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were said and much friendship professed between them; that they had no place of security for their speeches, as their white brethren had, and that their belts of wampum were their only re-cords; and adds, but, if you examine your books and papers, you will there find written all that passed between your forefathers and ours. He speaks further of a belt of wampum given to us by your forefathers, with a piece of parch-ment affixed thereto; when you see the belt of wampum and read the writing on the parch-ment, you no doubt will then perfectly know us, and will consider us as brethren united by a chain of friendship which can never be broken whilst memory lasts. He informed the Friends that he understood some of them wished to pay his people a visit, and adds, We are much pleased to hear that you still hold us in remembrance. The letter of Thomas Wistar,* Notwithstanding friendly relations continued ever after to be maintained between the Indian Committee of Philadelphia and that of Baltimore, the manu-scripts I have overlooked furnish no account of fur-ther correspondence between them, until some years after the date of this letter of Thomas Wistar. clerk of the Committee on Indian Concerns in Philadelphia,was dated 27th of Second month, 1799, and states that the Miami nation had made a re-quest of their Committee for some Friends to settle amongst them, and a speech from theDelawares left no doubt that a similar request