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04580
To Prepare Acceptance Speech
Tuesday I vill go to Nev Orleans and give myself tvo or three days quiet at Kr. (John K. 0.) Parker's to prepare the speech I expect I shnll be called on to make on the 27th inst. From Nev Orleans I vill go to Jackson, Kiss.
(John Parker vas first Postmaster at Ship Island vhile vith the BenJ. F. Butler expedition there in 1862. He had married the sister of Krs. Benj. F. Butler. He served as Postmaster also at Nev Orleans and Mobile and remained in Nev Orleans vith his vife Maria Hildreth Parker and their tvo children after the var living on
(Copied by M. James St evens from
"CHRONICLES FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY*
Family letters of Blanche Butler and Adelbert Ames
?	married July 21. 1870. Compiled by Blanche Butler Ames, 1935 Vol. I I86l-l87l+ - Privately printed 1957
Felicity Street.)
Pages 527 - 528