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Author
Date
Location
Subject
URL
[Walter C. Shields]
October 26, 1915
Nome
Status update







MS Ref: Box:
UO
To:
W.T. Lopp

Eskimo Names: Tautuk; White Names:
Ampher; Hi; Tom; Hill; Julia; Sara; Edna; Mrs. Delacroix; Kittleson; Mr. Taylor; Mrs. Ayer; Arthur; Nell; Miss Caldwell; Mrs. Samms; Allen; Dr. Neuman; Prunes; Larsen (Lapp); Chase; Stone; Barnett;
Events: Places: Council; Seattle; Nome; Deering; [St.] Michael's; Unalakleet; Kotzebue; Dime Creek; Candle; Sinuk; Igloo; Juneau; Sawtooth;
Perceptions: Friends expect the Lord will feed and pay the trail bills of their workers; Treatment:
Travel Themes: after navigation closes; deer for mail route; Eskimo Trading

Themes: "missed you; not settled yet, furniture not in yet, cozy; rooms look fine, canvas; coal; most startling thing, Mrs. Delacroix marriage; Taylor is the big freighter at Council, owns 40 odd horses, Kittleson's partner, new dredge; gossip; she's much interested in her school, her husband doesn't want her to teach; Miss Caldwell had wedding dress stolen on the train; Mrs. Samms, hard trip on the "Wave"; awkward having her here, these people find that the Bureau isn't so half bad after all; mission board should wire her some relief; Allen; considerable talk about the Bishop; Episcopal trustee; Hill lit into the Bishop, especially on his drinking; gossip; Bishop purchases dirty books; looks as if the Bishop is going to pieces; breakdown after death of wife last year; coal; Dime Creek picking up; reindeer reports; your visit; don't want to lose the freshness of things; missionary business worries me alot, I feel they are wrong, there must be something wrong with me to feel that way; most valuable personal asset, that I can get along with the natives; the tonic of the Fair; share the trail; " Trapping/Fishing/
Berry Picking

Business or
Organization:
Sawtooth Power Plant; Ships, Boats, &
Marine Equipment
"the "Wave"; the "Bear"; the "Victoria"; "
Books, Documents, & Articles: Diseases & Infirmaties

General Medical hope to get money for a sanitorium;

Comments: Important: Shields' feelings about missionary work;

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