- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1839 July 8, Washington City, D.C. [to] H. P. King, Quallatown, North Carolina] / W[illiam] H[olland] T[homas]
- Creator:
- Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas, box 1, folder 1, document wt025.
- Date of Original:
- 1839-07-08
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians
General stores - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Qualla, 35.43538, -83.32293
- Medium:
- business letters
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter, dated July 8, 1839, to H. P. King from William Holland Thomas notifying King of the establishment of a post office at the Quallatown store and instructing him on management of the store. Thomas mentions that he will be forwarding communications to the Indians shortly.
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. - Local Identifier:
- wt025
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt025
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt025#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt025/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], MS2058 William Holland Thomas, Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Washington City DC
8 July 1839
H. P. King Quallatown
Informed him of the establishment of a po. [post] office at that store by the name of Qualla Town. and he appointed post master. --
directed him [deleted text: to [unclear text: sleep in ] ] [added text: not to leave ] the store [deleted text: every ] [added text: after ] night, such things as not instructed to manage to the best advantage, to inform Mother I am in good health and will be home as soon as my business completed. probably the last of this or first of next month, The Communications to the Indians will be prepared and forwarded in a few days. to keep his Books nice and to use Black ink.
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]