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Yours of to-day just received. The Administration takes no part between it's friends in Mo, of whom, I at least, consider you one; and I have never before had an intimation that appointees there, were interfering, or were inclined to interfere. A. LINCOLN
[1] ALS, RPB. The time sent does not show on the original, the clerk's notation at the top left of the page having been trimmed off. The telegram from Brown, received at 5:15 P.M., reads as follows: ``Does the administration desire my defeat if not why are its appointees here working for that end'' (DLC-RTL).