Chapter C: STREET, July 2

MR. MIX,

Dear Sir, Please have the western boundary of Mis. laid down on this
map, and the _outline_ of the Pawnee, Kanzas & Osage purchases, and
the reservations, as they now stand within that _outline_. You need
not show each purchase, but the _outline_ of the whole. Yours truly

THOMAS H. BENTON.

Letter of July 2, 1853, Indian Office _Miscellaneous Files, 1851-1854_.

WASHINGTON CITY, August 5th, 1854.

Hon. G. W. MANYPENNY Esq., Com Indian Department, Washington City.

Dear Sir, Many people of Ohio, as well as of the states west of it,
have for a long time been most anxious to learn through your
Department, the nature of the several treaties made by yourself in
behalf of the Government, with the several tribes of Indians occupying
the Territories of Nebraska & Kansas: particularly as to the
_reservation_ of _land_ made by such Tribes, _its extent_, _where_,
_when_, & how to be _located_, & _within what time_,--and also what
lands in both of said Territories by virtue of said treaties _are now
subject to location_?

I regret to inform you that much censure has attached to your
Department, in consequence of the delay which has attended the
promulgation of the above information, but which from my long
knowledge of you personally, and of the very prompt manner in which
you have invariably discharged your public duties, I believe to be
most unjust.

I seek the above information, not only for myself (contemplating a
removal to Kansas) but also in behalf of many persons in the western
states, who have solicited my intervention in that matter on my visit
to this City. Very respectfully your friend

S. W. WHITE

Indian Office _Miscellaneous Files, 1851-1854_.