Request from the Cheyenne Agency for 80 children as well as 10 chiefs and police to visit the Carlisle Indian School.
1884
![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)
![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.
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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.
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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.
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Richard Henry Pratt asks if anything has been done about his previous letter about school stationery.
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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.
![Audit of the Financial Transactions of Richard Henry Pratt Audit of the Financial Transactions of Richard Henry Pratt](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b2694_04139_0001.jpg?itok=2u9UWO3d)
This audit and report, which concerns the finances of the Carlisle Indian School as administered by Richard Henry Pratt, was prepared immediately following his retirement as superintendent of the school. The report focuses on the use of non-governmental funds - charitable donations to the school, as well as income earned through athletics and…
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This material is a collection of correspondence received by the Office of Indian Affairs between 1918 and 1966, all related to the Carlisle Indian School. As the Carlisle Indian School closed in 1918, the majority of these letters are either requesting information about the school and its graduates, or inquiring to see if the school is still…