Letters, January-June 1910

(ca. 61 items: letters, newspaper clipping, receipt, reprint) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: F.H. Abbott; Samuel M. Brosius; James Carey; Fred W. Carpenter; Ira C. Deaver; Charles H. Fahs; John J. Fitzgerald; Davis H. Forsythe; C.F. Hauke; Abigail C. Haworth; William P. Haworth; George D. Hilyard; Charles S. Hood; A. Edwin Keigwin (Ursinus College); Rachel Kirk; Thomas C. Moffett; Morton C. Pearson; R.H. Pratt; Walter Smedley; Frank A. Thackery; Robert G. Valentine; Irving P. Wanger; Daniel and Hattie Williams

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of William P. Haworth; lists of bills in Congress related to Native Americans (letters of Brosius); Bentley and company trying to defraud the Kickapoo Tribe of their land (see letters of Thackery and Brosius); difficulty in finding suitable people to work at the missions, Grey Horse mission starting up; trouble at mission to the Modoc Nation, Philander and Carrie Blackledge going to take mission; continuing troubles at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; requests for patent in fee to lands used by Society of Friends on the reservations; cooperative efforts to determine which Native American peoples do not have missionaries and to reach them (see letter of 3.10.1910 of Thomas Moffett); Davis Forsythe writes re: Kimber papers; newspaper clipping on La Follette, title to Wisconsin land and Stearns Lumber Co. (5.30.1910); reprint of letter written by Brosius to newspaper re: rights of Native Americans (5.17.1910) also letters addressed to: William P. Haworth, from: C.S. and E.A. Hunt re: Otoe-Missouria Tribe mission; J.G. and O.P. Carter re: news at Miami mission Walter Smedley, from: D.A. and H.E. Williams re: situation at Hominy mission Herbert Welsh, from: R.G. Valentine re: investigation at Crow Tribe of Montana (Apsáalooke) Reservation (typed copy)