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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hughes, Denver, & Peck, 27 January 1870

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  • Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hughes, Denver, & Peck, 27 January 1870
  • Date: January 27, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nar.01176
  • Source: National Archives and Records Administration. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang Vanessa Steinroetter John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar
  • Cite this page: Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood and Walt Whitman. "Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hughes, Denver, & Peck, 27 January 1870." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: nar.01176.xml (TEI)

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January 27, 1870. Messrs. Hughes, Denver & Peck. Washington, D. C. Gentlemen: In No. 179 in the Supreme Court of the United States, Wm. N. McVeigh pl'ff in error, vs. The United States—the writ of error from the Supreme Court is dated the 2d day of December, 1868, and made returnable on the 3d Monday of December next. I propose to move, to-morrow, (Friday) in Court that the writ of error be dismissed because not made returnable on the 3d Monday in December 1868. Very respectfully, E. R. Hoar, Attorney General.
Motion in U. S. Sup. Court.
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