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P. S.

Kosciusko Miss Aug 4, 1866

Ladies of Yazoo

Your beautiful and touching appeal for my aid in your merciful efforts to obtain a commutation of the punishment of the unfortunate convict Nelson, was read last evening and was forwarded to-day to Gov H, with my attestation that the evidence on his trial warranted the conclusion stated in your letter, as to the circumstances of his crimes. I did not go farther and join in your application, for the reason that I thought from my past experience with Gov. Humphreys that my name would probably prejudice the application, and I was unwilling to throw any obstacle in the way of your sucessful efforts.

I pity poor Nelson, I deeply deplore his sad fate: I am touched with admiration of your tender sympathies and zealous efforts to have his sentence commuted, and will perhaps share the joy you will feel, if you shall succeed in having his sentence commuted to imprisonment in the