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L.E.C.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION,
ALASKA DIVISION, 
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Washington, D. C., June 2, 1905.

Miss Alice Fletcher,
c/o Peabody Museum
Howard University,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Miss Fletcher:

I have mislaid your letter and am not sure that I know just what you wanted me to tell you.  I think, however, it was about the establishment of schools in Alaska.  I have therefore mailed you the Annual Report for 1905, which gives a review of the preceding 10 years of school work in Alaska.

The first permanent public schools in Alaska, were inaugurated by myself in 1885, several of them being schools which I had previously established under missionary auspices, but which in 1885 were turned over to the Government.

I am very glad that nothing more serious than malaria had gotten hold of you. I trust you have got it out of you now.

Your farewell letter to the family rather frightened us, as we feared that something more desperate was the matter with you.  I trust that the New England air will fetch you out all right.

Wife and daughters would send love if they knew I was writing. If I can furnish further information, please write me again.

Very sincerely yours,

^[[Sheldon Jackson]]
U. S. Gen'l Agt., Education for Alaska.