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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet and essayist who began the Transcendentalist movement

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

propounding certain questions relative to the arrest of three colored British subjects at Key West, who were

Scudder, a respectable lawyer in New York City, well-known to me,— a copy of which I enclose.

Letcher, came to my hands only this morning, in consequence of my absence from the city.

Samuel Blatchford, United States District Judge, New York City Sir: I have the honor to ask your attention

in the case of William Muller, now in prison under your sentence for contempt of court, and which were

I am unable to understand under what precise authority you acted, or were expected to act, in representing

Butler in the Superior Court of the city of Baltimore.

revenue system of the United States is concerned, would be subjected to forfeiture in favor of the American

that by an order made at the last term of the court, they stood assigned for argument to-day, and were

William Fullerton, 11 Pine street New York City.

of your letter, I called your attention to this statement of the extent of the protection which you were

defendants, as made to you, had not furnished directly or indirectly the evidence for the indictments, and were

that I shall be pleased to see you there, but can make no more definite appointment until I reach the city

giving you this as an excuse for not comeing coming up to see you again before Leveing leaving the city

with a very severe Chill chill and the morning I was so sick that I could not think of staying in the city

My arm has come out in a sore were where one of the balls struck it it is so bad that it gives me much

Uncle if I were to send you an aplication application for a position in the Interior Department with

They were friends still.

Her blue eyes were brilliant with uneasy fire.

They were leading in Mrs. Dyzer, and she was near.

They were electrifying.

Deep in the spirit air the fadeless fields unrolled, the shining cities rose, the bells of heaven were

I am sorry I did not know you were going yesterday, because we could have arranged it all better than

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter, Helen, were friends with Whitman and

In 1860 the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

Helen's reminiscences of Whitman were included in Richard Maurice Bucke's biography, Walt Whitman (Philadelphia

is going the rounds, to your great honor, and glory, nothing appealing to the esthetic aesthetic American

Your letters were sent by young Rowland.

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

Harlan apparently took offense at the copy of the 1860 Leaves of Grass which Whitman was revising and

Berg Collection of English and American Literature).

living in Washington, D.C., he published an eccentric three-volume Diary, a day-by-day account of the American

Is it your haunting voice as I heard it that last night we were together, chanting to me that divine

Taylor without making note of it, I have been unable to answer & besides the American News Co to whom

This letter is addressed: Hon Walt Whitman | Atty Genls Office, | Washington City, | D.C.

Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1822–1887) was an American poet who worked as a Western correspondent during

The American News Company was a New York magazine—and later comic book—distribution company founded in

The American News Company published John Burroughs's Notes on Walt Whitman, as Poet and Person in 1867

the honor to enclose herewith a number of papers relating to a part of the town site of Deer Lodge City

establishing on the new route a wagon‑road for the use of the Government to connect said Island with the cities

The account is therefore returned for presentation to the office or Department by whom you were engaged

Marshal Williams, of the Northern District of New York, from the owners of certain high wines —which were

Upon the whole, it is believed that if it were practicable for the Attorney General to give, immediately

statement of the Justices of the Peace now in Commission, and acting as Magistrates in each ward of this city

I perceive that the questions from No. 14 to the last, were framed for answer by officials having a corps

the Committee—and I am accordingly instructed to proceed as if the subordinate force of this Office were

Baxter, Esq, formerly an active member of the bar of the Supreme Court, beginning, in this city, in 1856

Numerous applications were made, more or less formally—but all were rejected.

Some were supported by political influence. 17.

Edwards Pierrepont, 103 Fifth avenue, New York City, Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt

be informed— "how many Justices of the Peace are now in commission in each Ward respectively of the City

Box 6155, New York City.

New York City.

General, in relation to your private interests, as the tenant or occupant of a Lot of ground in the city

James Ridgeway, New York City.

the Attorney General to furnish the House, "a statement of the amounts paid during each year since 1860

stands upon the clause quoted from the Act of 1853, and upon clauses in the Appropriation Acts of 1860

account would have been settled before, but that, from the fact that the bills previously rendered were

was received in duplicate, and I have to notify you that 53 Maine, 39 Vermont, and 33 Connecticut were

C's accounts as Collector were finally settled in your Department,—and whether, in the examination and

Smith, Counsellor at Law, New York City. Will continue the Georgia for the term. Glad to do so. J.

6th August, 1867, and 17th July, 1862, the condemnation could not extend beyond the interest of the city

You now represent, as Mayor of Memphis, that the interest of the city urgently requires the immediate

Attorney General Stanbery favorable to the claim of the city.

Counsellor at Law, New York City.

down some principle for the guidance of this office,—but finding the cases of some difficulty, they were

New York City.

regarded as part of the evidence, (in this case of more than ordinary importance,) the counsel mentioned were

President Central American Transit Co. 56 Exchange Place New York Sir: In reply to your letter of 28th

had induced him to recommend that said pardon be granted, upon payment of all costs of prosecution, were

Laughlin and wife, covering the site selected for a Brand Mint at Dalles City, Oregon, which, with other

of the 15th instant complaining that a person named Rice, resident or doing business in Washington City

Attorney General for your services, and by a letter from this office of the 3d September 1867, you were

Counsellor at Law, Box 217, New York City.

McBride, Chief Justice, Boise City, Idaho Terr.

copy of our letter of this date to the Secretary of War, respecting the Navy yard property of the city

Stanbery, on the 6th March last, expressed his opinion in favor of the restoration of the property to the city

You state that certain items of account were allowed by the jury in favor of the defendant, against whom

communicate with the commanding General of the military Reconstruction District in which the proceedings were

—Indeed those of the undersigned who witnessed the proceedings, or were engaged in the defence, bear

that freedmen got justice'— and on the occasion of the killing, when the infuriated mob of freedmen were