Fort Moultrie, Jan.17th

  Dear sir: I have arrived here this morning in three days, fine weather, and well. I have just had an interview with “Osceola” and the other chiefs-had a talk with them and begin in an hour from this to paint.

  I shall paint Osceola, Coachajo, Micanopy, Cloud, King Phillip and several others, and hasten back with all speed to show the citizens of New York how these brave fellows look.

  You will think by this time that I am catering for the world at great expense to myself, and it is even so, “but things to be done must be done.”

  Osceola is a fine gentlemanly looking man, with a pleasant smile that would become the face, of the most refined or delicate female-yet I can well imagine, that when roused and kindled into action, it would glow with a hero’s fire and a lion’s rage. His portrait has never yet been painted.

                  Yours, &c.  George Catlin

Pittsburg Post Gazette, January 31, 1838