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Autograph letter, signed, dated Washington, D.C., June 29, 1889, to Alfred McElroy Wilson (Fayetteville, Ark.), regarding Wilson's "mission to the Cherokee Indians" and the President's "wish that the sub-committee of...the Committee of Indian Affairs...should visit that tribe, and others, at the time the Commission is" in the Indian Territory.

Scope and Content Note Copies of 32 ALSs correspondence created or received by John Ross and others, May 3 to November 2, 1839, pertaining to political affairs in the Cherokee Nation, 1838-1840, especially as regards relations between the Western ("Old Settler") and the Eastern ("Emigrant") Cherokees, relations between both groups and the government of the United States, the Takatokah and Tahlequah Councils, and the murder of Elias Boudinot and the John Ridges (1770?-1843, 1803-1839). Other correspondents include...