Washington, Nov. 25th, 1880 J.H. Fairchild Esq  Dear Brother   Your Report for October Came to hand yesterday and the Telegram as fast as I Can get the papers before the proper offices I am getting the accounts Settled   There is less difficulty attending  the Settlement than we Might have Expected. Yours will be Settled    You See from letters previously Sent, telling you when we Came here that we are Making a prolonged Stay. The  Secty of the Interior Says dont be in haste about Starting homeward   When we Shall leave here I do not know   We intend to Spend      Some  
        time in New York among our friends The weather is So Cold there Now that I fear to have Mrs Wilbur go North   She has had So hard a Cough and been So unwell that we Need to be exceeding Careful lest She Should get a relapse that would hold us all winter   for a week or ten days She has been improving and I trust with  Care will overcome her Cough and be  herself again.  This is Thanskgiving Evening    We have had the Most Masterly production in a Sermon from Dr Gerard of Baltimore His text was    For Every good and perfect gift Cometh down from the Father of lights with whom there is no Variableness or Shadow of turning.    I think taking it all in all   
        it was the Most Masterly production and the Most Masterly delivered of any Sermon or Speech I Ever heard in One hour and a half. If I Should undertake to describe it, I Should Mar and Mangle    If you have heard him you know how he Climbs. The Services were in the Fundary Church which was literally packed    Not a Seat or Space vacant in the house. Last Evening we had  Lovefeast  at Said Church   Not as much readiness Manifested in Speaking as we have among our Indian Brothers  amp; Sisters   they Spoke to long to Make the Meeting as interesting as it Might have been   Night before last I went to the    Asbury Church.    Here the Negro people have belonging to our Church  
        are holding (as they Say) a revival Meeting: their Singing and Shouting forms a wonderful Contrast with the Churches for the whites. Their preacher told me they had a Membership of 1200   Near one third of the population here is the  Colored: Some are quite well off and others are poor as the Piute Indians and the poorest Class of them.   At the urgent request of Gen Alverd, I have an Engagement to Call on General Sherman to Morrow and have a talk on Indian Matters. Here he will Receive me and what will be the outcome of the interview I Can tell better afterwards than now. General Alverd thinks that General Sherman  
        Knows very Many things, but thinks Some things relating to Indian Civilization I might give him Some useful lessons. I am doing what I Can to Strengthen the hands that are ready to hang down in the Indians reform and Manhood and Saying to them fear Not, the God of truth and Righteousness is on our Side. I have been Solicited to Lecture in Baltimore and in Philadelphia   I am Not Certain that I shall go to either of the above Named places.  We were invited to dine with Bishop Andrews and accepted   Had a  Very pleasant time with him and his family   this is his home    Continue to Send your letters  
        until you learn I have left here. We have been having Cold weather and this after Noon the Snow has been falling So the ground is now  Covered   the Boys are out with their  Nauck Sleads  and the little folks are dancing about as lively as the Snow Birds. General Garfield is here, and when it was announced he was to be here on Tuesday, the people began to Make preparations for his reception He by a Telegram requested them not to make the least demonstration, and he Came in as any other man would Come, and is Nere as unprotending as other Citizens and this to My Mind indicates a nobleness not always found with Presidents.  Yours truly James H. Wilbur    US Ind Agent  written sideways   I want you to take Care of your health   was Sorry to hear Mr Miller was unwell   Love to all Indians  amp; whites        J.H.W.