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Kalamazoo July 5 1830
My Dear Doctor
Your favor of the 29th ult
was duly recd, your remark that our acqu-
aintance is brief, true, but I[underlined] feel quite
well acquainted with you from the fact
of seeing your name in the "Prairie Farmer""
and "Horticulurist" besides I took some "me
icated ice water" with you at Buffalo,
when we were there
You ask me to aid you to procure the
appointment as Commissioner of Agriculture
which I will most cheerfully do,. I shall
write to the only Whig we have in Congress
from this state (Wm Sprague) he is from
this place and one of my near neighbors
liveing on the same street. I will also
write to Senator Filch who I am well
acquainted with.
It would afford me much pleasure to see
you in that department, and should the West
receive it I think you may be the man
One thing would strenghten your claim &
add to your chances of success, with our
Elder Sprague, that is to be a good Meth
odest, to pray loud and long, at least all
of his friends who have obtained Office in
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Although the handwriting is difficult to read, this letter was written in 1850, not 1830 (John Kennicott was not at The Grove in 1830, and 1850 was the year that the "fruit congress" was scheduled to be held in Cincinnati).