Letter Discussing Recruitment at Kiowa and Comanche Agency

Letter wherein Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs Edward J. Brooks responded to Captain Richard Henry Pratt's request for information about "Mr. Standing['s]" visit to the Kiowa and Comanche Agency. Brooks lets Pratt know that Brooks has already authorized "Mr. Standing" to bring ten children back with him from the Agency to be educated at the Carlisle Indian School. Brooks discusses Pratt's selection criteria of healthy children certified by a physician, half boys and half girls with boys aged between eight and fifteen and girls aged between eight and thirteen, as well as the preference for "children of chiefs and full blood Indians".