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To the President of the United States Brainerd Cherokee Nation

Sir.

We heard that the Cherokees were going to send you a mink skin and a pipe. We thought that it would make you laugh; and the scholars asked our teacher if they might make you a present and she told us that she did not know as there was any thing suitable in the whole establishment. Then she looked among the articles of the girls society and told me that I might make you a pocket book.Will you please to accept it from a little Cherokee girl aged nine years.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Christiana Mc Phers cut off.

Left Side: Let heathen children learn god's holy name to praise; And with the eye of faith the guardian of their days.

                                                                                                                                                            Lucy A.C. Reece aged twelve years.

Right Side: How would the heart of mild benevolence rejoice to view these tawny of the forest stand Like lambs before their teachers pleased to gain that knowledge, which to their benighted soul seems like the glory of creation ray bursting from chaos.

                                                                                                    Sally M. Reece  Aged twelve years.