Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to HIRAM POWERS, dated July 5, 1862.
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Dear Powers
I leave the passports & a note to the French Legation with my messenger, who will procure the visas, & bring you the passports & despatches.
These latter consist of a roll, and a large despatch, addressed to the Secretary of State, and another addressed to Mr John Miller, U.S. Despatch Agent London, to whom are to be delivered.
I hope the despatches will save you trouble enough at the custom Houses to
compensate you for the pains they will cost you. Otherwise, I should by no means
have asked you to bother yourself with them.
I find I cannot postpone
returning to Mrs M. this morning, without deranging our plans, though I much regret
not seeing you more. If you return this way & can let us know when you will
be here, we shall be very glad of it. I have to take the little recreation I am
allowed, when I can, but we are pretty sure of being here from July 20 or 25 to the
end of the month, & if you don't stay longer in Babylon than you speak of
you will just catch us.
Fight a good fight, (I know you will) with "sympathetic" England. Hard knocks do them service.
Yours very trulyG. P. Marsh
H Powers Esq