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Brainerd Cherokee Nation May 20, 1828 Dear Madam, Miss Ames has requested me to write a few lines to you in her letter and I am very glad of the opportunity. She says you were almost the last friend she met with in Chester and that you are a friend to the heathen. I am always happy to write to the missionaries friends and I am very glad that I am able to write. I think the missionaries are doing a great deal of good; if it were not for them these children, that are here, would be without any knowledge of God, and now the most of them can read and write; and for a short time they have thought more about religion; and so have some of the neighbors but not withstanding there area greater part of this nation in darkness. There are about twenty three girls in school. Out of school they assist the family air domestic concerns and learn to sew, knit do. I inquired of Miss Ames about your education. She told me you understood all the useful branches of learning, and you could paint. The Cherokees are not