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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
Milford Aprail [April] 28th 1859
Hon. Lot M. Morrill
Dear Sir
I take great pleasure in recommending to you Samuel W Hoskins Esq as a suitable person for agent for the penobscot tribe of Indians having known him for a long time and know him to be a man of strict moral habit and of an unblemished characer [character] and the appointment of him to that office would give universal satisfaction to all conserned [concerned] in the welfare of that once numerous but now peatered [petered] race.
Hoping this letter will meet with your approval
I remain
yours truly [circled]
Stephen D. Brown