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United States Indian Service,
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR INDIAN YOUTH,
CARLISLE BARRACKS,
Carlisle, Pa. ^[[Aug 1st]] 188^[[2]] 
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Dear Miss Fletcher,

I have the $300.00 from Senator Hoar and have a project on foot to get a very low rate so you may have for more than ^[[the]] ten and the extras you want us to take. Armstrong asked me to endorse for the number you want to place at Hampton but from inquiry I had from Indn Office after sending in the letter I fear they hesitate.

Your treatment by the Rosebud Agent was disgraceful to the Govt. service.  You were there by authority and Cook knew it.  His ravings were simply the vaporings of a self condemned  failure.  There is nothing to do but wait a change.  It was well you left the Agency.

I will go there in Sept. and have such arrangement as will give me all Pine Ridge children should the disposition of Rosebud Indns lead to that.  If we could afford to lose our

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