"[torn or otherwise unreadable]...sent Tom here to ask me to hire him
(George) but I would ......nothing till I heard from you.  Please let me
know if George has left you, and whether you think I could get any work
out of him.  Please observe, I am not concerning with your hands, but I
send to you to know if any of them have left.     Yrs Trly

                                    April 7th, 1866 /Signed/ Geo F. Dabney.-

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