Letters, January-June 1915

(ca. 58 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. Correspondents include: F.A. Abbott; S.J. Allen; Harry Bock (Baptist minister); Samuel M. Brosius; Clark Brown; Ira C. Deaver; Samuel A. Eliot; Pliny Fry; Myra E. Frye; George N. Hartley; William P. Haworth; Mary I. Hollowell; Rayner W. Kelsey; Rachel Kirk; Hannah H.B. Lloyd; Thomas C. Moffett; [Eugenid] H. Parker; M.C. Pearson; Wm. H. Pile's Sons; W.B. and Jessie M. Ratcliff; Fred B. Smith; Matthew K. Sniffen; Jonathan M. Steere; Elizabeth Test; Frank A. Thackery; George Vaux, Jr.; [Annie?] Walton; Daniel A. Williams

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of Clark Brown; typed copy of "Report of the Committee on Indian Missions presented at the annual meeting of the Home Missions Council, January 12, 1915"; Elizabeth Test takes up position as Field Matron; Native American matters before Congress (Brosius letters); letters from Home Missions Council; Bethany Church land in Delaware Co., Okla.; potential conflicts with the Southern Baptist and the Catholic missionaries; Lina B. Lunt resigns position at missioon to the Kickapoo Tribe; Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation Reservation, sub-leasing of land [to oil interests?]; Charles and Mattie Wooten to go to mission to the Kickapoo Tribe; news of Hominy mission from Daniel A. Williams; situation with the Iowa Tribe (Bah Kho-je) (they are using "peota" and water baptism, Clark Brown suggests that Friends withdraw from that mission); Ratcliffs wish to be considered for vacancy at mission to the Iowa Tribe (Bah Kho-je); Rachel Kirk leaving mission to the Kickapoo Tribe, Elizabeth Test allowed to stay with Committee support; long letter from Harry Bock on his disagreement with John L. Mayo re: Otoe-Missouria Tribe, peyote, baptism and interference with Mayo's work and suggestion from Mayo that Bock take over the mission from Friends also letters addressed to: Rev. Harry Bock (Missionary to the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma (Chatiks-si-chatiks)), from: J.L. and S.N. Mayo re: Bock's alleged interference with Otoe-Missouria people at Mayos' mission Clark Brown, from: Walter Smedley re: mission business [ ] Mayo from: Rev. Harry Bock re: his reply to Mayo's charges Walter [Smedley], from: Jonathan M. Steere re: Asso. Ex. Com. business Wm. Smedley and J.M. Steere, from: E.M. Wistar re: selling mission to the Iowa Tribe (Bah Kho-je) Matthew K. Sniffen, from: Samuel M. Brosius re: J. George Wright, the newly appointed Supt. of the Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation and past troubles at Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation Reservation, Okla. (typed copy) John Springer, from: Clark Brown re: Springer wishes to purchase mission property