Letters/Correspondence

These materials include correspondence and federal financial aid documents regarding a list of students who were not eligible for enrollment at Carlisle under new enrollment guidelines regarding the availability of schools at home agencies. Upon further investigation, certain students were allowed to remain at Carlisle.

Former student Lucy Lane writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and asks to re-enroll at Carlisle in the fall of 1915.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Michael Wilkie to enroll at Carlisle in order to attend the Millersville State Normal School and to have his transportation paid by the Government.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Louis Palin at Carlisle in order to qualify for the course of work offered by the Ford Motor Company.

These materials include a request to enroll Sadie Whirlwind Horse at Carlisle and to waive Section 12 in order to provide her transportation and schooling.

These materials include a request to release Alice Logan from the Carlisle School. This request was denied due to her being healthy at the time of the request.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Henry J. Flood at Carlisle in order for Flood to attend Conway Hall or Dickinson College.

These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Enos Wilson as an outing student at Carlisle in order to attend Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.

This material includes correspondence between Carlisle graduate A. H. Nash and Commissioner Cato Sells. Nash and The American Art Works had created a daily-date calendar which he sent to the largest Indian Schools, including Carlisle.

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $200 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1916" account to pay for students' dental work. 

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to re-enroll Amos Sackatook at the Carlisle Indian School in order to take up a form of industrial training. The application was approved on the condition that Sackatook pay for his transportation to the school.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Guy Dickerson at the Carlisle Indian School.

This document contains correspondence concerning the student account of Louis Schweigman. The student had requested remittance payments from the government. 

These materials include correspondence regarding two special enrollment courses. The first is for the enrollment of four pupils over the age of 21 years, the maximum allowed at Carlisle. The second is for Ralph Harmon Sexton to attend a technical high school in the borough of Carlisle, so he could pursue a course in Electrical Engineering from…

These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Rachel Schenderline and George Pease Jr. at the Carlisle Indian School. Information is provided about the background of Schenderline and a request to reimburse Superintendent Estep of the Crow Agency for the transportation costs to enroll Schenderline.

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Carlisle Superintendent Oscar Lipps to the Superintendent of the Haskell Institute J. R. Wise for information about the record of Isaac Bettelyoun while Bettelyoun was a student at Haskell.

These materials include correspondence regarding the church attendance of Benjamin Black Elk while on outing. Upon receiving an answer to his inquiry, William H. Ketcham, the Director of Catholic Indian Missions, objected to the placing of pupils in homes where they were unable to attend Mass regularly.

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Francis Green, a member of the Pleasant Point Indian Reservation in Maine, to gain admission to the Carlisle Indian School.

This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Katie Cochran. 

This document contains correspondence concerning the student account of Jerome Slattery. Slattery sought to use the funds to cover travel expenses.

These materials contain correspondence regarding pay for M.A. Davis, Special Officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for returning pupils who deserted from the Carlisle Indian School.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by David St. Cyr to enroll his children Walter and Annie St. Cyr at the Carlisle School.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Richard Summers to have his son Frank Summers returned home from Carlisle.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Benjamin C. Kreiner to enroll at Carlisle. Kriener was admitted to Carlisle and then held back due to a quarantine at his home agency. Following the close of the quarantine, Kreiner was then denied access to the school due to having schools nearby.

Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt forwards a drawing of Cottage #10 to Carlisle Indian School Director of Mechanic Arts Roy H. Bradley and asks him to make several adjustments to it.