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Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase materials and employ specialized labor to erect a double cottage for employees along with the school's labor. Pratt asks that his request be approved immediately in order to complete the building before the end of the fiscal year. Pratt also includes the blueprints for the proposed building.…

Richard Henry Pratt forwards W. H. Miller's application for a 31-day annual leave of absence. Miller works as a financial clerk. 

Superintendent Richard H. Pratt requests a supply of two dozen different articles of stationery used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1905.

Richard Henry Pratt compiles a report with remarks regarding employees' efficiency, conduct, behavior, dress, health, attitude towards children, and notes on any special skills. The report also lists employees' salaries and position titles.

Cynthia Webster requests Richard Henry Pratt's assistance in securing a new teaching position in the Indian Service. Pratt forwards the letter along with his recommendation.

Estimate of funds for the fourth quarter of 1904 amounting to $30,516.91 for support of the school, $13,447.50 of which is for regular employee pay. 

Etta White requests a transfer in the Indian Service to a position with a higher salary than she is receiving at the Carlisle Indian School. Richard Henry Pratt forwards the letter with his approval and recommendation.

Eugene Estoppey, inquires about his dismissal as a cook from the Carlisle Indian School on short notice and his salary for the final month.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards Frances A. Veitch's request for a 23-day leave of absence because of a death in the family. Veitch works as an assistant matron. 

Richard Henry Pratt forwards Frank F. Reising's request for a 23-day annual leave of absence. Reising works as a teacher. 

Richard Henry Pratt responds to the request of Eugene Estoppey into the reasons for his dismissal as a cook at the Carlisle Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt responds to the request to return Charles King to his home.

Louise Hoye requests to have Domingo Dikit enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School rather than the Saint Francis Indian Academy in Eddington, Pennsylvania. Included is correspondence from Hoye and the Bureau of Insular Affairs regarding Dikit's situation.

Edgar A. Allen forwards the proposals of the Carlisle Indian School to furnish tinware to the Office of Indian Affairs. Allen notes that the tinware produced by the school is superior to manufactured goods as it is handmade and that he has also sent samples to the office.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a report on former students of the Carlisle Indian School to Estelle Reel.

Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists new employees (Alice Lamar) and employees who have left the school (Edith McHarg Steele and Eugene Estoppey Jr.). The report includes position title, salary, date of departure, and reason for departure.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards Ed. A. Lau's application for a 9-day leave of absence. Lau works as an instructor in carriagemaking.

Richard Henry Pratt requests that Charles Lamar be appointed to the position of band leader following the resignation of James Riley Wheelock. Pratt notes that if the Civil Service Commission declines to appoint Lamar that the position be abolished and that of laborer be created in its place.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs of the difficulties in securing fireman for the school through the Civil Service Commission. Pratt comments that the most recent appointee John Haines has turned down the assignment and further requests that Charles W. Yeager be given the permanent assignment.

New York Representative De Alva S. Alexander requests a copy of the regulations governing admission of pupils to the Carlisle Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Etta White prefers the transfer to the Colville School due to the higher salary. Pratt requests that Beckie Goodyear be promoted to fill White's place and that he be allowed to fill the position with a local Carlisle resident.

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs the correct authority number for the February 1904 report of irregular school employees.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards Anne H. Stewart's application for a 47-day leave of absence to take a sloyd course in Naas, Sweden. Stewart works as a sloyd teacher. 

Superintendent Richard H. Pratt forwards the catalogue for Sloyd teacher Anne H. Stewart's summer school course in Naas, Sweden. Stewart is taking the course from the British Sloyd Association.

Correspondence regarding the request of Mason Wheelock for the return of son Joshua Wheelock from the Carlisle Indian School.