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L.E.C. [[preprinted]] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, ALASKA DIVISION, [[/preprinted]] 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.