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Please let more of this manuscript go from your hands, and if you think it will, on the whole unclear to evil, more than good, you will oblige me by burning the whole instead of publishing it. Let none of it be published in any Newspaper, or periodical of any kind, but destroy it un less you wish it for your own work. I have ran it to Maj. Lowery. He wished me to send it to you, and says it is correct, as far as unclear within his knowledge. Yours unclear J. H. P.