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Brainerd, Cherokee Nation Respected Madam, Mr. White one of your acquaintances has been here and requested one of the scholars to write a page in his letter and Miss Ames has given me the liberty, as I have not much time to write. I fear I shall not say anything that will be interesting to you. I do not know much about the world. I was never out of this part of the Nation till lately, I visited with Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth at Hawies and on our return, visited New Echota the place where our council meets and I saw the printing press the first one that they ever had in the Cherokee Nation. I never saw one before and I was very much pleased with it. I will send you one of the papers that was printed there if you will accept it. I likewise visited Spring place the Moravin Mission Station and saw the piano and was very much pleased to hear such music. I never saw one before but Miss Ames says they are very common among the ladies at the North. We have a vacation every year in our school. It is some times sickly in this country in the summer season therefore the missionaries think best for the scholars to have vacation at that time. It is now closed and the scholars have nearly returned. I think we ought to be very thankful that we have an opportunity to come to school. I have to attend to study. It is several years since I came to Brainerd. Mary Ann Vail and I just beginning to study grammar we understand it better than I