Wabash, Port Royal Harbor, December 2, 1861.
Your kind
and gratifying letter reached me yesterday. It was especially welcome from
a slight circumstance occurring last summer. I was in the Navy Department when
Mr. Fox received a letter from you from your Western home, and he kindly let me
read it. It related to the Hatteras affair, and contained comments and
suggestions in reference to any future naval expeditions, which so impressed me
that I thought of you immediately after our success here; but, being too much
pressed to write to you, I requested Captain Raymond Rodgers to do so, and I
hope his letter reached you, that you may see our remembrance was mutual.
SOURCE: William Salter, The Life of James W. Grimes,
p. 159
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