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13. THURSDAY Eve. A poor old revolutionary soldier stays with us tonight. I shall find this by him to the post office, fearing I shall have no other opportunity before the mail leaves this week. Sister N & Miss Post were to fill all the blank places in this sheet. Perhaps Miss P. will have time to write a few lines in the morning; Sister N. Says “give much love & tell him I feel as I ever have done in regard to his taking the Penetentiary for his residence, or season - cannot write him this time, for I have disabled my finger in making a broom.” In my other letter I asked what you thought of my visiting you. If I do not have a letter, I shall probably come in the course of a few weeks, provided any one can take the school. I think Mr Chamberlain & Mr Worcester would accompany me. Good night, my dear husband. I am sometimes deprived of rest, thinking what your lodgings may be - sometimes of an appetite for food, in seeing your place at the table supplied by another & knowing you have no pantry to go to. - Be God your daily portion, is the prayer of your wife. Lucy A. Butler.” Friday Morn. Too early for Miss Post to write. She says = My love to the Prisoners. Tell them to be strong in the Lord. Haweis CN. Oct 9. 1831. Dear Pa, I am very anxious to hear from you. I was not in school when you started to go to Georgia. I hope we shall hear from you before long. If your keepers allow you to write to us, will you please to tell us how you do, whether you have irctuals? enough to eat, and how hard you work, and what you have to do in jail? I feel sorry when I think of you. We feel very lonely without you. Your rocking chair looked so lonely that Ma brought it up to sit in at school. James Fields has been sick ever since you went away; but now he is getting well. He thinks he has experienced religion. Jane Ross sends her love to you. Affectionately you’re Cherokee Scholar. Eliza Turtle. * Dear Pa, I wish to hear from you and know how you do. I wish to know if you have good food & good lodging and if you are allowed to write letters in prison. Do they let you keep the Sabbath day or let you & Mr W. preach or instruct the prisoners? I will try & do well as I can in school & out of school also, so as not to give Ma any trouble. I should be glad to see you and I hope I shall before four years. Keepers, will you please to treat the mission prisoners kindly? I am a Cherokee scholar who asks you this. -We would treat you kindly, if you were here. Pa, we heard Mrs Trolt died nearly two weeks ago. Mary Ann Vail is dead with a fever. When we sit down to our work, we see your hat hanging in the room. Ma & I often speak about it. Sometimes it seems that we can see you going to take it down to walk out. It looks lonesome.*15 years old. *also 15 years old. Will