Government employee. A letterbook (1872–1874) of correspondence and documents sent to and from the Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs in Lawrence, Kansas, and the appointment certificate (1869) of Enoch Hoag as its Superintendent, signed by President Ulysses S. Grant. The collection materials reflect Hoag’s work as superintendent in establishing schools, distributing supplies, and paying annuities for American Indians within the Central Superintendency, which covered Indian Territory and Kansas. These included the Kickapoo, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Kansas, Osage, Quapaw, Sac and Fox, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche, and Plains Apache. Correspondents include Cyrus Beede, John D. Miles, Captain Black Beaver, J. M. Haworth, and Jonathan Richards.