Report-1845, June 30

Transcribed report on the activities of the Indian Manual Labor School from E.T. Perry, Superintendent Manual Labor School to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington City dated Jun 30, 1845

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Indian Manual Labor School
June 30th 1845

Hon T. Hartley Crawford

Dear Sir,

    For compliance with your instructions I give you a statement of our school for the 2nd Quarter of the present year.

    Our scholars are gradually advancing in their moral and mental habits and the prospects of our school are good. We can already see the good effects of our school on the Tribes around us, but time alone will reveal the full advantages of such an institution.

    We have not had so many scholars for the last quarter as usual owing to the sickness among their friends at home. Others of the large class have gone home to remain fully prepared to make useful members of society and we have not this summer been making any efforts to get younger scholars in their places, nor shall we, until we shall have completed a building for the Female Dept. of our school which will be in November next.

    The building is of brick, one hundred and four in length by thirty three in width, two stories in heighth [sic]

Most respectfully submitted by
Your obt. servt.
E.T. Peery
Supt. I.M.L. School

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[Transcribed from National Archives microfilm series M234, roll 782, frames 1138-1139 by Roger Berg Jr., February, 1992]