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Raleigh Aug 30th 1860.

My dear Bishop Polk,

I thank you very kindly
for your last letter, though absence
and a great press of unavoidable
letter writing have prevented my re-
plying to it at an earlier date. I
requested your advice and you have
given it to me frankly - just as if
you had full confidence in the
sincerity of the request. Thank you
for the compliment and rest assur-
ed I shall try to profit by it. Your
letter has been of good service to me
already, in helping me to keep the
paper worker, and printer, as far as
may be up to Contract. The present
contract specifies expressly that
the paper on which the Intelligencer
is printed shall be in every respect
fully equal to that of the Church