...rfect recollection of the substance of it, and I have repeated it so often to my friends that I believe the inclosed is almost a verbatim copy. You read it in my presence at your breakfast-table in Mobile, Ala. , a few weeks after it was written, and I write to request that you will inform me if your recollection of the character and substance of it accords with my own. Yours very truly, Jas. D. Porter....