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to get some money for the heathen? who have not had missionaries as we have. Miss Sargent generally comes in and reads to us.

    The boys chop wood and in the summer help about the farm and some that have left school are learning the blacksmith trade. Miss Sargent goes into their school room evenings to teach them, and sometimes they set with her in her room. 
    We thank Delia for her letter. Her mother wrote a few lines in Miss Sargents and Miss Ames letter and we thank her very much. The girls all wish to send their best respects to you and say they are always glad to have you write to them. 
    From your young Cherokee friend,

Rev'd, Fayette Shepherd. Nancy Reece. _________________________________________________- Brainerd, Cherokee Nation Jan. 1, 1829 Respected Sir,

    I think I have sent some of my writing to you but I do not quite remember and I will write in my teachers letter. I sent my  sampler to New Burg, I wrought? it when I was small. Glad I thought that I should send it out of the Nation perhaps I should have tried to have done it better 
    My time has been ocupied in writing to Miss Ames? friends and perhaps cannot write so long a letter as I could if I had written this first, and I think you will not expect unclear one as you would from a unclear who has been to school ever since she could talk, though we ought to try and do as well as such children because the missionaries  and christian people are doing