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    To get this application for delay through so as to do me any good, I must have it at Washington by the 25th of October.  But I suppose the new District [underline] arrangement will delay communications going forward in the regular channel, so, to use in case the original don't get thro' will you please to have Woodward send me as soon as practicable after you get this, an official copy of the "brief" of my application and of your action or endorsement upon it, when it left [strike] leaves your office.