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plete arrangements for preserving all its documents and papers here at 
Bethlehem ; that its library and collection of manuscripts are properly 
ordered and displayed in its *‘ Archives ;’’ that a most valuable library of 
Moravian literature has recently been presented to us; and that we wish 
to bring together all the papers which we own, especially with regard to 
the Indians, and arrange them in our collection. At the time that the 
Manuscripts for which we ask were deposited with the American Philo- 
sophical Society, none of the conveniences existed which we now have 
for preserving such documents, 
IT remain, gentlemen, 
Yours, very respectfully, 
EpMUND DE SCHWEINITZ, 
President of the 8. P. G. 
BETHLEHEM, PA., October 9th, 1883. 
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Vol. I, 
1819. By its Historical and Literary Committee. 
p. xlvii. ‘‘ Deposited by the Society of the United Brethren of Bethlehem.’ 
1. Deutsch und Onondagoisches Woerterbuch, von David Zeis- 
berger. 7 vols. 4to, 
p. xlviii. 2. Essay of an Onondago Grammar, ora short introduction to 
learn the Onondago, alias Maqua Tongue; by David Zeis- 
berger.  4to, 67 pp. 
8. Onondagoische Grammatica ; by the same. 4to, 87 pp. 
. 4, Another Onondago Grammar in the German language; by 
the same. 4to, 176 pp. 
5, Affixa Nominum et Verborum Lingua Macquaice. Auctore 
Chr. Pyrleo. 4to, 25 pp. [With this work are bound 
several Iroquois Vocabularies and Collection of Phrases, the 
whole together making 178 pp. 4to. ] 
6. Adjectiva, Nomina et Pronomina Lingue Macquaice, cum 
nonnullis de Verbis, Adverbis ac Praepositionibus ejusdem 
lingue. Pyrleus. 4to, 86 pp. 
%. A Collection of Words and Phrases in the Iroquois or Onon- 
dago Language, explained into German, By the Rey. Chr. 
Pyrieus. 4to, 140 pp. 
Report of the Curators on the subject of the Zeisherger and Pyrleus MSS. 
November 2, 1883. 
It appears to the Curators that these MSS. were deposited by ‘‘ The 
United Brethren of Bethichem,’’ and therefore cannot be given up except 
to them or by their order, The present demand comes from the ‘‘ Society 
for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen.’’ We have, therefore, 
no right to surrender these MSS. to an alien Society. 
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