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very dilatory about it. I have urged or attempted to urge him to move at once Col. Bates signed the deed - but his wife is in Galveston. I sent the deed there so that she might sign it - but it was sent back by the P.M. 
I have sent it again hoping to be far more sucessful. I am afraid that it is quite too late. I feel that I have done my duty in regard to the matter. If begging people to help themselves besides running all over the country to