Letter to Donor About Sending a "Christmas Box"

Date
December 3, 1879

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra A. Hayt's response letter to donor Lea Lugner offering to send a "Christmas box" to the students at the school. Hayt suggests that gifts would be welcome as there are 158 children at the school, but government funds can only be spent on clothing and other school essentials. Hayt encourages Lugner to write to Pratt to ask about the students' needs. 

 

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Repository
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location
RG75, Entry 96, Medical and Educational, Volume 6A, page 272
Hand-written letter on onion-skin paper