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James McCormick Dalzell Collection, Accession 7521, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit, 1964 May 15
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[Agrees to send material re his poem, "The Blue and the Gray."]
[Cover letter for copy of "The Blue and the Gray"; discusses circumstances of its writing, its being set to music by Oliver Ditson , Boston , and mentions that he understood it antedated "Logan's famous December Day order" by two months.]
[Letter accompanied autobiographical sketch requested Secor. Thanks for payment; mentions his "Autobiography, Poems, Sketches" by Private Dalzell; asks if there is any monetary value for letters he has from John Hay , John Greenleaf Whittier , Frederick Douglass , Rutherford B. Hays , James Garfield , William McKinley , Benjamin Henry Harrison , Theodore Roosevelt , Daniel Sickles , Robert Lincoln , Henry Wilson , General Hawley, Horace Greeley , Joe Medill , M. Holsbotle , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Ulysses S. Grant , and William Tecumseh Sherman ; requests pictures of Secor for his family.]