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Excuse the many blunders for it is so cold my brains at nearly at the freezing point. hear I am affectionately yr. friend

2001.0013.0009a Harriett S Long.
306 N. Eutaw St. Baltimore

Lizzie Long. says she will write Feb. 17 1864
to Sen. Grimes to see if he is doing anything.
I [have?] not.

Dear Mr. Hallowell,

"Hope deferred maketh
the heart sick," so sayt the Bible or Shakspeare
I don't know which, but it is a truism
beyond all doubt; here have I been hoping against
hope that I should hear something favorable
from you, when to-day I received a letter from
Senator Hicks, dated Jany 30 - which I sought to have had before
I went to Georgetown; telling me that Miss
Indan's vacancy was promised to a lady
from Maryland, whose name he did not know.
who is the fortunate individual? for I presume
she has taken her place ere this; Do you see
we were working like moles, in the dark.
I understood before I left Washington that
they were making appropriations to enlarge
the feminine force in the Treasury and
War Departments in the coming Spring, so I will not despair of
doing something yet; can you bring any influence
to bear in either of these quarters, or in the