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for St Louis this afternoon he was very sorry that he could not see you. but I am certainly coming on my
The case is under the charge of my Assistant, Mr.
appoint a Territorial auditor and Treasurer during the recess of the Legislature, I have to say that in my
that you desire any official action upon the subject by this Department—and, in fact, none occurs to my
that I will get there in the evening and I have no doubt when I call on Masons they will insist on my
| May 1870 march March 23 My dear walt Walt i have just got your letter with the money in it i received
1870 July 20 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday but the paper you spoke of i havent haven't received
to-day to be what you are, than to be him, with his $10,000 a year—poor thin-livered cuss that he is— My
It has been my intention, as you are aware, that no inconvenience or expense should be imposed upon you
febuary February 23 My dear walt i have just got your letter and was glad to hear from you and received
Jeff Whitman wrote that Mason "used to be in my party on the Water Works" (see his February 10, 1863
28 March 1870 monday Monday My dear walt Walt i received your letter and paper with Jesse death in it
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
compromise in the cases against the New York Central Railroad Company, which have been brought informally to my
I have given no official opinion in writing relating to the affairs of Georgia, and have not in my possession
This he declined to do, and it would hardly be becoming in me, under the circumstances, to reverse my
6 9 june 8 My dear walt i got your letter and you may expect i was glad enoughf enough to hear you was
Justice of a Territory to leave his official post of duty to attend to them at Washington, I shall give my
letter acknowledged & answered. to the property of patentees, and you add to that information that my
will get a nice black silk) i gess guess mrs price is like many others short of funds sometime walter my
Charles my younger boy and all the child we have left lives at home with us though it seems somewhat
the top whether it was that or what i dont don't know but all that night i couldent couldn't sleep my
very much indeed i wrote to her that i dident didn't know how to undertake the journeey journey in my
that it is "as much as Han can do to take care of herself" and that he had "paid off the mortgage on my
Sir: The Secretary of War has called my attention to certain suits pending in the Circuit Courts of the