Transcription:
8. also, way know my father was not she blot upon the landscape of that, glorious wilderness you believe and have pictured
him to be. If you witnessed those beatings and have personal knowlege of the cruelties mentioned, 1 have nothing further
to offer, but against the statements, aservations, and belief of any other person or persons living or dead that may have
been the source of your information, I will not subordinate the evidence of my own senses. Yours very truly. illegible
Dict.JW/LH.