[undecipherable] am much obliged for the [undecipherable] in your letter of the 28 which comes to [undecipherable] It is out of my power untill I know the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], to comply with your wishes; and I [undecipherable] must therefore take [undecipherable: very] [undecipherable] that may follow. I am unable [undecipherable: to contemplate] a man [undecipherable] [undecipherable: disagreeable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable], but neither [undecipherable] [undecipherable: disappointed] malevolence, [undecipherable: nor] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable: threats] of any one [undecipherable: ought] deter me from [undecipherable] duty. I am Sir with resp[ect] [undecipherable: Your Ob't Serv't] [Col. Oswald:]