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"I have lately had a letter from The Doct." and suddenly laid down his hammer and stepped to another part of the room taking up his hat and in turning over the letters and papers it continues, it appears to me, he said, " I also, have had one from Mr. Payne. I am ashamed that I cannot speak with more certainty on this, but we have all had perplexity enough to impair the memory.

    When I commenced the labor long section, I was devising means to procure you some further help in your work, but soon stranger on the cares and anxieties of Mr. Ross endeavoring to show the favorable reasons of his not having written you. I will now return and say, I will write to Mr. Butrick, transcribing that part of your letter relating to the History. He and Lady went with a company of Cherokees conducted by Mr. Richard Taylor.That Company, with a number of others, probably mounting in the whole to twelve  or thirteen. Thousands of persons, has, as I understand, pitched their tents near the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, not being able to cross on he account of ice.  As I do not know where to address Mr. Butrick in this region, I will direct a letter to the Arkansas, that he may meet it on his arrival. I do not wait for your reprobation of this movement, as the time has already passed, by which you placed your History before the public, and, your many hours brought it into a form in which good have done it, unclear this and if so, she Mr. Butrick send you further documents, they can probably be used in some way, for the benefit of the Indians. I will ask him to consult with them. 

Mr. Ross and ascertain whether he has taken any measure to a first you since his return from Washington. If I have an opportunity, I will also inquire o Mr. Jones respectively the house he promised you. His time unclear another? The Mississippi River. He expects to us and has now with a compatible unclear try for his family.

    My husband has been engaged as physician? of the Cherokees from the time they were? unclear their camps almost every day till unclear preaching among prisoners. He unclear which unclearfirst of West. He has become unclear took up his residence in his tent and unclear he commenced his journal with a compa? or probably, near the Arkansas Cherokees. His journal? and laborious one. The last letter I had from him, not? dated. The 12 December. The Lead mines. Missouri. They were these circuitous? route Mr. W. to avoid mountainous and swamps. He thought he accomplished only about half his journey; but crosses all the mountains and rivers. They were hoping to proceed with more rapidity. He expects to return to this country for his family, by water. 
    It is not my province to meddle with the affairs of Congress, but it appears to me speedy relief is not granted, this interesting people must perish from the earth. One eighth have already gone down to the grave, since the 23rd of last May.And the number that is now dying, and  the distrust of the living, while on the journey, with what they will doubly the obliged to suffer, when they arrive in their new country, ought to stir up our Government to their effectual relief. I have heard of the number of deaths from only four companies since they left. Two of these containing about eleven hundred persons, had buried between fifty and sixty persons in each. Another with about one thousand persons had lost fifty two, and thirty eight from another, which, numbers seven hundred and fifty. These deaths had occurred when they had arrived, not quite half way. Unless the distress of this people are brought before the rulers of our Nation, how can they feel on this important subject and how can the friends of Indians do it, unless they can obtain a knowledge of them? We must expect the people in this region will wish to draw on with over the miseries which have resulted from this unclear, or, are they often do attribute them to Indian stubborn unclear in not living according to the not clear of the treaty. I have no doubt that Mr. Ross intended to unclear people at their journey's end, in unclear to present himself at Washington