions also letters addressed to: Hon. Edward L. Hamilton, from: Samuel M. Brosius re: legislation and from Hamilton to Brosius (typed copies) William P. Haworth, from: Frank A. Thackery; Anthony F. and Sarah R. Bolland re: taking on mission work at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; A.W. Hurley re: Hominy mission Hon. John H. Stephens, from: Samuel M. Brosius re: legislation Herbert Welsh, from: Lucretia T. Ross re: a Major W.A. Mercer (who was superintendent at Carlisle Indian School); she encloses copies of depositions to support a case against him, which were shown to Leupp