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Respectfully forwarded. I presume the within report is made in obedience to some order requiring chaplains to make periodical reports of the moral condition of the Posts at which they may be serving, and in forwarding it I will merely state that while in the main, the report of the Rev. Mr. Wright may be correct, my natural modesty must prevent my giving decided approval to the remarks which are personal, and so very flattering to myself. | Respectfully forwarded. I presume the within report is made in obedience to some order requiring chaplains to make periodical reports of the moral condition of the Posts at which they may be serving, and in forwarding it I will merely state that while in the main, the report of the Rev. Mr. Wright may be correct, my natural modesty must prevent my giving decided approval to the remarks which are personal, and so very flattering to myself. | ||
However, a "beau jew, beau retour", and I will | However, a "beau jew, beau retour", and I will | ||
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therefore remark that I consider Mr. Wright a very worthy gentleman and, really quite useful. I have never seen him intoxicated neither has it ever been necessary to reprove him for riotous conduct, and the practice, so freely indulged in by some of the foreign clerby, of keeping a mistress, meets with no favor from him. | |||
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HdQrs Ft. Laramie June 19, 1867
Respectfully forwarded. I presume the within report is made in obedience to some order requiring chaplains to make periodical reports of the moral condition of the Posts at which they may be serving, and in forwarding it I will merely state that while in the main, the report of the Rev. Mr. Wright may be correct, my natural modesty must prevent my giving decided approval to the remarks which are personal, and so very flattering to myself.
However, a "beau jew, beau retour", and I will
[middle column] therefore remark that I consider Mr. Wright a very worthy gentleman and, really quite useful. I have never seen him intoxicated neither has it ever been necessary to reprove him for riotous conduct, and the practice, so freely indulged in by some of the foreign clerby, of keeping a mistress, meets with no favor from him.