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Ithaca N. Y.
June 6. 1894.

Miss Kate C. McBeth

Dear Madam:

Your very readable article in the April No. of the Church at Home and Abroad, did not meet my eye until today. Being the son of Rev. Samuel Parker of Ithaca N. Y. and having spent much time for years on the A.B.C.F.M. mission to Oregon, of which my father and Dr. Marcus Whitman were the first missionaries who crossed the Rocky Mountains in 1834, allow me to ask you for [[underlined]] the authority [[/underlined]] for the detail you give of the Indian Delegation of the Indians to St. Louis? Dr. Whitman, Rev. Dr. Spaulding, and Rev. Dr. Ells, and several others like myself, have in vain sought these details you give and never found them. Correspondence of years with Rev. Dr. Ells