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Benjamin Helm Bristow to Jacob Shroder, 26 October 1871

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  • Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow to Jacob Shroder, 26 October 1871
  • Date: October 26, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nar.02537
  • 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 John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Nima Najafi Kianfar
  • Cite this page: Bristow, Benjamin Helm and Walt Whitman. "Benjamin Helm Bristow to Jacob Shroder, 26 October 1871." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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Oct. 26, 1871. Jacob Shroder, Esq. Cincinnati, Ohio. Sir: This Department desires to employ you to take depositions and otherwise attend to the production of testimony in the case of John A. Klein, Admin'r. of Victor F. Wilson, and also in the suits of Case & Van Wagener vs. The United States. Such employment will take you to St. Louis, Rock Island, and perhaps other parts of the West. The Department will pay all your necessary traveling expenses, and all other expenses incident to the business upon which you are employed, and will pay you a reasonable compensation to be fixed by the Attorney General, when your work is completed. Should you accept this employment, you will at once advise Asst'. Atty. Gen'l. McMichael of the fact; and from him you will receive specific instructions. Very resp'lly B. H. Bristow, Solicitor Gen'l, & Acting Attorney Gen'l.
see p. 72 ante
49.
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