It is now going on for two years since I first made application, and ought to have been settled if that fellow Richmond had only attended to it as he ought to have done instead of pitching it into the waste paper basket try all you can to get me the Scrip, it is not much I have ever had from the Govt, yet. If you see McLean you can tell him how badly off I am, and that I did not write to him knowing how much he had to do, but if he has a chance of doing anything for me how acceptable it would be. You might tell him what I was saying to you before you left that I thought I might be useful as