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 Cherokee Agency    
23 Sept [September]  1818  
Dear Secy [Secretary]    
I have not had the Pleasure of receiving any thing [anything]  from you Since, that the receipt of which I have already acknowledged -- Tho hope I may on sending to the P. [Post]  office, which I shall do early on tomorrow morning --   
I am kept very closely confined at this place and Scarcely know how to leave here to attend to my business at Knoxville -- you cannot conceive of a more [unclear text: disordered ]  society than at this place, every [unclear text: action ]  & [unclear text: expresion [expression]  ]  has to undergo the ordeal -- their Hatred and their Jealously has formed them the most compleat [complete]  subject of Partizanship [Partisanship]  that my eyes ever beheld --   
as I do not expect that  [unclear text: Capt. ]  Childress has returned I will forbear writing to him until next mail -- and in the mean time [meantime]  beg you to repeat what I asked you as afore in my last in relation to the family, and for yourself accept the Sincere esteem of your Friend   
  
[Signed]  Joseph M. Minn    
 
  
 
 
 
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   Washington T [Tennessee]   
23 Sept [September]  1818  
 Honorable   Daniel Graham  Secretary of State   Murfreesboro