File:S. C. (Samuel Chapman) Armstrong to Alice Mary Longfellow, 13 January 1883 (3eb99455-8dfd-4b32-a30e-dc5e7bf0ec7c).jpg

Manuscript letter

Archives Number: 1007.001/002.003-001#004

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

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