[Letter] 1838 Jan. 4, Cherokee Agency [to] John Ross, Washington City D.C. / Lewis Ross Ross, Lewis, d. 1869 Cherokee Indians--Treaties Trail of Tears, 1838 Ross, John 1790-1866 Letter dated January 4, 1838 from Lewis Ross to his brother John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, concerning the removal of the Cherokee people and the possibility of negotiating a treaty with better terms than the Treaty of New Echota, 1835. Document ID: ch035. Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Athens, Ga. : Digital Library of Georgia Tennessee State Library and Archives University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Libraries 2000 Letters (correspondence) Text http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/zlna/id:ch035 3 pages/leaves text/html image/jpeg image/x-djvu Manuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 1, folder 24, document ch035. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents. 1838-01-04 Southern States This work is the property of the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. Cite as: [title of item], State Library Cherokee Collection, The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia