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Forty-second Congress U.S.

House of Representatives

Washington D. C. Dec. 14, 1872

W. W. Crapo
New Bedford, Mass.

Dear Sir,
Your letter of the 9th is received. It will give me great pleasure to advocate, as one of the commissioners to settle the Alabama claims, the name of Ex. Gov. Clifford of your city if it is the general wish of the leading merchants of