GEORGE BANCROFT TO TILDEN
"Newport, on the Wing for Washington, D. C.,
"18 Oct., '85.
"My dear Mr. Tilden,—I thank you very much for the volumes of your writings, which you have been thoughtful enough of me to send me. I am one of those who have always held and constantly avowed the opinion that you were duly elected President of the United States; it would be instructive if some one well versed in our public law would look through the laws enacted in the period for which you were chosen, and mark such of them as would have encountered your veto. That should be done while you live to confirm the result of the inquiry.
"I remain, dear Mr. Tilden,
"Yours very truly,
"Geo. Bancroft."