Title

Letter from an American Indian child to Indian Agent Mallet

Files

Identified Persons

Alec Maurice; Major Edmond Mallet

Identified Places

Tulalip Indian School; Tulalip Mission

Author

Alec Maurice

Recipient

Major Edmond Mallet

Approximate Date

January 1, 1877

Original Item Medium

Correspondence

Accession Number

2013.001.077

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

Creative Commons License

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Transcription

T

Tulalip Indian School
Jan 1th[sic] 1877

Major E J Mallet

Dear Sir

I wish you a Happy new year what pleasent[sic] words are these especiely[sic] to the ears of the young and also to the ears of all people we are all glad at this new year how good god is he gives us a time in this world to do good and if we are not good we will not go to Heaven but now we must be good and we will go to Heaven and if we are good we will be Happy in this world and the next. pray for me and I will pray for you

Very respetfully
your obediantly Servant

Alec Maurice

Recommended Citation

Edmond J. Mallet Collection. Emmanuel d'Alzon Library Manuscript and Photograph Collection. Assumption University, Worcester, Massachusetts.