"Yrs., &c.,
"Ch. O'Conor."
WHEELER H. PECKHAM TO TILDEN
"Personal.
"May 26th, 1875.
"My dear Sir,—Yours of date 24th, postmarked 25th, is recd.
"In reply I have just written you at length, and looking at the length of the document, have destroyed it, thinking that a long history is not what you want.
"I had not seen the newspaper attacks or the cartoon; did not know that Barlow had a brother-in-law.
"You say that I may ascribe delay to Mr. O'Conor. I do. I drew and gave him complt. vs. Sweeney. I would have prepared affidavits. He assumed the duty of so doing himself. At his request I wrote you to pardon Ingersoll.
"He alone has seen Ingersoll, he proposing that it should be so.
"You say he is not above being helped and aided. I have been completely at his service from the moment he commenced till now. He has declined all assistance, saying that the drafting of affds., etc., was work at which but one could work. If there has been anything other or further that I could do or could have done I do not know it.