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SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH. Autograph Letter Signed, "W.T. Sherman," to the Editor of Brooklyn Magazine Edward W. Bok,
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Description: SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH. Autograph Letter Signed, "W.T. Sherman," to the Editor of Brooklyn Magazine Edward W. Bok, suggesting that he contact James B. Pond regarding letters concerning Henry Ward Beecher. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank, ruled paper; folds. - [New York], 13 March 1887
Footnote: ". . . [S]ome days ago I wrote to Major J.B. Pond some thoughts about Mr. Beecher--I have no copy but I am sure the Major must possess enough letters to make up half a dozen volumes. I think you had better see him." Among the contributions to Bok's Beecher Memorial: Contemporaneous Tributes to the Memory of Henry Ward Beecher, 1887, was one by Sherman: "The friendship existing between Henry Ward Beecher and myself was most warm. . . . His mind and imagination could not be tied down to the narrow dogmas which shackled smaller men . . . ."
Footnote: ". . . [S]ome days ago I wrote to Major J.B. Pond some thoughts about Mr. Beecher--I have no copy but I am sure the Major must possess enough letters to make up half a dozen volumes. I think you had better see him." Among the contributions to Bok's Beecher Memorial: Contemporaneous Tributes to the Memory of Henry Ward Beecher, 1887, was one by Sherman: "The friendship existing between Henry Ward Beecher and myself was most warm. . . . His mind and imagination could not be tied down to the narrow dogmas which shackled smaller men . . . ."
