Page: [1]  
  
  
 cherokee agency    
1st october  
Dear Daniel  
I have been very much Pressed with business for some days past, in fitting out a party for the west, and in purchasing & Repairing Boats, So much so that I had forgotten the day on which the mail goes to the west, but have fortunatily [fortunately]  obtained the favor of a gentleman to bear this scrawl to the P. [Post]  office -- your favor in last mail has been duly red [received], an answer to which will form a part of my next -- I have nothing worthy of communicating since the date of my last, Prospects are a little Fluctuating some times Bad & other times worse, Tho amidst all difficulties I am enrolling Emigrants pretty fast, and great exertions are making for their departure, I mean amongst them selves [themselves], which necessarily will involve [added text: me in ]  much business, tho under Devine Smiles I hope to  
 
 
Page: [2]  
 to be competent -- I will leave here on Sunday or monday next God willing for Knoxville with a view to return to this place on the  
18th inst [instant]    
Pray make my respects to mrs and mr childress & family as heretofore to our friend, who ask for me, Presuming that mr childress has not arrived, and add to that the Scarcity of time will I hope form an apology for not writing by this mail as I had intended to have done --   
  
your Friend  
[Signed]  Jos. [Joseph]  McMinn  
Honl [Honorable]  D. [Daniel]  Graham   
 
  
 
 
 
Page: [3]  
  
Washington T [Tennessee]  
 
2nd October 
12 1/2  
Honorable Daniel Graham Secretary of State Murfreesborough   
 
Gov McMinn 
 
1 Oct 1818  
 
[unclear text: from ]  Indian [unclear text: Agency ]