This letter from James MacAlister, the first president of the Drexel Institute of Arts, Science, and Industry, to Katharine Drexel, circa 1899-1900, asking for Mother Katharine to send funds to cover Nash’s tuition and expenses. The letter preserved…
A four-page pamphlet printed double-sided on a single sheet of paper and folded in half. The document was created by H. G. Ganss, Rector of St. Patrick‘s Church and School Chaplain to Catholic students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in…
After the death of Louise Bouvier Drexel Morrell in 1945, the bulk of the inheritance went to Saint Katharine to continue to fund schools and missions serving African American and Native American communities.
In this letter, Bullis voices support for Katharine Drexel's request for a government contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and funding for St. Catherine's Indian School. Bullis wrote the letter in his capacity as an “Indian agent” to the…