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1 Sept. 8

Mrs. Rebecca Weaver
Boston Mass.

Dear Madam,

Your esteemed letters came [duly?] to [hand?]. The reason, that your first one was not answered, was I did not know your address, you having written the letter without any date or place.

The request however, made by you, that a copy of our 2nd Annual Report [&c?] be forwarded to Mr. Thos. Steere, editor of The Morning Herald, was immediately complied with, and the documents forwarded by mail on 09 Aug.

The excitement exisiting in the public mind in regard to the cattle plague, will have a good effect in opening the eyes of the people to the fact of the cruelties practised upon the cattle brought by rail to the Eastern seaboard, & there is no doubt that they have been the [predisposing?] cause of the fearful epidemic now raging among them, we trust, in view of the dangers [hovering?] over us, that our Legislation, if they have no regard for the poor brutes, will have some regard for themselves & their [constituents?], & enact laws for the better [care?] of animals brought by railroad, & made to yield up their lives for the sustenance