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Salem, North Carolina Dec 25th 1836

Dear Sir   Your favour of July 29th was duly recd & should have been answered long since, had it not been for circumstances which prevented the necessary researches into the old M.M.S of our Cherokee Mission. The original Journal of the Mission had been packed up, together with all other Books & papers, preparatory to my removal elsewhere, & my time was so fully occupied, that I could not, until a few weeks ago, direct my attention to your inquiries. I have found here copies of the journals of our early Cherokee Missionaries, and have translated, as well as I could, & transcribed, the particulars of the first interview between our Missionaries & the Chiefs in 1799.