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Spalding and Whitman Letters, 1837

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in the Mission[1] One of the Cayuse Chiefs has 3 or four cows & heifers & also a Walla Walla Chief a few the Hudson Bay Co have about 1,200 hed of cattle at their different posts but none are sold We feel ourselves quite alone but still if we had associates we could not be protected but by the power of God only We feel ourselves greatly unfit for the work but still such as

we are we will try to do what we can the Lord strengthening us

I am Dear Sir yours in Gospel Labor & Love
Marcus Whitman⁠

Rev. D. Greene

To the Rev. Prudential Committee of the A.B.C.F.M. The undersigned respectfully present the following schedule of recepts & expenditures accruing to the Wiiletpoo Station of Mission to the Flatheads & Nez perces

Bill of Exchange drawn by H. H. Spalding at Vancouver 20 Nov 1836 for £371 - 8 - 1[2]

Expended as follows£sd
H. H. Spalding172131
Wm. H. Gray10710
Marcus Whitman18872

Also bill drawn by Marcus Whitman Fort Nez perces March 18th 1837 for £102 - 13 - 1

Expended as follows£sd
Marcus Whitman261210
H. H. Spalding32131
Wm. H. Gray4372
  1. ↑ Gray married while in the east and returned with his wife and a reinforcement for the mission.
  2. ↑ The rate of exchange was about $540 for every £100; Drury, Henry Harmon Spalding, 204.
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