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User-Contributed Transcription [in pencil] George Copway see Drakes Biog DicMy Dr. ColThe meeting for the cause of the Indian will take place at the Tabirnicle on Monday evening The Mayor will Preside, if not Ex Governor Brodick will. Ex Mayor Harper will also be there, and several ministers likewiseI look to none as I do to you as friend to the Indian. And as such you will expect me to be grateful for an address or any thing that will interest the Public.And now I am going to send Printed notices to about 300 Churches for Sunday.I have just been to see the Different Papers and several Ministers also seem to be [up?] in the matter.We will have to ask 12 1/2 cents at the door, for the TabernacleI will call again tomorrow about 10I am Dr SirYours G Copway[in pencil] *box Ayer N. A. MS 184 no. 2

Open book Letters 1847-1858

Title Letters 1847-1858

Creator Copway, George, 1818-1863?

Date 1847-1858

Place Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Language English

Subjects Indians of North America, Ojibwa Indians

Description formerly known as Ayer MS 185-187.

Summary Letters written from Albany, N.Y., New York City, and Philadelphia, 1847-1858, by George Copway, regarding assistance for the education of an Indian boy (1847), a meeting to support the Indian cause (1850), a lecture on the European peace congress (1851), and a meeting to form an unspecified permanent society in Philadelphia (1858). Correspondents include Richard Vaux (mayor of Philadelphia), J.W. Thornton (historian), and H.N. Pohlman (Albany, N.Y., Lutheran minister)

Biographical/Historical Note Ojibwa chief, Methodist missionary, and author. Born in 1818 in Ontario and given the Indian name Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh, Copway was taught to read by an English missionary and converted to Methodism in 1830. From 1834 until his death, Copway was either engaged in missionary work among his people in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois, or in lecturing, writing, and raising funds for the Indian cause. Copway wrote several books on the Indians, translated the gospel of Luke into Ojibwa, and proposed and argued for a new Indian territory for the tribes of the Old Northwest. He is presumed to have died in Michigan in 1863.

Extent 4 items (2 folders)

Format Correspondence, Manuscripts, American

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Call Number Ayer MS 184

BibID 136952

Size 2294px × 2969px 19.52 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11IA1J