Letters, January-June 1911

(ca. 39 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. Box 6 (Text) correspondents include: Samuel P. Brosius; Mary K. Carey; Elaine Goodale Eastman; Myra E. Frye; Carl E. Grammer (pres. Indian Rights Assoc.); Cyrus H. and Amy B. Hawkins; Abigail C. Haworth; William P. Haworth; Charles S. Hunt; Morton C. Pearson; John M. [Redfalk] (secretary, Interior Dept.); Walter Smedley; Frank A. Thackery; Robert G. Valentine; J. Brownlee Voorhees; Harvey L. and Lizzie Wallace; Miles White

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions, especially in the letters of William P. Haworth; Society of Friends and land used by the missions on the various reservations; situation at mission to the Ottawa Tribe, Miami, Oklahoma in letters of Cyrus Hawkins (they are discouraged); news of mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma in letters of Charles S. Hunt; confidence in Carl E. Grammer as president of IRA; Home Missions Council asks Associated Executive Committee to join them as members; AEC doesn't wish to participate in HMC's move to have a legal representative in Washington, suggests that IRA be the representative of Protestant interests in Washington; trying to sell Tecumseh land; drought in west, little water in Shawnee (home of Haworths); Bentley case continues - Grimes, Chapman and Brown in federal jail at Guthrie, Oklahoma (see Thackery letter of 2.11.1911); request from Elaine Goodman Eastman for info. on Native Americans and Quakers; lists of bills in Congress affecting Native Americans (Brosius letters); letter from Valentine to the missionary boards re: position on mission schools and religious exercises; proposed resignation of Charles S. and Eunice Hunt from the mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma; resignation of Cyrus H. and Amy B. Hawkins from mission to the Ottawa Tribe, Miami, Oklahoma also letters addressed to: Elaine Goodale Eastman, from: [Walter Smedley?] re: Native Americans and Quakers (typed copy) Pliny Fry, from: [Walter Smedley?] re: his letter to Hatty Garrett re: publishing monthly reports in the "American Friend" Hetty B. Garrett, from: Pliny Fry re: getting the monthly reports on work with Native Americans before a wider audience of Friends; Albert J. Brown re: Wilmington Yearly Meeting (Ohio) ending contributions to Assoc. Exec. Com. on Indian Affairs Abigail C. Haworth, from: Amy B. Hawkins re: moving expenses to Miami William P. Haworth, from: Ira C. Deaver re: patent in fee for land, authorization from the Ottawa Tribe for same; [Walter Smedley?] re: expenses, Hillside (typed copy) Walter Smedley, from: William P. Haworth re: Hillside property; Elaine Goodale Eastman re: info. on Friends and Native Americans; William P. Haworth re: mission to the Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation,Hillside property (3 letters); Myra E. Frye re: expenses for Lina Lunt