Correspondence from Pima Indian Agency, Sacaton, Arizona

Collection — huntington box: 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9050

Scope and content

41 letters written by Miss Wilson to her family in Willoughby, Ohio, while she was a teacher at the Pima Indian Agency. Includes a list of scholars and how they were renamed. The folder with transcripts includes provenance information and letters to and from Sidney Wilson about the Florence Wilson correspondence. The transcripts are also annotated.

Dates

1884-1885.

Creator

Wilson, Florence L., active 1884. (Person)
Huntington Free Library (Former owner, Organization)

Biographical / Historical

Miss Florence L. Wilson was later Mrs. E. E. Flickinger. The letters were preserved by her mother, Mrs. Hepzibah Beula Smart Wilson. They were copied in several duplicates, and in this form distributed to the children of the author. When the letters were written Miss Wilson's uncle, Roswell G. Wheeler, had been appointed by President James A. Garfield as agent of the Akimel O'odham people (then called the Pima); Wilson herself had been an instructor at the Pima Indian Agency.

Extent

77 leaves. (77 leaves.)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Ownership and Custodial History

Provenance: Huntington Free Library. Gift to HFL from Mr. Sidney S. Wilson, March 1942.

Alternate Form Available

Typed transcript of letters included.

Related Materials

Sidney S. Wilson and family photographs from Pima Indian Agency. NMAI.AC.156; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution. https://sova.si.edu/record/nmai.ac.156