Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 5 January 1870

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Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 5 January 1870
Date: January 5, 1870
Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01141
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Cite this page: Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood and Walt Whitman. "Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 5 January 1870." 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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January 5, 1870. Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, enclosing a copy of a telegraphic communication from Mr. Roberts, the Spanish Minister, requesting the detention of the steamer "Anna," and to say that I have transmitted to the U. S. Attorney at Charleston, S. C. the instructions of which the enclosed is a copy. Very resp. your obd't serv't, E. R. Hoar, Attorney General

Steamer Anna.

see 171 seq.