Letter, 1885.

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Letter, 1885.

Letter dated Governor's Island, New York City, to Col. C. H. Adams, Treasury Department, Washington, D.C., apologizing that he had received Adams' request to be appointed an aide after the death of General Grant, too late to give it proper attention.

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