[Letter] 1839 July 12, Washington City, [D.C.] to Temperance Thomas, Qualla Town [i.e., Quallatown] p[ost] o[ffice, North Carolina] / W[illiam] H[olland] T[homas]

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Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
Title:
[Letter] 1839 July 12, Washington City, [D.C.] to Temperance Thomas, Qualla Town [i.e., Quallatown] p[ost] o[ffice, 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 , box 1, folder 1, document wt031.
Date of Original:
1839-07-12
Subject:
Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Location:
United States, 39.76, -98.5
Medium:
letters (correspondence)
Type:
Text
Format:
text/html
image/jpeg
Description:
This letter, dated July 12, 1839, is from William Holland Thomas to his mother, Temperance Thomas, concerning his delay in Washington, D.C. due to business with the Office of Indian Affairs. This document was originally enclosed with wt029.
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:
wt031
External Identifiers:
Metadata URL:
https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt031
Digital Object URL:
https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt031#item
IIIF manifest:
https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt031/presentation/manifest.json
Language:
eng
Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
Cite as: [title of item], MS2058 , 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:
No Copyright - United States

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Washington City
July 12 1839
To Temperance Thomas Qualla Town po [post office]
Dear Mother,
My business here will probably delain [detain] me until the first of next month I have enjoyed good health dont want you to give yourself any uneasiness respecting me --
Tell Cuja to stay and do such things as you think needed and I have no doubt Hannah will obey you -- Tell Angeline to learn her Book and she will loose nothing by it
Give my respects to enquiring friends
I will write home every week your &c [et cetera]

[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]