Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Single sheet, folded to 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. [1] p. of text, 25 words, [2] pp. blank, addressed on the fourth page to Messrs. Henry & Cunningham, Vanburen, Arkansas, and posted from the Choctaw Agency on Jan'y. 29, 1844. Old fold lines, a few short splits. Superintendent Goode requests that Henry & Cunningham send 15 bushels of good seed oats "by the first boat having freight for this point." Rev. William H. Goode was appointed superintendent of the Ft. Coffee Academy, a school for Native American boys run by the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1843. The school occupied the abandoned Fort Coffee military post and operated until the Civil War.