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expected. I thought I should not trouble to commit it to memory or know the meaning in difficult places. I think I will try hard and I shall understand it better after a while. Please to write to me when you write back. From your young friend, Nancy Reece Miss Electa Steele.

Brainerd Cherokee Nation Nov. 16. Respected Madam, Miss Ames has requested me to write to you. And I am glad of the opportunity. I sometimes imagine that you may feel bad that you have a daughter so far from you; and when I look upon my dear teacher it makes me pity her very much because she is so far away from her dear mother, brother, and sisters. I sometimes think that I should be willing that she should leave the school to visit you, though I should be sorry to part with her. I do not know that she wishes to go, for she says she is as happy as she was in teaching in New England. She rejoices me very much when she receives letters. I watched the mail and when it arrives, I tell her and she says "go and see if I have any letters." Yesterday she received one from Virginia, and I had one from a lady in Charleston. I did not wait to get mine but caught up hers and ran to her and forgot mine. I think I feel as sorry as she does when there is none for her. I can write more than I could say if you were here.