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yes my dear parents we shall be rejoiced to see any of the family. Please to give my best respect to Mrs. Potter and Miss Nash. I should write to her if I had time. I must bid you adieu. From you affectionate young friend, Nancy Reece

Miss Sarah Gilbreath
Miss Jane Speaker. 

Brainered Cherokee Nation Dec 28, 1828. Respected Sir, Miss Ames says she has no time to write and I will write for her. I know that you are a friend to the Cherokees because Miss Ames and Miss Sargent has told us so and I know you are by the letters which you have written to us. I do not think that all the peoples are friends to the Cherokees. Miss Ames has been reading a part of the Presid message. Perhaps she does not like the laws of the Indian tribes for she says "this state of things requires that a remedy should be provided" Miss Ames has been talking to the scholars and she felt very bad and told them that they must get a good education as soon as they can so they can teach if they should be moved where they could not attend school and says that we must try to get religion for all the instructors ought to be christians. It seems that it will be a trying season to us and the missionaries if we should be separated from them, but she says if God suffers it to be we ought not to complain for it will be for the best. I have been talking to the children about it "