SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH. Autograph Letter Signed, "W.T. Sherman," to the Editor of Brooklyn...

SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH. Autograph Letter Signed, "W.T. Sherman," to the Editor of Brooklyn Magazine Edward W. Bok, suggesting that he contact James B. Pond regarding letters concerning Henry Ward Beecher. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank, ruled paper; folds. [New York], 13 March 1887

". . . [S]ome days ago I wrote to Major J.B. Pond some thoughts about Mr. Beecher--I have no copy but I am sure the Major must possess enough letters to make up half a dozen volumes. I think you had better see him."
Among the contributions to Bok's Beecher Memorial: Contemporaneous Tributes to the Memory of Henry Ward Beecher, 1887, was one by Sherman: "The friendship existing between Henry Ward Beecher and myself was most warm. . . . His mind and imagination could not be tied down to the narrow dogmas which shackled smaller men . . . ."