Richard Henry Pratt transmits to the Bureau of Indian Affairs plans for a building at the Carlisle Indian School to include a kitchen, dining room, laundry, and a sewing room along with a cellar for commissary supplies, root cellar, and coal bin. Pratt notes that using School labor and materials he can cut the cost down from the estimates given…
1880-1889
![Proposal for Building New Dining Room Proposal for Building New Dining Room](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0205_16870_c2206.jpg?itok=wY3KAmSl)
![Pratt Unwilling to Take All Boys from Mescalero Agency Pratt Unwilling to Take All Boys from Mescalero Agency](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0205_16972_0002.jpg?itok=sCdobSlt)
Richard Henry Pratt writes that he is unwilling to only accept boys from the Mescalero Agency and believes that it is possible to obtain girls from the agency without force despite the agent's claims. As a result, Pratt requests the transportation money meant for transporting students to the Carlisle Indian School to be returned to him in order…
![Specifications for Proposed Dining Room to Built Specifications for Proposed Dining Room to Built](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0206_17012_0003.jpg?itok=cPoDRQoP)
Specifications for the proposed dining room.
![Severe Measures to be Taken to Recruit Apache Girls for Carlisle Severe Measures to be Taken to Recruit Apache Girls for Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0206_17280_0003.jpg?itok=Km5dqsBJ)
William H. H. Llewellyn, U.S. Indian Agent for the Mescalero Agency, notes that he will use severe measures to recruit girls for the Carlisle Indian School.
![Pratt Questions Waiting for Mescalero Agent to Recruit Girls Pratt Questions Waiting for Mescalero Agent to Recruit Girls](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0207_17759_0003.jpg?itok=l5AB29hV)
Richard Henry Pratt inquires whether it is worthwhile to wait for William H. H. Llewellyn to recruit girls from the Mescalero Agency. Notes that L. J. Miles is going to leave the Osage Agency with 40 students and he can accept 50 more from that agency.
![Pratt Follows Up on Inquiry on July 1884 Irregular Employee Report Pratt Follows Up on Inquiry on July 1884 Irregular Employee Report](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0207_17712_0003.jpg?itok=Azh-gP8o)
Richard Henry Pratt follows up by telegram to the Office of Indian Affairs asking if his Report of Irregular Employees for July 1884 is approved.
![Opposition of Local Priest to Government Schools Recruiting Students Opposition of Local Priest to Government Schools Recruiting Students](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0209_18875_0004.jpg?itok=J6wcrpcR)
Marianna Burgess sends a report to Richard Henry Pratt regarding a recruiting trip at the Menominee Agency. Burgess details the difficulties resulting from opposition from the local Catholic Priest. Pratt notes that he has experienced similar opposition at the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, and in a number of the Pueblo Agencies.
![Proposal Regarding Mescalero Agency Students Proposal Regarding Mescalero Agency Students](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0207_18136_0002.jpg?itok=LaqvikYP)
Richard Henry Pratt references the telegrams sent by William H. H. Llewellyn, U.S. Indian Agent for the Mescalero Agency, and recommends that the agent be encouraged to make up the party of students from the agency in November. He notes that if Carlisle is unable to enroll the students that they can likely be sent to another Indian School.
![Proposed Eminent Domain for South Penn Railroad Proposed Eminent Domain for South Penn Railroad](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0208_18425_0004.jpg?itok=laEdYh4l)
Richard Henry Pratt writes the Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding a proposed plan of the South Pennsylvania Railroad to use eminent domain through the state to build a railroad through the grounds of the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that this would greatly diminish the capability of the school to properly educate students.
![Cheyenne Agency Request to Visit the Carlisle Indian School Cheyenne Agency Request to Visit the Carlisle Indian School](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0208_18338_0003.jpg?itok=Z4KAZlVV)
Request from the Cheyenne Agency for 80 children as well as 10 chiefs and police to visit the Carlisle Indian School.
![Ticket for Miles to Visit the Carlisle Indian School Ticket for Miles to Visit the Carlisle Indian School](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0208_18439_0002.jpg?itok=TGwEeW07)
Alfred John Standing informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he has provided a ticket for Miles, a Hampton Institute student, to visit the Carlisle Indian School.
![Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, Fourth Quarter 1884 Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, Fourth Quarter 1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0209_19042_c2439.jpg?itok=j39yDQdX)
Estimate of funds for the fourth quarter of 1884 amounting to $14,921.50 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $6,105.00 for regular employee pay and includes a lengthy letter asking for $6,000.00 to purchase lumber for dining room building.
![Correspondence Regarding Funds to be Sent for Dining Room Correspondence Regarding Funds to be Sent for Dining Room](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0210_19402_0008.jpg?itok=C5SDgRxG)
Correspondence regarding a request of Richard Henry Pratt to have funds for building a new dining room to be sent to him.
![Notice of Need for Additional Authority to Purchase Lumber Notice of Need for Additional Authority to Purchase Lumber](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0211_19941_0001_.jpg?itok=_tj5JfzQ)
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that his previous authority for purchasing lumber and other materials is nearly exhausted and he will need an additional authority soon.
![Request for Two Strike and Cook to Visit Carlisle Indian School Request for Two Strike and Cook to Visit Carlisle Indian School](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0213_20796_0003.jpg?itok=pzRjcjHP)
James G. Wright, U.S. Indian Agent for the Rosebud Agency, requests instructions for allowing Cook and Two Strike to visit their children at the Genoa and Carlisle Indian Schools. Both propose to pay their way and a note attached to the letter indicates there is no objection as long as Pratt agrees and there is no Government expense.
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Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to bring in an additional 60 students from various agencies.
![Proposal to Allow Four Chiefs and Their Wives to Visit Carlisle Proposal to Allow Four Chiefs and Their Wives to Visit Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0213_21179_0004.jpg?itok=70FKwg1t)
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to allow two Arapaho Chiefs, Powder Face and Left Hand, as well as their wives to visit the Carlisle Indian School in the hopes of making it easier to allow families to send girls to the school by having women visit. In addition, Pratt proposes allowing two Cheyenne chiefs and their wives visit for the…
![Adoptions of Kisetta Roosevelt and Jack Mather Adoptions of Kisetta Roosevelt and Jack Mather](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0216_22556_0002.jpg?itok=tNFPX9Jb)
Richard Henry Pratt proposes to two families to adopt Kisetta and Jack, members of the Apache Nation. Pratt indicates that Kisetta be adopted by Mr. Paxon a farmer who she has been living with on outing and Jack by Miss Mather, a former St. Augustine assistant.
![Request for Update on Stationary Request for Update on Stationary](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0216_22860_0003.jpg?itok=jc9LXYEZ)
Richard Henry Pratt asks if anything has been done about his previous letter about school stationery.
![Tall Chief Requests the Return of His Daughter Myrtie Tallchief Tall Chief Requests the Return of His Daughter Myrtie Tallchief](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0378_05065_0006.jpg?itok=lAaqtXNt)
Tall Chief writes to the U.S. Indian Agent James I. David of the Osage Agency requesting his assistance in returning his daughter Myrtie Tallchief from the Carlisle Indian School. David forwarded the letter to the Office of Indian Affairs seeking their advice.
Also included is a school record of Myrtie Tallchief documenting her progress…
![Pratt Calls Attention to Letter Regarding Adoptions of Jack and Kisetta Pratt Calls Attention to Letter Regarding Adoptions of Jack and Kisetta](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0218_23448_0002.jpg?itok=Rn_V-WBL)
Richard Henry Pratt calls to the attention of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs his previous letter proposing the adoptions of Kisetta and Jack, members of the Apache Nation, to Mr. Paxon a farmer in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and Miss Mather, one of his former assistants at St. Augustine.
![Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, First Quarter 1885 Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, First Quarter 1885](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0218_23496_0002.jpg?itok=CXDxU3B4)
Estimate of funds for the first quarter of 1885 amounting to $7,872.50 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $6,105.00 for regular employee pay.
![Inquiry into Potential Change in Yearly Vacation Policy Inquiry into Potential Change in Yearly Vacation Policy](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0218_23727_0002.jpg?itok=QsjCrHoy)
Richard Henry Pratt inquires if an Office of Indian Affairs letter is meant to deny the Carlisle Indian School its yearly vacation during the Summer.
![Letter from Richard H. Pratt to Cornelius R. Agnew, December 13, 1884 Letter from Richard H. Pratt to Cornelius R. Agnew, December 13, 1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/DKC_MC200804_b1_f04_p010_1.jpg?itok=0PJ7_7xI)
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew regarding his order of a coat and shoes from the school. Pratt also commends Agnew for taking in a blind Osage child.
Transcript included.
![Louis Bordeaux Requests Daughters be Transferred Out of Carlisle Louis Bordeaux Requests Daughters be Transferred Out of Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0220_24789_0003.jpg?itok=egmINDZG)
Louis Bourdeaux requests that his daughters Josephine and Martha be transferred from the Carlisle Indian School to Avoca. Bourdeaux writes that due to the outing program his daughters have rarely been at Carlisle and have instead been servants in various homes throughout Pennsylvania and so has not advanced her education.