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LETTERS OF REV. WILLIAM M. ROBERTS 251

To the Rn>d Messrs H. H. Spalding E. Walker and C. Ells.

Dear Brethren: Your proposal of the 3 Inst. to retransfer the Mission station at Wascopam near the Grand Dalls of the C.[olumbia] River to the Oregon Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church was reed, by the hands of Bro. Eells.

I take the earliest opportunity to say that the offer is hereby accepted according to the terms of the proposal.

With sentiments of great respect, I am Dear Brethren, Yours in Christ,

Win. Roberts,

Salem March 13th 1849 Sup. O. M.

Salem O. T. April llth 1&49. Rev & Dear Bro.:

I reed yesterday a letter from W. W. Jones by order of your Conference in answer to one I sent some months since to Bro I Green in relation to J. G. T. Dunleavey with the request that his credentials be forwarded to you to be filed with the papers of the Conference. You will therefore receive them enclosed in this sheet. All that I reed which includes parchments liscence to preach, exhort and Testimony of official standing from his Pre[ siding] E[lder] when he left Mo. I am inter- ested in this man and have some hope rather "forlorn" to be sure, that he may yet be saved. He resides near Santa Cruz in upper California and talks of coming to Oregon. Could we be permitted here to surround him with the priveleges and checks of gospel influence we should hope to "convert the Sinner from the Error of his ways and hide a multitude of sins."

I am Dear Bro.

Yours in Christ,

To Rev Jno R. Bennete W. R.

Lexington, MO.