[undecipherable] Quincy April 22^d 99 Sir Inclosed is a letter from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] recommending the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be a chaplain in the army. I beg you to record & file this application with all others of a similar nature & to inform me what provision there is no [undecipherable] for the government [undecipherable] chaplains. I am well disposed to give credit to [undecipherable] the above recommendation, & to give the appointment to C[undecipherable] [undecipherable] there is room [undecipherable]. Inclosed also are letters from D^r [undecipherable] well known to you requesting an appointment as an Hospital Surgeon which I suppose [undecipherable] is on the best [undecipherable] entitled to than any [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] J.A. Quincy April [undecipherable]