[Garland Callis to Gov. Lee ]
May it Please Your Excellency I have taken the liberty a second
time of writeing you on the subject of my confinement. I have been
waiting with the utmost impatience and anxiety for the Investiga-
tion of my conduct, respecting the letters Inclosed to your 'Excel-
lency by Mr Sam Hanson. Being concious to myself that I intended
by no means, to offend against the Laws of this State in the smallest
instance or in any action of my life on any occasion whatever. Par-
ticularly respecting the before mentioned letters which I impru-
dently delivered, without knowing or supposeing it to be wrong
after they were examined by the Commisy of Prisoners at Elizabeth
Town. Being informed a day or two after the delivery of some of
the Letters, that there was a Law in this State requiring all such
letters should be laid before Your Excellency and Council. Imme-
diately collected those that had been delivered, and inclosed them
together with the balance that remained in my possession. I had not
a doubt remaining but that I had fulfilled the Law or at least as far
as I was made acquainted with it. I must intreat and beg of your
Excellency together with the Honorable council that the matter may
be immediately inquired into — and that I may have it in my power to
clear my character of a charge which I can assure your Excellency
among every thing else has ever been furthest from my thoughts
I am confident your Excellency must be sensable of the feelings of
a wife on such an occasion. My papers will take up but little time,
and are of as little consequence with respect to any thing that may
tend to the matter in question I am here without clothes or money
which added to other things renders my situation truly distressing
and have the misfortune to be very unwell.
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