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Cayuga Chief PETER WILSON - Letters

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Native Americans. (Cayuga Chief Peter Wilson) 7" x 9" letter signed by Joseph Fellows, Geneva, August 12, 1842, to George M. Cooper. "...Peter Wilson...has entered the office of Dr. Thomas Spencer as a student...I have with others addressed a letter to the censors of the state Medical Society...if you can aid the applicant I request you do it..." On the reverse is a copy of the letter, initialed by Fellows: "...An Indian Chief of the Cayuga tribe, of the name of Peter Wilson, but whose life has been principally spent on the Buffalo reservation is now in this village...He has no means of support but a small annuity from the general government and he has been advised to apply to the... Medical branch of Geneva College to grant or obtain for him the privilege of attending lectures of the Medical professors..." Included is 7" x 9" autograph letter signed by G. M. Cooper, August 16, 1842, to Asher Wright, Seneca mission, Buffalo. "...I rec'd the foregoing yesterday...get some of the Chiefs on your reservation to send a like petition so to strengthen the claim that Peter may receive the advantage of the institution..." Broken in fold, one inch tear to the lower right.

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