9 June 1914, Washington Dear Sam: Recd. your letter: No - I do not expect to be away during the month & hope you will come here. I confer that I did not like Col. William's letter in defense of Osborne for dismissing Fount. As he is very intimate with Osborne & Osborne, as he told me, prof? To be very friendly to me. I took it for granted that he had told Osborne all about Fount; name to Osborne. He pays that if I had asked my friend Major Steadman to use his influence with Osborne to keep Fount in he wd. have done it. (1) I wd. not have asked such a favor of the Administration even for myself; (2) according to a rule of ? among ? one - even in the same State - will not interfere in another's district. The appointment of a deputy was Corlin's proper ? - ? interference wd. have been ?. Now if Osborne wd. have kept Fount in on my account then Col. Wm. might have told Osborne how pleased I wd. be if he did it. If I had been in Fount's position I wd. have kept you as an old Confederate without ? to politics, but I could ? more have expected that Fount wd. do it than that he could have commanded my battalion. I did have you appointed under Grant although you had not voted for him; nor did I consider it an act of generosity on my part as I was only paying a small part of the debt I owed you. Show this Rivencomb. Yours Truly J. S. Mosby