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Phillip Councillor to Alice Mary Longfellow, December 1883
Manuscript letter
[printed letterhead: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute]
[pencil in letterhead: “Miss Alice Longfellow.”]
Hampton, Va., Dec 1883
Miss Alice Longfellow
My dear friend
I am going to write
I come Lower Brule Agency
Dakota
I come school house. I make house. My trade Carpenter shop. I like English. I try This is I carpenter house yes good house
Thank you for helping me
Your friend
Phillip Councillor
[p. 2] Philip [sic] Councilor[sic] is a Sioux Indian from Lower Brule Agency who came to Hampton a year ago with his wife Katy Councillor & his little boy Charlie, "White Corn,” less than a year old. Philip [sic] is a tall Indian Brave, a man of much influence in the tribe. He has not improved as fast in English as we hoped he might, but he has gained very much in ideas and general intelligence. He is helping now to build the model cottages into which we hope before long to move two of the Indian families & teach them how to keep a neat & pleasant home, such as they may have on a reservation. Katy his wife has improved wonderfully in neatness & thrift since she came. At first we doubted whether we could ever make a good housekeeper of her. Her room now is almost always ready for inspection.
Mabel B. Eustis
[pencil in letterhead: “Miss Alice Longfellow.”]
Hampton, Va., Dec 1883
Miss Alice Longfellow
My dear friend
I am going to write
I come Lower Brule Agency
Dakota
I come school house. I make house. My trade Carpenter shop. I like English. I try This is I carpenter house yes good house
Thank you for helping me
Your friend
Phillip Councillor
[p. 2] Philip [sic] Councilor[sic] is a Sioux Indian from Lower Brule Agency who came to Hampton a year ago with his wife Katy Councillor & his little boy Charlie, "White Corn,” less than a year old. Philip [sic] is a tall Indian Brave, a man of much influence in the tribe. He has not improved as fast in English as we hoped he might, but he has gained very much in ideas and general intelligence. He is helping now to build the model cottages into which we hope before long to move two of the Indian families & teach them how to keep a neat & pleasant home, such as they may have on a reservation. Katy his wife has improved wonderfully in neatness & thrift since she came. At first we doubted whether we could ever make a good housekeeper of her. Her room now is almost always ready for inspection.
Mabel B. Eustis
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Manuscripts (1007.001), (LONG-Subcollection)
, Correspondence (1007.001/002), (LONG-SeriesName)
, Scholarship Student Correspondence (1007.001/002.003), (LONG-SubseriesName)
, Letters to Alice Longfellow (1007.001/002.003-001), (LONG-FileUnitName)
, Correspondence (1007.001/002), (LONG-SeriesName)
, Scholarship Student Correspondence (1007.001/002.003), (LONG-SubseriesName)
, Letters to Alice Longfellow (1007.001/002.003-001), (LONG-FileUnitName)
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
NPS Museum Number Catalog : LONG 16173
Title: Finding Aid to the Alice Mary Longfellow (1850-1928) Papers, 1855-1965 (bulk dates: 1873-1928)
URL: https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm#AML
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12/01/1883 - 12/30/1883
Manuscript letter in Alice Mary Longfellow Papers, Series II. Correspondence, C. Scholarship Student Correspondence, 1874-1925
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