Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901 to Charles Guy Warden
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00214.02.11 Author/Creator: Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 14, 1887 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 27.7 cm, Width: 21.5 cm Order a Copy
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. He 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 ardent critic of General George B. McClellan. Written on Commissioner's Office, Police Department stationery.
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