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Brainerd Cherokee Nation February 11 Respected Friend Last year we expected you to visit Brainerd and we felt disappointed that you did not come but Mr. Green came and we were glad to see him. I Remember you the last time you came to the Cherokee Nation. I had just entered school. I am an adopted child of an old Cherokee Lady. She belonged to the Methodist Church and she joined the Church at the place that Summer. She is very kind to me indeed I have been living with her even since I was a year old perhaps you remember her. Her name is Katy Van She was home yesterday to meeting. She told me that she had been to a neighborhood about twenty miles from Brainerd She said a Cherokee man and his wife feel more about their souls than ever did before that they did not seem to forget it. She said the people round felt suspicious to hear the words of God from that made them think about their souls they had a little son that got burnt to death. If they been (?) was passing through the neighborhood he stayed all night. And the people met together and they felt anxious to have a meeting He told them that God sometimes takes children away from them that don't think anything about God to make them think about Him. Mr. Wancaster and Mr. Chamberlain has preachers there lately. I will tell you what I used to think last year and I am willing to own my bad thoughts to you. When I was reproved I thought that