1889

Richard Henry Pratt submits a voucher from Fisk Goodyear resulting from expenses incurred from the capture and return of two runaway students.

Sigourney Butler, Comptroller, informs R. V. Belt that the remaining pay due to Obadiah G. Given should be delayed until a legal representative is appointed to handle the estate.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards the lease for the Hocker Farm and requests that the lease be renewed for one year starting April 1, 1889 for $600.

Richard Henry Pratt submits a report that lists a new employee (Carrie E. Morse). This report includes personal information about those being hired. In a cover letter, Pratt explains the process in which Morse was appointed as a teacher at the Carlisle Indian School and her transfer to the Normal School at Englewood, Illinois.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a request from Ella and Bessie Patterson to be transferred to the Albuquerque Indian School. Pratt provides the employment history of the Pattersons' at the Carlisle Indian School and recommends their request be granted.

R. V. Belt, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, forwards the letter of Richard Henry Pratt regarding his request to pay Obadiah G. Given's wife as there is no longer a need for letters of administration in his estate.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards accounts covering medical care for two students who are on outing in farms in Bucks County, Pennsylvania for approval by the Office of Indian Affairs. Pratt notes that Charles Carr was unable to be transported back to the school and so was cared for at his outing home. Pratt ends by claiming that it is general habit…

Richard Henry Pratt requests to return Louise Schanandore (here Louisa Schanandore) on the advice of the acting physician due to ill health. Pratt notes that she can be escorted by Jemima Wheelock whose term of enrollment has ended.

Wrap documenting Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase Yaggys Geographical Study for the Carlisle Indian School as well as his calling attention to remarks for the Assistant Secretary.

Also included is the Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for 1887-1888 for the State of Nevada.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to bring in an additional 275 students from various agencies for the upcoming fiscal year. Pratt notes that the school currently has 611 students, but he expects to lose about 175 due to expiration of enrollment terms. Further he states that he was in negotiation to bring in students from various agencies…

Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of positions and salaries necessary for the function of the school. Pratt notes the changes in positions including eliminating the position of principal teacher due to his taking more direct charge of the school.

Daniel Dorchester, Superintendent of Indian Schools, reports on his surprise visit and inspection of the Carlisle Indian School. Dorchester provides an overview of his visit including his visit to all of the school rooms noting the various levels of education in each subject evinced by the students. Dorchester provides a highly favorable report…

Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for June 1889. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.

Richard Henry Pratt provides an update on the Apache prisoners brought from the Mount Vernon Barracks in the winter and spring of 1886-1887. Pratt notes that of the 106 students, 27 have died and two others will likely die within a few days. Pratt describes the generally downward trend of the party of students and requests to return the party…

Cover letter informing the Office of Indian Affairs that he has enclosed consent of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees to the extension of the lease of the Hocker farm at the reduced rent of $600 per year.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority if he can send Apaches to the Mount Vernon Barracks on Monday as he requested in his previous letter.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a copy of a letter from M. D. Baldwin, U.S. Indian Agent for the Blackfeet Agency, regarding sending 10 to 20 students to Carlisle. Pratt asks that he be given authority to arrange the transportation, or if the Office of Indian Affairs is arranging the transportation that they provide special instructions regarding…

Richard Henry Pratt follows up his request to purchase Yaggys Geographical Study. Pratt notes that he has the means to purchase the Study for $65.

Byron M. Cutcheon, Congressman from Michigan, responds to a letter from the Office of Indian Affairs regarding 50 pupils from Michigan to be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Cutcheon recommends the office communicate with a former U.S. Indian Agent and Frank W. Wheeler, another Congressman from Michigan.

R. V. Beet, Acting Commissioner of the Office of Indian Affairs, requests the return of the lease of farm in Carlisle, Pennsylvania between James A. McCauley, Robert Henderson, Richard Henry Pratt and Hiram Price for a one year continuance from the Comptroller of the Treasury.

Richard Henry Pratt reports that 35 San Carlos Apache students are eligible to return to their homes due to the expiration of their terms. Six of the students have elected to remain an additional year but Pratt notes that many more should remain and likely would with the encouragement from the agent and their friends.

Pratt requests a…

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that a group of Apache students left Carlisle for the Mount Vernon on May 30, 1889. In addition, he felt it important to increase the size of the party to nine students.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to use the extra $500 remaining in his appropriation for sending Alfred John Standing and a female assistant to recruit students in Michigan.

Pratt also notes that a former student who could have served this role returned home in order to look out for his own interests in regards to the land in…

Thomas Stewart Jr., school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for May 1889.

Captain Richard H. Pratt forwards the monthly report of irregular employees for May 1889 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Note: The report itself was missing when this file was scanned at the National Archives.