- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1839 Dec. 17, Washington City, [D.C. to] Gen[eral] B. S. [?] Britain, Franklin, N[orth] C[arolina] / 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 wt136.
- Date of Original:
- 1839-12-17
- 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:
- This is a letter from William Holland Thomas to General B.S.(?) Britain, dated December 17, 1839. Thomas replies to a previous inquiry of Britain's concerning the request for a loan. Thomas goes on to inform Britain about the status of the claims that he brought before the War Department on behalf of Eastern Cherokees.
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:
- wt136
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt136
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt136#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt136/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:
-
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Washington City
17th Dec 1839
Gen B S. Britain Franklin NC
Dear sir,
your Communication of the
2d inst [instant] was duly recived [received] & a reply thereto has been delayed for the purpose of being able to give you a satisfactory answer, which I regret to state [illegible text] now I am unable to do, as fully as I could wish The Commissioner of Indian Affairs did not complete his report [document damaged: on ] Cherokee claims until about the first of this month since which time the Secretary [added text: of War ] has had it under consideration, and informs me he calculates to complete it in a few days -- but in that he may be mistaken as much depends on the quantity of Executive business which may come before him requiring immediate action until he completes his actions on the Commissioners report I will be unable to ascertain what disposition will be made of most of the money due the CherokeesEast and on which some time past I obtained a decision whether or not it will be deposited on interest or left to the individuals to have loaned to individuals upon bonds with such sureties
as might be considered sufficient to ensure the pay ment [payment] at the time promised. If the latter course should be adop [document damaged: ted ] it would afford me a pleasure to accommodate on the terms of which I informed you under existing circumstances I would advise the doing all you can
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by making available your Alabama Debts & c [et cetera] to extricate your self [yourself] from embarrassment the same as if you had no other [unclear text: reliance ] -- in the meantime if I should be so fortunate as to have funds to loan to individuals in time to answer your purpose I will inform you as soon as I am in possession of such facts I caculate [calculate] on returning immediately after the secretary completes his action -- when I can inform you more fully on the subject
(I make this statement for your information only --
yours & c [et cetera]
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]