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In my letter to Mr.
Tracy, which you refer to me, relates to a matter over which my Department has no control.
believe that this is a sufficient answer to what you ask in your letter, and with the assurance of my
I have given no official opinion in writing relating to the affairs of Georgia, and have not in my possession
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
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
I should be glad to give the Committee any aid in my power, if I had any knowledge or opinion upon the
Tenn. dated the 8th inst. in relation to his claim for bounty, with your endorsement thereon, asking my
I hope, therefore, that you will excuse me from undertaking a service beyond my official duty.
On that day, the Solicitor of Internal Revenue came into my office and said to me that the Supervisor
—There is in my Department no list of U. S.
With the facts you state in your letter, I understand very well what impression my telegram made upon
You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.
Wilkins requests me to send you the enclosed papers from the files of my office—informing me that you
It is no part of my official duty to vindicate the rights of individual citizens, who have their remedy
In accordance with what was orally said by you to my Assistant, Mr.
opinion, and should think that I ought to give it, I shall endeavor to do it at as early a date as my
I must beg to observe upon this,— supposing of course, it is my Department to which you refer—nothing
It is my rule to give notice to the officer concerned of any charges affecting his reputation as a man
more safely drawn the conclusion, when you learn that charges have been filed, that they did not, in my
Commissioner in Michigan, which you referred to me, and which bears the endorsement of my clerk.
My department has no control or supervision of the Commissioners, who are officers appointed by the Courts
and from the facts which I have ascertained, I do not consider that it requires any further action on my
My dear Sir: The case involving the naturalization question was reached to-day in the Supreme Court,
Sir: Since my letter of the 18th inst. yours of the 17th inst. has been received.
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
The case is under the charge of my Assistant, Mr.
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
Sir: Your reply of the 6th to my letter of the 4th inst. in regard to the employment of counsel for the
As I have already stated, my inquiries addressed to you were made at the request of the Secretary of
Esq.,—undertake the management of this defence, a reasonable compensation, founded on the basis of my
return herewith the papers transmitted to me with your letter of the 7th of April last, requesting my
If Captain Cullen is a man of such worth and general good repute as seems probable from the telegram.
You will please communicate, as you may have occasion in the future, with the War Department—as my only
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith, with my approval, the account of Albert H.
Sir: I have received your letter of the 24th ult. and the accompanying papers, submitting for my consideration
If he will show you my letter, which it will be entirely agreeable to me to permit, you will probably
that the joint resolution passed by Congress is not the resolution of which a copy was enclosed in my
If this cannot be done, I do not feel at liberty to make any other proposal than that contained in my
awaiting the action of the Executive upon his sentence,"— and your letter of May 4, 1869, again calling my
the important and difficult questions which may arise upon the case, I think it sufficient to express my
I have no right to give you my opinion upon these questions.
administration of the law, the Dept. of the Treasury establishes the rule it will follow; and it is my
United States to give credit in compromising suits of this character—and I feel constrained to withhold my
recommend the acceptance of the offer in the terms in which it is made, for the reasons I have given in my
shall be able to find some one as faithful and attentive to take your place; and with the assurance of my
Sir: Your letter of the 6th inst. submits for my consideration the Internal Revenue case of A. W.
decided to accept in discharge of their liability in a suit pending in court, with your approval, and my
I do not wish to preclude myself by my action in these cases from reconsidering the question whether
Perry, & Co., against the United States—in which you request my opinion upon the legal questions involved
among the papers—nor, indeed, any statement from an official source of the precise questions on which my
Comptroller, or may be agreed upon, together with the questions of law arising thereon, touching which my
opinion is desired, I shall be happy to consider the questions, and give my opinion.
The questions of law upon which my opinion is requested are not stated, and there is among the papers
I, therefore, feel under the necessity of returning the papers to you, and of asking that, if my opinion
of the claim, a statement of the facts of the case, and of the questions of law upon which you wish my
Sir: I have received your telegram of the 12th inst. in reply to my letter of the 10th inst. both relating
By this grant, the United States have, in my opinion, acquired a valid title to the land described.
Most of my graduate students are still surprised to find Whitman wrote a novel and published fiction
Years ago, when I used to hit a key on my old typewriter, I could follow and even explain the mechanical
Now, when I hit a key on my computer keyboard, my knowledge of the process that makes a letter appear
on my screen is hazy, to say the least, not to mention the process that transfers it to paper.
How this sentence I'm now writing gets preserved on my USB stick and in what form is a mystery to me.
If my rhetoric is, as Freedman suggests, "utopian," my experience in working on the archive is anything
Even these days, at the lapse of many years, I can never turn their tiny leaves, or even take one in my
See my "Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?"
caused something of a scandal; Traubel recalled that neighbors went to his mother and "protested against my
'Gardner was a mighty good fellow—also mightily my friend: he was always loving: I feel near to him—always—to
When he received some photos from Gutekunst in 1888, Whitman said, "They are first-rate: they satisfy my
Despite his overwhelming success as a photographer, he remained a frustrated painter: "all my art in
this forenoon to Sarony's, the great photographic establishment, where I was invited to come & sit for my
Tarisse) / From Shadows, deep & dark I peer Out / On Nature, on my comrades dear / Curious / Peering
"I've been taken and taken beyond count," he said, "taken from every side—even from my blind side."
distributed by various photographers and by Whitman himself, had made him something of a celebrity: "my
Other identifications came from my examination of Whitman's notebooks, correspondence, daybooks, and
round on my neck") as it looked at the world; his catalogues brought reality hurtling into poetry with
the risks of inclusiveness: "What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me,/ Me going in for my
Simpson, Spence & Young 88 Monte Rosa Arrow line wharf 23rd Street New York— N.R— Dear Sir, My brother
The Captain says we may have to leave on Tuesday or Wednesday.
must have more letters than you can sometimes find time to read, but I feel that I must tell you of my
love of your beautiful poetry, and of my great esteem for the grand and free poet who has conceived