Letter to J.A. McHatton, 1866 June 8.

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Letter to J.A. McHatton, 1866 June 8.

The collection consists of letter from Judah P. Benjamin, London, England to J.A. McHatton, Havana, Cuba dated June 8, 1866. Benjamin discusses his employment as a barrister and points of English law in relation to McHatton's desire to collect money owed to him for cotton which McHatton shipped to England during the Civil War.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403334

Emory University, Gamma Project

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Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884

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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith. Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from Londo...

McHatton, J. Ames Alexander, d. 1874.

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