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Boston May 9th 1867.

Major Genl Nelson A. Miles, Hon W.W. Holden, & R.W. Pulliam Esq.
Raleigh N.C.

Gentlemen,

At the suggestion of Mr Addison Gage of this city, who recently passed through Raleigh on his way to the South, I shall be happy to honor your draft to the amount of three thousand dollars in the aggregate, to be applied for the purchase of food to relieve destitution in North Carolina.  This sum is a part of contribution in aid of the South, placed in the hands of a Committee of which I am