Respectfully and truly yours, &c.,
JOS. W. MCCORKLE.
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Letter of Mr. Bradford.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, May 8th, 1879.
JUDGE FIELD.
MY DEAR FRIEND: Yours of the 27th April should have been answered ere this, but before doing so I desired to get all the reminders that I could. I looked carefully over the journal. All that I had recollected in the whole matter was that I had an intense feeling in favor of sustaining your position, and when you informed me that I had voted to dismiss the proceedings I was profoundly astonished.
I thought you must be mistaken until I saw the journal….
Some very satisfactory assurance must have been given me that such vote would be satisfactory to you, and I only wonder that I did not have the assurance verified…. I assume that the Editor is correct in the explanation as given.
Very truly, J.S. BRAFORD.
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