February 14, 1887
Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901
Autograph letter signed
Title: to Charles Guy Warden
General Porter, New York City Police Commissioner, instructs Warden to wish his father, author Robert Bruce Warden, luck in a literary undertaking. Indicates that R. Warden's project involves Salmon P. Chase, who had served as Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and later as Supreme Court Chief Justice. Hopes R. Warden "will be able to give the facts of Judge Chase's course towards McClellan & the prompting of his acts. Every point of the kind is now looked for with great interest in the light of history." R. B. Warden published a book on Chase in 1874. Chase was an…
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