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James Guthrie letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
In this letter to Judge Hoffman, Seward writes of a pending civil case in California involving the consul of the kingdom of Hanover, a man named Otto Frank: "The present is not a fit time to entertain unnecessary and speculative questions of privilege in regard to either diplomatic or consular representatives of foreign Powers." However, he points out that "there can be no fit time for abating the necessary national authority, when its exercise is absolutely necessary." Seward then gives Hoffman advice on how to proceed, based on the pending actions of Otto Frank.
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A.L.S. from James Guthrie to Ivor Kerrison Preston; written from Flansham, Bognor Regis (Sussex), the location of Guthrie's Pear Tree Press. The letter is in response to a request to obtain a copy of the printing of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" (first printed in 1937).
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Randolph writes of abolitionists and supporters of slavery, and asks that Hoffman "will lend me your aid in procuring the support of the latter." He asks Hoffman to contact Senator Phelps of San Francisco, whom Randolph describes as "a man of influence."
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Hooker encloses a copy of "the report of my first battle," which he says will be withheld from publication for a few days but it will "be the cause of no little excitement." He also writes that "I have a glorious division."
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Williams writes of a Bill that has been introduced to him and that he has forwarded to Hoffman for his opinion. He reports that the Bill "has been favorably received & I hope it will meet with your approval."
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Conkling hopes that his recent judicial nomination was "quite clear in its expression as well as in its existence." He is also surprised that Hoffman was not nominated.
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