"NEWPORT, ON THE WING FOR WASHINGTON, D. C.,
"_18 Oct., '85_.
"MY DEAR MR. TILDEN,--I thank you very much for the volumes
of your writings, which you have been thoughtful enough of me to
send me. I am one of those who have always held and constantly
avowed the opinion that you were duly elected President of the
United States; it would be instructive if some one well versed in
our public law would look through the laws enacted in the period
for which you were chosen, and mark such of them as would have
encountered your veto. That should be done while you live to confirm
the result of the inquiry.
"I remain, dear Mr. Tilden,
"Yours very truly,
"GEO. BANCROFT."