Letter Ordering Pratt to Hire a Homeopathic Physician for Carlisle

Letter where Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra A. Hayt encourages Captain Richard Henry Pratt to replace the physician at Carlisle, feeling that the Army surgeon may not know best how to treat younger people. Hayt tells Pratt to seek a physician in town to help care for the schoolkids. Hayt states that there "ought to be little or no mortality among your children," and that this issue of proper medical care is of the highest importance.