In this letter, Cardinal Gibbons offers to write to a letter on the correspondent's behalf. "...if she informs you that a letter from me to her husband will be of service to (your?) sister, I will gladly write to him for your + her sake."
The seller describes the letter as an octavo from the Attorney General's Office. In the letter, Bates describes the wine he is giving Welles as a gift for his service as Navy Director.