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of course, SG. Burbridge is one. I wish to see the others, in accordance & propriety, you will please show this letter to Genl Bellknap, Secretary of War & give me your opinions [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] as to what steps the claimant should take. If you have the authority to appoint and investigation on the ground when the transaction took place. She will establish all the facts that [[strikethrough]] she [[/strikethrough]] has been made in this letter. I am sorry to be troublesome & so tedious in this communication, but cannot see that I could avoid. She employed me to do her business, for which she has paid me, & to be thus ousted out of her $300- is an outrage upon Human Society; and that too, by the especial Guardian appointed to see them protected, and their rights secured. I am , Respectfully, Your obedient
Servant &c
James M. Anderson for 
Mrs Anna Jameson