In this letter the Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge was responding to a from Indian Agent A. B. Ludlam of the Pima and Maricopa Agency's request for the education of three Pima boys at the Hampton Institute instead of at Forest Grove Industrial Training School in Oregon. Trowbridge explains that the climate is not much colder between that part of Oregon and Hampton and that the Hampton Institute was full. Trowbridge suggested that the Carlisle Indian School could accept the students when arrangements were able to be made. Trowbridge also explains that "the best results" for education occur when the the "children[are] between the ages of eight and fifteen" and that they must pass a physical examination from a competent physician.
