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366 come out here and work for me six weeks, I would not pay your expenses and pay you as you made each dress. The probability is that I shall need a few more clothes; my rest, I am inclined to believe, is near at hand. Go to B. & K., and have my clothes sent me without further publicity. * * * I am feeling too weak to write more to-day. "Why are you so silent? For the sake of humanity, if not me and my children, do not have those black clothes displayed in Europe. The thought has almost whitened every hair of my head. Write when you receive this. "Your friend, M. L."

Jan. 1st, 1868. "Bishop Payne, D.D.—Dear Sir:—Allow me to donate certain valuable relics, to be exhibited for the benefit of Wilberforce University, where my son was educated, and whose life was sacrificed for liberty. These sacred relics were presented