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of the office can be performed as well and as satisfactorily by an agent residing here as by one residing there. I shall forward by Mr Wing letters from quite a member of influential gentlemen of the republican party recommending me to you for appointment. If I judge rightly such recommendations & testimonials will have greater weight with you than a long array of names collected at random in the street, a large proportion of which are the names of men who know but little & care less about the object of the petition they sign. I hope a letter from Gov. Kent may also reach you He is absent at Ellsworth at present. I wrote him asking a letter and Mr Hamlin who conversed with him there in relation to the matters understood him to say he would attend to it. I found with this a letter for Mr Wilson of Brewer who has had oppurtunity [opportunity] to know something of Indian affairs I will help pass upon your patience no longer at this time and will close this somewhat lengthy communication by saying that if appointed by you to the agency it will be my aim to discharge its duties acceptably to the State & satisfactorily to the tribe

Very Respectfully your Obt Servt

Frederic H Dillingham