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Hopedale (near Berzelia) Nov. 28th 1865 Genl. Davis Tillson Sir I address you as a beggar. A few days ago, while in the city, I called at Genl. Steedman’s Head quarters to prefer the petition which I have since learned should have been made to you and which it is the object of this writing now to present. The petition was to beg a donation from the government of one of the banks of manure at the Nitre works. I did not see Genl Steedman & no officer present could inform me what disposition it was intended to make of said manure. The officer whom I saw very politely invited me to return in the