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Head Quarters Etowah 
February 18th 1832. 
Dear Sir; 
Your favour [favor]  of the 2nd Inst [Instant]  has been received. You may rest assured that every protection will be afforded the emigrating Indians that may be necessary to ensure their safe arrival at the agency unmolested, and I am happy to have it in my power to say, that the disposition to emigrate, from all the information I am able to collect, is rapidly increasing and I have no doubt but it will continue to increase should the office be kept open, but I hope a general arrangement will soon be made for their emigrating in mass. I have been informed by respectable authority that the delegation now at Washington, have written to their friends in this Country, that they have been advised by their frinds [friends]  in congress to treat; that the moderate men of the administration party had advised them to the same course, that the administration would be sustained in [illegible text]  the 
 
 
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course it had prepared in Indian matters. should this be the case I think we may confidently look to a speedy settlement of this embarressing [embarrassing]  business. should you be in possession of any information on this subject, not improper to be communicated I should be happy to receive it.  
 
I have the honor to be most respectfully your Obdt Servt. [Obedient Servant]  
[Signed] Jno [John]  Coffee  
To his Exelency [Excellency]  Wilson Lumpkin Milledgeville 
 
 
 
 
 
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Hightower Ch na [Cherokee nation]   
20th. February 
18 3/4 
To Wilson Lumpkin Governor of Georgia Milledgeville  
 
Ansd. [Answered]   
Feby. [February]  28d. 1832.  
 
John Coffee 
 
Feb. [February]  18th. 1832. 
Cherokee Gold mines