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while said this morning—"Why Walt you are fatter & saucier than ever"— but I will close by sending my
love, to my darling son—& to him I shall always be the same old Walt.
It would give me great pleasure to render you any assistance in my power in regard to your discharge
of your judicial duties, but as it is not my official duty to do so, and as I am doubtful of its propriety
5 April 1870 Brooklyn Apri l April 5 My dear Walt i have just received your letter and the order all
walter Walter dear its it's in your power to deal so generously to your mother) i am rather better of my
May 21, 1869, from the then Secretary of War to me transmitting those papers, in which he requests my
prohibited by the Act of February 21, 1867, I have to say that, in accordance with your oral request made to my
Sir: I have received your letter of the 31st ult., calling my attention to your claim as informer in
My only wish is, that your rights to be adjudged informer shall be fully and fairly investigated and
No other course will, in my opinion, be satisfactory to the Department of War, and I do not think it
My dear friend, I shall return to Washington next Saturday, 15th—William, it would be a favor if you
I write this in my room home, early afternoon—Mother & I having had tete-a-tete dinner—so good & quiet
My life since we parted that July day upon the Treasury steps, has been one of hard work and little recreation
I have written so much of myself simply because you asked me of myself— My Dear Friend I hope and believe
16 th dear Walt i will resume my corresspondence correspondence again haint you missed my letters very
tea and i got it with such pain that i could hardly keep from groaning the matter is i have been on my
1870 June 1 My dear Walter i did feel so ansious anxious to hear from you and i cant can't help but feel
for a letter so bad thinking you will be better the next one but i hope you will not get discourage d my
You desire such instructions in the premises as in my judgment shall best comport with the interests
Schley, to whom the interests of the Government in the matter were confided by my predecessor, Mr.
You ask my opinion upon the correctness of these charges. I referred the bill to Benj.
The question you ask me whether further detention of the witnesses is, in my judgment, necessary, I will
Brooklyn May 11, 1870 Sir: The hurt on my hand has not healed.
My friends: I send you a page & a half piece—" A warble for lilac-time "—if available for the April Galaxy
Wilkins requests me to send you the enclosed papers from the files of my office—informing me that you
My address is at this office.
return herewith the papers transmitted to me with your letter of the 7th of April last, requesting my
Annual Report of your Department on the state of the finances for 1870, for which be pleased to accept my
Apl 13 th 18 70 My dear sir, I fear that the "Passage to India" is a poem too long and too abstract for
and from the facts which I have ascertained, I do not consider that it requires any further action on my
I have to inform you that the clerkships under my control have either been filled or promised.
the Pacific Railroad to pay interest on bonds, &c. has not been printed, and therefore it is not in my
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith, with my approval, the account of Albert H.
Do you ask me what are my own particular dangers and complaints—what is taken that belongs to me—I complain
Tracy, which you refer to me, relates to a matter over which my Department has no control.
Brooklyn May 11, 1870 Dear William, My hand has been pretty bad, but looks more encouraging to-day.
Dear sir: I do not see that my being Attorney General requires or enables me to give you assistance or
You will please communicate, as you may have occasion in the future, with the War Department—as my only
I have asked the Secretary of State whether he has any objection to my sending you a copy of the opinion
Under these circumstances I do not think it my duty to interfere. your obde't serv't, &c. A. T.
Mississippi, requesting the employment of assistant counsel in certain cases in his District, I refer you to my
You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.
Sir: Since my letter of the 18th inst. yours of the 17th inst. has been received.
Department to which they are addressed, I will thank you to inform me whether you have any objection to my
I know I am glad that your selections were put into my hands first, so that I was lifted up by them to
As he told you, there is a chance—not as yet more than a chance—that I may make my way over the Atlantic
is dead i will write to george George i feel very sad of course if he has done ever so wrong he was my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
opinion, and should think that I ought to give it, I shall endeavor to do it at as early a date as my
My dear Sir: The case involving the naturalization question was reached to-day in the Supreme Court,
I was afraid of Ripley but Reid confirmed my impression that Greeley is or has been favorable, and he
In accordance with what was orally said by you to my Assistant, Mr.
According to my information the compromise proposed by you would reduce that judgment to a little below
highly esteem though I do not endorse or hold by all they teach two of the Books are connected with my
much mistaken in your love of Books, interspersed with fine stanzas of oriental Poetry, altogether in my
Louis, Mar 18th 1870 My Dear Mother Mattie arrived all right on Wednesday abt about 3 ocl —in the afternoon—We
I should be glad to give the Committee any aid in my power, if I had any knowledge or opinion upon the
instant, informing me that it will not be in your power to furnish me the information requested in my
Browning, my predecessor in office. That opinion was transmitted to the Hon. J. M.
It is no part of my official duty to vindicate the rights of individual citizens, who have their remedy
Her appeal, by the absence of exaggerations and other commendatory circumstances, has deeply moved my
In my letter to Mr.
believe that this is a sufficient answer to what you ask in your letter, and with the assurance of my
If, upon final investigation I should arrive at a different result, my pleasure in doing so will be much