A collection of letters, a directory, proposed legislation, solicitations, news clippings, legal document & other items. Some examples are: letters (12/58-1/59) from El Cajon constituent Nat L. Eggert (Certified Public Accountant), Wilson & H. Rex Lee (Associate Commissioner of Indian Affairs) re/ responses from the Bureau to Mr. Eggert’s inquiries as to the Supai Indians and also Eggert’s congrats on Wilson’s reelection last November; letters (Jan.-Feb. 1959) from Miss Tudy Seeley, Wilson & Associate Commissioner H. Rex Lee re/ response to Miss Seeley’s concern that Indians weren’t more civilized and reference to box of candy sent to Wilson; letters (Feb. & Apr. 1959) re/ Purl Willis and the Mission Indian Federation of California; a copy of “Sacramento Area Office, Tribal Council Representatives, Sacramento, California February, 1959,” 11 pages; stapled packet containing letters & a 24 page copy of a proposed Bill (Jan.-Apr. 1959) re/ H. R. 1099, introduced by Congressman Baldwin, providing for the unification of the Indians of California; letters & copy of St. Labre Indian Mission solicitation (Mar.-Apr. 1959) re/ Chula Vista constituent’s inquiry as to St. Labre & Assistant Commissioner Selene Gifford’s response; memorandum (1/3/59) re/ California Indian termination bill, H.R. 9512; a letter (n.d.) from Mary C. Matteson & Purl Willis (Delegates, Mission Bands) re/ “The $200,00 Attorney Expense Fund;” letters (Apr.-June 1959) re/ follow up information as to the above inquiry from Matteson and Willis; letters (May-June 1959) re/ Licensed Land Surveyor Czerny Anderson, hearing on H.R. 6523, his interest in westerly slope of Palomar Mountain & attached copy of “Mission Indian Reservations Southern California”& showing acreage in each – a total of 258,440 acres; news clipping (n.d.) – Joe Brown, “Area Indian Plight Called Intolerable;” letters (June-July 1959) re/ Congressional hearings on the Huron Indian Cemetery – Kansas City, Kansas; letters (6/59) re/ Osage Agency, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, certificates of competency & allotments; news clipping – Washington Post, 8-12-59, “Indians Win Award for Seized Lands;” copies of 8 Ind. Cl. Com. 1, “Before the Indian Claims Commission – Docket No. 31 & Docket No. 37” “Decided: July 31, 1959” 39 pages; a copy of The Smoke Signal (10/59); letters (12/59) re/ a Bureau of Indian Affairs response to El Cajon constituent Mrs. Jenson’s interest in an investigation of leases and conditions on Indian reservations; letters (Oct.-Nov. 1959) re/ Bureau responses to inquiry from constituent as to allotment issues; letters (12/59) re/ concerns of Campo Indians as to power poles and Live Oak water poaching.