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Office United States District Attorney,
Eastern District of Arkansas,
Little Rock, Ark., October 11th 1865.

Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard
Superintendent Freedmen's Bureau
Washington City D.C.

Dear Howard

I have a favor to ask. Mrs. E.R. Wright, widow of Moorhead Wright who was a friend of mine and who died in 1858, being then a resident of Lafayette Co., in the South West corner of this State, where his widow now lives, made me her agent, last Spring, to rent a plantation, which belongs to her late husband's estate, lying some 8 miles from this city, on the north side of the Arkansas river, a description of which I have send you. This farm I have as yet been unable to visit but hope to do so this Fall, having myself, as such agent, paid the U.S. Taxes thereon. But to my astonishment, the other day, I ascertained said plantation had been reported as "Abandoned Property" and was held by Maj. Sargent of your Bureau here. The reporting of this was an error