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he has done a thing which I thought was foreign from his nature — found bed and board by me for months against the wishes of Dr. Bigelow and Mr. Gladwin — got employed by the Freedmen's Association through influence of Chaplain Ferne, and then through the Chaplains and my influence, employed by the N.Y. Educational Association, and by then set on his feet. And now he has turned round and scurrilously injured, causelessly, his best friends in Alexandria — you and the Chaplain. He ought to be dropped by that Society at once, and turned out to grass, and left to shift for himself.

Since writing the foregoing, I have re-read your letter, and find that Mr. Fish tells he has seen Minnie in my office as late as 1 and 2 o'clock at night, eating suppers. This is an absolute falsehood, made out of whole cloth, tell it who may. It is likely we may have had apples, bread and cheese, and eat of them after we had done our work at night. But he or no one else ever saw her in my office at any such hours, for she never was there at any such hours, or at any unreasonable hour.