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OFFICE OF
National Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company,
Corner 19th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D. C., Augt 28th 1867

My Dear
Your two letters—came together
so I cheerfully answer. You know I hold you to a very strict ac.

Glad you are all so well &
enjoying so much. Julia's description of the
Bush hunting was a novelty.

I hope to see you on Saturday—but
you dont know how harried I am.

The late uproar has unhinged all our
work, & only to day have I secured the ear of
the General to the first page of my Rept. But
Maj Saxton is pushing for the printers copy, as he has
furlough some as it gets to press—so I have the
hope above expressed. We all "still live".

The Post has some "big game" now in hand—That
dispatched, he may return to Genl H.

You see all we read in theBalt. Am., &