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Wytheville Virginia August. Mr. Campbell Dear Sir Your letter with refference to Julia the daughter of Amanda - was duly received. In reply I would state that Julia would have been returned to her mother immediately after the negros were freed but for the fact I had not the most remote Idea of Amandas thereabouts. I wrote to her several times at Richmond in my name and for her daughters, but receive no intelligence from her untill the early part of the month of May - last. I had Julia bound to me for a year and a half, only that I might become her protector her health at the time was very base - and an uncle of hers living here, wished to take her from me, and hire her, as I was convinced for his own benefit. I at the