Letters of Rev. John W. Alvord

OFFICE OF National Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, Corner 19th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C., Augt 28th 1867

My Dear Your two letters—came together so I cheerfully answer. You know I hold you to a very strict ac.

Glad you are all so well & enjoying so much. Julia's description of the Bush hunting was a novelty.

I hope to see you on Saturday—but you dont know how harried I am.

The late uproar has unhinged all our work, & only to day have I secured the ear of the General to the first page of my Rept. But Maj Saxton is pushing for the printers copy, as he has furlough some as it gets to press—so I have the hope above expressed. We all "still live".

The Post has some "big game" now in hand—That dispatched, he may return to Genl H.

You see all we read in theBalt. Am., &