Gainesville Florida
Feb 8th 1877
To the Honorable Leverett Saltonstall
Boston Mass
Dear Sir
Please accept
the accompanying papers,
they are a refutation of
the letter of JW Raymond
signed by gentlemen
who have been here long-
-enough to know and by
some who have been here
as long as Mr Raymond
I send you the original
and a copy. it is dire-
cted to the "Boston Traveller
please have that paper to
publish it, in justice to you
they should, the paper
is signed by Democr-
ats and Republicans
it is confined to no party
I will refer you
to Hon Chas
P Thompson
Memr of Congress from
Mass.
Please send me a copy
of [Very?] the paper
in which it is printed
I will have it publis
-hed here, if the
Traveller
does not publish please
give it to a paper that
will publish it.
[Postscript]
I opened your letter
after it was sealed
J.J.T.