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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 5 March 1870

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  • Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 5 March 1870
  • Date: March 5, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nar.01241
  • 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
  • Cite this page: Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood and Walt Whitman. "Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 5 March 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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March 5, 1870. Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th inst., with a copy of a note of the 28th ult., from the British Minister to you enclosed, relative to the trial of William Barry, for the murder of Capt. Spear, of the British Army,—and to say that I have to-day called upon the U. S. Attorney for Dakota Territory for the information you ask for, which I will transmit to you as soon as I receive it. Very respectfully, your obd't serv't, E. R. Hoar, Attorney General.
Murder of Cap. Spear. Dakota Terr
See Ins. Book A. pp. 104

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