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come home often at least, & travel more or less.

You cannot consent to this I see.
Could you if living in Brooklyn? Or will you
try it here? Or, will ^you advise me to give up
all this great work for Freedmen & the country,
& be Agent in N.Yk?

But I have written enough for one
letter—I am sweating with only shirt & trousers on
as I write. We will talk ^it all over when I
come—Gen.l Howard says he is very home-
sick grubbing along as he does also—with
his family away

Yesterday went to Baltimore on
special business—Bounty moneys of which
Freedmen had been defrauded—Brought back
information on which there will be a thorough
investigation. But I had a very hard day in
the heat—Write me once more—before I come

Yours as ever
J. W. Alvord

P.S. What good men told you I was acting very strangely?