<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Tennessee, Monroe County, 35.44265, -84.25279</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893</dc:creator><dc:date>1839-04-22</dc:date><dc:description>This letter from William Holland Thomas to John F. Gillaspie, dated April 22, 1839, concerns a payment of money in connection with the Board of Commissioners and Office of Indian Affairs. Thomas explains that T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, is out of town and that the claims will not be reviewed until his return. There is also mention of a delayed payment of 500 dollars due to a man in Baltimore.</dc:description><dc:description>Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.</dc:description><dc:format>text/html</dc:format><dc:format>image/jpeg</dc:format><dc:identifier>wt002</dc:identifier><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:publisher>Manuscript held by the  Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN,  MS2058 William Holland Thomas , box 1, folder 1, document wt002.</dc:publisher><dc:relation>Mode of access: World Wide Web.</dc:relation><dc:relation>System requirements: AT&amp;T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.</dc:relation><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Cherokee Indians--Claims</dc:subject><dc:subject>Cherokee Indians--Government relations</dc:subject><dc:subject>United States. Office of Indian Affairs</dc:subject><dc:title>[Letter] 1839 Apr. 22, Washington City, [D.C. to] John F. Gillespy [i.e., Gillaspie], Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee / W[illia]m H[olland] Thomas</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>