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and when they have finished they go to play some of the little girls rather have their books to read than to play. I hope you keep to your books and try to learn all you can, I hear you study at home I think you can learn as fast as though you were in school if you try and if your grandmother and aunt teaches you. Some times I can learn better to be alone than I can to be with the scholars. I hope you do all you can to make your friend happy. I suppose you have heard preaching ever since you were small, some of these children never heard of God till they came here. I think we all ought to be very thankful for what is done for us and try to learn all we can. From your young Cherokee Friend, Nancy Reece

Brainerd Cherokee Nation Nov 18, 1828. My dear friends, I was extremely happy when I received your letter. Although we have never met each other, I should be very happy to receive letters from you and will answer them with pleasure. You ask me if we ought not be grateful for the priveleges that we enjoy. Indeed we should be grateful and exert ourselves by our good conduct to pay the missionaries for all they have done for us, and for other children in other parts of the world, and we ought not only be thankful to them but to God. He is the one that sent the missionaries to us, that we might learn to read the bible and serve him. You mentioned the death of two scholars. There has not been many deaths