March 11th, 1916.
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, John D. Mastry:
I am interested in what John has written you and want merely to say that I have been selected to assist you in the matter to which he referred and will do my best to help you, and will be very careful in my advice, and I hope that you will have faith in me.
This is all that I desire to say.
Goodnight.
Your brother in Christ,
John D. Mastry