Governor John A. Andrew to John M. Forbes, May 20, 1861

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Executive Department. Council Chamber.

Boston, May 20,1861.

My Dear Sir, — I wish you would have some of Baker's chocolate sent on the Pembroke for our troops at Fort Monroe. Some ask for it, and would regard this change as a luxury and an advantage.

Yours faithfully,

J. A. Andrew.

And a few dried apples.

SOURCE: Sarah Forbes Hughes, Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volume 1, p. 214