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not to expect any until about the 20th [??]. After I get my orders, it will be [??]two or three weeks before I can get away from here.So I doubt very much if I leave here for good before the middle of November.

I should be very glad to have you come and see me and if you will do so drop me a line so I may not be about at either of my Forts on the Kennebec or Penobscot.

I had a letter from Elliot in San Francisco yesterday. It was dated Sept. 17' and said that [Benier?] was well. Her husband had gone to [??] with a message to the Governor of British Columbia for Gen Halleck answering the