Joshua F. Bullitt to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-017-0134

Document Genre

Correspondence

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG4-18 to MG4-19

Place of Creation

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

2 April 1861

Dates Mentioned

1861-04-02

Joshua F. Bullitt to Beriah Magoffin, 2 April 1861, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862, MG4-18 to MG4-19, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-017-0134, (accessed January 9, 2025).

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Louisville April 2/61.
Dear Sir.

I Sincerely thank you for your letter congratulating me on my election. I should have replied sooner had I not expected to see you and thank you in person for your letter, and also for aid which I have reason to believe you gave me pending the contest -- which as well as your uniform kindness, -- despite differences of opinion & action upon questions of great interest
to us both -- I trust I shall always properly appreciate.

By the bye -- Collin I. Throckmorton was in my office the other day, and told me that when you were a candidate for Gov^r you spent a night at his house, and he promised to vote for you, though he had never voted for a Democrat before, and that you promised him an office -- He says he voted for you but has rec^d no office, I undertook to remind you of your promise -- I think Collin would
like to be called Colonel.

If the returns are all in I should like to have my commission at once, as there is a per diem attached which I ought to be getting to make up for loss of fees, as I can't undertake new suits. If they are not all in please give me names of the delinquient counties so that I may have it attended to.

yours truly
J. F. Bullitt

Gov Magoffin
Frankfort.

Sec will make out commission for Colin Throckmorton (and) and answer this letter without delay

B. M

Aid
Com^d. Iss^dApr. 2^d 1861

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