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Holly Springs Miss. July 31 1866.

To His Excellency,
Gov. Humphreys.

Dr. Sir. Although a stranger to you personally, I may state without impropriety that I am Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in this place, & am induced to make the inquiry of you [Last two words underlined] in regard to a matter respecting which, I have sought for information from others in vain. It is proper to say that I attended the great southern Fair in Baltimore held about the 1_st of April, & having a personal acquaintance with some of the most prominent persons, both ladies & gentlemen, connected with that Enterprize, I took it upon me to represent fully, & I hope not without effect, the claims of Mississippi. I especially pleaded in behalf of North Miss. the sufferings, & losses of our people, resulting from the late war, - Several of the Committee promised that my statements should be laid before the dis-tributing Committee, which no doubt was done, as eviden-ced by the munificent donation of $18,000 to this State. - I have waited, anxiously hoping to learn from yourself, through the Public Journals, what it was pro-posed to do, or what was being done with the money. I have heard nothing, nor I have I seen any thing in the Papers in regard to the matter, except your Acknowledgment of the 1_st instalment of (I believe) $5000--