[NATIVE AMERICANS -- CHEROKEE] -- [POINSETT, Joel Roberts (1779-1851)]. Removal of the Cherokees... July 4, 1838. [Washington, D.C.]: printed by Thomas Allen, [1838].

8vo (237 x 155 mm). (Some minor soiling.) Folded sheets, with stab-sewing, uncut and unopened. FIRST EDITION of this letter from the Secretary of War transmitting correspondence between the War Department and Major Winfield Scott. Correspondence runs from 6 April 1838 to 27 June 1838. De Renne II, p. 464.

[With:] ROSS, John (1790-1866). Memorial of John Ross…Representatives of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, on the Subject of the Exiting Difficulties in that Nation... [Washington:] Ritchie & Heiss, [1846].

8vo (225 x 138 mm). (Holes from stab-sewing in gutter, minor staining.) Modern quarter leather. FIRST EDITION outlining communication between members of the Senate and members of the Cherokee Nation, who were requesting financial restitution. Ross encouraged members of the Cherokee Nation to protest these calls of relocation. These efforts were unsuccessful and General Scott was ordered to enforce the relocation on 6 April 1838, better known now as the “Trail of Tears.” Streeter 559.

Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia

[NATIVE AMERICANS -- CHEROKEE] -- [POINSETT, Joel Roberts (1779-1851)]. Removal of the Cherokees... July 4, 1838. [Washington, D.C.]: printed by Thomas Allen, [1838].