
          to assume any responsbility
that is [?] all my
connection with the [War?] Dept
as proof reader.

I thought by my reading
the first proof of your report,
as you had written me about
it, a clearer devise, than
otherwise. [added: wuld [would] be sent you] and that there
wuld [would] be less probability
of having the errors repeated,
by making them as clear as
possible. In reading the
proof of the 1st signature Dr Cooper
took the manuscript, and I
read the proof, by which we
thought the mistakes had
all been showed out.

How far the [?]
        