Letters/Correspondence

August Kensler requests certain items be excluded from the list of articles to be condemned and rather be dropped. William A. Mercer forwards the request to the Office of Indian Affairs with the recommendation that it be given favorable consideration.

W. A. Mercer forwards Ella G. Hill's application for a 24-day leave of absence. Hill works as a laundry manager. 

William A. Mercer requests the dining room matron position vacated by the transfer of Effie G. Moul be filled through the Civil Service register.

William A. Mercer requests that various employees be excused from participation in the employees' general mess including those who have their homes and reside outside the school.

Card indicating correspondence asking for Charles Guyon to not be required to return to the White Earth reservation to protect his additional allotments.

William A. Mercer forwards the names of staff who live outside the limits of the school grounds including staff who live on the school farm.

James Wickersham requests to have the nephew of Frank Buteau sent to the Carlisle Indian School. Wickersham cites the treaty upon which the United States acquired Alaska as providing the same rights as the Indigenous population in the rest of the United States.

William A. Mercer requests the vacant teaching position salary be increased and a white woman be appointed from the Civil Service list of eligible candidates.

William A. Mercer responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the request of Carlisle Indian School student John Archuleta for a position in the Indian Service as a shoe and harness maker.

William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Chauncey Archiquette will accept the appointment of stenographer for the Osage Agency.

Members of the Susan Longstreth Literary Society propose to name the new library after William A. Mercer.

William A. Mercer recommends John Archuleta for a position of harness or shoe maker in the Indian Service.

The father of Matthew and Wendell Jones describes his visit to the Carlisle Indian School. He discusses the games many of the students played as well as the work that was being done on the school grounds.

Also included is a letter from the widow of Wendell Jones noting that she had made a copy of the letter in 1988.

William A. Mercer requests clarification on the decision to place student funds, society funds, and the charity funds with the U.S. Treasurer.

W. A. Mercer forwards clerk Siceni J. Nori's application for a 12-day leave of absence. 

William A. Mercer provides an overview of the physical plant of the Carlisle Indian School for the 1906 fiscal year and provides an estimate for the 1908 fiscal year. Mercer further makes suggestions on ways to improve the physical plant.

Jesse Null resigns his position as dairyman at the Carlisle Indian School. J. R. Wise forwards the resignation and indicates that the employment of Norman Egolf is again presented to the Indian Office due to his many qualifications.

William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Thomas J. Heffron has not reported for duty following his appointment as a fireman. In addition, James Micklejohn has not reported for duty as a florist.

William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that H. B. Lamason has received notice that he has obtained an average percentage of 99 on his Civil Service examination. Mercer requests that he is considered for the permanent appointment of mason at the Carlisle Indian School.

William A. Mercer forwards vouchers covering expenses in transporting Alaskan students to their homes.

William A. Mercer recommends that Susie Rayos be given an appointment as a teacher in the Indian Service.

William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Alfred Dietz has not reported for duty following his appointment as printer.

William A. Mercer lays out his case for requesting safety deposit boxes in student dormitories.

W. A. Mercer forwards hospital cook Sara Pierre's application for a 27-day annual leave of absence.

William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Chauncey Archiquette is set to leave his position in the school's office to transfer to a position at the Osage Agency. Mercer provides his qualifications for a stenographer to replace Archiquette at the Carlisle Indian School.