ALS as chief justice, signed “M. R. Waite,” one page both sides, 5 x 8, June 2, 1887. Handwritten letter to Union officer and author Donn Piatt, disagreeing, in part, with Piatt’s view of some Civil War luminaries. In full: “I have not found time until now to thank you for the copy of your 'Memories of the Men who Saved the Union' which you were good enough to send me. If you were here I should probably get up an argument about the correctness of some of your conclusion, but still the book is full of intent and while reading it I could not keep thinking what a pleasure it must be to feel that all open fair great men had been one’s personal friends. Mr. Chase is the only one I ever met, and I knew him but little comparatively.” In fine condition. The letter's recipient, Donn Platt (1819–1891), was aide to General Schenck during the Civil War. In 1887 he published 'Memories of the Men who Saved the Union,' a collection of personal accounts and memoirs of soldiers and officers who fought in the Civil War.
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