New York, April, 62.
Dear Georgy: Your letter to me came this morning about the facilities for (or rather the hindrances to) getting from Baltimore to Fortress Monroe. . . . Cousin William A. tells me all authority on General Dix’s part to grant passes to anyone has been suspended. . . . he has refused all–the Vice-President’s son among others. . . . If he cannot give us passes no one can unless we can be smuggled through on one of the transports from Alexandria down the Potomac. . .. Fortress Monroe is crowded to overflowing, though I know you would be satisfied with a square inch per man if you could only get there (minus hoops)… If I get letters that will take us by the transport to-morrow morning, I will telegraph you and come on immediately.