Letter and print of William James Stillman, n.d.

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Letter and print of William James Stillman, n.d.

In a letter, October 15, to John Clinton Gray, Stillman asks for Gray's private opinion on the legality of a decision by the State Department to deny United States citizens protection and passports after they have lived abroad for more than five years; explains he was issued a temporary passport by the Embassy in Rome under the condition that he declare his intention to return to the United States within a limited time; states that he knows other people with same predicament, most of whom like himself are without funds to make a case to the Supreme Court; mentions mutual friends from the old "Adirondack set," John Holmes, Forbes, and Ward of whom he and the judge are only one still living. There is also a magazine clipping of a portrait of Stillman.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Stillman, William James, 1828-1901

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William James Stillman (born June 1, 1828, Schenectady, New York – died July 6, 1901, Frimely Green, Surrey, England) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer. For a time, he also served as United States consul in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrecti...

Gray, John Clinton, 1843-1915,

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