Washington Hotel 4^th Avenue on 27^th St New York March 30 1873

My Dear Douglass

It is an age since I have heard from you, and yet I see you and hear from you all the time. But as you of course cannot return the compliment, allow me to recall myself to your memory. The fact is, that I want to ask a favor of you, which is to put me on the free list of your paper. I can't afford to pay for it, for I have been in bed over nine weeks, with a dislocated arm, and have used up all my resources. Moreover, I have got to confined for at least a month more, a slave to my shattered arm. And you know how little I can stand slavery of any kind, either in my own case or another. My brothers of the guild have done what they could for me, but the guild, you know is not a Credit Mobilier.

I would like to write you at more length, not to say on more agreeable subjects, but I have not the strength—and am obliged as you see to dictate even these few lines. Yours in pleasant memory of other and better days

Henry Capp JrClapp, Henry, Jr.

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P.S. Would it be to much to ask you to drop me a word or two as to how things are going on with you and your family?