Letters, July-December 1911

(ca. 87 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: F.H. Abbott; T. Wistar Brown; Edward F. Child; Isaiah Douglas; Walter T. Everett; Myra E. Frye; George N. Hartley; Abigail C. Haworth; John P. and N. May Haworth; William P. Haworth; Home Mission Council; Rayner W. Kelsey; Rachel Kirk; Rosa B. LaFlesche (American Indian Assoc.); Lina Lunt; Joseph E. McAfee; F.A. McKenzie; Henry and Callie Marshall; Daniel C. Maxfield; Thomas C. Moffett; Walter Smedley; Jonathan M. Steere; Stella Symons; Elizabeth Test; Daniel A. and Hattie E. Williams

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of William P. Haworth; money for work with Native Americans, possible that there may be less due to growing interest in foreign missions; resignation of the Hunts from mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma and replaced with John Lewis Mayo and Sarah N. Mayo; Rayner Kelsey discussed his proposed book on Friends and the Indians; John P. and May Haworth now at Hillside and work there (son of Wm. and Abigail Haworth); summary of the annual meeting of the Home Mission Council for 1911; land occupied by the missions at the various reservations and attempts to get patents on land; Henry and Callie Marshall wish to resign from mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, Clyde Likes or Austin Hatcher as possible replacements; Associated Exec. Com. joins the American Indian Assoc.; sale of land at Hillside to Mr. Abbott; Elizabeth Test resigns as Field Matron with the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma but will continue religious work on her own; Isaiah Douglas interested in farm at mission to the Kickapoo Tribe (see evaluation of him and family in letter of Elizabeth Test, 10.11.1911); in this folder "The need of Indian Public Opinion" by Robert G. Valentine, an address delivered at the first annual conf. of the Society of American Indians, 1911; news of Hominy mission in letter of Daniel A. and Hattie Williams; Clyde Likes to go to mission to the Ottawa Tribe; Austin and Irene Hatcher to go to mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe (Norman, Okla.) also letters addressed to: S.M. Abbott, from: William P. Haworth re: barn at Hillside William P. Haworth, from: S.M. Abbott re: disagreement over ownership of barn at Hillside, includes drawing of plot of land (2 letters); Thomas Ryan re: sale of mission land at Skiatook at public sale; Biddison & Campbell (lawyers) re: who owns barn at Hillside; [] Fink re: request that William George be returned to the mission at Miami; Rachel Kirk re: Austin Hatcher for mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; Louise (W.P.H. adds that author of letter is a Shawnee girl); C.W. Likes re: doesn't wish to go to mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; Henry and Callie Marshall re: don't wish to stay another year, submits resignation (2 letters); J.L. Mayo re: mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma Rayner W. Kelsey, from: W.[J.] Elkinton re: Native American records presented by his father to the committee Ben Phillips, from: William P. Haworth re: rent unpaid at Hillside Walter Smedley, from: Elaine G. Eastman re: her book on Native American education; Edward M. Wistar re: state of Friends' work with Native Americans (written while in Japan, 12.9.1911); [WS and] Jonathan M. Steere from Edward M. Wistar; E.M. Wistar re: various people for the missions