Letters, July-December 1916

(ca. 80 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. Correspondents include: Samuel M. Brosius; Clark Brown; Isaac and Laura Frazier; Myra E. Frye; John B. Garrett; [Canon] S. Gould (Foreign Missions Conference of North America); Clarabel B. Harrison; George N. Hartley; William P. Haworth; Rayner W. Kelsey; Rachel Kirk; Omar and Miriam C. Mendenhall; J.J. Mills; Thomas C. Moffett; Arthur C. Parker; D.L. Person (Missionary Review of the World); Florence Trueblood Steere; Jonathan M. Steere; Elizabeth Test; 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 and the missionaries themselves; Iowa Tribe (Bah Kho-je) mission property (for sale); Wm. P. Haworth no longer wants to buy mission to the Ottawa Tribe; news of Hominy mission from Daniel A. Williams (tells of a forced marriage, see letter of 7.13.1916); Rayner Kelsey working on his book "Friends and the Indians"; situation of the Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation, their wealth and gambling (see letter of Clark Brown, 7.24.1916; Brosius, 7.21.1916); Lina Lunt back at the mission to the Kickapoo Tribe and resulting problems; Lina leaves, Rachel Kirk wishes to return to look after Elizabeth Test who can't be left alone; letters from Five Years Meeting (J.J. Mills); names of Friends prominent in work with Native Americans; information on the Monthly Meetings at the various missions (see Brown letter of 9.29.1916); Omar and Miriam C. Mendenhall going to work Wyandotte mission also letters addressed to: Clark Brown, from: the Fraziers re: leaving work at Wyandotte mission; Wm.P. Haworth re: Ottawa Tribe mission property; Frank and Allie Hatcher re: mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe (2 letters); C.M. Griffiths re: Ottawa Tribe mission property; Ray J. Miller re: wishes to buy mission near Perkins (3 letters) Horace J. Johnson, from: [C.B.] re: mission property sale Rayner Kelsey, from: Emeline H. Tuttle re: in answer to his questions about Asa and Emeline Tuttle's work with the Modoc Nation Roy J. Miller, from: [C.B.] re: buying mission property