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Savannah. 4 Nov. 1867

Major Genl R.R. Scott. Bureau R.F. & A Lands
Charleston, S.C.

General
I regret that I have been unable earlier to acknowledge your communications and I lament your refusal to supply coppies of given letters and Captain Brandts to Genl Howard which contain statements unfair to me and which I requested to enable me to correct the misapprehensions under which they were written.
You speak of my "complaint" against Captain Brandt to the Commissioner on my visit to Washington last August. So far from that I defended him against an unjust inference drawn from my statement of the packable amount of rice made last year on my plantations. Permit me to state what did occur on that occasion my object in visiting Washington was as advised by one who could not I believed entertain other than the utmost respect for you, was to [[?]] an erroneous impression as to my supposed agency in the burning of my mills and settlements which I was told was the cause of the anulment of my contract. I collected that I deemed sufficient evidence to relieve me from the imputation and having submitted it