United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434Ross, Lewis, d. 18691838-01-04Letter dated January 4, 1838 from Lewis Ross to his brother John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, concerning the removal of the Cherokee people and the possibility of negotiating a treaty with better terms than the Treaty of New Echota, 1835.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegch035engManuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 1, folder 24, document ch035.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Cherokee Indians--TreatiesTrail of Tears, 1838Ross, John 1790-1866[Letter] 1838 Jan. 4, Cherokee Agency [to] John Ross, Washington City D.C. / Lewis RossText