Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins letter, to Grover Cleveland, 1885 March 6 : manuscript
Letter to President George Cleveland recounting wrongdoing by Indian agents against the Paiute people and the writer's efforts on her people's behalf and asking specifically for the agent of the Pyramid Lake Reservation (Nevada Territory) to be recalled, with references to the writer's own book and to Helen Hunt Jackson's A century of dishonor: a sketch of the United States government's dealing with some of the Indian tribes (1881). The letter concludes with a list of personal references, including educators (and sisters) Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, and is signed Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. The accompanying envelope is addressed To his excellency Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Washington D.C
Manuscript, English, 1885