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Missionaries.

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Letters to Jeremiah Evarts concerning the Dwight mission for Cherokees in Arkansas

 Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 9202
Scope and content Negative and positive photostats of one letter from Alfred Finney, August 12, 1824, and two letters from Cephas Washburn October 14 and 27, 1828, to Jeremiah Evarts of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The letters describe conditions at the Dwight mission and the surrounding area or Arkansas. Description of the local settlements and missions on the Arkansas River. Mention of the potential Cherokee removal. One of the Washburn letters encloses a drawing of the mission...
Dates: 1824; 1828.