Correspondence Regarding the Failure to Re-Nominate Two Teachers

Correspondence regarding Richard Henry Pratt not re-nominating M. L. Silcott and Maud Mosher for teaching positions during the 1897 fiscal year. Pratt had not given sufficient written reasons for his decision, and so complaints were made leading to a call for his dismissal. Pratt subsequently provided a written explanation for his reasons--that he wanted to make room to employ new graduates Nellie Robertson and Mary Bailey, and that Silcott had not been a good employee--and for not providing written justification. 

Also included is a letter from the Secretary of the Interior to the Office of Indian Affairs declining to suspend Pratt and have the Secretary of War recall him from duty in the Indian Service.