"Yale College, New Haven, Conn., July 5, 1875.
"Sir,—I have the honor to inform you in an official way that the president and fellows of this college, at the recent public commencement, conferred upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and in connection with that act enrolled you with the academical graduates of the college in the class of 1837.
"In thus recognizing the eminent public services which have so abundantly deserved the honorable regard of all public-spirited men, the corporation are especially proud to recall the fact that the foundations of your educational training were in part laid here, and to claim you, in virtue of this former connection, as an alumnus of Yale.
"Very respectfully,
"Your obedient servant,
"Franklin B. Dexter,
"Secretary.
"His Excellency Gov. Tilden."
CHARLES O'CONOR TO S. J. TILDEN
"City of New York, Station M, Aug. 12th, 1875.
"Dear Sir,—So the anti-peculation campaign is fairly opened. It can eventuate on one way only. No such controversy ever ended in favor of the swindlers.
"But you want some documents. A big one is being prepared by a sub-editor here. He asks me for some facts. More than I can give him. Will you make some of your troops get for me:
"1. Copy of the minutes of the proceedings of a little extemporaneous bar meeting in Albany, held during the Tweed hab. corp. argt. G. T. —— in the chair. D. D. Field moved. I never saw them. I think they must be in the Argus. Let us have name and date of the paper. It relates to a new form of obsequious reverence for appeal judges.
"2. The letter of Allen J., just previous to your nomination, offering to withdraw, if every one else would, in favor of his cousin Church. Name and date of paper.