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S. C. (Samuel Chapman) Armstrong to Alice Mary Longfellow, 13 January 1883
Manuscript letter
Hampton, Va., Jan 13 1883
Dear Miss Longfellow:
Thanks for your[sic] of the 8th with enclosed check. Please find enclosed receipt. The letter will be sent to Wild Cat who is doing bravely —one of the best young men, of any race, I have known. The hardened barbarism of the majority of the so called “Civilized” Indians is one of the saddest things about that race. The Sacs [p. 2] and Foxes here from Indian Territory, far more civilized, outwardly than the wild Sioux are much harder to manage.
Give us the untutored Savage for simply manly traits. Wild Cat is among the “civilized.”
I remember well the Annex girls and the hour I passed there. Earnest work like theirs, tho’ small, is infinitely preferable to that in a big concern which is a matter of men. Let me do them a good turn, whenever, in any way I can.
Sincerely Yours
S.C. Armstrong
Dear Miss Longfellow:
Thanks for your[sic] of the 8th with enclosed check. Please find enclosed receipt. The letter will be sent to Wild Cat who is doing bravely —one of the best young men, of any race, I have known. The hardened barbarism of the majority of the so called “Civilized” Indians is one of the saddest things about that race. The Sacs [p. 2] and Foxes here from Indian Territory, far more civilized, outwardly than the wild Sioux are much harder to manage.
Give us the untutored Savage for simply manly traits. Wild Cat is among the “civilized.”
I remember well the Annex girls and the hour I passed there. Earnest work like theirs, tho’ small, is infinitely preferable to that in a big concern which is a matter of men. Let me do them a good turn, whenever, in any way I can.
Sincerely Yours
S.C. Armstrong
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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)
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Manuscript letter in Alice Mary Longfellow Papers, Series II. Correspondence, C. Scholarship Student Correspondence, 1874-1925
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