Kemp regrets Samuel Kirkland's delay in answering the queries of the Society in Scotland regarding More's Indian School. Informs Kirkland that the Society is skeptical about the effectiveness of Indian education. Requests that Kirkland send figures on those Indians who have truly benefited from education.
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Description: Text also found in "Documentary History of Hamilton College," 1922, p. 81.
Received Samuel Kirkland's latest journals. They are much approved by the SSPCK. Additional funds appropriated for Samuel Kirkland's famine relief work. The Plan of Indian Education has been discussed and approved.
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Description: Text also found in "Documentary History of Hamilton College," 1922, p. 39.
Kemp regrets Samuel Kirkland's delay in answering the queries of the Society in Scotland regarding More's Indian School. Informs Kirkland that the Society is skeptical about the effectiveness of Indian education. Requests that Kirkland send figures on those Indians who have truly benefited from education.
Samuel Kirkland writes to the secretary of the Society of Scotland, with whom he had been disassociated. Samuel Kirkland wishes to alleviate their bad impressions and feelings of him, and he offers to give information concerning the Indians. He reiterates his plea for monetary assistance. Kirkland also speaks of his personal journal.