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Mr George Gist

Head of Coosa, Cherokee Nation January 12. 1832

My friend,

The Legislative Council of the Cherokee Nation in the year 1824 voted a medal to be presented to you, as a token of respect and admiration for your ingenuity in the invention of the Cherokee Alphabetical Characters; and in pursuance thereof, the two late venerable chiefs, Path Killer & Charles R. Hicks, instructed a delegation of this nation, composed of Messer? George Lowrey Senior, Elijah Hicks and myself, to have one struck, which was compleated in 1825. - In the anticipation of your visit to this country, it was reserved for the purpose of having you with its presentment by the chiefs in General Council; but having been so long disappointed in this pleasing hope, I have thought it my duty no longer to delay, and therefore take upon myself the pleasure of delivering it, through our friend Mr Charles R. Hicks, who intends visiting his relatives in the country where you dwell. In receiving this small tribute from the representatives of the people of your native land, in honor of your transcendent invention, you will, I trust, place a proper estimate on the grateful feelings of your fellow countrymen. The beginning, the progress & the final completion of the grand scheme, is full of evidence that the efforts of all the powers of a man of more than ordinary genius were put in action. The present generation have already experienced the great benefits of your incomparable system. The old & the young find