Estimate of funds for the second quarter of 1886 amounting to $9,936.51 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $6,435.00 for regular employee pay.
Pratt, Richard Henry
March 16, 1886
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March 18, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt notifies the Bureau of Indian Affairs that he has placed Manuel Romero as a pupil of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pratt indicates that he will keep Romero on his books as an outing student who will be visited similar to other outing students.
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March 19, 1886
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for April 1886. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
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March 19, 1886
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Gerardus C. King, Counsellor at Law, thanking him for a donation of $5000 to the school. Pratt discusses how the gift will be used to defray the costs of a debt on the school farm, and to fund a chapel. Transcript included.
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
March 24, 1886
Envelope wrap for a list of pupils at the Carlisle Indian School.
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March 27, 1886
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew regarding Pratt's recent ousting from a Congressional bill on Indian education, and Pratt's political battles with Superintendent of Schools John Oberly at the Mohonk Conference. Pratt also includes brief instructions on what Agnew should do should Carlisle be "broken…
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
April 3, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Alice Fremont is leaving for Washington D.C.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 6-20, 1886
Requests by Eli Sheridan and Theodore McCauley to go home in order to aid their fathers. Richard Henry Pratt in returning the requests to the Bureau of Indian Affairs recommends denying the requests on grounds that he had recently lectured both students and believed the requests to have resulted from these lectures.
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April 7, 1886
Authority sought by Richard Henry Pratt to cover expenses in returning Joseph Roubidoux to his home due to his mother's failing health.
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April 13, 1886
Report made by Richard Henry Pratt of the death of Jose Kowseah while returning from an outing in Rupert, Pennsylvania.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 15-18, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt recommends that De Bett Cheyenne Chief, who the school planned to send home due to illness, be send home sooner in response to a request from the agency. Due to Cheyenne Chief's health Pratt recommends sending Kise Williams, whose time at the school has expired, with him while also noting that Williams is the best harness…
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April 20, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt supplies the information requested by the Office of Indian Affairs including the fact the Carlisle Indian School can enroll 550 students for the next fiscal year including 425 students at the school and 125 on outing. Also included is the list of industries taught to the schools, the number of acres at the school and a list…
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Letters/Correspondence
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April 23, 1886
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for May 1886. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
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April 28, 1886 - January 11, 1888
T. S. Childs makes a report to the Office of Indian Affairs on Carlisle Indian School and the Indian Training School at the Hampton Institute. Childs report was prompted by complaints made against the Hampton Institute related to the health and discipline of students. Childs report focuses mostly on Hampton while examining Carlisle in order to…
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May 4, 1886
Acting Secretary of the Interior H. L. Muldrew returns a letter from Richard Henry Pratt regarding exceptions of the Second Auditor taken regarding settlement of accounts for various contractors. The contracts were modified to reflect that payment was made by Pratt and not the Office of Indian Affairs.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 8, 1886
Rev. Lyman Abbott requests that Richard Henry Pratt send an article about Carlisle for the Christian Union.
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Letters/Correspondence
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Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
May 8, 1886
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew suggesting that Agnew stops in Carlisle to say goodbye before traveling. Pratt also mentions discussions between teacher Mary Hyde and Charles Pratt of the Astral Oil Works, Brooklyn, New York, regarding her employment at a new industrial school in that city. Transcript…
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Letters/Correspondence
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
May 17, 1886
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew saying that he received Congressional funding for the purchase of a farm adjacent to the school, as well as for the construction of a chapel, stable, and two new school wings.
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May 21, 1886
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for June 1886. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
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May 24, 1886
John G. Bourke writes to Richard Henry Pratt thanking him for hospitality while visiting Carlisle, and sends a copy of his essay "The Urine Dance of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico."
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Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
May 26, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of students whose terms of enrollment are set to expire or for other reasons and requests authority to return them to their homes.
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May 29, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt reports on a proposed plan to bring the children currently being held in St. Augustine, Florida to be educated at the Carlisle Indian School. In addition, at the suggestion of Lieutenant Richards that he send Bonito, a student at Carlisle, to promote the school as an ambassador for the school among the Apaches in addition to…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 1, 1886
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew regarding plans for new and renovated buildings at Carlisle. Pratt states that he does not intend to take on more students, but rather to create a more individualized training environment. He compares Carlisle's Congressional funding to Congressional funding for…
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June 2, 1886
Obadiah G. Given, the school physician of the Carlisle Indian School, reports on the health and treatment of William Butcher. Given states that Butcher has a localized scrofula infection that is best treated at the school. Richard Henry Pratt further states that Butcher is still active in both his duties in the Printing Office as well as…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 3, 1886
Reply to Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the ages of outgoing pupils.
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