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Complaint about American alterations in annuity payments; "In the provisions of the old treaties between this State and the Onondaga … this annuity is perpetual … there was nothing said in those treaties that the State would have power to make alteration in the manner of paying these annuities...it is a force upon our rights, it being done without our consent." Because some chiefs near Buffalo have debts there is concern for "our good name and Credit..."

Two documents relating to a grant to Columbus D. Pace for Lot 1157 21st & 3rd Cherokee Co. attached with ribbon and a faded seal of Georgia. Plat representation of the 40-acre lot, deeded according to the Gold Lottery of 1832. Includes a copy of the 1832 survey of the plot.

Requesting Benedict to allow Mr. Bartlett to have four copies of Oneota or the Indian and His Wigwam for Mr. Vattemere.

Death of a man, probably "over heating himself in the harvest field brot on inflammation on the brain he was deranged from the next morning till he died." Seth may not travel on account of the presence of cholera. Received a letter from Seth, who wrote from Fort Laramie on his way to California. Their company is in relatively good health although some had "a touch of the cholera." The travelers suffered from lack of good water. Description of a "pitch" battle with Sioux Indians.

Sale of lot 1 in block 1, Cross Village, Emmett County. Signed by Joseph Naw-we-mash-ko-ta, with his mark.

Essay assailing the expulsion of Indians from their native lands; "that our forfathers were justifiable in expelling the Indian from their [native] home I unhesitantingly deny, and it must be the conclusion of every national being [when] viewed in the light of reason, justice & humanity."

Describes the lively trade with Sac, Fox, Delaware, and Kickapoo due to Indian payments; "The Indian Payments are coming off now and that will make times very [brisk] for a while … "

Recommending Capt. George P. Dyker as Indian agent for Utah territory; he is "well qualified … having a knowledge of the Spanish language which is more or less spoken by some of the Indians of that Country."

Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, presents Mayer with a copy of Grammar and dictionary of the Dacota Language.

The Lords Prayer in Cherokee.