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I hope that the claim will meet with a favorable consideration as I have faithfully rendered the services claimed and hope that the Government will remunerate me.

I hope you will pardon me for writing at length but as there has been a change in [your?] Dept I thought a small history would not be amiss.

I remain very respectfully yours
Charles Cochran

Hon Harlan
Secy [Secretary] of the Interior
Washington D.C.