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Mies Mice RobertsonMuskogee, Okla.

Dear Miss Robertson :-

I do not know what length yourmanuscript on your experiences in Congress, i . doingto be, but I am sure it ill be in.tere :sting news-paper material, and I take this means of making youan offer of 500 .00 for newspaper publication rights,to a story of at least 10,000 words in length, entitled," My Experiences in Congrese ."

I would be very happy to see thatthe articles are prepared in good form, and to see thatyour manuscript is not garbled in production.

Please let me know at your earliestconvenience, what arrangements you have made for thepublication of this material, when the story will beready, for publication, and whether my offer is accept

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Oct .18,1929.

Miss Alice M. Robertson,1109 Elgin Ave .,Muskogee, Okla.

Dear Miss Robertson:

Your letter of the 14th mentioned the fact thatyou are devoting considerable time to your personalautobiography. I would like to know what arrangementshave been made for the publication of this volume, whenyou. expect to get it within covers, and when editors willhave an opportunity of looking at it with the thought ofserialization in mind.

As to the story on Vinnie Ream Hoxie, I cannotpromise to pay you for it without seeing the feature.If you care to write it on approval and give us theprivilege of scanning it, I assure you I will give itcareful consideration.

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October 21, 1929.

Walter M . Harrison,lfana ;inG Editor,Daily Oklahoman,Oklahoma City, Okla.

My dear Mr . Harrison s

I have your letter of the 18th inst . You ask what

arrangements have been made for the publication of the

personal autobiography upon which I am engaged . It is im«

possible to tell just how soon it will be ready for the

printers and nothing definite has teen done as to it's

publication . I shall be very .glad, at the earliest poss-

ible time, to write the story of Vinnie Beam Hoxie for

examii3tion . I always prefer to have peo ::le decide in

advance.I am enclosing h rewith, my last three articles

for the Sunday Phoenix. They are only locally bought,

and the Phoenix has - been so accustomed to having my work

without charge, that th:y only pay me $5 .uO for each

Sunday story . But that pays for my E,roceries.

Very truly yours,

A11lR :RS

November 6 , 1929 .'

Mr . Walter M. Ha rison,I anagin Editor,Daily Oklahoman,0 aho'ia City, Okla.

My dear :Ir . Harrison:

I regret not to have replied to your letter of the

18th of October, :Alt at this later hour do so . It is such

slow work in prep;zinc the personal auto lio raph;. , th. t I

have not attempted any arrangement as to it's public, tio . .,

nor dare I definitely look forward to it's being ready for

the printer.

I had asked . you to take a story aLcut Vii eie Ream

Hoxie, when I came to write it up to send to you for am a'o-

val, I was so dis,uated with the price I had set, that in an

emerLes .cy, when my brother and his wife, who had not been

here before, for 26 years, .as a :er:dinG a week with me, I

sent it to the Phoenix as my weekly dole, and I think I

might write i t "weakly" affusion . I will enclose it with

three previous articles,

I am to e i_ . Oklahoma City on the 15th and 16th inst .,

and as a p hoto -apher came ith an order to take a ,icture

or' me for your paper, I imagine you are expecting to use it,

at that time . The photographyrof which he allowed me to se

a copy, is a strerc face, but lot beautiful, but truth should

never be sacrificed for beauty .

Very truly yours,

AA'', sR S

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Robertson,1109 Elgin Ave .,:uskogee, Oklahoma.

Rear :!iiss Robertson:

As there were no enclosures with your letterof November 6, I imagine you omitted them through anoversight and that they will come along in a latermail .

I hope that you have made arrangements to publishyour autobiography on a basis that will be p rofitable to

you, and look forward to seein g; you when you are in thecity on the 16th of November.

",ALTERS . HARRISON,Managing Editor.

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January 20, 1030,

Mr . Alvin Rucker,Daily Oklahoman,O':lahoma City, Okla.

My dear Mr . Rucker:

I have just received your article in yesterday's 0t.lahoman

about Sequoibh . I have had very much meterial ::-ome hitherto un-

published, that is included in the great mass of correspondence

that has come to me as one who has received many ariany papers that

have survived so long a period as one after another of the second

generation, my grandfather ` areeuter'ss family has followed into

the great beyond and also as his own and his wife and relatives

have been vent on by those to whom they ti e'e weitten ea lc-n ago.

I have a mass of material which I dope when the pending plans

which the Oklahoma "'emorial Association has taken up to raise funds

allowing me a life anneity of 200 .00 a north, I ehall then ire able

to give my time to the sorting and use of his material as I have

been unable heretofore.

I am enclosing to you an article j riated in the 1hoonia yester-

day which I think will interest yea

so fur as it wives the story

of grandfather 7orcester . You may notice that he speaks of d equoiah

as Mr. Guess and it was a idiosyncrasy of the CheroLee half Leeds

to take the white fataere name inwtedd of the Indian vane and he

was known as Geo . Guess . Y,ur article speaks of Aim as Gist.

I am sending you a little ptur;p llet of whicia I do not know if

you have a copy or not, that was published many years aL;o in behalf

of the old Worcester Academy under the Congressional Church while

Indian Territory was assigned to the Presbyterian Church in the

United States of America.

I want to express my pleasure of your series of articles,

Unfortunately I have Lot the first and would be very grateful if

you could send it to me . Of those whose history you have ;Liven,

I knew perhaps better than any other Allen Writ. He was a

Union Colle,:e man and my father was a Union ColleGe man . I knew

hit . is the days after the war in the period of :iis Greatest politi-

cal activity and my ftiendship with him, which vas continued to is

children, has beer close.

I am tempted to take up too much time in remi.iscer~ce, but

4s ve are interested alone the same lines, I Li sure you will for-

give me .

Very sincerely yours,

Oklahoma City, Ok . a•Jan . 27, 193o.

Miss Alice Robertson,Muskogee, Oklahoma.

My dear Miss Robertson:

Thanks for sending the article concerning your ancestors . For several

years I have been reading every word I came across concerning Rev . Worcester.

His interest in the Cherokees seems to have absolutely altruistic, and I at( •r.ibute

much of their intellectual and spiritual advancement to his activities among them.

He was one of natures noblemen . If he had been a representative of the CatholicA

church, he would, beyond doubt o with the lapse of years have been Canonized . He

endured not only the privations attending missionary work, but braved and endured

imprisonment in behalf of those whom he sought to aid . I am glad he chose the

prison alternative, as his action revealed that great souls were not limited to

the apostolic age . If ever there was a man who loved his fellow man more than

self, it a was Rev . Worcester.

I have often been to old Park Hill and h ve made many pictures of the

old seminary columns and other scenes in the vicinity . My visit to the old\ cemetery

Cherokee

t was a revelation to me . I had foreknowledge that many of the

graves belonged to the ante-bellum period and was ex_iecti.ng to see only crude

grave markers, such as could be produced locally, as I was mindful of the f,ect

tht the Cherokee nation at that period was far removed from the white man's

civilization and its products . I was surprised at the large number of marble

tombstones, and the size of several of them . They had been shipped long distances

to railroad terminals, and then hauled overland to the cemetery . The iron picket

fence in the cemetery, built before the civil warn impressive to me . When I looked

at the marble tombstones and the fence, I gained a new and unexpected conception

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of Cherokee civilization, as the stones and fence differed in no manner from

tombstones and iron fences erected in white cemeteries in centers of white

civilization . Every time I think of that cemetery I think of the material,

mental and spiritual status that must h ve prevailed among the Cherokees in

order to create a demand for such pretentious stones and fence, especially

when they were difficult and costly to obtain . The white man could have suggested

and forced u__on the Cherokees the two pretentious seminaries, but only an innate

demand on the part of the Cherokees could have prompted them to have imported

the marble tombstones and fencing, Aaich had to be paid for by individual

Cherokees, and not by the government or from communal funds held in trust and

expended by the government . A people far enough along to want and obtain such

ornaments for the dead, had to be far along in civilization . In other words I

left the cemetery with the conviction that the Cherokees were as fur along

materially* and spiritually as whites similarly situated.

Thanks for what you said about my stories . I went to the file room today

and obtained the copy which you requested . If you do not receive it within

a day or two, let one know and I will mail another.

Be certain to send the pamphlet to which you refer, when you come across

it, and if you t wish to preserve it I will return it to you after reading it.

It is kind of you to offer to let me have it.

I sincerely hope that the effort of the Oklahoma Memorial Association will

prove successful, not only for your temporal sake, but for the sake of poster-

ity in Oklahoma, as nearly all of Oklahoma's history todate is Indian and

missionary history and a comparatively few persons are the repositories . No one

except you is competent to go over . the material you possess and make it availablE

for the public.

Hoping that many more-contented years are to be your lot, I beg to be

numbered among your friends,

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February 3, 1930.

Mr . Alvin Rucker,1712? SyiartelAvOLlanoma City, Okla.

My dear fr . Rucker:

I was very anxious to send you an autograph d let Ler

of my grand-father, jut there are so many diffLrent packages

and the only ones that I found =atiuruay were of suc a ve_y

personal farily nature that I col ld not part with them . I

am sending; a letter dated at Park Hill, Octobt ;r 29, 1645 that

was written to Miss Nancy Thompson a Miusio. ary who had been

five y ars at work among the Cherokees before my grand father

went to Brainard.

She carte west, lived first in my grand father's fa . ily

and died six weeks before my father at Talla asee in 1801,

and is buried with our fa ily at Park Hill. Young DviGht

Hitchcock wrote to her . The Sarah he speaks of was Sarah

Worcester, second daughter of my Grand father . My moth r

was in New En land at school, my Aunt Sarah w nt to Mt . Holyhoke

la er and married Dwight Hitchcock in 1 50 . The letter was

finished by my grand fa her . I enclose also a copy of my

Phoenix article of y,sLerday in which I have quoted you, not

,,ivink, your name .

Very truly y urs,

A 71 . :RS

February 5, 1930.

Hon . : .:leer Harrison,Dail:: Oklahoman,Oklahoma Cit:, Okla.

My dear

Iarrison:

I had hoped to see you when I was in Oklahoma City two

weeks a .o for the His= torical Societe meeting, lut the weather

made it out of the question for me to risk going to your office

and at the same time I did :ot like to ask you to come to see

me . I am truly grateful to you for the movement you set on foot

on State Hood day . At firet I was a little reluctant to have

action taken, 'ut as matters have shaped themselves so that it

should rot be a local `hang nor anything planned simply for me

it appeared to me quite differently.

There is ;r : at need in Oklahoma of a home for aged gentle

people . I have la own so much about the Louise Home in Washing-

ton founded by one of 7ashington' s greatest benefactors, where

in :ter old ae the widow of Pres . Tyler, lived happily and was

surrounded in the home there by other southern impoverished

ladies . I know of cases now where a home such as is thought of

wo u ld be a God send to persons in God's providence left practi-

cally helpless and unable because of age to obtain employment.

It is hard to realize that one cannot always have physical

ability to work, and indeed there are cases too when a home for

educated persons would le a haven to people who would be able to

pay for them .

`'ev ral times I visited it an old ladies home at Troy,

New York. Delicht Sargeant Boudirlot missionary among the

Cherokees, widow of Cornelius Boudir.ot who was asstnatedted.

She was so hapoy there, cared for by Missionary societies

who paid for her because of the wonderful experiences of her

life . So long as she was atle she received many visitors and

did much good it creating int rest in Missions.

I hope you will pardon me for writing at such length, but

at firet the idea of anytling be r g named for me was wholly

repugnant, 'out I have become reconciliOQ

In closing I grant to te.il you that I give a ttrce months

subscription to the comk. ined palere, eelahox'.an and Times . They

come to me by mail and I receive the Oklahenar . v:.r : grequei.tly

at nine o'clock ir the leornii ; . It is more comJJlL to in many

respects than the other two morning paper s, the I hoenix and

The Tulsa orld, t'Lich come a little earlier . I ccnsid.er

p arker Lamer the best ash egton correspondence I k: ow . I

always read every word I s of his.

With best wiehes for yourself personally and for the con-

tinuir..g good work of the U'_,lahoinan,

I am

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February 13, 1910.

Mr. W . `'' . Ha' rison,Daily Oklahoman,Oklahoma City, 0 la.

My dear Mr. Hairisons

Something over forty years auo I was spending much time

in New York City working out from there under a mission board

in effort to raise funds for building some schools . Of course,

I had only moderate personal means at my command, my expenses

being paid when I was on filld duty . It was then that I found

what a Ye'Vna .A . home may be in a great city.

A block from Union Square, New York was the Margaret Louise

Home, built and equipped like an excellent hotel which was open

to business and professional women . The name Margaret Louise

was from it's donor Margaret Louie Vanderbilt Sheppard whose

name other than Margaret Louise never appeared . References

were required and given. There was a small library, a comfort-

able lounge, one reading room with piano in it, that one mtght

have mu:=ic if desired, this was used each evening for a short

devotional period conducted by the lady superintendant or some

one whom she asked to take charge of it . There wee hymn books

and a leader at the piano . Many of the inmates enjoyed the

brief little service . Good food with perfect table service,

well trained waitreses, and was available to out side women

of the same class . The rooms were of different prices and were

extremely reasonable . Everything showed perfect taste and a

desire to give those to whom such a home would appeal gr . .at plea-

sure in being permitted to become an inmate . There was a res•

triotion as to the time any one might remain . I could not take

a room pernauently, but could come and go, one month being the

limit that one might remain.

I have been greatly Interested in reading of the Y .W .C .A.

drive that is on in Oklahoma City and rejoice at Mr . Ramsey's

wordtTful gift . I am especially interested in the picture and

article in the Daily Oklahoman of the tenth, illustrating the

proposed .Y .W .C .A . chapel which is descrited as the meditation

chapel .

Going back again to my stay in New York, on the same street

a very short distance away was a Church and College of St.

Xavier . It will be remembered that Catholic Churches are always

open and a number of times when. I had come in very weary from a

trip r_ot wishing as yet to meet people, I slipped into St . Xavier

chapel where on the back seat I might quitely rest and pray.

No one ever asked me whence I came or wither I was going . It

was simply a time of pease and the realization of what our

common htnnar:ity is . For this reason the proposed chapel appeals

to me very strongly .

Very truly yours,

AMR :RS

February 13, 'ale%

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rieon,Dail:; Okla aman,Oklahoma City, 0 la,

My dear Mr . i arT icons

Something over forty years ac. . o I vas upending much time

in law work City working out from thero under a r:.iaoioi board

in effort to raise funds for building sane sehhocl .s . Of ocurae,

I had only moderate personal means at my comand, my te-xpenseri

being paid whoa luau on fl&ld auty . It was teen that I found

what a Wti:.ti .A, hoe may be in a great city,

A block from Union Square, 1New York was the r, aret Louise

Home, built and equipped like an excoile ut hotel which was open

to buuiness and pro eoaionai omen . The name

Louise

waa from it'e dialer «iar, area Louie Vandcsrbilt Shepaxd whose

name War than llart,aret Louise never appcarcd . Leforenees

were required mad ,ive:rs . Mere was a amail library, ,a comfort•

wale lounge, ease readin room with piano i . it, I'�.at oue zit zt

have u:ic if desired, t: ;.ie was umal each etienia,g, fora short

devotional pz;riod conducted by the lady superintaridant or ' ame

ono wham .ha as ed to take charge of it . There wej a 3imn books

and .a leader at the pi aao . any of the inmates anjoved the

brief little ierviice . Good food with perfecct table ec:rvioe,

well trained wa .itroea es, and was available to out aide women

of the same c asa . The rode wo;o of different prices and were

extrenel.y rotas ; r . let . Niter thirs t , showed perfect taste and a

desire to give those to whom such a home would appeal a -at plea-

sure in be ; n ; p ;r, i tied to became an i ..aate . There was a r oe-

triction au to the time any ono mia t remain . I Gould Lot take

a~~ream perm er:tly, but

.

could come and go, one AFonth being tha

liLt W that one 7,1 .%t remain.

I have Leon rep tly interested in re galing of the Y .V .C .A.

drive that :a on in Oklahoma City and rejoice at Ir . La st:y e e

ward rft;l 4;Lft . I am especially ir.teo sated in the picture and

article in th© rail:' 3 la.4o uui of the ta:ifl o illuetratiak tha

proposed 7 . ' .C .A. chapel which is deueril.ed a* the meditation

ohapo1.

Qc ;, „c;, 'lac.; again: to my sta in Now York, on the saw street

a very s rt di tance away was a Church and Colley +a of ;t.

Xavier . It will Le r eLle ab i ed that Catholic Ch: :rches are alwwfe

open and a nt bar of : iuea when I had coma in ver:' weary from a

trip :ot wishing rain ,yet to Poet p opl.e, I olipPe d i.,to ::t, 'x vier

chapel where en the back seat I r4 ht nuttely rest sod ) rL,y.

No one aver sassed ac+ : whence I c.o.w, , or '.': i titer I was E.0 n2t+ It

vac siiei .1;

Limo of peace and t.ie realisation of whs. our

cc:csmcn hac i.ty is . For t<ais reason t Il opoeed chapel apl-eala

tc we very etxoagly .

Very trul; yours„

Al, :R$

AFTER FIVE DAYS DETUIT14 TO

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Miss Alice Robertson,

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January 26, :i931.

Piss Alice Robertson,:,uskogee, Oklahoma.

My dear Miss Robertson:

For the last four months I have been working on theproject of the determining of the twenty-five most usefulcitizens of Oklahoma for all time . It La possible that I havewritten to you about the matter long vefore this . he haveassembled a lot of information, and we are about ready to beginto reach the end.

More than 200 names of men ann women, reaching from)oronado down to the present time, .have been nominated . A com-mittee of oualified citizens has weeded out about 140 of the names,leaving only 60 from which to select the 25 winners . The list of60 names is attached herewith.

we shall appreciate it very much if you will take thetime, within the next ten days, to go over this list carefullyand indicate the 2h whom you believe have contributed the mosttoward establishing Oklahoma as a thriving empire, and making thestate what it is today.

If there are two or three persons you believe should beincluded in this list whose names do not appear on it, we shallbe very glad to have you include them on the list when you returnit .

Your co-operation in helping us to assemble this l::eature

is most highly appreciated.

R G`/LR

R . G . : I L :RSunday Edit

William H . Murray

Lew H . Wentz

Alice Robertson

Frank Phillips

Thomas H . Doyle

Harry Rogers

Bird S . McGuire

General Matthew Arbuckle

C . B . Stuart

David L . Payne

Will Rogers

:'loasant Porter

Robert L . Williams

Pat J . Hurley

W . B . Bizzell~J

John Ross

Rev . Forney Hutchinson

W . G . Skelly

John Fields

A . P . Chouteau

Sidney Suggs

T . L . Couch

Stratton D . Brooks

E . W . Ma r l an d

Rev . Allen Wright

C . N . Haskell

E . E . Dale

C . G . Jones

Dr . LeRoy Long

Sid Clark

Jesse Chisholm

Frank Frantz

John H . Cotteral

Charles F . Colcord

George L . Miller

Robert L . Owen

Tams Bixby

R . A . Sneed

Charles N . Gould

J . B . Th obu rn

M . E . Trapp

C . B . Ames

Sequoyah

Albert J . Seay

A . Ledbetter

R . M . McF ar l in

A . C . Scott

Dennis Flynn

David R . Boyd

Frank Buttram

J . S . Murrow

J . S . Buchanan

J . H . Burford

Ed Overholser

Anton H . Classen

P . A . Norris

Bob Galbreath

J . F . Owens

Henry G . Bennett

L . Couch