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Mr. G W Mordecai P.C. Cameron Esq Hillsboro --
Raleigh 12th Oct. 1865
My dear sir Gov Swain reached here last night and handed me this morning your & Judge Ruffins pardons which I now inclose you availing myself of the opportunity afforded by Maria [mark?] of doing [illegible] -
I congratulate you on getting through without being subjected to all the annoyances which have worried me not a little You have no doubt seen the last attack made on D.H. and myself in the Standard of yesterday - we have replied in a card which wiil appear in the Sentinel
tomorrow, the Standard refusing to publish it either as a communcation or as an advertisement - I feel degraded in being obliged to enter into a newspaper controversy with such a Set but saw no other alternative [here?] the matter will end however on [my?] part -
Your Maggie was [seriously?] indisposed last night but is pretty well this morning. Mildred has a decided attack of jaundice - which has prostrated her a great deal & Annie having left us this morning added to her troubles - I expect to leave home on Saturday for Eliz. City - to be absent 8 or 10 days - Mary Anderson will accompany me -
with best love to all from all Your truly Geo. W. M?
Raleigh Oct 17 [1865]
My dear Mrs. Cameron: I have only a few moments but I must write you a line.
The miserable engine would run off the track about 7 o'clock last eveng. & after various tugs & many efforts it was finally righted & as the up-train was approaching we found ourselves in 'running' order - but then it was near 10 o' clo - if not quite 10 - The engineer was unwilling to turn the engine backwards any longer, for owing to an accident before reaching Hillsboro, a new engine was put on in reversed order, hence