Cincinnati Nov. 28 /62
Stephen Scofield Esq
	    My Dear Sir
		Allow me
to add a note in relation to 
the back pay and bounty
due your son from the
government. You are 
now the legal Claiment,
and it is with you to em
ploy an agent to collect
the amount for you. I
send you M. Warren's cir
cular and terms. He attends
to the business for perhaps
less than half what others
      charge.
would ^ I believe him a
very reliable man
[illegible in original] temperate, Honest,
and and every way capa
ble. If you incline
to employ him you will

Please write a note
to him at Belefountaine
Ohio immediately and
engage his services. And 
you will have but 
little trouble about the
it, only to execute a legal
paper which he will send
you prepared until you
receive the amount
collectable less 5 per cent.
	very truly yours
		John F Wright

* By the advise your excellent 
wife I have concluded to
write to Mr. Warren to send
you the legal papers to Perry. P.O.
Mich. which will save time
and you need not write to
him. he will instruct you
how to execute the document
and return it to him I will
tell to write immediately

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