PAPERS OF Mm.A.BEAU BuoN.A.P.A.RTE LAMAR
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No. 2580. FRANCIS W. RICE TO LAMAR
Panama Jan. 23. 1858
Hon Mm.A.BEAU B L.A.M.A.R
U. S. Minister Resident, etc
MY DEAR Sm I have found Gen Walker's letter to Mr. Jenkins, which I enclose but have been unable to find Mr. J's response, I believe however that Gen. Walker's letter embodies the gist of the correspondence. If I recollect rightly, Mr. Jenkins did not undertake to combat, in detail the position of Walker, but simply put in a general protest against them, and against Walker's undertaking to connect him with them by publishing his own letter to Mr J after the latter had expressed his [faded] any sympathy with the doctrines enunciated. I enclose you all of one or two other papers, which may be useful to you. Wishing you health, and success in your negotiations I remain truly yours FRANCIS W. RICE P. S. I should be glad to hear from you at any time you may de- sire to write, as . . . [faded] correspondence here within the N. O. Piccayune, the -~ew York Times and the San Francisco Bulletin. [Endorsed:] Letter from Francis Rice Panama inclosing Walker's letter to Jenkins, of Geo in relation to Slavery in Nicaragua J anry 23- 1858
No. 2583. C. C. SAVAGE TO LAMAR
New York Feb 4, 1858
Gen L.A.M.A.R. DEAR Sm-
I have only been able to ascertain to day the fact in regard to the Copy of "Poems" that I supposed had a Copy of "Evadne" in it. It seems that they were bound up, but by your direction the poem was afterward torn out. One of copies which originally hacl this poem in Mr. Alexander kept back, for you, but finally took it home to the country As your object to get a Book with this poem in print, cannot be accomplished, I have not considered it necessary to pursue the subject farther. , I find that Fetridge & Co's place was passed into the hands of the sheriff, on execution, while we were in it, selecting your books, as I suspected at the time. If you had delayed another day, you would have received nothing, in fact I suppose in strict legal right they could not have delivered what you did get. The store is shut up, and I have not been able to get a bill of the books. I have made no progress in the publication of another edition of the "poems." There is a little movement in the book trade, and it may be tliat by the time the Sketch is ready, I shall find a publisher. I suppose in strict business sense, I ought to have a letter from you, stating just what arrangement I am autherized to make with a publisher in your name, so that there can be no misunderstanding.
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