Letter to Benjamin Coolidge Carter, 1883.

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Letter to Benjamin Coolidge Carter, 1883.

Butler invites Carter to his country home (Maplehurst) to meet the members of the "G.B. Club." Dated 22 May 1883.

1 folded sheet (2 p.) ; 20 cm.

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Carter, Benjamin Coolidge, 1827-1905.

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Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...