Frankfort Ky May 30th 1863. To His Excellency J. F. Robinson Governor of Kentucky

I have today been informed by Maj. Luckett that you wished in writing the Substance of the statements made by Rev. Mr Stevenson and myself at our interview with you about the 1st of March last in regard to Philips, a convict in the Ky Penitentiary. I therefore with much pleasure communicate ^to^ you in writing, Substantially what I said on that occasion, viz. That I have been acquainted with said Philips four or five years, This acquaintance was formed by my being thrown among the convicts in a business and ministerial character capacity, During this acquaintance I have found him a man of good deportment in every respect. A feeling of sympathy having been thus awak^en^ed in my mind in his behalf, I was led to inquire into his history. I learned from the officers of the Prison, that his conduct Since he had been there, had been unexceptionable. I learned too that his character prior to this offence had been good. In my personal interviews with the Prisoner he frankly confessed the crime, and the justice of his sentence. His only ground of hope was that in your clemency as the Executive of the laws of the Commonwealth, your Honor would adjudge that he had paid the penalty of violated law. And could