Meek Family Correspondence

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Document Type: Autograph Letter Signed

Author: M. J. Parrott
Date: May 23, 1862
Place: Knoxville, Tennessee
To: Elizabeth Walker Meek

Number: MSN/CW 5053-12

Transcribed by: Chris Hackett and George Rugg, 2007

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Knoxville Tenn May 23/62

Dear Madam

I got your letter and I ans through but failed to get it off the first day, I am assured by Judge Swan that you may rest easy about Monroe, He Says their can be no doubt about his release—as soon as the President can have time to investigate his case, but I must ask you to exercise as much patience as the circumstances of the case can allow I appreciate your anxiety and sympathise deeply in your distress and all I can do to relieve you and him and I can assure you and your friends that You have a true and efficient friend in Judge Swan—No man has done more to mitigate the distress of this war than Judge Swan, and none possess a heart of more noble impulses than him He is not only so—but he is active and efficnt possessing a larger share of the confidence of the Powers that be than any man in E Tennessee and is

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disposed to do all he can to mitigate the distress and cover up the wrongs or indiscretions of partisans who may have gone beyond the limits of or supposed to have gone—beyond the limits of that Power With many wishes for the speedy return of your husband to the bosom of his friends I will ask you to tender my regards to the family and [illeg] to serve them in any thing my feeble hands or influence can do
Please say to Dan to receive this letter in Ansr of the one he expects of me—

Your frnd
M J Parrott

Mrs Lizza Meek
Str Plains
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Transcription last modified: 31 Jan 2008 at 03:06 PM EST

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