Boston, April 18,1861.
Colonel Borden,
70 West Street, New York:
Have seen governor and adjutant-general. No further orders
for Colonel Packard. Push steamer on without stopping. Massachusetts must be
first on the ground. Telegraph when she passes Sandy Hook; also weather.
J. M. Forbes.
SOURCE: Sarah Forbes Hughes, Letters and
Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volume 1, p. 211
