LS, one page, 5 x 8, Department of Justice letterhead, July 11, 1881. Letter to Dr. William Masters Camac of Wissahickon, Philadelphia, in full: "I am greatly obliged for your kind note and its generous words of sympathy. When it is prudent to do so I will take the liberty of reading it to the President. We are all assured now that he will recover." In fine condition. Written just nine days after President James A. Garfield was shot by assassin Charles Guiteau.
