- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1839 July 24, Washington City, D.C. [to] Price, Newlin, and Co[mpany], Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] / W[illiam] H[olland] T[homas] of an image
- 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 wt035.
- Date of Original:
- 1839-07-24
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Claims
Cherokee Indians--Government relations
United States. Office of Indian Affairs - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- business letters
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Letter, dated July 24, 1839, from William Holland Thomas to Price, Newlin, and Co. in Philadelphia. Thomas asks the company's assistance in locating and reshipping an order of goods that has not arrived on schedule at the designated location. He also states that he is attending to Cherokee claims in Washington, D.C. Thomas hopes that the amount that he is requesting will be approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, although there may be a delay in payment since Joel R. Poinsett, the Secretary of War, will probably be out of town by the time the report is ready for him.
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:
- wt035
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt035
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt035#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt035/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:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Washington City
July 24, 1839
To Price Newlin & Co [Company] Philadelphia
gentlemen
I have been detained since I returned from Philadelphia attending to the Cherokee claims, the payment of which will I presume be approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs who is charged with their investigation, but I am of opinion his report thereon will not be completed in time to receive the approval of the Hon [Honorable] J R. Poinsett Sec [Secretary] of War before he leaves the city, which may occasion a delay of payment until his return in
Sept At the request of the Commissioner I I [I] have made out a report to him of all the claims due the Cherokees for whom I am atto [attorney] in fact which in the aggregate amounts to upwards of $200000 but that sum includes a claim for [unclear text: commutation ] to the amount of $50,000 which claim on my arrival was thought not allowable but I think I shall be able to gain it by remaining I will leave here for home as soon as it is disposed of which will probably be some time in the next week.
I receive letters weekly from home and am informed my goods and Mr [unclear text: Moores ] shipped from Philadelphia have not been received by my agent at [unclear text: Hamburg ] SC. presuming that they be lost I have to request of you the favor to write to the agent to whose care they were assigned in savanna geo [georgia] to ascertain if he has received them and instruct him in case he has and can not send them immediately up the river
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to Hamburg SC as instructed to ship them to Charleston SC without further delay to the care of William Patton with instructions to to [to] him to forward them to geo [george] Parrott of Hamburg by rail road in case they have not been received at Savanna please make [deleted text: the necessary ] such arrangements respecting the [unclear text: insurance ] as may become necessary
yours & c [et cetera]
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]