Request to Enroll 40 Children from the Green Bay Agency

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from the U. S. Indian Agent at the Green Bay Agency, E. Stephens. Stephens writes Pratt requesting to enroll forty students from his agency from three tribes: the Menominee, Oneida, and Stockbridge. Stephens states that the progress of the two students already at Carlisle shows the benefits of the school including in its ability to teach the English language by bringing together different nations. In Pratt's annotation to the letter, he says that he would be glad to take as many students as the Department wishes to send, but due to the limitations of the current grounds he would struggle to have more than 300 students at one time.