Rosebud Agency Miscellaneous Correspondence Received, 1878-1913.

Miscellaneous Correspondence Received, 1878-1913.

The correspondence is arranged chronologically by year and thereunder by date of document. One folder containing undated correspondence is at the beginning of the series. The letters, mostly manuscript until ca. 1890 and a mixture of manuscript and typescript thereafter, were addressed to the agent from such persons as commercial suppliers, other Indian agencies, agency employees, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Indian boarding schools, and other persons doing business with or interested in the Rosebud Agency. Occasionally there are copies of outgoing correspondence. There is also some correspondence addressed to agency employees other than the agent; most of the 1900-1901 correspondence, for example, is addressed to the day school inspector.

All aspects of the business of the agency were discussed in this correspondence, including employees, employment, financial matters, Indian trading licenses, allotments, the purchase of supplies, and general agency and Office of Indian Affairs policies.

There are significant gaps in last years of these records: gaps of up to several months after 1900, no correspondence for 1911-1912, and practically none for 1910 and 1913.