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William Hobart Hare letter to Edward Abbott

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    -----. William Hobart Hare: essay

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    The collection consists of correspondence, ephemera, photographs, essays, notes, research material, reports, school records, yearbooks, poems, short stories, and speeches. Although the majority of the collection was written by Leroy Jackson, there are several other authors contained in the collection including David Greene, William Hobart Hare, John Collier, John Johnson Enmegahbowh, Lynn J. Frazier, Joseph Alexander Gilfillan, Charles Lemon Hall, Samuel William Pond, W. Carson Ryan, Alfred L. Riggs, Thomas Lawrence Riggs, Jedediah Dwight Stevens, and Frederick Jackson Turner. The material covers the following subjects: early missions and missionaries to Native Americans in Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin; Indian schools in Alaska and New Mexico; the Navajo; the Hopi; the public school and university in America and American education; progressive education; probation and the juvenile court.

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    William Whittlesey Abbott letter to Mrs. James F. Whitin

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    Henry Williams letter to Edward Gould

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    Henry Williams writes that he has given up the idea of going to Oregon, and is thinking of settling at a farm outside San Francisco.

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