Cleveland Feb 28 1854

Dear Spooner:

     I got back in the Tuesday evening after seeing you last, having no occasion to go write our friend Hoyt ___ ____, though I have not even yet fully recovered from my ills, which ___ __ affects most uncomfortably the region of the ______

     I rec’d, a few days ago, a letter for Portland, containing an incidental allusion to _____. On the Sunday on which I parted from you, my correspondent saw _____ in that city & says he was “trying to get up a new paper there, & would decide this matter in a day or two.” ____ ____ probably, for out not having heard from him, up to this times.

     I do wish I had been in a condition to command the editorial chair of the Commonwealth. For I still see nothing for myself in any other direction, & very litte in that. But, if Baldwin is bent on victory, & Sewell thinks as favorably of me as we both fancied him to do, it is not perhaps, wholly unreasonable to hope the ____ very ___ to ____ to me the position I sought. But I can not, in decency, say _____ mine to him on the subject, for how would I have you press him on my account, since that would be equally impolitic, I fear; & I know you will omit nothing in the premises which you may deem ____ to promote my interests. I think I ____ to you, that I had told Baldwin I had employed a friend to sound _____. Should you no occasion to say anything to _ about the matter, you send letter tell him you were that friend. His ____, as I think I do observed to you, was, to get a renewal of the offer he had rec’d, some months before, for the whole concern, & ____ learns his __ portion to choose between that & Washington, perhaps himself to learn ___ particularly ____ with summer, with whom, after a fifteen minute talk, he says he felt perfectly ____. I never felt so in ___ to the Burton ___ tho I might if it seemed not so ___ a man.

                             Most affectionately yours,

                                  Geo. Bradburn

P.S. Do you know Mrs. S. Robinson? I should not be much surprised if his brother here should buy him a place in my old paper. He is seeking employment. ____ be add were he to come here & I to go to Boston. Judge ____ lately returned home.