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evidently useful. Mr {illegible: Welch? Mitch?} & his
daughters with my daughter Fanny
{illegible: were?} {illegible: arrived? Or is that a single word?} in Cuba {illegible: now?} {illegible: three?} weeks.
They are with us now.

I am very solicitous to know
what you are doing in Georgia for
our Enterpise, & the State of
public feeling in regard to it.
I have continued to find it {illegible}
with favour among all the leading
people in this part of the South,
& with favour such as to give
assurance of undoubted success {illegible: if? of?} {illegible: on? an?}
the {illegible} {illegible} {illegible}, if the other states
will atall must {illegible: in?} {illegible: no?} the effort.

I find the {illegible} press of
Tennessee is nothing if not very strongly
as that of Louisiana & Miss. has
done. Atkinson writes quite en-
couragingly, the assurance I have
had from Alabama are also
highly encouraging. Davis in S.C.
also writes more favourably
than I had found from that