Lee, John F., 1813-1884 to Henry Jackson Hunt

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GLC#
GLC02382.097-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
February 22, 1879
Author/Creator
Lee, John F., 1813-1884
Title
to Henry Jackson Hunt
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 12.7 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The Gilded Age

Has read unspecified notes written by Hunt to Senators Samuel Bell Maxey and Theodore Fitz Randolph. Discusses a bill before Congress, possibly pertaining to the pension of retired officers, which Hunt advocated. States that the issue may carry over to the next session of Congress, or the House bill will pass. Indicates that the House bill referred to was not created by Spencer (possibly George Eliphaz Spencer, of the Committee on Military Affairs) or Hewitt (possibly either Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt or Abram Stevens Hewitt). Relates that when presenting Hunt's bill, he stated that Hunt "must be dear to the patriot and the democrat in the exact degree wherein he had disappointed or offended scallawags, carpet baggers, or radicals."

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