William Brown letter, 30 May 1882.

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William Brown letter, 30 May 1882.

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Brown writes to Hon. Logan McKee in Kentucky from Washington, D.C. regarding the impending passage of a bill to fix the tenure of office at four years for Collectors of Internal Revenue. However, the majority of the letter pertains to a controversy surrounding A. M. Swope and noted author George Alfred Townsend or "Gath" as he was sometimes known. Brown relays that Swope served as "Gath's" informant for "the most scurrilous, insulting letter that ever outraged a community." The published letter apparently offended a number of Lexington's elite, whom Brown names. Brown writes to McKee regarding details of a plot to expose Swope as Gath's informant and to destroy his reputation. He also invites McKee to visit him in Washington, D.C.

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Brown, William Garrott, 1868-1913

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William Garrott Brown was a historian, biographer, and essayist, of Marion, Alabama, and Cambridge, Massachusetts who graduated from Harvard College in 1891. From the guide to the William Garrott Brown papers, 1898-1917, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Brown (1868-1913) taught history at Harvard and served as Deputy Keeper of University Records at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Garrott Brown, 1898. (Ha...

Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914

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Townsend was a famous Civil War correspondent who wrote under the pen name "Gath," and who later constructed an elaboraate country estate at Gathland or Gapland at Crampton's Gap in South Mountain northwest of Washington. This was the site of a battle that marked the beginning of the Antietam campaign. In 1896, Townsend built the Army Correspondents' Memorial arch on his property to commemorate the service of Civil War correspondents. The site is now a park. From the description of A...

McKee, Logan.

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