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Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 2 July 1868

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  • Title: Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 2 July 1868
  • Date: July 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nar.00589
  • 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 Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger
  • Cite this page: Browning, Orville Hickman and Walt Whitman. "Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 2 July 1868." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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July 2, 1868. Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State. Sir: I have the honor to refer you to your letter of the 25th April last, and my reply of 6th May following, with a copy of instructions to the District Attorney, of the same date, relative to a person named Charles Pratt, alias Charles P. Williams, the subject of a communication made to your Department by the United States Consul at Melbourne, in Australia. I have just received from Delos Lake, Esq., United States Attorney for the District of California, a letter, with enclosures, from which it appears that the person and his supposed offence have not been heard of by the District Attorney and military authorities of California, nor by the Chief of Police of the city of San Francisco. Respectfully, your obd't serv't, OH Browning​ Attorney General ad interim
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