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Copy of letter from John McLean to Chief John Ross. Recommends the exchange of Cherokee eastern lands for lands west of the Mississippi. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 71

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Copy of letter from John McLean to Chief John Ross. Recommends the exchange of Cherokee eastern lands for lands west of the Mississippi. Sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink on eight pages. Folder 71

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Inscribed in ink on recto, "A Copy"

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Letter from Jeremiah Evarts, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, to Chief John Ross offering suggestions regarding Cherokee problems. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 38

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Letter from William Shorey Coodey in Nashville, Tennessee to Chief John Ross in Washington City regarding failure of Western Cherokee Council to appoint a delegation. (OS) (Moulton). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 267

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Typescript of an essay titled "The Removal of the Cherokee" by John Madden. Describes how the comissioner J.F. Schermerhorn arranged the Treaty of 1835 in absence of Cherokee officers. By this treaty, the Cherokee Nation ceded to the U.S. all territory east of the Mississippi River. Includes history of the removal from June 1838 to March 1839. Folder 65

Scope and Contents Inscribed by hand in red ink, "#27 p. 107" in upper right on verso; Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "Social workers Bethleham Center Nashville, TN 1926" in top center on verso; Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "L. to R. Thelma Harrison (first cousin of Walter White, NAACP Natl Director), Jeanne Goodwin (former Fisk University roommates)" in lower center on verso Curatorial Remarks Looks like a couple of fair skin Black women posing for...