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[1] ALS, THaroL; ADfS, DLC-RTL. Clay wrote on August 13, 1862, ``I leave for home today, by way of New-York, to visit my family---and await your pleasure---about again entering upon service, as you promise me. If agreeable to you, I will for the present, retain my commission of Majr General, with which you have honored me, till you order me into other service---unless you desire me to resign, which I am ready to do whenever you shall intimate to me your wishes. I have not received your letter as promised me---but I suppose that you have been content to give me your verbal promise, which is sufficient So I have thus written to General Cameron. I trust you will allow him to come home at once on leave of absence; and he will resign so you will not lose the public money by such leave.
``Please return my sincere thanks to Mrs. Lincoln for the Photographs of Yourself, and her, with the children. They shall be kept with pride, and handed down to our latest posterity.'' (DLC-RTL).