Lawyer, politician, diplomat, and educator, of Burlington, Vt., and New York, N.Y.; born in Middlebury, Vt.; attended Yale Law School (1841-1842) and admitted to the bar in 1843; second comptroller of the U.S. Treasury (1851-1853), U.S. minister to Great Britain (1885-1889), and senior counsel (1893) for the U.S. in the arbitration of the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy with Great Britain; founder and president (1880) of American Bar Association; taught law at Yale after 1881; died in New Haven, Conn.
Edward John Phelps was the son of Samuel S. Phelps, U.S. Senator from Vermont. He was a tutor in Rappahannock Academy, Caroline Co., Virginia, at the time these letters were written. He later became Kent Professor of Law at Yale, 1881-1885, 1889-1900. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1885-1889.
Lawyer, diplomat, and educator.