1880-1889

Captain Richard Henry Pratt submits a report that lists new employee (C. H. Hepburn) as well as one who changed positions (James H. Richards). The reports include position title, salary, date of departure, and reason for departure. An explanatory cover letter is included in which Pratt requests to hire an outing agent and to relieve a…

Richard Henry Pratt seeks authority to cover the expense to return Christine Archiquette to her home due to hemorrhages.

Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for December 1886. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.

George S. Holloway of the Henry Mission Band of the Princeton Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia writes to President Grover Cleveland asking him to subscribe to the Indian Helper published at the Carlisle Indian School.

John R. Wilbon, Superintendent of the Office of Indian Affairs Warehouse in New York, forwards a receipt covering shortage of three coffee boilers for the Carlisle Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to employ a bookbinder to repair 150 worn out gospel hymnals.

O. G. Given, the school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for November 1886. Given also includes a note about the cases in the "Remarks and Physician's Special Report" section.

Captain Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees and includes details on their compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked at the school in November 1886. Pratt distinguishes between the employees, whose names appear on the first page, and the "Indian Apprentices" listed on the subsequent pages of…

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter forwarding a letter from Agent T. J. Sheehan requesting the return of Charles Martin and Henry Hudson to the White Earth Agency. Pratt responds that Martin is a student at Carlisle while Hudson is a student at the Lincoln Institute (the Educational Home in Philadelphia). In…

Richard Henry Pratt responds to the Office of Indian Affairs that he has forwarded the descriptive statement of Wasu Ricker to the Department.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards the descriptive statement of Julia Long, a member of the Sioux Nation, from Mitchell, Dakota as requested by the Office of Indian Affairs.

Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for January 1887. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Nellie Londrosh has accepted the position of teacher at the Winnebago Agency.

Estimate of funds for the first quarter of 1886 amounting to $9,711.65 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $6,817.50 for regular employee pay. 

Richard H. Pratt submits an Estimate of Supplies for the first quarter of fiscal year 1887 amounting to $234.15 and requests to purchase those items in the open market. The form includes the items being requested, the quantity, the estimated cost, and how the item will be used at the school.

J. T. Gregory, U.S. Indian Agent for the La Pointe Agency, seeks guidance from the Office of Indian Affairs regarding the transfer of Henry and Frank (here Francis) Blatchford from Odanah, Wisconsin to the Carlisle Indian School. The students' grandfather, Henry Blatchford, had written Gregory regarding an escort for his grandsons to which…

An invitation for a series of exercises, performed by Carlisle Indian School students, which include industrial demonstrations, recitations, songs, drawings, and a debate.  The event was billed as a way to show "the capacity of the Indian to receive education," and was open to the general public.

Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for February 1887. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.

J. T. Gregory, U.S. Indian Agent for the La Pointe Agency, notifies the Office of Indian Affairs that Henry and Frank Blatchford left Odanah, Wisconsin for their trip to Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he omitted a carpenter to assist in general repairs in his Report of Irregular Employees for the month of February 1887.

Joseph Vetter requests the help of C. H. Grover, U.S. Indian Agent for the Pottawatomi and Great Nemaha Agency, in regards to his and his sister's inheritance from their father. In addition, he requests the return of his sister Josie from the Carlisle Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of property which has become unserviceable and requests authority from the Office of Indian Affairs to drop them from his property returns.

Richard Henry Pratt requests to be sent two crusts vaccine viruses in order to vaccinate new students.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to return George Hill and Flora Well Known to Custer, Montana before their terms of enrollment expire. Pratt makes this request due to a job offer to the students from the Unitarian Board which is setting up a school on the Crow Agency. 

Pratt telegraphs that General J. F. B. Marshall urges that Flora Well Known and George Hill depart soon so that they can be employed as teachers in the Crow School.