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(confidential) Creek Agency 29th May 1820. My Dear Fri, friend?

I have received your letter by Mr. James Erwin, and regret to perceive that you are despleased with me for the delay which has occured in procuring the testimony in the case of africans. I hate this delay has occasioned to me more uneasiness than I con experienced upon any other occasion in the course of my life, is I assure you true and that it has been a subject of regret to all my friends I will know & lament, and that you have more reason than any other to complain, as well from the unclear you have taken in my behalf as from the known and acknowledged fact that the unclear hostile to me is equally so to yourself, and seek to wound you through me, but not withstanding all this, I am confident when you are informed of all the particulars you will admit that the delay has not been occasioned by any work of zial or execution on my part, but