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Title: William Stewart to Mary J. Black, 9 August 1865
Date: August 9, 1865
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00023
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Attorney General's Office.
August 9, 1865.
Madam:
Your letter of July 25, to his Excellency the President, was referred by him, on the 7th instant, to the Att'y General, by whom I am directed to say to you that so far as he is advised, your only remedy is to bring suit against [those?] by whom your property is detained, or in whose possession it is, to recover the same.
I am madam, very respectfully
Wm. Stewart
Chief clerk.
Mrs. Mary J. Black,
New Orleans, Louisiana.