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LETTERS OF FREDERICK BATES TO A. B. WOODWARD .13
of the old gentleman.
The Judge desired me to recall certain exceptionable passages of my letter
— more especially this, in my reply to Col. McDougall — That his (the Judge's) letters " were filled with impertineneies. " I declined to do this, and the demand was waved, in consideration of the desire which both of us most ardently entertain, that the whole affair might be accommodated. But although I refused to make this recall, as the basis of all
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