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FILLMORE, MILLARD. Autograph Letter Signed, to New York Paymaster
General S.E. Marvin, thanking him for his report, and stating that he agrees with his views
about the negative impact of the bounty system. 1 page, 8to, ruled paper, with integral
blank. With the original envelope, addressed in his hand. (AKF)
Buffalo, 25 October 1866
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. . . War at best is demoralizing, but this bounty system led to more frauds & crime and did
more to destroy patriotism than any thing else.”
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(GARFIELD ASSASSINATION.) GUITEAU, CHARLES J. Autograph Letter
Signed, “To the Edition of the Herald,” retained draft, responding to an article in that day’s
Herald
concerning a “Profitable Collecting Lawyer,” arguing that he is entitled to collect all
of the initial payment in this case which he has been pursuing for years despite agreeing to
collecting only one half of the final settlement amount. Guiteau’s calling card mounted to
upper left recto. 1 page, folio, ruled paper; folds. (AKF)
New York, 21 April 1871
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Your Law reporter discourses amusingly in to-day’s Herald . . . . ‘All respectable Lawyers’,
says the reporter, ‘retain one half for collection’; to which, I reply, only by contract: not otherwise.
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Ruis Bros & Co agreed to give me one half of all I could attain in a final settlement of their
claim . . . . I have been trying for four years to settle this case & claim that I am justly entitled
to the first installment paid for my fees & disbursements. . . . The motion has just been denied
by Judge Donohue.”
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