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get rebuilt - Lumber & materials are so expensive at Stevenson that I hardly know how know  how we were to get it accomplished. Mr Mitchell suggests the plan of us purchasing a building at the large sale of buildings and materials connected with the Cumberland Hospital at Nashville, sometime early this fall. He speaks of Gen Carlin as very much of a gentleman & very friendly to our operations & therefore likely to afford us every facility in his power. The particular object of my writing now, is to ascertain whether your Bureau would agree, in case we should make such a purchase, to be at the expense of taking down

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The penultimate sentence doesn't make good sense, so I must have some parts of it wrong.