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can scarcely believe unless you saw it, the state of dilapidation in which I found the Agency. Not a house but some pole cabin scarcely fit for Negro houses; not a work shop nor a tool of any kind, and the stones, gudgeons + hooks sold from the mill + every part of the machinery destroyed in removing the irons. I shall have to begin de novo. unclear scrawl you will repent the unclear you have given me, but I promise to be more concise hereafter. I am Dear Sir with friendship + esteem your very obed serv, D. B. Mitchell Honble William H. Crawford Secretary of the Treasury Washington