- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter], 1819 Sept. 3, Department of War to Rev[erend] Samuel Worcester, Sec[retar]y of the Amer[ican] Board of Commissioners for For[eig]n Missions / J[ohn] C. Calhoun
- Creator:
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 1, folder 29, document ch041.
- Date of Original:
- 1819-09-03
- Subject:
- Missions
Cherokee Indians
Monroe, James, 1758-1831 - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Copy of a letter wherein John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, writes to Reverend Samuel Worcester, Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and missionary to the Cherokees, about an enclosed letter pertaining to the views of President Monroe, September 3, 1819. The enclosed letter appears in the Southeastern Native American Documents Database as ch042.
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. - Local Identifier:
- ch041
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch041
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch041#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch041/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], State Library Cherokee Collection, The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
[added text (appears to be different ink and hand): F. ]
Note from the Secretary of War to Rev. Samuel Worcester Cor. Secy. [Corresponding Secretary] covering a communication from the President of the United States on the subject of schools &c. [et cetera] among the Indians.
Department of War
3 Sept. [September] 1819
Sir,
Believing that the society of which you are the corresponding Secretary, takes an interest in the subject to which the enclosed paper, [added text (appears to be different ink and hand): See paper marked G. ] containing the views of the President, relates, I have taken the liberty to transmit it to you for the information of the Society.
I am very respectfully Your Obedt. Servt. [Obedient Servant] (Signed)
[Signed] J. [John] C. Calhoun
Rev. Samuel Worcester, Correspondg Secy [Corresponding Secretary] of the Amer. [American] Board of Commissioners for Forn. [Foreign] Missions.