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ious other topics which were similarly distasteful to them.

Will you please tell Auntie that I shall obtain Dr. Jordan's famous lecture against the holding of the Philippines and by reading this she will have an excellent stock-in-trade for a good paper on "Shall we retain the Philippines," or a subject of similar import. I have jotted down a few points on this question which she may find suggestive. Please give her this paper.

Don't forget to make those shirts for me. "I need you, ma honey, yes, I do." George Irving is coming down to call on me during the first week of October. If you have any thing to send down to me, do so by him. I believe I have a colored stiff-bosom shirt at home, and a pair of white cuffs,