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                                                                                                                        Brainerd Cherokee Nation July 21

Dear Madam

    Miss Ames our Teacher says I may write a few lines to you. I think we ought be grateful to the missionaries who has done so much for the Cherokees. One of the missionaries said when she first came into this Cherokee Nation she fell afraid the Cherokees might come with their tomahawks to kill them. A missionary Lady who lives here once read to us about a society in the Mackinaw Mission called the Dorcas society. It is called so after a woman we read about in the Bible who made clothes for the poor. The annual examination of the schools at Brainerd will be the 5 day of August then the scholars will go and visit their parent a season Some of the girls friends live a great distance from Brainerd There are 11 missionaries at this station one of them has been confined to her bed 7 years she is now gone about 50 miles from this place to see if she can recover from her illness I think you would like to visit Brainerd We should be happy to see you Please to give my respects to all Miss Sawyers friends 

Miss Mary Ann Wilder. (From your young friend Lucy McP. Brainerd, Cherokee Nation. July 16,1829 Dear Sir

    Miss Sawyer is at this station. She wishes some of the girls to write to unclear. Those that send these letters did not know how to write when Miss Sawyer was our Teacher