Letter on a Department of the Interior letterhead addressed to to Chinn from Mosby dated August 15, 1901, written from Akron, Colorado. "Chinn" was likely was Benton Chinn a member of his Civil War company and "longtime Eastern factotum" (factotum - a servant employed to do a variety of jobs). See Benton Chinn obituary below.

The letter reads, in part:

“I arrived here a week ago. This [Akron] is a station on the Burlington road—112 miles east of Denver. The climate is delicious—like Virginia in October. My companions are cowboys—coyotes—& cattle. I hope to be transferred & have my headquarters at Denver very soon…I wrote to Miss Kate about sending my portrait to Clarke’s to be framed.