Annotation
[1] ALS, IHi. On the bottom of the first page Forney endorsed in ink: ``Dear Doctor---Did you know this? I did not. J.W.F.'' What appears to be an answer is written in pencil above and between the lines of Forney's endorsement as follows: ``The Prest is right. There was $1000,000 appd. for purposes connected with the Emancipation in the District. JMB over'' The verso has a further illegible note in pencil but also signed with the initials ``J.M.B.'' ``Occasional'' seems to have been Forney's own column in the Philadelphia Press, but was probably written in part by John R. Young who was editor of the Press. On January 18, Forney telegraphed Young, ``Let Occasional correct himself in a short letter for tomorrow by stating that he was misinformed as to the appropriation for paying emancipated slaves in the dist of columbia that the appropriation is made in the emancipation act & add that his great object was to secure prompt payment of claimants out of appropriations already made. Do your best.'' (DLC-Young Papers). The correction appeared in the Press on January 19, 1863. The identity of ``J.M.B.'' can only be hazarded. Dr. John M. Bernhisel, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania medical department and friend of Forney's, was delegate in congress from Utah Territory.