CHEROKEE PHOENIX AND INDIANS' ADVOCATE
Wednesday, February 11, 1829
Volume 1 No. 48
Page 2 Col 4b-5a

The writer of the following letter is a member of the Mission School at Hightower.  We hope the example here set will be imitated in other places.

      HIGHTOWER, Feb. 6, 1829.

 MESSRS. WORCESTER & BOUDINOTT,
 I am requested to inform you that the Female D. M. Society in this place have sent by Epenetus, Six Dollars, for the purpose of purchasing Cherokee Hymn Books for distribution in the Valley Town.  He will give you the money and we hope you will let him have the amount in Books, as above.   Yours respectfully,
                                      MARY ROWE.

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