Letter from Robert R Hitt who served briefly as assistant secretary of state in the short-lived administration of James A. Garfield. At the time this letter was written, he was Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress. The letter is on committee letterhead.

Letter to E.L. Plumb at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, who was once Secretary of Legation and Charge d'Affaires of the United States in Mexico and Consul General at Havana.

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