Letters, April-December 1909

(ca. 72 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: S.M. Abbott; Edgar A. Allen; Harlan P. Beach; Samuel M. Brosius; T. Wistar Brown; Ira G. Carter; J.R. Cook; J.H. [Dotch]; Myra E. Frye; Earle J. Harold; C.S. Hauke; William P. Haworth; Charles S. Hunt; Elsie E. Hunt; Allen Jay; M.S. Kimber; J.L. Kinsey; Rachel Kirk; O. and M.C. Mendenhall; Thomas C. Moffett (Presbyterian Church, Dept. of Indian Missions); Mrs. M.F. Mosby; Morton C. Pearson; W.B. and Jessie M. Ratcliff; Thomas Ryan; Walter Smedley; Jonathan M. Steere; Elizabeth Test; Robert G. Valentine; Harvey and Lizzie Wallace; Welsh Bros.; Miles White; D.A. and H.C. Williams

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of William P. Haworth; selling the Tecumseh land; legislation in Congress affecting Native Americans; situation at Hominy (4.18.1909 letter of D.A. Williams tells of gambling); situation at Miami, Okla. (Mendenhalls are there and wish to leave); Kimber writing on Friends and Native Americans; land on various Native American reservations occupied by the Society of Friends; Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation rejects Society of Friends application for a lease of land at Hominy, Okla. (see letter of 7.12.1909); donation of money to Committee by T. Wistar Brown; situation at mission to the Modoc Nation (run by the Ratcliffs); trouble at mission tothe Absentee Shawnee Tribe (see Haworth's letter, 8.20.1909, Bollands are overbearing and heady); Kansas Yearly Mtg. responsible for Hillside meeting; Ira G. and Oneida B. Carter going to work at mission to the Ottawa Tribe also letters addressed to: Mrs. M.F. Mosby, from: William P. Haworth re: Hillside Samuel M. Brosius, from: D.C. McCurtain (attorney, Choctaw Nation) re: abolishing tribal relationships and legal ramifications (Lake Mohonk Conference favors, McCurtain doesn't)