Unknown to Cable, November 27, 1861

(Received 4 a. m.) Mr. CABLE:

DEAR SIR: You will please deliver the inclosed letter to Mr. Sumner, the gentleman that came to your place with Mr. Warner, and tell him to hurry up, and oblige,

P. S.—Please deliver immediately at any expense. [Sub-inclosure.]

TEMECULA, CAL., December 30,* 1861.

FRIEND SUMNER: We arrived here this evening and were sorry to find you gone, for various reasons. I have hired a man to go after you, and I want you to start back as soon as he gets to where you are, and also bring Mr. Chum with you, and look sharp that he don’t play you some trick. He is a bad man for us, and we want him back as soon as pcssible. There are eighteen of us here. Say nothing to lim about what I have written, but tell him we want men, and we are going another road. I have no time to write more.

Yours, truly, T. A. WILSON

*Evidently mis-dated, but so in copy on file,