[Letter] 1839 June 24, Washington City, D.C. [to] Ja[me]s P. H. Porter, Sevierville, Ten[nessee] / W[illia]m H. Thomas Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893 Cherokee Indians--Land tenure Cherokee Indians--Government relations This letter, dated June 24, 1839, is from William Holland Thomas to James P. H. Porter in Sevierville, TN. Thomas explains that he has been detained in Washington, D.C. by the absence of T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, while attempting to settle Cherokee claims. Thomas also discusses business and the construction and usage of roads through the Great Smoky Mountains and the Oconaluftee Cherokee settlement in North Carolina. Document ID: wt012. 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. Athens, Ga. : Digital Library of Georgia Hoskins Library University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Libraries Southeastern Native American Documents Collection (GALILEO (Georgia statewide project)) GAGAL Digital Library of Georgia 2001 Business letters http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/zlna/id:wt012 1 page/leaf Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas, box 1, folder 1, document wt012. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents. 1839-06-24 Southern States This work is the property of the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 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], MS2058 William Holland Thomas, Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia