Susette La Flesche letter to Mrs. Houghton [manuscript], 1881 Jan 14.

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Susette La Flesche letter to Mrs. Houghton [manuscript], 1881 Jan 14.

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Letter [possibly to Nanna W. Manning, wife of publisher H. O. Houghton] declining an invitation: "I am to start for Washington tomorrow morning and so cannot accept your kind invitation. Will you please tell Mrs. Jackson that Mr. Goddard, Mr. and Mrs. Davis, and Mr. Lincoln are going too? I wish Mrs. Jackson were going with us... Please remember me to Mr. Houghton who has been very kind to me."

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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted co...

Tibbles, Susette La Flesche, 1854-1903

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Susette La Flesche Tibbles was an Omaha author, lecturer, and advocate for Native American rights. She was also known as Bright Eyes, the English translation of her Omaha name, which has been variously transliterated as Inshta Theamba, Inshta Theumba, and Inshata Theumba. She was born in 1854 on Omaha lands. (The Omaha Reservation is now located mostly in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri River, with some areas in western Iowa, U.S.) Her parents were Joseph La Flesche (Iron Eye), chief of the Om...

Houghton, Nanna W. Manning,

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