The Walt Whitman Archive
In Whitman's Hand
Scribal Documents
About this Item
Title: James Speed to Charles A. Peabody, 8 August 1865
Date: August 8, 1865
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00021
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 correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, John Schwaninger, Nima Najafi Kianfar, and Kevin McMullen
 image 1 |
Attorney General's Office.
August 8, 1865.
Chas. A. Peabody, Esq.
U. S. Attorney, Eastern Dist. Louisiana
New York City.
Sir:
Yours of July 4, tendering your resignation as U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana is received, and your resignation is accepted.
Your letter would have been more promptly answered, but for my absence from the city.
Very respectfully,
James Speed,
Attorney General.