The Walt Whitman Archive
In Whitman's Hand
Scribal Documents
About this Item
Title: John M. Binckley to J. Hubley Ashton, 12 November 1867
Date: November 12, 1867
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00289
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 |
November 12, 1867.
Hon. J. Hubley Ashton,
Special Counsel, &c.
Philadelphia, Penn.
Sir:
The Attorney General, at the request of R. M. Corwine, Esq. instructs me to ask you to return to this office, without delay, the Argument, or Brief, in manuscript, which is in your possession from Mr. Corwine, in the case of Le More vs. U. S.,—with the view of allowing Mr. Corwine to dispose of it at his pleasure.
Respectfully, &c.
John M. Binckley
Assistant Attorney General.