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Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant seamstress Mary E. Lininger's application for a 21-and-a-half-day leave of absence. 

Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant seamstress Susan Zeamer's application for a 28-day annual leave of absence. 

Correspondence regarding a request for an increase in the salary of Mariette Wood to prevent her transfer to the Haskell Institute as Assistant Principal Teacher.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards disciplinarian W. Grant Thompson's application for a 44-day leave of absence, 14 days for annual leave and 30 days to attend summer school at Chautauqua Normal School of Physical Education.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards teacher Bessie Barclay's application for a 59-day leave of absence, 29 days for annual leave and 30 days to  attend summer school at Mout Gretna, Pennsylvania. 

Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant teacher Sadie E. Newcomer's application for a 14-day annual leave of absence. 

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Dandridge will accept appointment at the Fort Apache Agency.

William M. Hugg, Superintendent of the Lincoln Institute, provides letters from four students who were to be transferred to Carlisle expressing their desire to remain at Lincoln.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Roma F. Ewbanks has applied to be put on the Civil Service Register a cook. Pratt requests that she be appointed to the position at the Carlisle Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards three employees' leave of absence applications: Jonathan D. Sowerby (assistant teacher), M. S. Barr (nurse), and Kate S. Bowersox (normal teacher).

Correspondence regarding the decision to return Joel Bighead and John Wolfchief to their homes.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Laura A. Dandridge will accept the laundress position at Keams Canyon.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards librarian Sara E. Smith's application for a 30-day annual leave of absence.  

Richard Henry Pratt follows up on his request for orders for Laura Dandridge following her appointment to Keams Canyon.

S. L. Diven, the school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for June 1899.

Correspondence regarding a complaint by Peter St. Pierre regarding his daughter's Emma health while at the Carlisle Indian School and a request for the return of his son Henry.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant seamstress E. Corbett's application for a 28-day annual leave of absence. 

Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant teacher J. D. Sowerby's adjusted application for a 21-day annual leave of absence.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards assistant seamstress Lizzie C. Jacobs' application for a 27-day annual leave of absence. 

Richard Henry Pratt forwards seamstress Carrie E. Hulme's application for a 27-day annual leave of absence. 

Major Richard H. Pratt and Assistant Superintendent A. J. Standing submit a report that lists irregular employees who worked at the school during June 1899. The report includes details on compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked during that month. An explanatory cover letter is also included, which mentions that John…

William R. Bushby, the Chief of the Education Division of the Civil Service Commission, forwards to the Secretary of the Interior a list of three women (Esther Ropenstein, Inga Erickson, Marion Gibbes) who are eligible to fill the vacant clerk position at the Carlisle Indian School. The list includes the candidates' names, addresses, and their…

Major Richard H. Pratt requests a six-month supply of two dozen different blank administrative forms used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior.

Richard Henry Pratt requests that Clara L. Smith be transferred from her position as a teacher at Fort Shaw to Carlisle at $540 per year.

Alfred John Standing forwards contracts for building materials for enlarging a school building at the Carlisle Indian School.