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Noah Haynes Swayne letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Matthew P. Deady letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Writing to California judge Ogden Hoffman, Deady agrees with Hoffman's "case (salvage)" and remarks on the President's veto of the "pauper pension bill."
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John Lowell letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Letter from John Lowell in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, to Ogden Hoffman. In the letter Lowell gives his recommendation of a local lawyer, and offers him in writing an introduction to Hoffman.
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John Ellis Wool letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Wood inquires about his "conduct and bearing toward civil officers" in a case recently presided over by Hoffman in a U.S. District Court case in San Francisco. The case appears to be concerned with a potential breach of international neutrality laws.
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William Henry Seward letter to Ogden Hoffman
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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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James Guthrie letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Guthrie encloses a letter from the acting Consul at Havana, William H. Robertson, and writes to Hoffman concerning its contents.
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Noah Brooks letter to "My dear lad,"
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In this letter to an unidentified recipient, Noah Brooks apologizes for not answering earlier on account of illness. On letterhead for The Aldine, Newark, New Jersey.
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