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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01596.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Civil War date and post civil war letters and documents |
| Title | Samuel Hooper to William Pitt Fessenden regarding bank loans |
| Date | 18 July 1864 |
| Author | Hooper, Samuel (1808-1875) |
| Recipient | Fessenden, William |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
| Content Description | Hooper, a United States Representative from Massachusetts, discusses the prospect of obtaining bank loans for the United States Treasury. Informs Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury, that " ... I have become strongly impressed with the idea that an appeal to the people would be cheerfully responded to and if encouraged by liberal subscriptions the banks would furnish more money …I do not regret your failure to make a negotiation with them in New York." Hooper notes that he will be in New York for a day and will meet with Mr. Cisco. Also discusses the death of Lt. Mason, evidently in Washington, D.C., the removal of his body from, and subsequent "purification" of, the house in which he apparently died, Hooper's plan to move back into the house, and his invitation to Fessenden to join him. |
| Subjects | Congress Government and Civics Economics Finance Banking Death Disease Health and Medical Civil War Union Forces |
| People | Fessenden, William Pitt (1806-1869) Hooper, Samuel (1808-1875) |
| Place written | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Banking & Economics |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Hooper served as Representative from 1861 to 1874. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |