![]() My next will be by Freeman & as soon as I can decide the point of your coming on. Rush &c and have summoned the Heads of Dept. I returned to the City yesterday, in company with Mr. Paul Jennings also left an early, first person account of his life in the White House in A Colored Mans Reminiscences of James. It is possible the separation may have prevented your receiving the letter. of the Navy, supposing you all to be together. 2 I wrote you yesterday morning by express, from Brookeville, and at the same time to the Secy. In the mean time it will be best for you to remain in your present quarters. ⟨I shall⟩ keep Freeman till the question is decided, and then lose no time in sending him to you. Should the Ships have failed in their attack, you can not return too soon. His book was A Colored Mans Reminiscences of James Madison, described as a singular document in the history of slavery and the early American republic. 1 Should the fort have been taken, the British Ships with their barges will be able to throw the City again into alarm, and you may be again compelled to retire from it, which I find would have a disagreeable effect. And I can not yet learn what has been the result. ![]()
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