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—I don't well know when my American Selection will be out: my work on it is done, & the rest depends

I sent on the copy of your works transmitted for "The Lady," after some little delay occasioned by my

seems very considerably impressed with the objects & matter of interest in London: I wish it might be my

previously published in Leaves of Grass, "Passage to India" was Whitman's attempt to "celebrate in my

…My brain is too sensitive.

My own sympathy (far unlike that of most Englishmen) was very strongly with the Commune—i.e. with extreme

Sir: Though your letter of the 5th instant deeply moves my sympathy, it is impossible for me to interfere

In my letter of May 26th I informed you that the question whether the compensation should be paid by

Senate Sir: In answer to your letter of the 20th inst. requesting my opinion upon the question whether

have the honor to say that the law prescribing the duties of the Attorney General, as expounded by my

It was continued, according to my recollection, at the special instance of defendant's counsel.

The subject had been brought to my notice before, by a rumor that there had been remissness on the part

I advise that Captain Craig enter into personal communication with the District Attorney on the subject

Sir: The Senate having requested the President to return to that body its resolution transmitted in my

Waterman against the United States, brought to my notice in my letter of criminal proceedings agt G.

Lyman against officers in the service of the Marshal are so indefinite that they justify no action on my

Muir, so reported to this office, and the Acting Attorney General, case of David Muir, Illinois in my

this Department, I do not feel authorized, under existing laws, to pay for it out of any funds under my

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 8th instant, I have the honor to state that my recollection of what

But my impressions were, and still are, (subject, of course, to be reversed, if they appear incorrect

My opinion against the validity of the transfer of the rights of the Oregon Center Railroad Company,

Howell, & Rice, to which you called my attention. Very respectfully, A. T.

parties supposed the arrangement to have been effected, I have not undertaken to form a judgment of my

I desire, therefore, that you will prepare for my signature the proper papers withdrawing the appeal.

building of the "Grande Admiral," from the year 1853 to 1856, I regret to inform you that it is out of my

But there may be, in this case, circumstances of justifiable exception to my general rule—and if such

appeal from the Court of Claims, No 2662 on the docket of Court of Claims, and you will prepare for my

Superintendent of Mail Depredations, Post Office Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence

Sir: The enclosed copy of a letter addressed by me this day to the Secretary of War, shows my views of

Sir: Referring to my letter to you of July 19, 1871, in reference to the Internal Revenue Compromise

Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence in relation to James Gilmore, an escaped

Cochran, of the 28th inst. with my certificate, as required by law. Very respectfully, &c. A. T.

The company is dissatisfied with my opinion, and asks a rehearing.

M. for the War Dept., and requesting my views as to the reasonableness of the same.

Sir: On the 6th day of Aug. 1871, you requested my opinion upon the question whether Henry S.

Louisiana, for falsely personating one Brown, a soldier to whom bounty money was due—and requesting my

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th inst., inviting my attention

of the assets of the bank for ratable distribution, or is the property of the Government, should, in my

Sir: Referring to my letter to you under date of the 24th ult. relative to the escape from jail of the

the subject of a supposed murder of two Indians, near Alexandria, Minnesota, and to enclose a copy of my

of the 5th instant, referred to the Attorney General by your endorsement of this date, has received my

Newcomb, amounting to $101, for expenses incurred in securing the deposition of Captain James Speed,

Loring, Captain 3d Michigan Volunteers, on account of "two and three years Volunteers."

: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, transmitting, for my

Tennessee—and that the act on account of which he is prosecuted was done during the rebellion, while he was Captain

Talbot's brief, I preferred to make one of my own, and have done so, and will send it to the branch printing

Sir: Referring to my letter addressed to you under date of the 3d instant, relative to the case of Charles

My dispatch of yesterday was written in the Supreme Court Room while I was engaged in the argument of

acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your letter of the 25th inst. and its enclosures, in response to my

D. of Brighton, Illinois, an old friend of mine, has written to ask my aid in the following matter: Mrs

charge of this Department out of which such a reward could be paid—and therefore it will not be in my

I can now only say, generally, that if, under the law, it will be in my power to give adequate compensation

Sir: I think it my duty to transmit for your information the copy of an unofficial letter which I have

Dear Sir: Your letter of the 16th ult. came in my absence.

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 6th instant, requesting my views as to the expediency of complying

The suits were first brought to my notice Standish & Ballard's bill, Mich. see p. 288 ante 479 by a letter

United States in the injunction suit to restrain the work at Hallett's Point, New York; and asking for my