[Transcript of letter from Anthony Butler to William S. Parrott, December 12, 1835] Page: 1 of 7

                                
Saturday evening.
Sir,
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You have already been told that the names of those
from whom I received information of your Slandering me during ny
absence, as well as the name of him who charges you with perjury
shall be made known to you; and I am not a man to depart from
nty word. Those with whom I have spoken consent to have their
names oommunioated;- one I have not seen;- he wtll doubtless
assent, and then your investigation may cammence.
You are constantly running into errors, and until
you learn to avoifLthem, they will multiply your difficulties in-
stead of releasing you from them. You say *M^ Forsyth's having
received from Mexico a letter Ato. etc.,* Now sir I would ask
from whom you received such information? Not from me certainly—
I have never laid any such thing. In my last referring to the
charge of Perjury made against you, at Washington, I said "A
of tun Cabinet called on me etc". Now sir as the Cabinet
consists of six members, it was just five to one that in your
attempting to guess you should err, and so the fact proves, still
with a recklessness utterly regardless ^f tr.th or consequences,
you assume what suits you and proceed as tho^h it were fact.
To prevent your falling into m^re mistakes on bhis matter I will
inform you, that the member of the Cabinet referred to was M^.
Dickerson the Secretary of the Navy. As to the attempt to excuse
yourself in the fish and the Brandy affair, by a reference to ny