WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER TO TILDEN
"New York, June 29, 1876.
"My dear Governor Tilden,—I congratulate you most heartily. Whatever may be the fortunes or the fate of the coming struggle, there is nothing but satisfaction to your old friends in your well-earned victory at St. Louis, and you can well understand how specially gratifying it is to
"Yours sincerely,
"William Allen Butler."