Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Statement of Editorial Method xi
List of Abbreviations xvii
Editors Introduction 1
"My beloved people": Early Life and Cherokee Contexts 7
"The dear missionaries": Education, Conversion, and Missionary Contexts 13
"A means of great good to our people": Interpreter and Teacher 21
Brown's Writings 24
"With pleasure I spend a few moments in writing to you": Brown's Letters 28
"I jest sit down to address you with my - pen": The Rhetorics of Brown's Letters 34
"O Painful is it to record": Brown's Diary 40
Other Textual Representations 43
Memoir of Catharine Brown 44
Part 1 Collected Writings, 1818-1823
Letters 61
Diary 115
Part 2 Nineteenth-Century Representations of Catharine Brown
Catharine Brown, the Converted Cherokee: A Missionary Drama, Founded on Fact (1819) 127
A Lady of Connecticut
Excerpt from Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822) Lydia Sigourney 157
"Inscription: For the Grave of Catharine Brown" (1825) Anonymous 159
"The Grave of Catharine Brown" (1825) H.S. 161
Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation (1825) Rufus Anderson 163
Source Acknowledgments 259
Notes 261
Works Cited 281