Cherokee Indians.
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9051
Scope and content
Two letters from Samuel Worcester, one a typed transcript. Also, letter from Alice Mary Robertson dated January 19, 1877, in which she writes her mother from the Department of the Interior and encloses the letters from Worcester who was her grandfather. Provenance letter from Grant Foreman to Frederic W. Hodge dated October 28, 1930, upon presentation of the letters for the Hodge Collection. One of the Worcester letters is dated April 12, 1826 from Mayhew, Choctaw Nation, addressed to...
Dates:
1826-1832.