A handwritten diary, written between 1834 and 1838, by a Disbursing Agent for the removal of the Cherokee Indians from the southeastern United States. The author of this journal details their travels through Kentucky, west Tennessee, and northern Mississippi and reflects on their interactions with the Cherokee people. Also included is the author’s account of the Treaty of Echota, signed in 1835.

Although the diary has previously been attributed to writer Charles Fenton Mercer Noland of Arkansas, this claim has been disputed by historians, leaving the diary’s author unknown.