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Executive Department
Montgomery, Ala. 24^th March 1858

Dear Sir—

For several days I have been
engaged in endeavouring to find the
Manuscript of Prof. Tuomey's[?] Report,
I can find none, except that set
up, & printed, and several pages of
that is missing—The 12 pages which
remained to be printed have been
completed or corrected by you, and
the whole in pages regularly arrange^d

—It was my intention to enclose you
the printed matter, & the manuscript
for examination,—but the manuscript
is in such a condition that I am
afraid to send it by mail for fear
it may either lost, or so much
defaced, that the words may get into
a worse condition than it now is.

On consultation with some gentlemen
here, who take an interest in getting
out the Report, in as perfect a state
as circumstances will permit, & upon a
conference with Dr. Cloud, the present
Public Printer, who will print so much