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Wm H. Bailey Esqr.

Dear Sir, 

Yours of the 23rd is at hand. You are perfectly correct in your statements. I fully recollect the case of the girl Lilla — or Lily — as it was an unusual one and one to which I gave considerable attention. One day in my office the matter of Binding came up You remarked that a good girl was there with you — placed there by her old owner for her board and clothes. I asked you why you did not have her apprenticed you stated she probably had a father living — lately married to a second wife — of ill disposition and that you did not know as the Bureau would bind out a girl not an orphan. Her father, you said was in Petersburg and had acted as though he intended to abandon his child After deliberation I agreed to bind the

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