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KMcI 630723
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7-23-1863
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letter, McIlvaine, Chase
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McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, "Letter to Salmon P. Chase" (1863). Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters. 107.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/mcilvaine_letters/107
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Bishop McIlvaine
Cin July 23 1863
My dear Mr. Chase-
Have you any objection to extending my son’s leave of absence one week? He does not know that I wrote. He thinks he ought to go back at the end of his present leave [?] not asking extension [?] though he wants to stay longer. He is very scrupulous about it, + it is only that in [?], when his mother is out, [??] requires [?] him [?] to leave next [?] it should seem very important either from the heat of the [?] or his strength that he should not go, that I now write, in order to be prepared. He is particularly weak at the time, + it would be a great comfort to [me] to keep him longer, though he thinks he should not seek any extension of his time. If you answer negatively, he will not know that I have written. If affirmatively, I may not avail myself of it.
I live in hope to hear of my nephew’s appointment as a Cadet; I [?] there is no [possibility] that the Conscription will not be [?] in N.Y. Let [?] know they are not [to] rule; if the heaven[ly] father
the horoscope of our [?] very encouraging. We shall observe the President’s Day of Thanksgiving with great [?] of mind, think it the best Proclamation in that [?] which has ever come from Wash. Never before, has there been any recognition of the Holy Spirit. Thanks for that.
Yours affectionately
Chas. P. McIlvaine
Cinc: July 23.
My son’s time at home has been [cut] short because the state of the [?] when his leave began made it [?] that he should come by N.Y.
Chase [?]