Quaker Committee on Indian Affairs Letter Regarding American Indian Schools and Slavery

              [page 1]

[corresponds to page one of unsigned letter to "Friends" April 1818]

	                      Ireland

Dear Friends

	   	Your affectionate Epistle of 4th mo 1818

did not reach us in time for Our meeting last year
			
it hath been [carrot mark] read [above carrot mark] at this time to Our edification and

encouragement.  We have again been favoured  by

the extending of Our heavenly Fathers love to

transact the weighty concerns of Society that

have come before us [carrot mark] with Brotherly [above carrot mark] [words crossed out below carrot mark] condescension [word crossed out]

Our minds have been [Our...been crossed out] and altho by the reports

from the subordinate meetings there are dificien

=cies which excite Our minds to the [crossed out] encourage the

honest hearted to labour for the advancement of

Our testimonies, in which we have [in...have crossed out] yet we have

cause to believe that among the beloved youth

there are those preparing, in the divine hard to

succeed others, whose minds in the decline of years

are comforted in the hopeful prospect of a suc-

=cession of Standard bearers.  may these by dedication

both with you and us be cloathed with an increase

of the power by which the Church may advance

[words crossed out] is Our Solitude. [written above crossed out words].

We have at Our several sitings had the company of

divers Brethren from neighbouring yearly Meetings

whose [words crossed out] Labours with those of

Our beloved Friend Wm Rickman from Great Britain

[words crossed out]