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Identified Persons

E.A.Hayt; Major Edmond Mallet

Identified Places

Tulalip Agency; Tulalip Indian School

Author

E.A.Hayt

Recipient

Major Edmond Mallet

Approximate Date

January 7, 1880

Original Item Medium

Correspondence

Accession Number

2013.001.093

Folder Name

Tulalip_Agency,_Washington_Territory

Language

English

Digital Reproduction Information

Scanned from a photograph at 400 dpi in TIFF format using a Nikon D800, and imported as JPEG2000 using CONTENTdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2015

Transcription

Refer in reply to the following Washington [?] 2416

Department of the Interior
Office of Indian Affairs
Washington, January 7th, 1880

Edward Mallet
Late Special Indian Agent
Tulalip Agency, W.T.
No.939, [?] City

Sir:
Referring to your letter of the 5th ultimo, relative to the necessity existing for an additional wing to the school building at Tulalip Agency, and recommending that early action be taken with a view to supplying that important improvement, I have to inform you that Agent O'Keane was authorized by this office on the 6th of October last, to expend the amount necessary in carrying out the purpose stated in said letter.

Very respectfully, E.A. Hayt

Letter to Former Indian Agent Mallet from Commissioner of Indian Affairs

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Keywords

Agency supplies, Mission school supplies, Government Relations with Native Americans, Office of Indian Affairs