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                                                                                                                                           Connessauga  C.N. Jan 234e 1836

Dear Brother Butler

                                         Your dear favour of the 16th not came to hand a few days ago & I embrace the first moments of leisure for answer the inquiries of Mr. Payne. 
    I doubt very much whether a "History of our Cherokee Mission" has ever been published separately, at least I have never seen or heard of such a work. There is an English work extant entitled "Historical Sketches of the Missions of the united Brethren, by Rev John Holmes which however my Library does not contain. Mr. R. can get said work either at Bethlehem P. or of the Pastors of our Churches in Philadelphia & New York, & in said work we may find such notices of our Cherokee Mission as may serve his purpose. The manuscript Journal of the Mission is here, & might ennable any one to compile something of a history but this would require a considerable amount of time & labour as it is written in the German language. The history of the last year of the evidence of our illusion at Spring place is still son fresh in my memory that I can very readily retake such particulars as may interest Mr. Payne, with