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Richard Henry Pratt responds to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding the return of Louis Bayhylle and his transfer to the Haskell Institute. Pratt notes that Bayhylle may return to his Agency at the end of the year but should likely remain at school for an additional period due to his young age. In addition, Pratt writes that Carlisle would…

Richard Henry Pratt requests the $18,000 appropriated to purchase the Parker Farm be made available to him in order to pay the current owners.

Raymond B. Stewart requests to be returned to his home from the Carlisle Indian School. Stewart states that he has not had much opportunity at Carlisle and has been at Carlisle long enough that he would like to return home.

F. Marcellus Marshall writes to the Office of Indian Affairs seeking to see if Cyrus and John Dickson can return to the Carlisle Indian School. Marshall notes that the Dickson brothers have been working the railroad and on the Albuquerque school house to raise money to return to Carlisle.

Richard Henry Pratt responds to the Office of Indian Affairs inquiry regarding Raymond Stewart's request to return home. Pratt notes that Stewart did not want to go home in January and so was placed in the outing program, which he was eventually forced to leave. After being returned to Carlisle he was put on trial and sentenced to remain at…

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the inheritance of Joseph and Josie Vetter. Pratt claims that he forwarded the money due Joseph in February and has receipt from Joseph that he has received the payment. He further indicates that Josie's money is secured in the bank.

Additionally, Pratt notes…

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the telegraph and post office address is Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Pratt also notes that the most direct railroad routes are the Pennsylvania and Reading line to Harrisburg and then the Cumberland Valley Railroad to Carlisle when coming from the North, East, and West. When coming from…

Richard Henry Pratt provides an explanatory letter for the descriptive list of pupils forwarded to Caldwell, Kansas in March 1887 in addition to one pupil sent to Dakota City, Nebraska and one sent to Arkansas City.

Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for May 1887. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.

On the advice of school physician, Obadiah G. Given, Richard Henry Pratt recommends the immediate return to their homes of Esther and Louisa Metoxen.

Secretary of the Interior Lucius Q. C. Lamar orders the Assistant Secretary of the Interior H. L. Muldrew to provide Richard Henry Pratt with orders authorizing him to transfer members of the Apache Nation being held prisoner at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida to the Carlisle Indian School.

Secretary of War, William Crowninshield Endicott, informs the Secretary of Interior Lucius Q. C. Lamar that he believes that many of those at Fort Marion can be sent to Carlisle. Endicott ends by noting that he will leave it up to Richard Henry Pratt to select individuals to take with him to the Carlisle Indian School.

Alfred John Standing responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter providing information on former students Cyrus Dickson and John Dickson (also known at the school as John Dixon). He indicates that Cyrus spent one year in the harness shop and two and half years in the carpenter shop with John spending three years in the carpenter shop.

A group of members from the St. Regis band request from President Grover Cleveland to allow their children to be enrolled at the Lincoln Institute and the Carlisle Indian School. They cite that those schools will allow their children to better learn to speak English as well as a trade.

Secretary of War, William Crowninshield Endicott, responds to a letter from the Secretary of the Interior regarding a protest lodged by the Arizona Governor about returning the prisoners of war held at Fort Marion. Endicott notes that those not transferred to the Carlisle Indian School are to be transferred to the Fort Pickens and Mount Vernon…

Monthly report of Lieutenant Loomis L. Langdon on the prisoners under his charge at Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas. Langdon writes that the health of the prisoners is good and they are involved in various work projects including digging wells as well as scraping, painting, and piling shot and shell inside Fort Pickens.

Langdon further…

Loomis L. Langdon, Commander of the Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas, provides his monthly report of the Indian prisoners he is in charge of at the Fort. In his report he includes a request to have Jose or Go-so be enrolled at Carlisle.

These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding the discharge of sisters Esther and Louisa Metoxen from the Carlisle Indian School and their transfer to their home in the Green Bay Agency of Wisconsin.

Final report of the prisoners held at Fort Marion including an account of births, deaths, and transfers to the Carlisle Indian School, Fort Pickens, and Mount Vernon Barracks.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from George W. Scott, the Superintendent of the Fort Stevenson School, regarding sending Carlisle student George Thomas to take over their harness shop. Pratt notes that he has had no reply from the Office of Indian Affairs regarding his request.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the John D. C. Atkins, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, that he has arrived back at Carlisle with 62 members of the Chiricahua band from Fort Marion. He ends by noting that he hopes the Atkins will now visit the school.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to produce and sell fifty uniforms for students at the school run by the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions in Sitka, Alaska.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that M. B. Cochran has requested Maggie Worrington be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt requests that transportation for Worrington be placed with Cochran to allow Worrington to travel to Carlisle.

Richard Henry Pratt responds to a statement from the Second Auditor of the Treasury in settlement of his accounts from the fourth quarter of 1884 to and including the fourth quarter of 1885. Pratt goes through a list of transportation costs that were disallowed due to a portion of the road being subsidized by bond.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Secretary of the Interior that Samuel C. Armstrong, Superintendent of the Hampton Institute, has declined to enroll four married Chiricahua students from Fort Marion. Pratt writes that the students will be taken care of at Carlisle.