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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."

    mssHM 19026

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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.

    mssHM 19024

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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.

    mssHM 19007

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    Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters) Stanton letter to Ogden Hoffman

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    Stanton writes to Hoffman "in respect to the publication of your decision." He also hopes Hoffman will soon have time for leisure upon finishing current land cases, and away from Washington, D.C.: "I mean in New York which after all next to San Francisco is the only place on the continent for a gentleman of leisure."

    mssHM 19008

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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.

    mssHM 29223

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    Edmund Randolph letter to Ogden Hoffman

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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."

    mssHM 19011