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His Excelency.
Sam Houston
Nashville
Tennessee

Col. Dunlap
for
E R Cotton

Paris Ten Febuary 25th 1828

Dear Sir

Mr Edward R Cotten will
be an applicant for the pro tem
appointment of attorney General for this
District, he is a man of high and
honorable feelings, of talents adequate
to the discharge of the duties of the of the
office, if the interest of the State should
be confided to him, it will neither
suffer nor be neglected, and in him the
State will find an able representa
-tive. I have been personally acquai
-nted with Mr Cotten for four years
and from my intimate knowledge
of him, I can say that his deportment
has ben dignified and gentlem
anly - your friend

John M Dunlap