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[[unfitted]] fitted for sale in the Northern market, as the cost is too high, i.e. they are too good, and cost too much for a common shoe without any pretense to style.- Were they much poorer, but at the same time stylish they would sell readily.- My object here is to ascertain if you could assist me in any way, say through some reliable supply store, or in any other way you might suggest, to dispose of a portion of them.- I will send you a sample by express should you wish it. If the freight to the point of delivery is not too high, I would be willing to furnish them at say $2.00 per pair. The cost to make them fully $2.40 per pair.- The General has also given me letters to Genl Saxton and the commissioners for the other Southern states to the same effect as the one transmitted to you. May I expect an answer at your earliest convenience. By so