Letters, July-December 1910

(ca. 66 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: Philander and Caroline M. Blackledge; C.W. Brooks; T. Wistar Brown; Charles H. Fahs; Davis H. Forsythe; John Francis; George N. Hartley; C.F. Hauke; Abigail C. Haworth; William P. Haworth; Henry S. Haskins; Charles S. and Eunice A. Hunt; William R. Layne; Clyde W. Likes; J.F. Love; F.A. McKenzie; Mary N. Miller; Charles C. Moffett; Warren K. Moorhead; Walter Smedley; Jonathan M. Steere; Robert G. Valentine; Daniel A. 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; Clyde W. Likes withdraws from Hillside, quarreling neighbors the reason given by Likes; patents on land held by Society of Friends at the various missions; continuing trouble at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, the Bollands prove unsatisfactory and are asked to resign; prospective changes in personnel at several missions (to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe and to Ottawa Tribe); news of Hominy mission (letters of Daniel Williams); news at Otoe-Missouria Tribe mission (letters of C.S. Hunt); request from W.K. Moorhead for Friends to do something to save the White Earth Band of Ojibwe at White Earth reservation in Minn., suffering from disease; cooperation between the various religious groups working with Native Americans; news at Modoc Nation mission (letter of Philander and Caroline Blackledge), "Apostolic Holiness" people there; Ira G. and Oneida B. Carter resign from mission to the Ottawa Tribe, Okla.; Charles and Mattie [Wooten] doing good work at mission to the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma (Bah Kho-je); Baptists working among the Osage (Wahzhazhe) (J.F. Love, Home Mission Council of the Southern Baptist Convention); Cyrus and Amy Hawkins to go to mission to the Ottawa Tribe; Henry and Collie Marshall to go to mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; donation to the Indian Aid Committee from T. Wistar Brown; Forsythe writes about proposed book "Friends and the Indians"; George N. Hartley taking Allen Jay's place on Indian Committee also letters addressed to: Commissioner of Indian Affairs, from: Ralph P. Stanion re: mission lands for Friends Society (typed copy) Secretary of the Interior, from: F.H. Abbott re: patents in fee for mission lands on Modoc Nation and Wyandotte Nation Reservations, Oklahoma William P. Haworth, from: Cyrus H. and Amy B. Hawkins re: mission to the Ottawa Tribe; H.L. Wallace re: schoolhouse at [mission to the Modoc Nation, Seneca, Mo.] (2 letters); Anthony H. and S.R. Bolland re: their letter of resignation from mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; D.A. Williams re: Hominy mission Matthew K. Sniffen, from: Samuel M. Brosius re: the Fort Yuma Quechan (Kwatsáan) Indian Tribe and land claims during Commissioner Leupp's tenure (typed copy) "Cousin Beulah," from: E.M. Wistar re: thanks her for sending photograph of his grandfather J.F. Love, from: Chairman Indian Committee [Thomas C. Moffett] re: introduces Wistar to him