My dealy dearly beloved bretheren  after a considerable lengthy journy I arived avail  myself of the first opertunity of communicating to  you a knowledge of our situation that you may  be priviledged of writing to us for we have not  heard any thing from you since we left you  last fall we arived here at this place a few  days since which is about 25 miles from this the  Shawney indians on the south Side of the Kan sas River at its mouth & delewares on the north  I have had two interviews with the Chief of that  that the delewares who is <a> very old & venerable  looking man after haveing laying before him  & eighteen of or twenty of the Council of that nation  the truth he said that <he he> and they he and thy they  were very glad for what I their Brother had  told them and they had recived it in their  hearts &c— But how the matter will go with this  tribe to me is uncirtain nether Can I at present  Conclude mutch about it the wether is m[u]tch  is quite Severe and the snow is Considerable  deep which makes it at present quite dific cult traveling about I have but a short time  to write to you my b[e]loved Bretheren as the  mail leves thi[s] place in mornin the morning [p. [1]]