Letters to S. S. McClure from A. W. Jennings [manuscript], 1891 October 19 and 26.

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Letters to S. S. McClure from A. W. Jennings [manuscript], 1891 October 19 and 26.

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Kercheval, who has also signed as A. W. Jennings, encloses the first of a proposed series of letters "upon my life recently among the Omaha Indians where I was treated as one of them...I hope to show their mode of life, & their idea of the Indian Question from an Indian's stand point." She asks if McClure can use these letters and what price he is willing to pay. A clipping concerning Jennings' stay among the Ohaha is pasted on the letter. In the second letter she notes that her life among the Indians was urged by Bright Eyes (Susette La Fesche) and Edward E. Hale and was approved by the Indian Rights Association. She explains that she writes in a poplular way in order to make the life and ways of the Indians known to the public. An attached clipping from a book catalog advertises a volume of her Indian stories.

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