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Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) to John T. Hoffman

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02095.15 Author/Creator: Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 8 March 1871 Pagination: 2 p. ; 20.5 x 12.8 cm. Order a Copy

Writes to the Governor of New York and encloses a letter (enclosure not included). States he does not know anything of the writer nor of the case, but transmits the letter because it concerns a human life.

Hoffman was Mayor of New York 1866-1868 and Governor of New York 1869-1872.

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Hoffman, John T. (John Thompson), 1828-1888

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