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[[Stamp]] Freedman's Bureau State of Miss Received JAN 10 1867 [[Stamp]] II 3 The enclosed was handed me by Mrss. Wilkinson & Bowman who stated that they could not undertake the case because they are retained by Mr Pickett generally as his attorneys. and requested here to take charge of the case. If the Bureau desires it & chooses to make me the same offer made to them, I will attend to the case though the fee is very small. The parties having never been lawfully married, the legal right to the custody of the children is now in the woman. I think proper course would be to come here and get married others legitimate the children, & then apply for the Writ of Habeas Corpus. Yazoo City. R.S. Holt. 7" Jan'y 1867