Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins letter, to Grover Cleveland, 1885 March 6 : manuscript.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Winnemucca, Sarah, 1844?-1891, author.

Contributor:

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), addressee.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Northern Paiute Indians.

Northern Paiute women.

Indian agents.

Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada.

Genre:

correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Manuscripts, American -- 19th century.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Swann Galleries (New York), April 2013, to Caroline Schimmel.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 28 x 21 cm + 1 envelope.

Production:

San Francisco, California, 1885 March 6.

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 24 Folder 41

Biography/History:

Northern Paiute activist and author of Life among the Piutes: their wrongs and claims (1883); granddaughter of Chief Truckee, daughter of Chief Winnemucca, married to U.S. Indian Department employee Lieutenant Lewis H. Hopkins.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

A transcript of the letter by Caroline Schimmel is housed with the letter.

Cited in:

Described in OK, I’ll do it myself: narratives of intrepid women in the American wilderness: selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection, New York (exhibit catalog, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, 2018), p. 14-15 (no. 3).

Cited as:

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins letter, to George Cleveland, 1885 March 6 (Misc Mss Box 24 Folder 41). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1359275624