Asher and Laura M. Wright letters, 1850-1871.

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Asher and Laura M. Wright letters, 1850-1871.

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Letter to Asher Wright from William A. Thayer, Lancaster, 14 May 1850, responding to Wright's request for information on the construction of the Indian meeting house at Cattaraugus, and how funding was acquired; letter to Miss C. G. Parker from L. M. Wright, Cattaraugus Reservation, 30 Aug. 1852, thanking her for expressions of sympathy on the death of Mary Jimerson, and inviting her to accompany the Wrights to Troy for the annual meeting of the American Board of Missions; letter from Asher Wright, Cattaraugus Reservation, to O. H. Marshall, 28 Feb. 1871, regarding Eleazer Williams' claim to be the Dauphin, heir to the throne of France; and letter from Asher Wright to Spencer H. Cone, undated, asking for translations of the Baptist baptism formula for his printing of the New Testament in Seneca, the cost of which will be defrayed by the Bible Society providing that he uses the correct terms for the act of baptism.

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