<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, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893</dc:creator><dc:date>1840-01-20</dc:date><dc:description>This is a letter, dated January 20, 1840, to T. Hartley Crawford from William Holland Thomas. Thomas, as legal representative, requests that payment be made to Cherokees James and Susan Raper for their reservation. A note at the end of the letter indicates that Thomas sent a like request on behalf of Richard Downing.</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>wt160</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 wt160.</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:subject>Cherokee Indians--Legal status, laws, etc.</dc:subject><dc:title>[Letter] 1840 Jan. 20 , Washington City, D.C. [to] T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of I[ndian] A[ffairs] / W[illiam] H[olland] T[homas] of an image</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>