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Title: James Speed to Robert Murray, 9 August 1865
Date: August 9, 1865
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00022
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Attorney General's Office.
August 9, 1865.
Robert Murray, Esq.
U. S. Marshal, Southern Dist. N. Y.
New York City.
Sir:
Your letter of the 7th instant to his Excellency the President, has been referred by him to me for action and answer. And in reply thereto, I hereby grant you leave of absence from the 20th inst. to the 20th October, 1865.
I am sir, very respectfully,
James Speed,
Attorney General.