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Salem N.C. Feb 8th 1837

 Dear Sir    Yours of the 27th ult. is at hand & I hasten to answer the same. Last week we had the unexpected pleasure of seeing Mr J. Ross, at the head of the Delegation from the Cherokee Tribe, both east & west of the Mississp. - at this place on their way to Washington City, & I availed myself of the opportunity of sending the M.M.S. extract from our Journal of the comencement of the Cherokee Mission, by Mr Ross - who said he expected to see you before his return. I think he remarked while here, that he had not been able for most of time, to prepare anything for you. By todays Mail I will write to Mr R. & also to Doct Huntington & request the former to had the package I sent, to Doct H. according to your direction. I have called on Revd. J.R. Smith, this Morning - & shewed him your letter, in order to ascertain from him whether the late Mrs. A.R. Gambold had left any files from which a sketch of her Biography might be gathered; or whether her surviving husband had written anything of the kind after her death - but Mr S? (who at that time & for several years subsequent to her death had charge of the Spr. Place Mission) assured me - that Mrs G always expressed the wish that nothing might be said about her, that" her name might die with her body" - & that she had left nothing in the shape or form of a private journal. The Diary to which I have alluded was that of "The Mission" & had reference to the every day occurences at Spr. Place, and in consequence of the rather unnecessary minuteness with which she recorded everything - it is upon the whole, a monotonous & very lengthy production. I regret very much that her original is not here; the extracts which she sent to the Board of Directors at this place - refer almost exclusively to the state of the School & the Church & nothing further can be added, then what is expected in general terms, in the paper I sent on. I am therefore unable, here, to make such extracts from the original Diary - as might be of interest to you, or which might, without prejudice meet the public eye, & add interest to the Work you are preparing.