Manuscripts

William H. Taft, Washington, D.C., letter to Calderon Carlisle, Washington, D.C. :

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Description: Is sending twenty copies of the brief on the Sayward case as requested; requests copies of petition, suggestion, and briefs. Postscript and initials in hand of Taft. The Sayward case involved the seizing of a British ship in the Bering Sea in 1887 for hunting fur seals, a violation of an Act of Congress.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1891 April 29.
Call number: mssHM 23510
Creator: Taft, William H (1857-1930)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries, 468, 1919.
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Associated people: Carlisle, Calderon,
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