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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 20 April 1870

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  • Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 20 April 1870
  • Date: April 20, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nar.01335
  • 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 Nima Najafi Kianfar
  • Cite this page: Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood and Walt Whitman. "Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 20 April 1870." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: nar.01335.xml (TEI)

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April 20, 1870. Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a letter from Messrs. Beebe, Donohue & Cooke, of New York, dated the 19th inst., asking the discontinuance of proceedings in the U. S. District for the Southern District of New York, against the steam-tugs R. L. Mayher, H. M. Cool, and J. Chase, seized at the same time with the "Catherine Whiting," and for alleged complicity with her. I will thank you to return the letter enclosed, with an expression of your wishes as to those proceedings. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, E. R. Hoar, Attorney General.
Discontinuance of suit in N. Y.
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