Letters, January-June 1916

(ca. 70 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. Correspondents include: Clark Brown; Henry Roe Cloud; Isaac Frazier; John B. Garrett; C.M. Griffiths; A.D. Hall; George N. Hartley; Austin Hatcher; William P. Haworth; Thomas E. Jones; E.B. Meritt; Thomas C. Moffett; S.E. Nicholson; Arthur C. Parker; Ernest Thompson Seton; Matthew K. Sniffen; Jonathan M. Steere; Harvey and Lizzie Wallace; Charles and Martha Wooten

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of Clark Brown and the missionaries themselves; selling property (Modoc Nation mission); news of [Seneca] mission from Harvey Wallace; news of mission to the Kickapoo Tribe from Charles Wooten (Christmas dinner and tree); letters from Home Missions Council; letters from Five Years Meeting; cemetery at Shawnee mission; letters from The American Friend (S.E. Nicholson); letters from Y.M.C.A. (re: Native American education); E.T. Seton looking for Hadley Indian Sign Prints, Ingonompashi; publishing accounts of work with Native Americans in the American Friend so as to increase support for it from the Yearly Meetings; visit of Charles H. Burke (former congressman) of S. Dakota to Washington to assist opposition to Hastings, Johnson and Lane bills; dispute with the Southern Baptists over missionary work with Native Americans (see letter of John B. Garrett, 5.23.1916) also letters addressed to: Clark Brown from: Thomas R. Welch re: mission to the Modoc Nation property; D.A. Williams re: situation at Hominy mission and the Osage (Wahzhazhe) people (3 letters); Charles L. Wooten re: mission to the Kickapoo Tribe and Lina Lunt's return (2 letters); Robert Small re: buying mission property; Horace J. Johnson re: buying mission property (2 letters); George A. Hoyo re: success of the Hatchers; the Fraziers re: mission work; H.L. Wallace re: wishes to go to the Wyandotte mission if the Fraziers leave; Walter Smedley re: selling property (ms. copy) George N. Hartley, from: Thomas E. Jones re: travels R.E. Irvin, from: [Clark Brown] re: buying mission property Robert Small, from: Clark Brown re: buying mission property Matthew K. Sniffen, from: Samuel M. Brosius re: the Seneca people and fishing rights (typed copy) Jonathan M. Steere, from: Clark Brown re: mission to the Modoc Nation property; E.M. Wistar re: American Friend and including articles about work with Native Americans J.M. Steere, R.W. Kelsey, W. Smedley, from: E.M. Wistar re: their comments on enclosed [?]