-15th-
On Dec. 5, {1904} I wrote Harlan, Dist. Atty.
a letter calling his attention to Whittleseys
shortage as Comr. at Kayak - Harlan
has recently given the letter to Whittlesey -
though it was a distinctly confidential com
-munication about the management of that
public business under our charge - and now
Whittlesey is organizing a war on me & is
sending charges &c. to Washington - I
shall now decline to have any further
relations with Harlan - he is a damned old
backbiter & traitor - and I shall present
the matter to the department and notify them
of his crooked action with both Hubbard
& Whittlesey & his efforts to cripple me -
